Re: VMWare network drivers
Stefan Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wondered if anyone can help me with integrating this module into the unattended linuxboot image. I'd create it if someone'd give me a hint on how to do this (I already changed the linuxboot makefiles to include the expat libs, so I already know a little about how it's working in general). I am in the process of integrating your expat and perl-XML patches; thank you! The kernel module for vmxnet comes with the esx|gsx server and I suppose it's not available for download on vmware's website. Therefore I've just put the sources on my webspace [1]. The instructions here: http://www.vmware.com/support/esx/doc/install_guest_esx.html ...include a link to the driver tarball here: http://www.vmware.com/software/esx/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz Unfortunately, this appears to be an old version. Unless we can get a stable and public URL from which to download, or a copy of some kind of open source license for the code (so we can bundle it), I do not think I can add this to the distribution. That said, I downloaded it from your site and looked over the Makefile. It looks like you should be able to make it build using something like: make HEADER_DIR=$(cwd)/$(linux)/include Then you can copy the .ko module to stage1/lib/modules/... and figure out how to run depmod to rebuild the modules.dep file. Convince VMware to release the driver as a public download and/or under a GPL-compatible license and I will do this myself... - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393alloc_id=16281op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: net driver for linux boot disk
Gregory Orange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Epox EP-9NDA3+ motherboard in a new machine, whose onboard network card is referred to in Windows (preloaded) as NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller. I'm not sure if this is helpful, but again in Windows the 'Driver File Details' lists NVENETFD.sys and fdco1.dll For some reason, the nForce3 on-board Ethernet considers itself a bridge (PCI class 0x0680) instead of an Ethernet controller (PCI class 0x0200). I have fixed this for our next release, but in the meantime, try running: modprobe forcedeth /etc/master ...after the failure. (Also, you may have to boot with acpi=off. See the FAQ for details.) - Pat --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Setting up a working developer environment
Stefan Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Folks, can anyone tell me how to setup a working unattended developer environment? I downloaded the sources from cvs and tried to run make release. Don't do that. The top-level Makefile is for making releases only; make release is how I actually create and upload a new release. What you want to do is cd bootdisk and then type make, to build the DOS boot disk. Or cd linuxboot and then do make download followed by make to build the Linux boot disk; see README.txt inside the linuxboot directory. Getting this to work will likely require a fairly modern Linux system like Fedora Core 3 or CentOS 4. I use Fedora Core 3. If you encounter problems, ask on unattended-devel. I'm trying to include expat and several perl xml modules into the linux boot image. If you can convince them to install under /z/linuxaux/opt/perl, that should also work. But I concede that's annoying to maintain... If it's not too large, I could probably just add these to the distribution. Which XML modules, exactly? - Pat --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Adobe Reader 7 issues
http://www.google.com/search?q=nos_ne+nos_o Godfrey Livingstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason is that the Netopsystems FEAD(R) file spawns the msiexec process and does not wait for it to finish, thus the problem if we are rebooting or installing another package. Lovely. We run the adberdr70_%WINLANG%_full.exe file with the silient /S and help /? switches. The silient switch overrides the help switch and the msiexec process started by the adberdr70_%WINLANG%_full.exe file exits. Good plan, but we can do a little better by using the nos_ne and nos_o switches; see http://www.google.com/search?q=nos_ne+nos_o. I have checked in a revised version of the script. It will eventually show up in the read-only CVS mirror: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/unattended/unattended/install/scripts/adobe-reader.bat?rev=HEADview=auto I expect to make a 4.6a release sometime next week, after we celebrate Microsoft Day. (Microsoft Day is the second Tuesday of every month. Mark your calendar!) - Pat --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: winxpsp2-updates.bat error
