On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:22:01PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > gsmh >I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on > gsmh >the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me > gsmh >remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched > gsmh >www.debian.org with all manner of words -boot, debian-boot and so on but > gsmh >I can't find it. > > I *think* the developers modified the linuxlogo program to have a debian > logo in it, check into that.
Okay, after apt-getting source linuxlogo, I made the following changes to get the swirl to be built. I don't know if this is the correct way to do it, but it works. 1) In the linuxlogo-3.0.2 directory, edit the defaults.h file, changing '#include "debian/ascii_penguin.h"' to '#include "debian/ascii_debian.h"' and '#include "debian/penguin.h"' to '#include "debian/debian.h"' 2) Edit both debian/ascii_debian.h and debian/debian.h changing 'const char *vendor_ascii_logo[]' to 'const char *ascii_logo[]' or 'const char *vendor_color_logo[]' to 'const char *color_logo[]' (It won't build otherwise!) 3) debian/rules binary 4) dpkg -i ../linuxlogo*.deb 5) Put linuxlogo on hold, so it isn't updated in the future. I didn't figure out how the *vendor_ thingy was supposed to work. The linuxlogo.c file doesn't have a handler for it. So I dropped the original penguin (which looks kinda cruddy anyway) for the debian swirl and the banner versions. I think the whole thing would work better if it just read the logos from files rather than being built into the binary. Then it'd be a simple matter to create new logos without rebuilding the binary. It'd just need a couple option switches --ascii <path_to_ascii>, and --ansi <path_to_ansi>. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
