> > Seemed to "hang" a bit at "Configuring the base system" before > > the "Debian Configuration" menus, some feedback would be nice, as these > > are very slow machines. Maybe a whirlygig would be appropriate... > > This is a known problem with debootstrap, and really dpkg, which > doesn't supply the necessary details to display this information. > See > #244563: Please make "Installing base packages" progress more granual
A workaround would be rewriting the "Configuring the base system" message (in base-config) to something like "Configuring the base system. This may take a while...". Joey, comments ? (post-sarge, of course, because this require l10n updates)
