
                Say good-bye to all a them boring progress bars

Here's a twist on the ol' progress bar that you have come to know and love.
I was only able to configure it for my 1024x768 vga=791 monitor. You may
have to tweak a couple of things. Like maybe get YOUR bootsplash working
before you go start breaking stuff with this. My deck has Mandrake 10.1
community [download] edition, so YMMV. There's some extra lines in the
configs referring to masking the penguin logos. You may drop those lines
entirely, IF you know what you are doing.

In /etc/init.d/functions, I had to add a new function called "anime". I had
been referring to a hint page for bootsplash, and that page called the new
function "animate". On Mandrake10.1, animate was actually a real, live
command that came with ImageMagick, and this probably caused some conflict.
Anyway the function should read like this:

anime()
{

        if [ $# = 0 ]
        then
                echo "Usage: anime {hook}"
                exit 1
        fi

        splash "$*"

}
From this point onwards in this document, the paths refer to the same paths
and directories that Mandrake used in its 10.1 distro, back then when it was
known as Mandrake and not Mandriva.

After unzipping this archive, we have to put them in two places. All config
files go to /etc/bootsplash/themes/Raiders/config. All other files go to
/usr/share/bootsplash/themes/Raiders, and that would have these
subdirectories: animations and images. 'Images' would have your console
backgrounds, while 'animations' would have the clips in mng format.  I've
tried chopping up the 'All' into smaller and more manageable parts, but
getting them to sync at various points in the boot process became a mission,
so I've decided to lump em all in one big fat juicy clip. You can email me
at the address below if you're interested in the smaller chunks.

You might want to head on out to bootsplash.org for troubleshooting before
you send questions my way, because to be honest, I got them to work using
good ol' trial-n-error. I was lucky to get a message telling me that the
animation had to exist in the /etc/bootsplash/theme... not in
/usr/share/bootsplash/theme. That's right, no expert here. But hey you can
send email to she_died AT yahoo DOT com. I'm all about the eye candy anyway.

I would like to thank the ekster OVER AT deviantart DOT com, full credit
goes to him for the Beechcraft plane and background (I only did the map
portion). He granted me permission to share this artwork; please return the
favor by visiting his gallery at deviantart.

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   Every logon an adventure Every upgrade a dance with the devil
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