diff --git a/setup/so-functions b/setup/so-functions
index 827b424f0..29a58e718 100755
--- a/setup/so-functions
+++ b/setup/so-functions
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ create_repo() {
 }
 
 detect_cloud() {
-  echo "Testing if setup is running on a cloud instance..." >> "$setup_log" 2>&1
+  echo "Testing if setup is running on a cloud instance..." | tee -a "$setup_log"
   if ( curl --fail -s -m 5 http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id > /dev/null ) || ( dmidecode -s bios-vendor | grep -q Google > /dev/null); then export is_cloud="true"; fi
 }
 
diff --git a/setup/so-setup b/setup/so-setup
index 18455f4d1..2f0dca12e 100755
--- a/setup/so-setup
+++ b/setup/so-setup
@@ -363,7 +363,6 @@ percentage=0
 	fi
 } | progress '...'
 
-echo "Checking if setup is running in the cloud..." | tee -a "$setup_log"
 detect_cloud
 
 short_name=$(echo "$HOSTNAME" | awk -F. '{print $1}')