bootsplash.org - graphical progress bar

**probono** · 04-09-2003, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by eadz

Well, the question really is weather I can fit it in the 1.44 boot file. I can do it using isolinux, but that seems to cause boot problems for older computers.

Couldn't there be isolinux by default and the option to use a boot floppy (image) for these machines where isolinux doesn't run?

**Sigmatador** · 04-12-2003, 05:10 PM

arf it looks nice, but i don't know how to install it on my knoppix hdinstall (or i can't ^^)
have someone already do it ?

**eadz** · 04-13-2003, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by Sigmatador

arf it looks nice, but i don't know how to install it on my knoppix hdinstall (or i can't ^^)
have someone already do it ?

you don't install it, its a kind of thing that comes with knoppix by default, although it doesn't yet.

**probono** · 04-20-2003, 04:38 AM

the new SuSE 8.2

Boot:

Shutdown:

**gerrynjr** · 04-23-2003, 12:27 AM

Well, it seems as if the bootfloppy issue may have been resolved. I had the idea o make a bootloader floppy rather than use a kernel boot floppy. The idea is currently used in alextreme's morphix distribution. (www.morphix.org)

As he stated above, the distro has a 2.88mb floppy image, and I was looking to install his light distro onto a pentium 266 that did not support booting off of cd. This floppy fixed the prob!

Good Luck!!!

**probono** · 04-23-2003, 08:33 PM

That is very interesting! Are there any drawback of this type of boot floppy image? If not, we should inform Klaus Knopper...

**Alextreme** · 04-24-2003, 12:45 AM

He knows, just that he said that it didn't support some scsi drives so it wasn't useful. Now i'm not seeing this as a perfect alternative to cd-booting, but it works for most systems that don't support cd-booting. As it wasn't actively developed, gerry is thinking about picking it up. A nice project, one we might all benefit from

**lemsx1** · 08-02-2003, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by Eliza

Does anyone know, if there is an install-howto. I've read the instructions on bootsplash.org and was a little bit confused.

There is a nice tutorial here

I took the information from that tutorial and put it in a simple package together with the needed scripts to update the progress bar for Debian (sid) latest initscripts. All plus a kernel patched with the 2.4.21 bootsplash patch is available here:
ftp://ftp.latinomixed.com/downloads/debian-embelisher

(There is a single tar.bz2 file at /downloads/debian-embelisher.tar.bz2 )

Check the README and LEEME (spanish readme file) for instructions. It's very simple.

Enjoy.

P.S. My contact information is included in the README. Feel free to contact me with questions.