Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> Hey All -
>
> 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 ? I was thinking about using a system
> that will redirect output to the serial port, but I don't know that will
> work with the dialog system that the boot-floppies uses.
You should be able to do something like this. Swtch to virtual console 2.
Press return to get a shell. Mount a spare partition somewhere. Then, for
each screen you want to capture:
cat /dev/vcs1 > /<wherever>/snapshot<n>
Of course, that only gets you the plain text. If you want attributes too,
you could try playing with /dev/vcsa1 and try to figure out a way to decode
the data later.
You'll want to run the snapshot files through fold to split them into
lines, because /dev/vcs* doesn't emit newlines between screen lines. Oh,
and you might need to create /dev/vcs1 if it doesn't exist in the install
system.
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