handbook installation screenshots outdated

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:02:27PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
> 
> Thursday, August 3, 2006, 4:34:53 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > ive noticed that the installation screenshots that are featured in the
> > handbook are quite outdated.  i recently, much for my own purposes, wrote up
> > some documentation on how to install FreeBSD-6.1, and i took screenshots of
> > nearly every step of the entire installation.
> 
> It's well known problem for doc@ people. The whole installation
> chapter needs updating, it's not only screenshots.
> 
> > if possible, i would like to donate their use to the handbook, so that it
> > could be updated to match what is the latest release.
> 
> 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).
The booting screens can be easily captured with a serial console setup.

Marc