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diff --git a/build_tools/clarch/larch/docs/Splash_howto b/build_tools/clarch/larch/docs/Splash_howto deleted file mode 100644 index 32660bb..0000000 --- a/build_tools/clarch/larch/docs/Splash_howto +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -Using vesamenu this is now much easier ... - -For the vesamenu, it is called a background image, rather than splash -image, because the menu appears on top of it. -All you need is a 640x480 image in png or jpg format (the default image -in larch is called bkgd.jpg)! - -======================================================================= - -But here are the old instructions, just in case ... (the utility programs -are in the 'syslinux' package): - -Splash screen for isolinux/syslinux ------------------------------------ - -This could be easier ... -Anyway, it needs to be in a particular format. 640 pixels wide and quite -a bit less than 480 pixels high (to leave space for the boot text). -Then it may not use more than 16 colours. You can reduce the colour -depth by setting indexed mode in the GIMP (image - mode). It may be -sensible to use only 14 or 15 colours (to leave something for the -text?) - but I didn't really investigate this further. I reduced -my image to 14 colours. -Then you can export it to a .ppm file, which serves as input to the -perl script ppmtolss16, (which comes from the syslinux tarball - -its inverse is lss16toppm, which is also in there): - -./ppmtolss16 < splash.ppm > splash.lss - -To test this, convert it back and take a look at the result: - -./lss16toppm < splash.lss > test.ppm - -Just replace the existing splash.lss file (in cd-root/isolinux) with your -version. |