Bootskin Tutorial?

There is no tutorial yet. Try doing a search (under general discussion) for "bootskins" and read some of the threads. There is some useful info in there but you will have to glean it for yourself, for now.

I search all that when I saw your thread and did not really find much info. I did see that there may be info with in the program but I have not loaded it yet so I am not sure about what may be in there. Good luck

I wonder if bootskins can be incorporated into or along side with LogonStudio?



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ask jafo but be warned you will owe him a dollar so he can buy his island.

Did a few searches before posting here that didn't really produce anything. I've seen some info at Bootxp.net, but from what I've seen they use the ntoskrnl.exe method which I assume is not compatible with the bootskin program from WC. So no point in gleaning over that tutorial and corrupting my brain... To bad the people that have already made bootskins for WC haven't written anything out any info about this.

#8 by Admin Jafo - 11/20/2003 6:27:27 PM
Take one 640x480 image....

Reduce it to 4bit 16 colours....

Copy an existing ini file....

edit it in notepad to have the nnew image name....

New author details....

Zip them....

rename 'zip' extension to 'bootskin'....

Done.

Progress bar needs one more image....same 16 colour palette, and a location in the ini for where it is and how wide it progresses.


...now send Jafo a dollar

I think yrag deserves the dollar for porting the instructions here

Oh! Can I have a dollar too, Just cause I read this...again?

Ok the way I see it, the dollar will be divided in 4 parts.
30 cents goes to Jafo for the original instructions.
30 cents goes to yrag for porting the instructions.
30 cents goes to China cause she seems to work hard at reading posts
and the remaining 10 cents will be my 10% negotiation commission




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...5%, until you learn how to spell 'commission'


OK OK....10%



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hahaha . it's fix
Now give me back my 5% >

So, My cut is 30 pennies?

I'll take it!

Hmmm... 30 cents sounds like a lot more money than 30 pennies

Hummmmmm....easy and cheap!!!!

lmao

Hey! You'd be suprised what you can do with 30 pennies

specially if they are of the rare kind

Hang about.....who are all these interlopers cashing in on my cow?

I get the dollar...

You all get to live another day....

Sounds equitable...

webgizmos....no, they are distinctly different in that the 'other' method requires a modified OS kernel...which has the potential to seriously destroy your computer enjoyment if anything goes bad.

The instructions yrag posted [claiming his cut] were mostly gleaned from the included text file....combined with my own dalliance with the proggy which I found to be quite simple, though the co-ordinates for the progress bar seem a bit 'off'....and not reading directly from the base image size, requiring some tweaking.....though that is probably a beta bug.....[the one called 'JAFO']...

I get the dollar...You all get to live another day....

Ahhh.... Jafo spoiled the party.
I guess Im back to collecting empty bottles and cans >

Yes...I can see it now at the bank...Yes please...I'd like to make out a check to Jafo, Yrag, ChinaCat, & Apocalypse67...and could you make that out for 30 cents each? Wait... what do you mean I need to put on this white coat first...What?...What do you mean the Patriot Act...But these are real people!...I know because I've seen their....uh... names...errrr...nics...What are you talking about?...What master plan to take over the world by building a skin for it!?...

Thanks guys for the info...unfortunately I don't understand greek...lol Is there a way to download a bootskin and open it to look at how it was put together? I've tried opening one as text but there's nothing there to see. Is there a particular program I need to use in order to view the file as text?

Yes...it's all in my instructions...if you look closely.....dl the skin and just rename the suffix to 'zip' and open it with your fave zip proggy...

Hmmm.....2 helps equals 2 dollars......

I'm RICH!!!...I'm filthy rich!!!! it's mine....all mine....mine...mine.....

I just had a flash-back of that Bugs and Daffy episode.