Re: Install report
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:28:36 -0400
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here
> > just to show meaningful progress.
>
> I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX
> shell, and the following command:
>
> zcat floppy/initrd.gz > mnt/tmp-initrd
>
> To get a spinner, it would probably have to fork off a program that just
> spins, and then kill it when done. I'll get to it eventually.
There was a progress indicator patch sent to the busybox mailing list recently
"Read from stdin, write to stdout, write a progress indicator to stderr."
http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2003-October/009498.html
Glenn
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