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
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
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.
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
+++ Makefile
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
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
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Windows 2000 does have the %ProgramFiles% variable... patch
attached
I also fixed the unix line endings in opera.bat
Applied. Thank you!
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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
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
(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?
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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