[CLUE-Tech] Debian beer Tux

[Keith Hellman]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:59:05PM -0700, Roger Frank wrote:
> When Debian boots, it shows Tux holding a beer.  I'd like to use
> Debian at the high school but a penguin with a brew just won't do.
> It looks like I have to recompile the kernel to change that image.
> I thought there might be an easier way.  Ideas?
> 
As far as I know, you do have to recompile the kernel (you can provide
an alternative image after some script magic - I'm sure you've seen this
in Documentation).

Tux is displayed when a framebuffer is loaded, and if I recall
correctly, it is either only if the fb is compiled into the kernel, or
only until you clear your terminal window.  These may be two reasonable
solutions - my point being that fb is built into my kernel, but I don't
see tux anymore so something definetely makes him go away, figure out
what it is and add to boot.local (or the debian equivilent).  If you
load the fb as a module, you can add a post- script to configuration to
modules.conf.

Just my 2c
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