Fixed in 4.6-pre2. Thank you! - Pat Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somehow backslashes got in for the last update, so prepare was not working correctly. Attached is a corrected .bat file, renamed to .txt. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Base.bat suggested minor change
Godfrey Livingstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Pat Unattended does have other developers, though perhaps none hacking on New Year's Eve. Maybe we should look for a way to make them more prominent on the home page... base.bat has two lines :: Install popular applications. todo.pl adobe-reader.bat Could they be removed before the release as most people I suspect will remove these in any case. I concur. Fixed in CVS. BTW version 7 is now out Suggested adrobe-reader-7.bat below. I did this a little differently. I do not see any reason to have the older version, except that the new version is not yet available in all languages. So I modified adobe-reader.bat to make it OPTIONAL and to install version 7 if available and version 6.0.2 if not. With any luck, this is the last change before I release 4.6 final. There is always another release. (And judging from the three new-but-unpatched Windows flaws discovered on Christmas, I suspect there will be a few security updates this cycle.) - Pat --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Unattended 4.6-pre2
OK, I am done adding all the current MS updates for win2ksp4, winxpsp1, and winxpsp2. Consider this a release candidate. Get it from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. Unless I hear screams of panic, I will make the actual release on Sunday (2005-01-02). - Pat --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: [Unattended] Dell Precision 370/ Unrecognized interface type (boot device)
(redirected to unattended-devel) I see that you found a work-around, but I agree that it would be nice if we could get SATA working natively. To do that, I will need your help, since I have no systems with SATA drives. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get (after the EDD facility is succesfully loaded): *** Unrecognized interface type in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/interface This is just a warning, but I will see about fixing it in the next release. Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 208 *** find-boot-device failed *** Dropping to shell After this failure, what do you see under /sys/block? Did the ide and piix drivers load? If so, in what order? Thanks! - Pat --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Unable to make boot disk
Klaus Iden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to make a floppy image with my network card drivers but it just doesn't work. I am running a windows environment not linux. Can I manually make a boot disk. Mine always craps out at: Unattended Boot Disk Starting... Intializing Network Card... ATTRIB: no targets; \NET\DHCP.PRM File not found:- 'A:\NET\DHCP.PRM. This is a harmless warning. DHCP.PRM is a DHCP state file which is created when a lease is obtained. We are just trying to remove it; if it is not there, it doesn't matter. The problem lies elsewhere. I suggest commenting out the umbpci and emm386 invocations in config.sys (a change I have also made for the next release). Those UMB providers often cause trouble. You might also try the 4.6-pre1 test release, or better yet, just use the Linux-based boot disk. - Pat --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: url support for shortcut.pl
Tor Håkon Gjerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It should be really easy to add url support for shortcut.pl All is needed is to detect any://target and use the WshUrlShortcut Object for it http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/h tml/wsobjwshurlshortcut.asp It is a tad trickier than that, but I think I got it. Internet Shortcuts should work in the next release. Thanks for the suggestion! - Pat --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: the whole unattended on one cd/dvd!
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I auto-detect? When you load the ide-cd module it auto-detects and reports the device. /sys/block/hdc/removable is a start. Trying to mount and looking for a characteristic file on the DVD would be next, I think. The first time I thought of it, but I think of the registry like Shad mentioned in his reply! I agree. Although this has to work before Perl is installed, so we may need to use VBscript (yuck) for the first time in the entire project. Thanks; udf.ko would be good for DVD and for longer filenames and deeper directory structures. OK, I have also uploaded this one to (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/), and we will include it in future builds. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588alloc_id=12065op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: the whole unattended on one cd/dvd!
