Re: [Unattended] Starter Question
raman singh wrote: Thanks to all of you for replying. It seems I can use this package. I can live without have win95/98 and ME. I installed the unattended package and tried. I feel the documentation does not explain all the steps involved, for a starter. I could not make it work. I have the following setup, RH9 where I have Unattened installed, with DHCP and tftp server. And Winows 2000 as a share for Images. Now, when I boot a system with PXE network card, I get the IP from DHCP server, and it loads the memdisk, and undis3c.img (when I type inst on the prompt). But, while loading boot sector, it gives me the following error Non-System disk or disk error Replace and press any key when ready. Could someone please help in solving this problem. What do you mean while loading the boot sector. If you mean that the memdisk doesn't work, and you don't ever boot to the floppy, then I have a guess. You need to have the floppy enabled in the BIOS, even if you don't have a physical floppy drive on the system. Otherwise Memdisk doesn't work. If you google for: non-system disk or disk error memdisk You get this as the 3rd hit: http://blog.jwiz.org/archives/000713.html The 4th hit also answers the same question. Jordan (Ok, blatant blog-plug. :) --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Starter Question
Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm starting to work on pre-install for Me, using the OEM pre-install as the base, and working from there. I do eventually want to add it to the unattended, but that would take a lot more work. If you are willing to do the work, I would be willing to apply (but probably not maintain) the patches. I have no personal interest in Windows ME; I consider it one of those OSes that never should have been invented. But if you can make it fit into the Unattended framework, I am sure some users will thank you. - Pat --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Starter Question
Just to add a bit to Ryan's answer... raman singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I have to install Linux (Redhat) on some systems and MS OS (all win 98 - Win2k3) on some. I know before hand which system should have what OS. Good luck with Windows 98. For RedHat, you can use their kickstart mechanism. 2. DO I have any control on pushing an OS on a particular systems? Say, it was running RH9, now I want Win2k, can I do that? Both Unattended and RedHat use PXELINUX to boot. PXELINUX looks for a configuration file with a name derived from the machine's MAC address. It falls back to a default configuration file. You can use this to cause different machines to boot different images. See pxelinux.doc in the SYSLINUX distribution (http://syslinux.zytor.com/). However, I think most people use a single default file and manually choose which installer to boot (see below). 3. Can I control somehow, that when the system reboot, it does not do a reinstall? It depends on what you are doing. As Ryan said, normally you have a technician sitting at the machine telling it to boot from the network and begin the installation. The PXELINUX configuration shipped with Unattended defaults to booting from the hard disk after 30 seconds. However, some machines have a feature called Wake-On-LAN (WoL), which lets you power on the machine remotely. Such machines can often be configured to boot from the network when started by a WoL packet, but boot from the hard drive otherwise. In such an environment, you could change the PXELINUX default to run your OS installation, and use different configuration files for the different systems. You would have to figure out the whole WoL mechanism. (I am being a little vague because I do not know very much about it.) I suggest you start by ignoring WoL and just getting Unattended working from a PXE boot so you can get a feel for the process. - Pat --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Starter Question
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 08:16:53AM -0800, raman singh wrote: Question: 1. I have to install Linux (Redhat) on some systems and MS OS (all win 98 - Win2k3) on some. I know before hand which system should have what OS. Unattended only handles Win2k, WinXP, and Win2003 right now. With Win98, you'll have to come up with something else. However, the latest release candidate for Unattended v4 uses a Linux boot disk which you can probably customize to install either Windows or Redhat. 2. DO I have any control on pushing an OS on a particular systems? Say, it was running RH9, now I want Win2k, can I do that? It's easy to totally wipe a system and install Win2k, however there's some human interaction needed at the console at the beginning. It sounds like you're looking for a push-based mechanism for installing operating systems. Unattended is a pull-based system. 3. Can I control somehow, that when the system reboot, it does not do a reinstall? Yes, unless the guy at the keyboard types inst at the boot prompt, after 30 secs the system will boot from the hard drive normally. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
