FAI and the installation progress - or: to those who care

[Cajus Pollmeier]

Hiho,

once upon a time there was a fai-progress implementation that we did for the 
city of munich - just in order to hide the linux / FAI messages from the 
users, sitting right in front of their screens wondering what's going on.

Since it was a quickie done in C, I proposed a rewrite done with perl. It now 
uses cdebconf (well known from the debian installer) and enables a NEWT or 
GTK based installation progress bar.

Since it's open source and it may be usable for more than just us - its here:

# svn export 
https://oss.gonicus.de/repositories/goto/branches/goto2/fai-progress
# cd fai-progress && dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot

Since there's no real integration possibility for that right now, I'm using 
the confdir hook as a workaround. More integration info and a sample hook 
sniplet is in the manpage.

Feedback is welcome.

Cheers,
Cajus