@contewit You might not need to worry about it. I’m currently in the process of getting one of these broke Dell images to Tom, and he’s going to mess around with it.
For the commands being executed, I don’t think there is any method to “show” them… However, if you look into the several scripts that are used, they all have variables. Those begin with $ signs.
You can echo the contents of variables like this:
echo $VariableNameIsCaseSensitiveCheck this out, too: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-5.html