displaying images without X

[Drew Cohan]

Does anyone know how Debian 3.0, upon booting up, displays the penguin holding a beer without X being installed?  I’ve found the png but can’t find the means the system uses to display this image on boot.   I’ve tried to duplicate this behavior with ‘fbi’ but I get ‘only packed pixel buffers supported’.  With ‘zgv’, I get a seg fault.  All I want to do is display a jpg/gif/png without having X installed.   Thanks,   Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]