Question

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
>An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote:
>% On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote:
>% >This might help.
>% >http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/
>% 
>% Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific.
>
>Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention,
>you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the
>RAM disk's /tmp filesystem. You had to move them out of /tmp before 
>rebooting because they would go away, but it was a darn handy feature 
>for taking screenshots for manuals and such.

Is that ctrl-d documented somewhere?

>In your case, Bill, you might be able to send the console output to
>a serial port and take your screenshots that way. Another method is
>to load the console framebuffer and then do, more or less, 
>
># cp /dev/fb0 somefile
>
>I don't know what the output format is, but this is a start. 

That could be interesting, particularly if (a) it's portable on the
versions of Linux I want to document, and (b) the format is something
useful.  It could require a fair quantity of ramdisk as the JPEG files from
my 2.1 megapixel camera required a bit over 25MB before cropping and
cleaning up with the gimp.

Bill
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