Re: Woody install report
Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:41:07PM -0500 wrote:
> >>>>> "DK" == David Kimdon <David_Kimdon@alumni.hmc.edu> writes:
> DK> As Ethan pointed out, I pulled that out in favor of using
> DK> busybox wget. You should have gotten a really simple status bar
> DK> though. If you didn't I'd like to hear about it.
> DK>
>
> Yes, I did get a simple status bar. Simpler is better! But I did like
> the old-style download rate meter mainly because it gives an idea of how
> good/bad the network connection and bandwidth is.
>
> This is a fairly subjective issue, but FWIW I should point out that the
> FreeBSD net installer also indicates the rate at which files are being
> downloaded.
Okay, cool. If you want to pursue this further just file a wishlist
bug on busybox, we use busybox wget output. It gives us %, bytes read
and ETA, it could probably give us rate as well without much added
space, and we could then parse that adding a few more bytes,probably
not a big deal.
-David
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