[syslinux] small question regarding syslinux

[Stephen Brown]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, harald delmann wrote:

> one pretty small question ....
> i wanted to create my own mini-distribution, using syslinux to boot the
> system.
> Everything works pretty fine, but now i wanted to see a graphic on boot
> time. :-)
> I saw i have to create a graphic with the file-extension .ppm ... but please
> tell me with which programm i am able to use such an extension? gimp? dont
> think so ...

Well, you have to have Gimp save the image as a .pcx file then use the
command pcxtoppm (or save as an .rgb file and use rgb3toppm).

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu