How to capture FreeBSD installation Screen - for review purpose

[Nik Clayton]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 09:04:35AM -0700, gite vivek wrote:
> I have just upload the "How to capture FreeBSD
> installation Screen" - how-to please see it at:
> http://freebsd.nixcraft.com/hcfis5/2/
> 
> Your sugesstion and comments are welcome.

That's not how the screen shots in the Handbook were generated.  Look at
the vidcontrol(1) man page, and the -p and -P options.  Then look at
ports/graphics/scr2png and ports/textproc/scr2txt.

The rough process is:

    1.  Get the screen you want to capture displayed on the first
        virtual terminal.

    2.  Use ALT+F2 to switch to the second terminal.  Log in here.

    3.  Run 'vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr' to capture the
        contents of the first virtual terminal.

    4.  Run one of 'scr2png < shot.scr > shot.png' or 'scr2txt
        < shot.scr > shot.txt' to generate the image.

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