Re: Progress meter unbelievable

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Sven Luther wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:30:24PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm network-installing on an HP Vecra by modem.
> >
> > Since this is my first (successful so far) install using the Jul 29 Sid 
> > version, it needed to pull stuff through my modem instead of  of my 
> > Squid cache.
> >
> > During most of the time to download the kernel, the progress meter was 
> > stuck on 87%.
> >    
>
> It is downlaoding stuff in the background.
>
>  
As my infestigations showed.

> > If I'd not been caught on this before, I'd probably have reset the computer.
> >
> > As it was, I got pretty restless and went investigating to check that it 
> > was working.
> >    
>
> Maybe a good idea would be to add some description of the actual task
> happening below, and also the transfer rate, or something such for actual
> downloads.
>
>
>  

The standard apt-get report would be fine.


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John

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