Hi all,

I'd like to make captures of installation screens.

I did not find any direct way : no device to read. Is there one ?

So I tried something else : at boot time, I gave the
parameter "console=ttyS0" to the kernel in order to redirect the console
to /dev/ttyS0. I used minicom as terminal emulator and hoped to make screen
copies. As long as I used command lines, everything is fine : ls gives
colors and enter key works fine.

As soon as I run "setup", colors are lost, frames around texts are weid
character like "Ä" (tried VT102 and ansi emulation), arrow keys makes
cursor go up and down, but enter key does not change the menu. What is the
terminal emulation needed by setup ? Any better program than minicom (I
tried gtkTerm whitout best results) ?

Thank you for your help !

Franck barbenoire

Franck Barbenoire wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to make captures of installation screens.
>
> I did not find any direct way : no device to read. Is there one ?

There are some ideas there:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/screen-capture.html

HTH

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:15:51 +0200, Franck Barbenoire wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to make captures of installation screens.
>
> I did not find any direct way : no device to read. Is there one ?
>
> So I tried something else : at boot time, I gave the parameter
> "console=ttyS0" to the kernel in order to redirect the console to
> /dev/ttyS0. I used minicom as terminal emulator and hoped to make screen
> copies. As long as I used command lines, everything is fine : ls gives
> colors and enter key works fine.
>
> As soon as I run "setup", colors are lost, frames around texts are weid
> character like "Ä" (tried VT102 and ansi emulation), arrow keys makes
> cursor go up and down, but enter key does not change the menu. What is
> the terminal emulation needed by setup ? Any better program than minicom
> (I tried gtkTerm whitout best results) ?

Use a program like Qemu or VMware install the OS in a virtual machine.
Then you can take screenshots of the window the VM runs in.

Alternately you can run the setup programs in a console in X and take a
snapshot there. Although the modern Slackware does not seem to keep the
setup program on the system, you can copy it back from the install media.

See this page for hints on how to get the setup program off the
initrd.img on the install CD
http://www.flaterco.com/kb/slackware.html

Richard James
--
sig fail on line -1

There is a utility called "script" (see the man page) that, after
being invoked, records everything printed on a terminal to a
file.

Theoretically you should be able to use this to record an
installation session; though I'm not sure how you would go about
it.

-Simon

Franck Barbenoire :
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to make captures of installation screens.
>
> I did not find any direct way : no device to read. Is there one ?

Dont bother with that method. Get a nicely working Linux box and install
Virtualbox
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP...-F@CDS-CDS_SMI

Install on a virtual machine and take all the screenshots you like.

--
SURVIVE Y2K SOMEHOW

www.websterscafe.com

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Franck Barbenoire wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to make captures of installation screens.
[...]

I use "setterm -dump N" to make screenshots of virtual console ttyN,
/bin/setterm is included on the installer.

The graphic characters used for borders and such by dialog get
mapped to printables, "A", "B", etc. For my purpose, i jusst edit
the screenshot file and remove the graphicals.

I haven't tried, but you -might- be able to get 'better' screenshots
by messing with the installer's /etc/dialogrc file ...

HTH
--
William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Franck Barbenoire wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to make captures of installation screens.
[...]

I use "setterm -dump N" to make screenshots of virtual console ttyN,
/bin/setterm is included on the installer.

The graphic characters used for borders and such by dialog get
mapped to printables, "A", "B", etc. For my purpose, i jusst edit
the screenshot file and remove the graphicals.

I haven't tried, but you -might- be able to get 'better' screenshots
by messing with the installer's /etc/dialogrc file ...

HTH
--
William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA

Hello,

thank you all for yor answers.

I built qemu & kqemu packages and used them to make screen copies, works
great !

for anyone who might want them, here where you can download :

qemu : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=741
kqemu : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=742

I also tried also to build VirtualBox. I have built all necessary tools to
generate VirtualBox (dev86, iasl, liboil, pulseaudio, Xalan-C, Xerces-C)
but finally I got an error while compiling VirtualBox itself :

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1368

I gave up VirtualBox. I'll retry with Slack 12.1 installed.

dev86 : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=737
iasl : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=739
liboil : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=740
pulseaudio : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=743
Xalan-C : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=738
Xerces-C : http://www.franck-barbenoire.name/download.php?id=736

Note : bin86 must be removed before installing dev86.

Franck BarbenoireFranck Barbenoire wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to make captures of installation screens.
>
> I did not find any direct way : no device to read. Is there one ?
>
> So I tried something else : at boot time, I gave the
> parameter "console=ttyS0" to the kernel in order to redirect the console
> to /dev/ttyS0. I used minicom as terminal emulator and hoped to make
> screen copies. As long as I used command lines, everything is fine : ls
> gives colors and enter key works fine.
>
> As soon as I run "setup", colors are lost, frames around texts are weid
> character like "Ä" (tried VT102 and ansi emulation), arrow keys makes
> cursor go up and down, but enter key does not change the menu. What is the
> terminal emulation needed by setup ? Any better program than minicom (I
> tried gtkTerm whitout best results) ?
>
> Thank you for your help !
>
> Franck barbenoire