PXE Menu Screenshots

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Wed Aug 3 22:36:34 MST 2011


On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, lthielster at gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know how to do screenshots of PXE menus? The only things I can 
> imagine are
> - running something like a menu.c32 emulator on the PXE server, or
> - faking a PXE boot from a running OS pretending to be a PXE client.
>
> I've not yet found anything to do it short of a camera. Any ideas?

It is pretty easy to do a domU inside a dom0, under Xen,, 
where there is an option to show a VNC console of the unit 
being installed to an arbitrary viewer of the VNC data

Once can then screenshot (or even record a flash movie) to 
taste, and get 'to the pixel' clarity

-- Russ herrold


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