Re: screen grabs
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]
screen grabs
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 Gimps resources to do screen shots with everything installed, but this wouldnt be available at the installation phase. Charles Smyth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen grabs
El día martes, agosto 16, 2005 a las 03:34:44 +0100, Charles Smyth escribió: 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 Gimps resources to do screen shots with everything installed, but this wouldnt be available at the installation phase. I did it installing FreeBSD into VMWare matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g / D-82041 Oberhaching Fon: ++49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile ++49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen grabs
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:34:44PM +0100, Charles Smyth wrote: 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 Gimps resources to do screen shots with everything installed, but this wouldnt be available at the installation phase. you can install FreeBSD inside qemu on a virtual disc qemu is a very promising open-source emulator which is in the ports (emulators-section) see also : http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen grabs
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 Gimps resources to do screen shots with everything installed, but this wouldnt 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 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
