Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:59:39 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: handbook installation screenshots outdated Message-ID: <20229.167.246.36.14.1154627979.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <20060803114226.GB17680@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200608022134.53769.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <894214962.20060803120227@rulez.sk> <20060803104950.GA17680@abigail.blackend.org> <642300296.20060803133755@rulez.sk> <20060803114226.GB17680@abigail.blackend.org>
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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 > they were shot from a virtual machine, and this was where i began. http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org/images/f/f6/Install01.png after i looked a bit more at the rest of the paths on the documentation, i did not follow the complex paths the original shots did, but it would not be a problem for me to do so. cheers, jonathan
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