Re: [Unattended] JRE2 Install command switch
At 08:29 PM 03/23/2004, you wrote: I tested the install with both and it doesn't seem to effect the end result of having the plugins registered but it does effect the noise level of the installation. With /qb there is still a status window displayed while using /qn results in absolute zen-like silence. And here I like seeing the progress bar' because it tells me the computer is doing something and isn't frozen, as well as how it's going. Just my two cents. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE : [Unattended] Unattended authentication issues....
-Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Patrick J. LoPresti Envoyé : mardi 23 mars 2004 01:59 À : Jeff Black Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [Unattended] Unattended authentication issues Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Add the folowing lines to the _meta tag in your unattend.txt z_user = domainname\userid Sounds like cheating to me :) True, but it should serve as a workaround. On the upside the Linux Boot Disk took domainname\jmblack and seems to be 'doing the right thing' I'm still a little unclear as to why the DOS boot disk fails when given the same authentication. The real question is why the DOS net use command is able to map the drive at all without a domain. I do not really understand DOS networking... Anyway, I have added code to make z_user default to DOMAIN\username in the next release. (Where DOMAIN is [Identification]/JoinDomain, if it exists, and username is the value provided to the boot disk.) - Pat Hmm, maybe an option to enable/disable this domain thing would be useful, because some people (like me ;-) ) created a user on the file server to map the drive, and not on the domain. So this would break authentification on my setup. Sylvain. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70alloc_id638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] No system disk or disk error
I finally solved this issue disabling the legacy USB emulation as described in the link you sent me. Thanks again Oriol de los Santos -Original Message- From: DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:04 PM To: 'Patrick J. LoPresti'; DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Unattended] No system disk or disk error The version of the unattended is 3.2 Can I just take the linux boot disk and keep everything else the same? Thanks Oriol -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:19 PM To: DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Unattended] No system disk or disk error DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have been using Unattended for some time now without major problems. Unfortunately we are now having to install Toshiba Techra S1 laptops. After we boot from the network and type INST to start the installation we get the followin error. Non system disk or disk error What can this be? Some incompatibility between memdisk and the Tecra, perhaps. What version of Unattended? This might be relevant: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00521.h tml Finally, you might try the Linux boot disk. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
AW: RE: AW: Re: [Unattended] Networking problem
I managed to get it correctly unpacked using Winzip at the end by setting the switch in Winzip. Most things seem to work with the new version of Unattend and the Linux boot disk. There is something though, which wasn't a problem before. With version 3.5 it was possible to use file and directory names larger than the 8.3 DOS standard. That doesn't seem to work anymore under version 4.0. Anyway, thanks for your help - M.Frei -- Originalnachricht -- From: Stephan Lampe [ITXP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Patrick J. LoPresti' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: AW: Re: [Unattended] Networking problem Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:46:56 +0100 done loading ide-disk :bad interpreter: no such file or directorysh RHH!!! The problem here is that your Z:\linuxaux\etc\make-blkdev-nodes (or some other script) has DOS-style line endings. Out of curiosity, how did you unpack it? Wait, let me guess: WinZip on Windows? Seen that also, extracting with winRar 3.30. Just to offer m.frei a way out of your 'rage' ;) Good luck with your cold and new friend Advil. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70alloc_id638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheet
In Unattended 4.0b, we added some new files to the install/site directory: hardware.csv software.csv sample-config.pl The file sample-config.pl is the actual config.pl which Shad uses. It automatically sets several installation parameters based on the values in two comma-separated-value (CSV) spreadsheets. We are thinking about making this behavior, or something like it, the default for the next release. So this message is both a description of the implementation and a request for feedback on it. The first spreadsheet, hardware.csv, has fields for MAC address, computer name, owner (aka. [UserData]/FullName), and organization. These are fairly self-explanatory... If the MAC address of the system matches a line in the spreadsheet, the remaining fields will be used to fill in the corresponding unattend.txt parameters. In other words, the MAC is the index key for this spreadsheet. The second spreadsheet, software.csv, lists software licenses. It has fields for owner, software (the name of the software product), the license key, and the local admin password. The owner and software keys are the index keys for this spreadsheet. The software field must match the operating system name (e.g., Windows XP Professional). The owner field must match either the MAC address, user name, computer name, or organization of the machine. If a match is found, the license key and administrator password are set from the values in the spreadsheet. The idea is that a software license is owned by a machine (MAC address or name), or by a user, or by an organization (think volume licenses). I am thinking of ways to generalize this to use a key other than MAC address, like (say) the Dell service tag. More on that later. But the implementation described here would still be the default. What do you folks think? (By the way, it is a fully functioning implementation. If you want to try it out, just copy sample-config.pl to Z:\site\config.pl.) - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Using todo.pl outside building the machine
Norström, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Shad and Pat,
I would need to be able to use todo.pl outside building the
machine. For security reasons, I'm building the machines on a
separate network and what I would like is to have the possibility to
install applications on top in the real environment.
