Screenshots during install

[Luis M]

Yep, in qemu you can install Dapper (or any other Linux distro really)
very easily:

dd if=/dev/zero of=image.img bs=1M count=2048 # 2GB image of zeros
sudo qemu -hda image.img -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu.iso -boot c

start the installation process and whenever you need an image taken
press: CTRL+ALT+2 (NOTE not F2 but simply 2). Which gives you the qemu
command screen. Here you can take pictures (the actual command skips
my mind now, try using "help").

It works like a charm ;-)

On 2/21/06, dan <hentaidan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/02/06, Max Andersen <max at militant.dk> wrote:
> > Filipe Bonjour wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was asked to create a documentation on how to install Ubuntu. I know
> > > that, for instance, in Fedora Core you have a special key (F12 or
> > > something) that takes screenshots during the install and saves them so
> > > you can document the install process later. This is explained in the
> > > in the menu when you boot the install CD.
> > >
> > > Anything similar for Ubuntu? (Not necessarily Breezy, could be Dapper.)
> >
> > If you don't have vmware, then download the trial version, install it in
> > there while documenting, and take screenshots as you progress with the
> > guest installation. All done on 1 machine.
>
> Why not Bochs or Qemu? 3-click install with Synaptic, ;)
>
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