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Pat, First, thanks for the great work and especially for new release yesterday! Don't just thank me! We have a whole crew of developers without whom many of our best features would not exist. unattended installation from a CD/DVD if no server is available. But without breaking the normal server-based installation process! The basic idea: i) changing isolinux.cfg that a prompt will be displayed and default boot option is localboot Yup. Arguably, we could make this the default for our regular CD boot as well, since people sometimes forget to eject the CD-ROM. ii) changing the master script: - When it asks for the servershare you can also type something like /dev/hdd where hdd is your cd-drive. - If a device is given it will be mounted to z instead of the servershare I like this. Eventually we should be able to auto-detect the CD-ROM (usually), but for an initial pass this sounds fine. iii) changing mapznrun.bat that it will use the cd-drive Tricky to get right in general, since it is hard to be certain what drive letter the CD-ROM device will have (especially if the user is doing a customized partitioning scheme). But, again, an initial version to handle the common case (CD-ROM drive is on D:) should be pretty easy. A while ago we had a loop in mapznrun.bat to scan the available drive letters for the installation media. Unfortunately, that broke on some systems with flash-card readers... If the flash drive is (say) E:, then as soon as you access E: Windows halts with a dialog box asking the user to insert media. I mention this just in case you think of the same clever idea :-). What I need to test the changes is an isofs.ko module to mount the cd. I would be happy if you can send me one, so I dont have to get all the sources and recompile the whole linuxboot. The needed (for ide, scsi comes later) ide-cd module is at the share, so I can copy it manually for testing purposes. OK, I have uploaded an isofs.ko to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. Do you not also need udf.ko? Besides only some small changes are needed, for example that teh master-script dies if no dhcp-lease is found. Perhaps a command-line argument (like dvd) could notify the master script that it is being booted from DVD and should not attempt to start the network. Feel free to start sending patches (in small self-contained pieces, if possible) to unattended-devel so we can look them over. I can only review them for obvious things because I do not have a DVD burner. But Shad does... If I dont run into severe problems it would be sufficient to provide a script that unpacks the linuxboot.iso, changes isolinux.cfg and the master script (if the changes are not already included) and creates a new isoimage with the install directory included. I would rather ship a template (unattended-X.X-dvdboot) which people can download, tweak, then run make on. The requirements for this would be pretty minor; all it should need is basic Unix utilities (make etc.) plus mkisofs, right? Or is some other tool needed for creating a DVD image? - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Problems with dosboot and site/config.pl
Brauer, Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What i mean is: how can install.pl determine whether i'm booting
from dos and not use config.pl or whether im botting from linux and
use it?
Have config.pl do the test and load config-linux.pl when running on
Linux. Something like this in Z:\site\config.pl should do the trick:
==
use warnings;
use strict;
if ($^O eq 'linux') {
my $linux_conf = dos_to_host ('Z:\\site\\linux-config.pl');
my $result = do $linux_conf;
$@
and die do $linux_conf failed: $@;
defined $result
or die Could not do $linux_conf: $^E;
}
1;
==
- Pat
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Release time
I plan to roll the next Unattended release sometime tomorrow (Oct 23). I am not going to bother with any prereleases, since a) nobody tries them anyway and b) Shad has been extremely thorough in his regression testing. So, if you know of a showstopper bug in the current CVS, speak up. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Problems with dosboot and site/config.pl
Niels de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (I'm not a perl expert, but use of the $is_linux variable should be possible outside of install.pl. If not, feel free to modify install.pl :-) ) We declare it as my $is_linux, so it should only be visible from install.pl itself. Maybe we should declare it as a global. Or just make it a function. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: adding version to linuxboot / install.pl
Wim Vandersmissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It may be a good idea to add the version of unattended somewhere on the linuxboot and/or in install.pl (and maybe also version file in the linuxaux directory) ? What do you guys think ? I think this would be a good idea. But I do not want to have to update the version, especially in multiple places. Hm. How about parsing the first line of the NEWS.txt file to fetch the version? Yes, I think that would work. I will take a crack at this, um, tomorrow. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: [Unattended] Alternate partitioning schemes?
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attaching the patch from CVS for install.pl. It's pretty klugey. Actually, it's not that bad. The logic is mostly sound, anyway :-). For logical partitions I just cut-n-pasted find_free_space to find_free_space_ext, and made it 1) skip extended partitions when it scans them all, and 2) use the end of the extended partition, instead of the end of the disk. To be completely correct, it needs to use the start of the extended partition instead of the start of the disk, too. I will merge your changes (or something like them) tomorrow. Tonight I have a baseball game to watch... Thank you for doing the heavy lifting on this. How come Unattended uses parted instead of sfdisk, anyway? Because the Parted maintainer is crazy, and I have a soft spot in my heart for crazy software maintainers. Also, I wanted to allow interactive and non-interactive partitioning. And Parted does have some nice features, like partition resizing. But yeah, maybe sfdisk would have been a better choice. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Fixes for LDAP client support.
Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The LDAP support in current release unattended is broken, because there is no /etc/protocols file. Thank you! Shad has added /etc/protocols to the boot disk for our next release. I added this to my config.pl, because I didn't feel like rebuilding the images, and putting it in linuxaux/etc/protocols didn't work... Yeah, the boot disk image uses symlinks into /z/linuxaux for all the stuff which lives on the network. Some of those links point to whole directory trees (like /opt and /usr/local), but mostly they just point to individual files. The unattended system just saved me a lot of work last night - I rebuilt a whole lab of computers, with most of the time taken by teaching them to boot of the network and entering passwords (which I don't trust in an anonymous share...). Thanks! Glad we could help. Although as a Samba developer, you deserve more thanks than you owe :-). - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: [Unattended] Problem with making Linux boot disk
Klaus Wissmath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But making a new linux boot-disk ( master should contain the correct login info ) failed: cd .../linuxboot make failed Details, please. You did cd linuxboot and make and saw... what, exactly? - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: buildlinuxboot.sh
Wim Vandersmissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone tested my buildlinuxbootcd.sh ? (http://bofh.be/unattended/buildlinuxbootcd.sh) I have not tested it, but I did browse through it. Very cool stuff. I think it would be handy to use this, so that everyone who builds the linux boot cd starts from the same base, and errors are easier to spot. I agree, except for a couple of minor nits. Should I add it to CVS ? I would like to see the approach better integrated with the distribution first. Once we check it into CVS, you can assume that the user already has a basic Unattended installation around; no need to check out another one. Random thoughts, in no particular order... We should integrate this logic into linuxboot/Makefile. Create linuxboot/buildroot which will function as the chroot environment. Create linuxboot/buildroot/src (or maybe call it download or dl) to hold the source packages which we download. Rename make download to make prepare, which will download the Debian packages and other packages to set up the buildroot. Have the top-level Makefile use chroot when building the packages. So we would still have two stages, one which requires the network (downloading) and one which does not (building). Eliminate the dependency on bofh.be and check sarge.unattended in directly (obviously). One thing which bothers me is running everything as root. Building everything runs an awful lot of code from an awful lot of places; as little as possible should run as root. (With our current environment, root access is not required at all, and I rather like it that way.) This may mean changing UIDs here and there. Or maybe we can use user mode Linux :-). Anyway, perhaps the first thing I should do is add an entry to the FAQ to make more people aware of your work. Then we need to sketch out the design, and finally check in an implementation. - Pat --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Ready for 4.4b?
We have enough cleanups, especially fixing the DHCP option processing bug (ahem), to merit another minor release. I plan to release 4.4b in around 12 hours. If you have a problem with this, speak up soon. - Pat --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: unattend-4.4 linuxboot CD make problem
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) make download failed to download mysql -- all the directories of that servers seems empty -- I used a previous download. Looks like that MySQL mirror is gone and we have to pick a different one. Fixed. 2) Eventually I got this: (last few lines of `make' attached because of line breaks) make: *** No rule to make target `../bootdisk/empty-boot.img.gz', needed by `stage1/var/lib/dosemu/drives/dosboot.img'. Stop. That is odd. The main unattended-4.4.zip includes a bootdisk/empty-boot.img.gz file, which should be parallel to the linuxboot directory. (The Linux boot disk steals a few pieces from the DOS disk.) Do I guess correctly that the info: -DONE compiling--- Now you must install DOSEMU. Make sure you are root and: make install is not meant to be done, but is the output of the default DOSemu built? Correct. Our own Makefile copies the dosemu binary to the right place. - Pat --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: [Unattended] OS Location
(redirecting to unattended-devel list) Sean Branam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I tried changing to i386 and I still have the same problem. I do and ls /z/os/win2kpro/i386 and all the files list out just fine. OK, let's see if we can debug this. What version of Unattended are you using? What kind of file server? What does grep /z /proc/mounts give you? I do not need the whole line; I just want to know whether the file system type is cifs or smbfs. - Pat --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: filename case problem with CIFS
