Try script(1) it records all terminal output to a file. You will need to "cheat" a little: First create an extra partition containing script, needed libraries and space for the script. Then start the boot floppy. Kill the install front end Mount the script partition on /typescript where it won't interfere. Now start # script scriptfile to begin recording all console output. Then manually start the install front end. Just before the install reboots, hack the installed run once script (forgot the name) to run under script too. A final problem is to get screen shots of the initial screens. My solution: cheat! Copy the displayed files from the floppy and paste them into your document. Another problem is to convert the script into a series of screen shots. Slowly piping the file to an xterm may be a solution. Hope it works for you (hasn't used script for long myself) Jakob On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:47:42PM -0500, 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. > > -- > Dean Carpenter > Principal Architect > Purdue Pharma > dean.carpenter@nospam.pharma.com > Remove nospam ... > 94TT :) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- This message is hastily written, please ignore any unpleasant wordings, do not consider it a binding commitment, even if its phrasing may indicate so. Its contents may be deliberately or accidentally untrue. Trademarks and other things belong to their owners, if any.
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