handbook installation screenshots outdated

Jonathan Horne freebsd at dfwlp.com
Thu Aug 3 17:59:42 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
>

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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