Script:animated boot and shutdown splash w/o kernel patch

[probono]

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/dis...n/binary-i386/
has the bootsplash tools as debian packages which you can simply unpack with "unp -u" so that you don't have to compile them yourself.

The picture is loaded with

fbi \ 
/cdrom/knoppix/background.jpg \ 
-t 1 --quiet --device /dev/fb0 < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>/dev/null