Looking for Randy Pratt

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:32:01PM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> 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.

Cool, that sounds good.

> 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!

Yeah, I'd probably agree, but I figure that since the user only gets ten
seconds to look at it for real that a real screenshot might be an idea.
If it turns out to be too difficult to obtain then I'll just change my
mind. :)

> Sorry I couldn't help more,

No, the info you gave has been very useful, thanks.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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