progress meter stuck at "0s remaining" for minutes

[Tormod Volden]

Dapper flight 4 installation. During "Select and Install Software" it says Dowloading 830 files. (Actually it is reading them from the CD, since I install without network.) Then it is stuck at "Downloading file 830 of 830 (0s remaining). The overall progress meter is here at 5%. Only after a few minutes (ok, I have a 1 GHz CPU and 256 MB ram) the status message changes, and the overall progress jumps to 17%.

I am sure it is not this file number 830 which is so slow to get from the CD...

[Mark Lord (launchpad-rtr)]

Confirmed -- text mode installer progress bar stuck at 5% for a very long time while "downloading packages" from CD (mm.. that text is also a bug!). It also shows "0s remaining" during this LONG period of time. Very misleading.

Things work fine once it finally begins configuring/installing packages.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

A simple fix would be to just not print this message if "seconds" equal zero, something like: if (seconds>0) printf ("%i seconds remaining", seconds) else printf("Progressing :)";

That would make things look less broken. This is still an issue in the Flight 5 installation, also on a faster machine.