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the linuxboot ISO of 4.4-test5 seems to use CIFS only (smbmount is commented out), smbmount will be back in the final release. The problem went away when I made all the directories lowercase; the filenames itself were lowercase already, but the directories weren't. E.g.: I had the path: $oem$/$1/Pnp/yukon ^!!! The fileserver is running Samba 3.0.2a What (if anything) does your smb.conf have for the settings case sensitive and unix extensions? My initial guess: If you set unix extensions = no the problem will disappear. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: 2 localization problems with scripts
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Re: busybox does not built using CVS
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, building the linuxboot CD using the CVS tree results into this error: Is this new with current CVS? This is a very strange failure, and it does not happen for me with Fedora Core 2... I'm looking into it. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: HP/Compaq Proliant ML350 G3
Niels S. Richthof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is getting better than 4.3 because the master tries to load the cciss-driver, but doing that the machine hangs. Have you tried booting with acpi=off? Before it tries to load cciss, loading serverworks fails with a kernel-error. It sounds like this system is not very well supported by the current stock kernel. Maybe 2.6.8, coming soon, will be better... Unfortunately, I do not have much else to suggest. What is the exact error message you get when loading serverworks? Maybe some Google searching will be revealing. You could also try a 2.6 distribution boot disk (Fedora Core 2 or Suse 9.1 or Mandrake 10.0) and see if it is happy with your hardware. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: compiling linux boot disk (was Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released)
Steffen, please apply the following patch to linuxboot/Makefile and let me know if it fixes your build problem. I apologize for the delay on this. Always a shame when one's work interferes with one's hobbies... - Pat --- Makefile.~1.79.~2004-07-24 19:08:31.0 -0400 +++ Makefile2004-07-28 12:25:47.0 -0400 @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ ## ncurses $(ncurses)/lib/libncurses.so: fakeinclude/stdio.h cd $(ncurses) \ -CC=$(CC) $(fakelib_cflags) \ +CFLAGS=$(fakelib_cflags) LDFLAGS=$(fakelib_cflags) \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \ --without-normal --without-debug\ --disable-database --with-fallbacks=linux \ --- 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=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: diff updated winxpsp1-updates
Wim Vandersmissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dutch patches against current cvs, diff in attach I added these (MS04-016) and the MS04-015 URL you sent earlier. Thanks! (For future reference, please keep the URLs sorted in alphabetical order by three-letter language code.) - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: office 2003 links
imdos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/4/f/b4f32f95-1d60-4cde-97df-c0f0d41066a6/Windows-KB833407-x86-NLD.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/a/d/7ad3b80c-24a4-4e42-a6b7-5cff9ead225d/office2003-kb834691-client-nld.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/6/72699c7d-cc56-4827-8e53-62977456c845/office2003-kb835235-client-nld.exe Added; thanks. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562alloc_id=6184op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Unattended 4.2-rc4
I have uploaded Release Candidate 4 for Unattended 4.2 to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. I plan to release the actual 4.2 tomorrow afternoon (U.S. Eastern time), since as far as I can tell nobody actually tries the release candidates anyway :-). Just a couple of bug fixes here, URLs for Russian updates (thank you, Eugene), and small changes to make /etc/master idempotent. Oh, and bundling the Linux CIFS client and mount.cifs tool, but not yet invoking it because it causes horrible performance problems for dosemu. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562alloc_id=6184op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Problems compiling Linux boot disk
Jan Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b)When i try it to compile myself, it always breaks when reaching the klibc part. unresolved symbols in tests/environ.o Neither Shad nor I have had this problem. I am running RedHat 9; he is running Fedora Core 1. What Linux distribution are you using? c)How about adding a clean target for the Makefile, i'd do it myself but Makefiles are a secret to me. Hm, tricky, depending on what you want this to do. Some of our targets include adding patches to existing packages. Strictly speaking, I suppose make clean should revert those patches... I will look into this when I have some time. (Probably not until late next week, though; girlfriend is in town.) - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: linuxboot with standard distro kernel / initrd kickstart or autoyast
