From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 3 4: 3:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from utep.el.utwente.nl (utep.el.utwente.nl [130.89.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C970237B8A5 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 04:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.Dergatchev@tn.utwente.nl) Received: from tn.utwente.nl (uttnb55.tn.utwente.nl [130.89.74.55]) by utep.el.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02395 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:04:26 +0200 Message-ID: <398951D6.6AF95F8E@tn.utwente.nl> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:04:54 +0200 From: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <2000080222 <04b301bffd39$77b55940$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > > 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. :) FreeBSD is fine. Some 1 year old WD hdds are not, as it appears. Oh well, you maybe right - we need a better testing on installation, so that when FreeBSD installs it tests all HW and runs only if it gives a life warrantly :-) > > > > 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. I couldn't get why you just insist on not having the OS installed when taking screenshots ? Shouldn't make any difference for taking pictures, as I understood from the posting I gave reference to. Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message