From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 2 12:58:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA18848 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pandora.hh.kew.com (ahd@kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA18842 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ahd@localhost) by pandora.hh.kew.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09937; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:58:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:58:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Drew Derbyshire Message-Id: <199710021958.PAA09937@pandora.hh.kew.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu Subject: Re: help with tutorial = printscreen during boot Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > i was wondering it it would be a major undertaking to get the printscreen > key to work while in the visual boot editor? and maybe also the non-visual > editor? > > the reason i ask is that i would like to be able to take snapshots of what > i am doing and scan them into a turtorial i am making for my school. > > i figure enableing printscreen wouldn't be as difficult as having it dump > the screen to a file in the root directory... I would boot in serial console mode with the console actually a terminal emulator such as kermit that supports session and/or screen capture. No programming required ... -- Drew Derbyshire Internet: ahd@kew.com Kendra Electronic Wonderworks Telephone: 781-279-9812 "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." - Charles V of France