Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Matthew Sackman]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:49:15PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:03:12PM -0500, Robb Kidd wrote:
> > Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> > [ponder] Download the VMware 3.0 beta and install Debian in a virtual 
> > machine?  In addition to the many X screen grabbers available, VMware 
> > provides its own screen-capture function.
>   Or much better: Use plex86 or bochs.  That'll at least get you the x86 &
> common screens. MOL might help with PPC/PMac specific parts. 
>   Or.. Is there any reason why dbootstrap can't be run on a running system?
> Just chroot the install initrd image and run it directly.  I might have to
> play with that tonight. I'll see if I can catch the ritual goat sacrifice
> mentioned in my sig.

I've done this before (not the ritual goat sacrifice - running
dbootstrap on a live system). You just chroot it as normal. Get the
install disks, work out which disk contains the binaries, and hunt
around until you actually find the one that launches the install
sequence - if you do it from an xterm then you can snapshot as much as
you need.

HTH,

Matthew

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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Nicolas Lopez]

  I'm replying to myself because I deleted the head of the thread.

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:49:15PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:03:12PM -0500, Robb Kidd wrote:
> > Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> > [ponder] Download the VMware 3.0 beta and install Debian in a virtual 
> > machine?  In addition to the many X screen grabbers available, VMware 
> > provides its own screen-capture function.
>   Or much better: Use plex86 or bochs.  That'll at least get you the x86 &
  Boredom has prevailed. I tried a test install with the reiser disks from
http://people.debian.org/~aph/  v3.0.16-2001-10-24
in bochs, and screen-shot it into oblivion. The shots are tared up at:
  http://debian.glowingmonkey.org/screenshots.tar
 It's only a 650k tarball that contains 76 640x400 screens shots of as much
of the install as I got through in bochs. I snaped a lot of failed and
status messages, but was unable to install the base due to lack of planning.
I did get through the network configuration with the emulated ne2k.
dhcp/bootp only.
  Enjoy

  - Nick Lopez
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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:49:15PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
>   Or much better: Use plex86 or bochs.  That'll at least get you the x86 &
> common screens. MOL might help with PPC/PMac specific parts. 

Usermode Linux could work too, on i386 or maybe ppc.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Ethan Benson]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:49:15PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
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>  We still need to do something about quik, ritual goat sacrifice is
>  somewhat tricky to implement in C...
>- Ethan Benson on debian-boot 5-30-01

heh

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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Nicolas Lopez]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:03:12PM -0500, Robb Kidd wrote:
> Carpenter, Dean wrote:
>   [ponder] Download the VMware 3.0 beta and install Debian in a virtual 
> machine?  In addition to the many X screen grabbers available, VMware 
> provides its own screen-capture function.
  Or much better: Use plex86 or bochs.  That'll at least get you the x86 &
common screens. MOL might help with PPC/PMac specific parts. 
  Or.. Is there any reason why dbootstrap can't be run on a running system?
Just chroot the install initrd image and run it directly.  I might have to
play with that tonight. I'll see if I can catch the ritual goat sacrifice
mentioned in my sig.

  - Nick Lopez
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 We still need to do something about quik, ritual goat sacrifice is
 somewhat tricky to implement in C...
   - Ethan Benson on debian-boot 5-30-01


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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Tim Moss]

Apparently, on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:03:12PM -0500, Robb Kidd wrote:
> Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> 
> >I need to produce a screen-by-screen document detailing the woody/testing
> >install process for internal use here.  So I need to be able to capture 
> >each
> >and every screen put up during the install to show what it looks like and
> >what choices should be picked.
> >
> >Any ideas on how best to do this ?
> 
>   [ponder] Download the VMware 3.0 beta and install Debian in a virtual 
> machine?  In addition to the many X screen grabbers available, VMware 
> provides its own screen-capture function.
> 
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Doing a serial install and capturing the contents of the terminal should
work fine. You may have to experiment with your terminal font to make sure
the shapes and such display well but it definitely can look fine.
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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[John H. Robinson, IV]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> 
> I need to produce a screen-by-screen document detailing the woody/testing
> install process for internal use here.

i found that running dbootstrap in an xterm is sufficient.
you may want to do it in a chroot, and take othre reasonable
precautions.

the only parts you miss are the boot: screen, and the inital message
from adam di carlo.

-john


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Re: Capturing install screenshots

[Robb Kidd]

Carpenter, Dean wrote:

> I need to produce a screen-by-screen document detailing the woody/testing
> install process for internal use here.  So I need to be able to capture each
> and every screen put up during the install to show what it looks like and
> what choices should be picked.
> 
> Any ideas on how best to do this ?

[ponder] Download the VMware 3.0 beta and install Debian in a virtual 
machine?  In addition to the many X screen grabbers available, VMware 
provides its own screen-capture function.


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