Re: Slightly OT: Screen shots during an installation/boot

Jeff Epler (jepler@inetnebr.com)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:25:49 -0500

Two kinds of devices, /dev/vcsN and /dev/vcsaN exist for reading the contents
of Linux virtual consoles. So if you have the ability to mount a writable
media and to mknod, just create /dev/vcsa1 and "cat /dev/vcsa1 > snapshot"

There should be a tool out there to convert the vcsa format to "ANSI"
graphics or a gif/png/whatever file , but I'm not sure of one offhand.

Jeff

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