Looking for Randy Pratt

[Randy Pratt]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:17:05 +0000
Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:22:11PM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:25:29 +0000
> > Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Randy's mail is bouncing.  Anyone have an address for him that works?
> > 
> > This one is my present email.  The machine that I used for login to
> > freefall died during Hurricane Charlie taking with it my means to
> > change my forwarding email.
> 
> Sounds nasty; glad you made it out OK :)
> 
> All I wanted was to pick your brains regarding taking an .SCR of a boot
> time screen, specifically the beastie/boot menu; is that possible, since
> obviously it's kind of hard to use vidcontrol at that point.
> The only way I can think of doing it at the moment is to put a serial
> console on one machine and take it that way; is there something easier?

A serial console is how I created the some of the .scr that could not
be captured in some form after install.  I did do some hex editing of
the .scr if I had a version that was close and didn't want to set up
the serial console.  I'd probably have to go thru that learning curve
again if I tried hex editing now.

There might be a way to display the beastie menu on a console after
boot and capture it in that manner but I don't know 4th so I can't
offer any quick solution there.

If you have the null cable and a spare machine, it would probably
be the fastest way without having to get too involved.

Does that menu really need a screenshot since its black and white
and could be represented by text?  It would accomplish the
representation needed for the accompanying text explanation.  Just
a thought!

Sorry I couldn't help more,

Randy



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