diff --git a/scripts/setup/machine-setup/machine-setup.sh b/scripts/setup/machine-setup/machine-setup.sh
index cc286400..6f64c212 100755
--- a/scripts/setup/machine-setup/machine-setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup/machine-setup/machine-setup.sh
@@ -108,10 +108,15 @@ ask_machine_role
 info "Role:     ${MACHINE_ROLE}"
 
 if [[ -f "$PROGRESS_FILE" ]]; then
-  DONE_COUNT=$(wc -l < "$PROGRESS_FILE")
-  echo -e "${YELLOW}  Resuming — $DONE_COUNT step(s) already completed${NC}"
-  echo -e "${YELLOW}  Progress file: $PROGRESS_FILE${NC}"
-  echo -e "${YELLOW}  To start fresh: rm $PROGRESS_FILE${NC}"
+  DONE_COUNT=$(wc -l <"$PROGRESS_FILE")
+  echo ""
+  info "Resuming — ${DONE_COUNT} step(s) already done, and they will be skipped"
+  echo "     To start over instead:  sudo rm ${PROGRESS_FILE}"
+else
+  echo ""
+  echo "     This can be stopped at any point and run again later. Completed"
+  echo "     steps are remembered and skipped, and the answers below are kept,"
+  echo "     so coming back costs nothing."
 fi
 
 if [[ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]]; then
@@ -466,6 +471,12 @@ if ! skip; then
               echo ""
               echo "     Then come back here with its address and a key. Nothing below"
               echo "     will work until that server is up and answering."
+              echo ""
+              echo "     Take as long as you need. Stop this script whenever you like"
+              echo "     — Ctrl-C is fine — and run it again when you are ready. Every"
+              echo "     step already done is remembered and skipped, and the answers"
+              echo "     you have given are kept, so you will come back to this same"
+              echo "     question and nothing before it."
             fi
             # No default offered. A coordination server URL is somebody's private
             # infrastructure, and a machine that joins the wrong one has joined a