Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:42:26 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: handbook installation screenshots outdated Message-ID: <20060803114226.GB17680@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <642300296.20060803133755@rulez.sk> References: <200608022134.53769.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <894214962.20060803120227@rulez.sk> <20060803104950.GA17680@abigail.blackend.org> <642300296.20060803133755@rulez.sk>
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:37:55PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > 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 :-( > The other way is using a thing like qemu, bochs or vmware. Marc
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