Re: ping on CD

[Alexander Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>]

Hi!

* Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [070321 23:19]:
> > So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to
> > add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to
> > busybox would probably only add a couple kB to the installer's size.
> This has been discussed about 20 times already. Unless you can give any 
> _real_ arguments why ping is essential, I very much doubt this will 
> change.

Would it be possible to ship a small ping-like shellscrip, which tries
to parse wgets output and give proper feedback to the user?

Yours sincerely,
  Alexander