Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:49:55 -0600 From: Ed Stover <estover@nativenerds.com> To: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@comcast.net> Cc: charlessmyth@utvinternet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: screen grabs Message-ID: <43042F93.80703@nativenerds.com> In-Reply-To: <20050816112007.16baf239.bsd-unix@comcast.net> References: <4301f984.480.0@utvinternet.com> <20050816112007.16baf239.bsd-unix@comcast.net>
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Randy Pratt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:44 +0100 > "Charles Smyth" <charlessmyth@utvinternet.com> wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I wondered if anyone can advise me about how to get screen shots / >>grabs of the FreeBSD installation screens as shown in the online >>manual, etc. I can use The Gimp’s resources to do screen shots with >>everything installed, but this wouldn’t be available at the >>installation phase. >> > > > The screenshots in the Handbook were done with vidcontrol: > > vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr > > See vidcontrol(1) for further detail. There are also tools in the ports > tree (graphics/scr2png) if you need to convert to PNG format. > > scr2png < shot.scr > shot.png > > Most of the screenshots were taken post-installation. There are a few > screens which have different content post-installation than during > installation and those were edited with editors/hexedit to reflect the > exact display at installation. > > A few of the screens were captured using the headless install technique > described in the Handbook in "Advanced Installation" since > those screens don't display when running Sysinstall after installation. > > HTH, > > Randy > I allways wondered how they did that! now I can hop through some installation tutorials for some locals. Thanks!
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