Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:55:10AM +0100, Mark Crean wrote: > > http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124 > This article is great, but beware. The bootsplash userland packages for Debian are miserably broken, and it took me quite a while to fix the stuff (to force removal) and reinstall the things. D

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ian wrote: No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time. Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks? http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/16ca6fa44a47247e/b75caa5bb5773ce5?lnk=st&q=author:torvalds&rnum=1&hl=ia#b75caa5bb5

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Ian wrote: > I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically > pleasing, so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up > all that (like in Mandrake 10)? Install Mandrake? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PG

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 03:26:22PM -0500, Ian wrote: > I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically pleasing, > so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up all that (like > in Mandrake 10)? > What you want is to patch your kernel with bootsplash. But, unles

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-28 Thread Mark Crean
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 18:42 -0500, Ian wrote: > No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time. > Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks? > > -- > "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?" Perhaps this is of interest: h

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-28 Thread Ian
No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time. Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks?-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-28 Thread Ian
I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically pleasing, so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up all that (like in Mandrake 10)?-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

2005-08-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ian wrote: I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically pleasing, so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up all that (like in Mandrake 10)? "all that" is where Linus Thorvalds spends his time... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a