Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 00:28:44 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to capture FreeBSD installation Screen - for review purpose Message-ID: <20030506072844.GR385@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <3EB6A499.5080305@centtech.com> References: <20030504160435.23937.qmail@web105.mail.yahoo.com> <20030505174851.GB52168@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <3EB6A499.5080305@centtech.com>
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On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:51:21PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >That's not how the screen shots in the Handbook were generated. Look at
> >the vidcontrol(1) man page, and the -p and -P options. Then look at
> >ports/graphics/scr2png and ports/textproc/scr2txt.
>
> Is vidcontrol available during install?
Hmm. I don't think so, but sysinstall tries to invoke it anyway in
mouse.c? If it was truly required then you could build a custom boot
floppy with it.
You can run a fake installation with sysinstall on an existing system
(for example, to populate a chroot directory hierarchy with release
bits). I suspect that is how Randy Pratt and others have generated
the release snapshots using the tools that Nik described (and wrote --
thanks Nik!)
- Murray
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