From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 3 3:52:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410CF37B8A3 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18568; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:52:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdx18566; Thu Aug 3 20:52:06 2000 Message-ID: <04b301bffd39$77b55940$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <2000080222 Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:56:21 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > ok, thanks, my freebsd box is down currently so i can't test right now. Oh shock !!! Oh horror !!!! ......... and I thought FreeBSD boxes were like Rollers and NEVER broke down. :) > > I believe I saw this message but I presumed he was talking > about user commands being issued and not about screen > bitmap. As I recall it captures the text in a console .... that means its a much smaller file than a BMP / JPG / whatever. Probably OK for the early "white text on black screen" screens if there's a way to run "script". I guess it would need to be done on a different machine somehow since the install one doesn't have an O/S at that stage. If I could comprehend what Alfred Perlstein was on about with installing via serial cable it might be possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message