Re: debian-installer help wanted

[Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu>]

Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:43:29 -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> > 7. graphical boot screen
> >
> >    We would like to drag Debian kicking and screaming into the .. er,
> >    late 90's by giving its installer a fancy graphical boot screen. We
> >    have two candidates, but would be glad to see something even better.
> >    Note that it's limited to 16 colors and 640x480 resolution, and see
> >    the syslinux documentation for details.
>
>
> Is this just a syslinux splash or a graphical boot as well?  Bootsplash 
> can handle a graphical boot, although this would mean a patched kernel 
> and some additional packages.  Don't think that would be an easy thing 
> to add.

Herbert says this can be done using userspace tools, not a kernel-space 
driver. I say that if we can figure out how to do that, we should.


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