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ninxsoft / Mist

A Mac utility that automatically downloads macOS Firmwares / Installers.
MIT License
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Progress Bar or status when creating Bootable Installer #121

Open jml2622 opened 9 months ago

jml2622 commented 9 months ago

Hi, I really like this project but though of one idea which could make it slightly better.

When creating a bootable installer usb there is no progress bar or status on what Mist is doing during this process. For example the terminal command to use createinstallmedia tells you the progress in writing, verifying and erasing the disk in percentages.

This would be helpful as this is a long process and it would be helpful to know wether it is taking a while or if the process has failed or gotten stuck on one part of the install.

Thanks

ninxsoft commented 9 months ago

@jml2622 this sounds like a really cool feature!

Under the hood, Mist is using the createinstallmedia binary to create the bootable installer - I'll see what options I have to stream in the output of that command, and to convert that into a progress bar 👍

voljumet commented 7 months ago

I just canceled a job because it seems that Mist is stuck, I'm instead using the files that Mist downloaded together with this command sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume now I can see the progress in the console Copying to disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%..., which could be added to the Mist Log.