What I've done:
I've copied the todo.pl file over from the \BIN folder to a new
server with the applications and script I would like to install, but
when posting jobs to the script it complains over that is hasn't got
the connection to the Z:\ Drive. Out of my understanding I don't
need to have any contact to the Z:\ drive server (except for the
todo.pl file) since I have the drive where I would like to install
the applications from mapped from the logon script.
Which drive letter are you using?
The scripts we provide assume %Z% holds the drive letter. If you want
to use, say, the X: drive instead, you would put this in
C:\netinst\permcreds.bat:
set Z=X:
If you are using just your own scripts which do not refer to %Z%, then
you are right, this should not be necessary...
the error code is
Unable to GetUNCName for Z:: This network connection does not exist at
P:\scripts\files\Bin\todo.pl line 185.
...but right now, todo.pl attempts to locate the UNC path for the Z:
drive (as defined by the %Z% variable), so that it can set %Z_PATH%,
which some of our scripts also use.
In addition to causing your problem, this prevents %Z% from being a
local drive. This in turn gets in the way of (say) using a DVD-ROM
for installation. So I have fixed it in the next release.
Patch for todo.pl is appended.
- Pat
--- todo.pl.~1.32.~ 2004-01-16 15:02:16.0 -0500
+++ todo.pl 2004-03-23 14:21:11.0 -0500
@@ -266,9 +266,12 @@
return $lang_table{$langid};
}
-# Get the UNC path for a networked drive.
+# For input letter X, return the UNC path to which X: is connected.
+# If X is a not a networked drive, return X:.
+use constant ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED = 2250;
sub get_drive_path ($) {
my ($drive) = @_;
+my $ret;
$drive =~ /^[a-z]:?$/i
or die Invalid drive specification $drive;
@@ -277,10 +280,18 @@
$drive =~ /:$/
or $drive .= ':';
-my $unc_name;
-Win32::NetResource::GetUNCName ($unc_name, $drive)
-or die Unable to GetUNCName for $drive: $^E;
-return $unc_name;
+if (Win32::NetResource::GetUNCName ($ret, $drive)) {
+# all done
+}
+elsif ($^E == ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED) {
+# Not a network drive, so just return the drive letter itself.
+$ret = $drive;
+}
+else {
+die Unable to GetUNCName for $drive: $^E;
+}
+
+return $ret;
}
# Set up console for single-character input and autoflush output.
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Re: [Unattended] Note on Samba 3 problem
Mark Pavlichuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samba 3 has a new option (called unix extensions) which should be turned off if you're using the Linux boot disk. If this option is switched on (which it is by default, at least on Debian) any symbolic links on a Samba share accessed by a samba client won't be resolved on the server but locally which will probably cause scripts to fail. Added to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html. Thank you! - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] JRE2 Install command switch
Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And here I like seeing the progress bar' because it tells me the computer is doing something and isn't frozen, as well as how it's going. Just my two cents. Yeah, I like progress bars too, which is why I opted for /qb instead of /qn like Sun documents. The package is just an InstallShield Basic MSI installer: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#ismsi I am a little surprised that the space is required, since I am almost certain I used to install the JRE without it... I wonder what is going on here, exactly. But whatever works :-). - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
