Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?
- Original Message - From: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD? Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap on the image) I could add the eject command, but actually figuring out which device to eject is not easy in general. The CD-ROM device could be IDE or SCSI or USB. or, even cuter, use one of the tools to fiddle the BIOS boot order so the CD-ROM drive is no longer the first boot device. Cute idea, but heavily BIOS dependent. Might make a nice contribution for the Wiki, though... It would also be useful to do a Windows-CD feature theft and do the press any key to boot from CD thing. This is probably the best idea. It means we actually have to write distinct pxelinux.cfg and isolinux.cfg files, though :-). does the directive prompt 0 not have a similar effect needing scroll lock or caps lock to be pressed or else pxelinux exits? or is that just with network booting? if so I would think that that might be a suitable default in both .cfg files - it is certainly what I use on the net boot so that machines can carry on building --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?
Hi, when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like ... if running from CD you can eject it now ... which is gone some seconds later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message please remove cd and press a key to continue? In case boot sequence of PC is configured CD-ROM, first HDD it leads to unwanted effects when installing Win XP: after copying the setup files to hdd the PC should reboot from hard disk and continue with the setup process. It won't do this when CD is left in drive. Any way to customize this on my own? Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like ... if running from CD you can eject it now ... which is gone some seconds later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message please remove cd and press a key to continue? That wouldn't make for a particularly unattended installation (although I will agree that neither does having the machine boot the CD over and over...). You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap on the image) or, even cuter, use one of the tools to fiddle the BIOS boot order so the CD-ROM drive is no longer the first boot device. It would also be useful to do a Windows-CD feature theft and do the press any key to boot from CD thing. - Matt -- For once, Microsoft wasn't exaggerating when they named it the 'Jet Engine' -- your data's the seagull. -- Chris Adams signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like ... if running from CD you can eject it now ... which is gone some seconds later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message please remove cd and press a key to continue? That wouldn't make for a particularly unattended installation (although I will agree that neither does having the machine boot the CD over and over...). You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap on the image) or, even cuter, use one of the tools to fiddle the BIOS boot order so the CD-ROM drive is no longer the first boot device. It would also be useful to do a Windows-CD feature theft and do the press any key to boot from CD thing. Nice idea. Adopting the press any key... feature in unattended would be the smartest solution, I think. Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap on the image) I could add the eject command, but actually figuring out which device to eject is not easy in general. The CD-ROM device could be IDE or SCSI or USB. or, even cuter, use one of the tools to fiddle the BIOS boot order so the CD-ROM drive is no longer the first boot device. Cute idea, but heavily BIOS dependent. Might make a nice contribution for the Wiki, though... It would also be useful to do a Windows-CD feature theft and do the press any key to boot from CD thing. This is probably the best idea. It means we actually have to write distinct pxelinux.cfg and isolinux.cfg files, though :-). - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap on the image) I could add the eject command, but actually figuring out which device to eject is not easy in general. The CD-ROM device could be IDE or SCSI or USB. Most times the BIOS will swallow the CD again during the boot, so ejecting it wouldn't help at all. -- Dag Nummedal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