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes its possible to terminate anaconda and reboot at the end of the %pre scripting section . However, a really interesting possibility that I havnt tried would be to let Anaconda keep going through its paces. This might be done (?) by giving anaconda a zero package install list in its comps.xml file. Then you get all the partitioning / mbr / boot loader tools. Except we really don't want the boot loader tools, because our typical case is installing an NTFS-based Windows system. GRUB would be unable to read its configuration file. I suppose it WOULD be cute to be able to use Disk Druid... But we really do need to install our own MBR. Also, right now the automation files (Z:\site\unattend.txt and Z:\site\config.pl) are shared between the DOS-based and Linux-based boot disks. Using kickstart would give that up. Yes have a box booted into the pre-intall ramdisk right now. wget comes with BusyBox v1.00 that they use. Fedora also supports NFS, FTP, and FAT hard disk installations - all the needed tools are available as soon as the main Anaconda stage is loaded from the installation media souce (CD or server). That stage is pretty large - 18.3MB right now from the Fedora development snapshot. Well, they get X running, which is non-trivial. Admittedly pretty, though. Ah they rolled in your patches to the main kernel tree already? Fast work. Yeah, I sent them to the EDD maintainer (Matt Domsch) who pushed them to Andrew Morton who pushed them to Linus. Soon I will be able to say that my assembly code runs every time any x86 Linux system boots anywhere :-). See arch/i386/boot/edd.S. I saw some kernel list traffic on that from some developer - that I didnt follow - suggesting that it was wiser to say goodbye to the BIOS geometry? Yes, and he was wrong. Perhaps that doesn't consider 'other' OS requirements present here. Precisely. The Windows boot loader still runs in real mode using BIOS calls. If the BIOS geometry does not match the partition table, it just plain fails to boot. If the disk partioning work can be done by Anaconda, does that eliminate the geometry problem? Hmm I suppose the windows installer will still have headaches even if it doesnt have to partition? Right. You MUST use the legacy geometry to create the partition table if you want to boot Windows, period. Trust me on this one; I spent many hours banging my head against a wall figuring it out. However, we can tell the kernel what geometry to use in the %pre section, which will automatically cause Disk Druid / fdisk / whatever to do the right thing. This is actually what we do right now. Yes, many somebodys, as there's a zillion eyes on the Fedora kernel/initrd. They've already fallen into and climbed out of many bug holes. Selinux caused some initial problems. I happen to think that the right pair of eyes is worth more than a random zillion. Truth be told, my heart lies more with the cathedral than with the bazaar. That said, you have a good point. On the other hand, our needs are really pretty minor compared to what Anaconda does. Ok Im stepping up as time permits, which means end of May. And just for flame fun, I may try to convert some perl scripts to python. Anaconda is python based, so that would allow me to drop the bash and perl baggage. I first learned Perl when Python barely existed. If I were starting today, I might learn Python instead... But Perl is good enough, and with a little discipline it is even possible to write decent code. Note that Perl is also our extension language (Z:\site\config.pl), and I am unlikely to want to give that up. Worst case, we can give you a sub-tree in the unattended project which you can maintain yourself :-). BTW, I am building a boot disk with USB keyboard support now. I think. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: [Unattended] More info on Perl DBD issues
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did enable threading, though, and I have uploaded unattended-4.1a-pre1 to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. You should only need -linuxboot.zip; in particular, the Z:\install\linuxaux directory, whose Perl now has threading enabled. Never mind; even enabling threading is more work than I thought... I'm working on it. - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: DHCP for Z_PATH
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just been trying out the new Linux bootdisk with Unattended 4.0b, and it rocks longer and harder than ever. Thanks! Allowing DHCP options has been a goal from the beginning. Thank you for doing the legwork on this. From the manpage, it appears that udhcpc will pass the value of the option 'root-path' to the DHCP client script (/etc/udhcpc-script in Unattended) as $rootpath. Unfortunately, from my testing I don't think that udhcpc requests the root-path option, and I've not managed to work out how to tell udhcpc to ask for it, and dhcpd2 doesn't send it out by default and I can't work out how to force it to do so. I think we can fix this with a one-line patch to udhcp. root-path, eh? Let's see, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2132.html ... section 3.19 ... Here we are: 3.19. Root Path This option specifies the path-name that contains the client's root disk. The path is formatted as a character string consisting of characters from the NVT ASCII character set. On the one hand, this is not exactly what we have in mind. On the other hand, I doubt Windows machines normally use this option. So unless you are using the option in a dual-boot environment, it should not cause any problems. (And you can always use the kernel command-line parameter to override the DHCP option.) So maybe. We also need a way to specify the username and password. We can either steal some local DHCP options (128-254) or we can use vendor encapsulated options. I am inclined to do the former because it is easier to implement. We have to decide which local option identifier(s) (between 128 and 254) to steal. It looks like some of them are already in unofficial use; e.g., 135 is used by BpBatch. Hm. If we are going to steal a local DHCP option anyway, maybe we should only take one but give it this syntax: z_user=... z_pass=... z_path=... That is, it would have the same syntax as the current kernel command-line options. This 1) avoids abusing the root path option, 2) only consumes one local option, and 3) is easy to extend. I think this is what I will do. Give me a day or two. (Please excuse the dodgy patch format, but I'm hacking on this on another machine in the ramdisk because I haven't gotten around to setting up a bootdisk foundry yet). Excuses, excuses. Thanks again for the research and ideas. - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Unattended 4.1-rc1
Unattended 4.1 release candidate 1 is now available for testing. You may download it from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. If you have time to try it out over the next day or two, we would appreciate it. Shad is doing regression testing now; when he finishes in the next few days, we will make a real release. NEWS.txt entry is appended. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.1 (2004-Apr-??) (Linux) Upgrade Linux kernel to 2.6.5. (Linux) Add kbd package, and use it to start shells on virtual terminals 2 and 3 (debugging aid). Recognize kbd=... kernel parameter to select keyboard map. Add support for serial console. Fix bug preventing ^C from working. (Linux) Fix dosemu font to let winnt.exe ASCII art look nice. Thanks to Max Lovius. (Linux) Obtain settings (z_user, z_pass, z_path) from DHCP option 233 in addition to kernel command line. (DOS) Add support for Realtek RTL8169/RTL8110S gigabit adapters. (DOS) Create WinImage-compatible (PKZIP format) compressed floppy images. Patch memdisk so it can handle such images. (DOS/Linux) Permit DOMAIN\username syntax in username for mapping install share. (DOS) Now that the FreeDOS folks added support for VCPI in emm386.exe, use it instead of umbpci.sys for UMB provider, Rewrite auconfig.pl to support --policy switch and all the new settings it allows. Contributed by Nils Ostbjerg. Add internationalized support to bootini.pl, including French, Dutch, German, and Italian. Thanks to Sylvain Faivre, Niels de Groot, Gerhard Heift, and Rosario Esposito, respectively. (Thanks to Jan Brauer and Harro Bruins for other i18n contributions.) Modify mapznrun.bat to hunt through drives for \dosbin\install.pl before trying to map Z: drive. Useful for installing from fixed devices (like CD or DVD). Thanks to Niels de Groot. Modify todo.pl to hook HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...\Run key instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Run key, in case user wants to switch logon ID to a domain account mid-install. Recognize Windows XP SP2. In install.pl, have z_user default to DOMAIN\user, because some people use domain accounts to map their install shares. Add URLs for Italian downloads. Thanks to Rosario Esposito. Use %SystemDrive% instead of C: everywhere. Fix various minor bugs. Add April updates from Microsoft (MS04-011, MS04-012, MS04-013, and MS04-014). Nasty. --- 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: DHCP for Z_PATH
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. If we are going to steal a local DHCP option anyway, maybe we should only take one but give it this syntax: z_user=... z_pass=... z_path=... OK, I implemented this. After various Googling, I settled on DHCP option 233. The changes are in 4.1-rc1 and they work for me. Try it out! - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
New Windows updates
Microsoft released some doozies yesterday, including new or updated fixes for multiple remote exploits. Remember the Blaster hole, which Microsoft fixed and then fixed again? Well, they fixed it again... I want to make a release soon, like this weekend or early next week. So now is a good time to get those language-dependent URLs in. We are starting to have support for lots of languages. This is great, and thank you to everyone who has contributed! But the download comments are starting to get unwieldy. So here is our new policy: Language download URLs should be sorted by three-letter language code. (Yes, this puts German ahead of English. Deal with it.) Do not bother fixing this for the existing comments just yet, but try to observe it in new patches. So, when submitting patches to add download URLs, remember: 1) Sort URLs by language code. 2) Remember to include a carriage return at the end of the new lines. Thanks! - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: How can I customize the initrd?
