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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:37:55 +0200
From:      Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: handbook installation screenshots outdated
Message-ID:  <642300296.20060803133755@rulez.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20060803104950.GA17680@abigail.blackend.org>
References:  <200608022134.53769.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <894214962.20060803120227@rulez.sk> <20060803104950.GA17680@abigail.blackend.org>

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Hello Marc,

Thursday, August 3, 2006, 12:49:50 PM, you wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:02:27PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:

>> 
>> That would be pretty neat. May I ask you, how did you took your
>> screenshots? Do you have those very first when FreeBSD is booting?
>> 

> For information, the ones in the Handbook have been "captured" with
> vidcontrol, then converted to PNG with src2png (the manual page gives
> examples of command lines to use).

I know Marc, that's why I'm asking Jonathan; I have some kind of
feeling that he made it some other way :-)

BTW: there's also scr2txt tool, which would be pretty useful for use
too.

> The booting screens can be easily captured with a serial console setup.

Too bad, I have no such ability at the moment :-(

> Marc

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger@rulez.sk




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