From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 3 17:59:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97B916A4DA for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:59:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1B843D49 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:59:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from webmail.dfwlp.org (localhost.dfwlp.com [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k73Hxdlc092483 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:59:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from 167.246.36.14 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhorne) by webmail.dfwlp.org with HTTP; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:59:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <20229.167.246.36.14.1154627979.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <20060803114226.GB17680@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200608022134.53769.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <894214962.20060803120227@rulez.sk> <20060803104950.GA17680@abigail.blackend.org> <642300296.20060803133755@rulez.sk> <20060803114226.GB17680@abigail.blackend.org> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:59:39 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan Horne" To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on zeus.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: handbook installation screenshots outdated X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:59:42 -0000 > 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