> The main problem is screen blanking. I can find no way to turn it off,
> save recompiling the kernel after modifying source.
Tomsrtbt dd already has progress indicators, use:
--iprogress='i' --oprogress='o' for example to spit out "i" on input blocks
and "o" on output blocks.
> The "setterm" command would work, but I am unable to compile a copy that
> uses libc5, and copying over the needed libraries from a rh9 machine
> just causes Out of Memory errors during the uncompressing.
>
> Would it be possible for somebody to either offer a better suggestion to
> disable screen blanking (since in our case it limits the usefulness of
> the machine), or provide a setterm that will work if stuck into the
> initrd.bz2 of the ElTorito image?
The thing is, setterm just spits out strings to the terminal, so if you
know what string it spits out to turn off blanking, you can just use an
echo command and the literal control code string.. That is why setterm
is not included, the workaround is good enough.. Um, for blank, the
string looks to be printf("\033[9;%d]", opt_bl_min); where you want 0 to
turn it off. So, just echo that string, and you have a replacement for
setterm that is only 5 or 10 bytes long...
-TOm
