Re: [Unattended] German links for download.
Gerhard Heift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Pat, was a lot of work, but now the patch should be OK... Applied. 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] problems with mapznrun and postinst
Jeffrey A. Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been having trouble trying to get mapznrun.bat and postinst.bat to run after the initial OS install. I'm running my own unattend.txt in install/site. Text of the _meta section is below. Ah, that would be a problem... Not all of those settings are really meant to be user-tweakable. Another potential issue is that my samba share isn't called ntinstall\install. I think I've fixed this (had to change it both in my bootdisks and in install/bin/mapznrun.bat which has it hard coded). I've also grepped for it in the rest of the install tree. That is not necessary. Once you get the mapznrun thing corrected, the install.pl script will create tempcreds.bat and permcreds.bat files with the correct values. Just fix it on the bootdisk and you will be all set. So the problems: - mapznrun.bat isn't being copied to c:\netinst - postinst.bat isn't being created (it's blank when I edit it at the do you want to edit point in the install). You'll note this is true even though I've got top, middle, and bottom defined. Any ideas? The code which produce the value for [_meta]/postinst also creates the file. So you should omit the postinst= settings from your [_meta] section. In general, I suggest omitting any settings which you do not want to change: [_meta] netinst = C:\netinst Omit, since this is the default. postinst = C:\netinst\postinst.bat Omit, since otherwise postinst.bat will not be created. ntp_servers = 192.168.56.250 This is fine. autolog = autolog.pl --logon=0 Omit (default). z_password = password z_drive = Z: z_user = user z_path = \\myserver\unattended Omit, since these will be set automatically from the values on the boot disk. os_dir = Z:\os Omit (default). OS_media = Z:\os\winxpsp1 This is fine. edit_files = 1 Omit (default). fdisk_lba = 1 fdisk_confirm = 0 replace_mbr = 1 fdisk_cmds=fdisk /clear 1;fdisk /prio:2000;fdisk /activate:1 format_cmd=format /y /q /v: c: doit_cmds = z:;cd Z:\os\winxpsp1\i386;winnt /rx:lang /s:Z:\os\winxpsp1\i386 /u:C:\netinst\unattend.txt local_admin_group = Administrators ; First script run by postinst.bat top=base.bat ; Optional script(s) run by postinst.bat middle=officexp.bat ; Last script(s) run by postinst.bat bottom= These are all fine. And yes, this should definitely be documented better. - 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] Product Keys from Spreadsheet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what I mean is, can the sub ask_os be substituted for something that
cooperates with the asset number stuff? So the os installation is
completely based on the asset number I fill in.
Absolutely! To get an idea how this works, read the later sections of
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.html.
Something like this, if added to the sample config.pl I sent earlier,
should do the trick:
$u-{'_meta'}-{'OS_media} =
sub {
my $tag = $u-{'_meta'}-{'asset_tag'};
defined $tag
or return undef;
my $licenses = $soft_by_owner-{$tag} || [ ];
foreach my $license (@$licenses) {
my $desc = hash_ref ($license, 'Type');
$desc =~ /Windows 2000/
and return 'z:\\os\\win2k';
$desc =~ /Windows XP/
and return 'z:\\os\\winxp';
}
return undef;
};
In other words, you just write a subroutine to compute
[_meta]/OS_media from [_meta]/asset_tag. You can compute anything
from anything in this way, if you can write the code to express it.
Hm, perhaps this whole thing would make a good example to add to
advanced.html.
Another question; Isn't it possible to use qchain for all the
Windows Updates so the systems wouldn't have to reboot for like a
thousand times?
It is possible, but I do not trust it:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00167.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00448.html
XP service pack 2 should be out in a few months, which will help
somewhat.
- Pat
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