handbook installation screenshots outdated

Daniel Gerzo danger at rulez.sk
Thu Aug 3 11:37:59 UTC 2006


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

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 Daniel                            mailto:danger at rulez.sk




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