Re: color boot text

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Nicos Gollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Barnes-Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: Re: color boot text > On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:44, Tom Barnes-Lawrenc

Re: color boot text

2002-06-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:44, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote: > Could it be possible to create a program, lets call it "colourify" > for example (I don't know of one), such that when the init scripts > run a program, they direct the program's standard error (or standard > output if appropriate) str

RE: color boot text

2002-06-03 Thread Jeremy Turner
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Debian could standardize this, but why? How often to you > really watch your system reboot? How often _do_ you reboot, after all, it is linux? =) Well, to be honest, I have a laptop that requires standby/hibernate/s

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread Paul Miller
This would actually be very simple. Just create an included script with two functions -- init_fail() and init_ok(). These functions simple print "failed" or "ok" in color. Next, just include this script (. /etc/init.d/color_funcs.sh) in every init.d script. Finally, change "done" to init_ok()

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
Hi, you wrote: > > If I remember correctly, a friend running red hat had color text > > while his machine was booting. Is there a howto on how to set this > > up? > > ...Red Hat's init scripts do some really bizarre things, but one of > the consequences of this is that they print output in a ~stan

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread David Z Maze
nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to have my thinkpad x22 boot with colored text. Simple > red will do. Is that possible without using the framebuffer? Nothing about booting Linux, in general, is inherently black-and-white. But... > If I remember correctly, a friend runnin

color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread nick lidakis
I would like to have my thinkpad x22 boot with colored text. Simple red will do. Is that possible without using the framebuffer? If I remember correctly, a friend running red hat had color text while his machine was booting. Is there a howto on how to set this up? nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema