Randy Pratt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:44 +0100 > "Charles Smyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I wondered if anyone can advise me about how to get screen shots / >>grabs of the FreeBSD installation screens as shown in the online >>manual, etc. I can use The Gimp’s resources to do screen shots with >>everything installed, but this wouldn’t be available at the >>installation phase. >> > > > The screenshots in the Handbook were done with vidcontrol: > > vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr > > See vidcontrol(1) for further detail. There are also tools in the ports > tree (graphics/scr2png) if you need to convert to PNG format. > > scr2png < shot.scr > shot.png > > Most of the screenshots were taken post-installation. There are a few > screens which have different content post-installation than during > installation and those were edited with editors/hexedit to reflect the > exact display at installation. > > A few of the screens were captured using the headless install technique > described in the Handbook in "Advanced Installation" since > those screens don't display when running Sysinstall after installation. > > HTH, > > Randy > I allways wondered how they did that! now I can hop through some installation tutorials for some locals. Thanks! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
