Show information on screen during flashing & installation

During installation of BalenaOS it would be very nice to see the information that is normally only shown in the dashboard (flashing to internal storage, post-provisioning) on the monitor of the device. When installing secure boot, there is no Device made in the fleet until after rebooting the PC after the first flash from USB so there is no way to see the progress of installation. But even for non secure boot devices it would be nice to see.

Showing some info / next steps on the screen would leave the user less in the dark about if the installation is going well. Our installation partner has had some moments where they were unsure if they did the set up correctly because there is nothing shown.

This is something we were thinking about quite a bit lately.
I would add showing the assigned device name and uuid.

This would help when setting up few devices in parallel

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Thanks for the request! This is a great shout, and something that has been highlighted internally in the past. We’d love to hear if more users are interested in this feature…