[School-GNU-Linux] Fwd: [Fsf-kerala] Create your own bootsplash image

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Date: २००७ सितम्बर २७ ०९:३६
Subject: [Fsf-kerala] Create your own bootsplash image
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A bootsplash image is first image that comes on a display monitor,
even before the system is booted. Usually, the image remains on the
screen for the duration given in seconds in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I was just wondering...
why can't we have different bootsplash images at schools ?

Here's how a bootsplash image can be built and incorporated.

Step 1. Install packages imagemagick and gimp (apt-get install imagemagick gimp)

Step 2. Identify the photo/image that you want to get as a bootsplash
image (it would be better if you work with a photo having 640x480
pixels).

Step 3. Load the image with Gimp application.

Step 4. On GIMP menu select Script-Fu -> Decor -> Old Photo (your
image will now be shown as a very old photograph, as if shot in 1960's
or 1970's.)

Step 5. Save it as photo.png inside /home/'user' directory. (Replace
'user' with the correct name)

Step 6. Go to terminal and type
$ cd /home/'user'
$ convert -resize 640x480 -colors 14 photo.png photo.xpm && gzip photo.xpm

You will now have a photo.xpm.gz file which is 640x480 and where only
limited colors are used. (Splashimages will work only with images
having depth 8-bit or less.)

Step 7. Become superuser/root
$ su
# cd /boot/grub
# mkdir splashimages
# cp /home/user/photo.xpm.gz splashimages/

Step 8. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add the following statement
immediately below the
"color ...." line.
splashimage /boot/grub/splashimages/photo.xpm.gz

Step 9. Reboot your machine to see what change you have brought in.

Cheers,
CK Raju
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