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the simplest way to edit that file and/or not have to enter my own credentials every time? The file is actually two cpio archives in a row. For whatever reason, the normal cpio command only extracts one of them... So I am afraid there is no easy way to edit the initrd, unless you find an easy way to split the archives in two. (Although if you have a reasonably modern Linux box, you can rebuild the initrd from scratch; see linuxboot/README.txt in the distribution.) The good news is that you do not need to do any of this to override the credentials; see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7558006 or read the FAQ :-). - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Additional parameters for silent installs with Inno Setup
Scott Gilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The parameters listed below should be helpful to anyone trying to do a silent install with an Inno Setup program. The information on the unattended web site is incomplete and only mentions the /silent parameter, which in my experience is insufficient (use setup.exe /sp- /verysilent instead). I would believe that /sp- is sometimes needed, although I have never seen an app which required it. But I would be surprised if /verysilent were ever required instead of /silent. Do you have examples where either or both of these were necessary? Thank you for sending the complete documentation. Reading it now, it sounds like /verysilent without /norestart is an accident waiting to happen... Perhaps the web page (link below) should be updated to include this information. http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html I have rewritten the section on Inno Setup. Thanks again! - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Another download link for winxpsp1 Dutch
imdos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :: URL|NLD|http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/f/cdf236d4-c2fe-4100-a254-85206aa39037/Q814995_WXP_SP2_x86_NLD.exe|updates/winxpsp1/q814995_wxp_sp2_x86_nld.exe Applied. --- 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: RE : [unattended-devel] customizing bootini.pl for your country
Sylvain Faivre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However I think you didn't get the French characters right, and if it is the case I might submit a patch again tomorrow. That is possible. I tried to cut and paste, but Emacs needed me to pick an encoding... I picked UTF-8 which is probably wrong. BTW the boot.ini uses a DOS charset, I can view it correctly with the view OEM character set option in UltraEdit... Don't ask me what it means... But I think you can view it correctly only with a French version of Windows, and the font files are different. I think I would prefer to use bytes; and use \xNN escapes to encode the string in ASCII. Anything else (except maybe UTF-8) gets too confusing when combining multiple languages in a single file. - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: Docs Update: cygwin and step-by-step guide
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In HTML this time. I'll try to pretty these up as time goes on. Jeff, these are excellent. Thank you! I have uploaded them to: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/step-by-step.html http://unattended.sourceforge.net/cygwin.html I have also checked them in to CVS. I noticed one or two typos. And http://validator.w3.org/ has a trivial complaint. But I have not edited them yet, because first we have to pick a procedure for collaborating on these. CVS is probably the best option, if you know how to use it (or are willing to learn). We could start with you sending patches against the read-only CVS, but I would be willing to give you write access pretty quickly. What do you think? I am really, really happy to see somebody else actually writing documentation :-). - 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Unattended 4.0b-rc1
Download from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. But hurry, because I am itching to make this release. Except for improved language support, it should be bug fixes only. More or less. Oh, and now it is distributed as ZIP files instead of .tar.gz. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.0b (2004-Mar-??) Switch to ZIP files instead of .tar.gz files, since WinZip is too clever by half about the latter. Add Dutch updates and download URLs. Thanks to Niels de Groot. Add Russian updates and download URLs. Thanks to Eugene Kotlyarov. Add German updates and download URLs. Thanks to Gerhard Heift and Jan Brauer. Add French updates and download URLs. Thanks to Sylvain Faivre. Replace all Office XP updates with Office XP Service Pack 3. Add ofc2003.bat script for installing Office 2003. Thanks to imdos. (DOS) Update to SYSLINUX 2.09-pre13. This should fix the corrupted isolinux.bin file in the last couple of releases. (Linux) Add support for I2O adapters (e.g., Adaptec 2110S). (Linux) Upgrade to dosemu 1.2.1 and Linux 2.6.4. Might improve some hardware support. (Linux) Apply patch to Parted so it can compile with recent tools/kernel. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-glibc-200311/msg00400.html. Thanks to Mark Pavlichuk. (DOS) Update Broadcom 57xx (b57.dos) and VIA Rhine (fetnd.dos) drivers to latest versions from Broadcom's and VIA's sites, respectively. --- 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
