[Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended
So, I have a lot of lab machines. Some of them had Fedora Core 2 installed on them, and I wanted to instead install Windows (2000 and XP) on them instead. Naturally, I used our unattended setup to kick off the install. Everything went fine until the first reboot (when you start booting into windows for the first time, so that it can install). Windows would never boot. I couldn't get it to boot no matter what I did. I reinstall FC2, and that booted fine. This was on 2 different motherboards, and 5 machines total, all with this problem. Finally, I decided to just dd /dev/zero over the first 8megs of the disk, and try reinstalling. Boom, everything works just as you'd expect it to. I talked to some friends, and they said there was a known bug with parted and FC2. A little web research found me this: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html So, I think that even when parted is told to fully wipe and repartition the drive, it does not update the geometry in the partition table, which causes Windows to freak out, and not boot. If there just is no partition table (say, if it is all zeros :), then parted creates one, and all is well. -=-=- Woops. Ok, so in the process of writing the above, I decided to do a bit more research. And found this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg1.html So, looks like you all already knew. :) Anyway, I didn't remember seeing anything on the list, so I guess I'll go ahead and send it. Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell it to Use Whole Disk ? Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
Hi Tomasz! However, There is a GPL project called WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net - which aims to install/upgrade/remove software/packages after the machine was installed. I know wpkg since it was a first idea on our mailinglist and long before it became a SF-project. The problem is that wpkg does not use the work invested in unattended. And I don't like XML. cu Niels -- A: Weil es die Lesbarkeit des Textes verschlechtert. F: Warum ist TOFU so schlimm? A: TOFU F: Was ist eins der groesste Aergernisse in E-Mails? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] creating a backup server using cp command??
Felipe Navarrete wrote: I have a server that I use for unattended installs and would like to mirror it to another server and have it update automatically using a cron job. If anyone has a best practice for accomplishing this please let me know. My current plan is to mount the samba share from the new machine and use the cp command to copy the files update any new or updated files from a crontab regularly daily at 3am or so. Sounds like a job for rsync. rsync will only copy things that have changed, so it will save you a lot of time and bandwidth. http://rsync.samba.org/ -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] creating a backup server using cp command??
Brian Mathis wrote: Felipe Navarrete wrote: I have a server that I use for unattended installs and would like to mirror it to another server and have it update automatically using a cron job. If anyone has a best practice for accomplishing this please let me know. My current plan is to mount the samba share from the new machine and use the cp command to copy the files update any new or updated files from a crontab regularly daily at 3am or so. Sounds like a job for rsync. rsync will only copy things that have changed, so it will save you a lot of time and bandwidth. http://rsync.samba.org/ Also promising (but haven't tested myself...): unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] tightvnc - setting password + starting as a service - how?
Czesc, What you want to do is install TightVNC on a machine and configure it (set the password, etc.) Then, using regedit, export the branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL which is what will contain all your settings, to a file. After your unattended install of TightVNC, run regedit.exe /s yourfilefromabove.reg and those settings will apply. For something a little more interesting, you can do what I do: I don't actually want to install the viewer, just the server. In fact, I don't want the person to even know that VNC is installed (no icons, program group, tray icon). Instead of using the installer, just make a directory in Program Files, copy over the files VNCHooks.dll and winvnc.exe. Then apply the registry settings (which can include the DisableTrayIcon=dword:0001 setting in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3 branch to keep the tray icon from appearing. Then run %ProgramFiles%\VNC\WinVNC.exe -install (make sure you give it the full path to the WinVNC executable. This will install it as a service to start automatically then next time the machine starts up. Good luck, Paul Kopacz --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
Niels S. Richthof wrote: Hi Tomasz! However, There is a GPL project called WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net - which aims to install/upgrade/remove software/packages after the machine was installed. I know wpkg since it was a first idea on our mailinglist and long before it became a SF-project. The problem is that wpkg does not use the work invested in unattended. And I don't like XML. There is a project called Adamoto - http://adamoto.sourceforge.net/ - which has similar aims, and seems to be more sophisticated (at least in requirements - it requires Java installed both on server and client, Tomcat server etc. - I'm still struggling with installing it on my machine for tests - can't force Tomcat to interpret perl). Anyway. I didn't say WPKG is perfect - as it of course has it's limitations. Consider XML as a way of describing configurations in a file - that's just it, nothing more, nothing less. And I don't understand what you mean by wpkg does not use the work invested in unattended? It can be easily adapted for unattended. So far we don't have much choice - it's hard to believe, but since 2000 when Microsoft released Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory with Global Policies, Open Source didn't create any real alternative (if we talk about deploying software to a group of machines). All we need would be some check-software-on-server.exe or .msi, which would be installed and configured by Unattended, started as a service on a Windows machine, and then would check configuration on a server from time to time (on boot?) to see if it should install / remove / update some software. WPKG comes close to that. You also mentioned One solution might be a Win32-Service Application, running with system and network rights, which performs these checks and starts the update procedure, and then followed by a post from Mario Gzuk, but I'm afraid I didn't understand fully what you both meant :) Any chance it could end up in Unattended GUI (or let it be command line) - so that you could configure groups of hosts, and then manage software installed on them? Tomek --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
