handbook installation screenshots outdated

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 3 11:42:31 UTC 2006


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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