Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:50:08 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screenshots during installation? Message-ID: <20061105205007.GC26446@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20061105150645.GA7359@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <1162735557.25903.5.camel@redevil.savola.com> <20061105150645.GA7359@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006, Matthias Apitz wrote: >El día Sunday, November 05, 2006 a las 05:05:57PM +0300, Yousef Adnan Raffah escribió: > >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way I can take screenshots during installation? I know the >> installer runs sysinstall and I can invoke that from any terminal once >> the system installed and grab that window from my GUI, but are there >> other ways of doing it? > >Don't know exactly for which reason you need it. If you want to >communicate a problem during installation, you only can take photos. >If you want to produce a step-by-step installation guide, you may >consider install FreeBSD in a virtual machine (I used Qemu for >this) and take screenshots wherever you want. Several years ago I did an installation manual by taking photos of screens using a digital camera on a tripod and a remote control to avoid shaking the camera (and get my shoulder out of the picture :-). One thing I found was that it requires about a 1 second exposure and high Fstop to get the full screen. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``The fact is that the Constitution was intended to protect us from the government, and we cannot expect the government to enforce it willingly'' -- Dave E. Hoffmann, Reason Magazine March 2002
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