Re: [Unattended] Web site down..

Hi Nils! Nothing! It seems to work, at least for me. Some glitch with your internet link, possibly? cu Niels - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now

Re: [Unattended] unattended future

Hi! the main problem is that no one has the code to modified the project page and all sourceforge stuff That is not true: I have, Eugene has, everybody with cvs write access has. we have 3 choices here - manage to get in touch with Mister LoPresti - ask sourceforge to give the code

Re: [Unattended] unattended future

Hi Florian! I'm an unattended user as well, we use a MySQL module for installation, and I'd be happy to contribute. I think - or just fork and go on would be an idea. Can someone write to the original authors and ask? No, please, no forks. We are eager to get everything that helps! cu

Re: [Unattended] winxpsp2-updates.bat

Hi Lars! there seems to be a new version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830). The link in the update script is dead. This is fixed now, thank you. cu Niels - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need

Re: [Unattended] error in ofc2003.bat

Hi Tom! I've found a little error in ofc2003.bat in the cvs version. This is fixed now, thank you. cu Niels - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Unattended] Next Updates

Hi Stefan! Do you plan to update your project to the next generation of windows (vista)? Well, I hope so. Do you have a roadmap for that? Currently ... no. But shortly i want update my systems to vista beta2 for learning the new unattended automatics. I took a look on vista just a

Re: [Unattended] updating scripts, packages etc

Hi Oliver! I've got a few questions about updating: 1st if I run the script-update, will it overwrite customized scripts with the same name? Yes. As you can read in the script comment block: # # This script updates your script files from the official # unattended cvs repository. # #

Re: [Unattended] Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) High Definition Audio class driver KB888111

Hi Thomas! have somebody a solution for integrating KB888111 into unattended? This is one of those annoying we have a solution and a patch but you won't get it knowledge base articles. So I ordered the hotfix from MS and will see how I can help when it arrives. I tried to slipstream this

Re: [Unattended] Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) High Definition Audio class driver KB888111

Hi Thomas! have somebody a solution for integrating KB888111 into unattended? This is one of those annoying we have a solution and a patch but you won't get it knowledge base articles. So I ordered the hotfix from MS and will see how I can help when it arrives. My first guess was

Re: [Unattended] scipts questions

Hi Dany! 1) Is there a perl or windows version of the tools/prepare script? No, I don't think so. 2) Does anyone had modified installation scripts (scripts/*.bat) so it download the the installation file if it is not present in the packages folder? There is a problem: the install-share is

[Unattended] Workaround for CVS failures

Hi! As outlined on http://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/, Sourceforge has serious problems with their CVS service which we rely on for development and our users for keeping their install scripts up-to- date using the script-update shell script. As a workaround, you can find the current versions of

Re: [Unattended] Unattended WIKI broken?

Moin Tomasz! http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/FrontPage so either the Wiki link on unattended.sf.net is broken, or something else. Interesting! It worked with the www. so far. Well, I'll change that. cu Niels --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Unattended] universal silent switch finder

Hi Gerhard! maybe worth a trial if installer switches are unknown: http://unattended-sponsor.de/downloads/tools/ussf.rar Interesting. Well, it does not know Ghost Installer, for example. cu Niels -- A: Weil es die Lesbarkeit des Textes verschlechtert. F: Warum ist TOFU so schlimm? A: TOFU

[Unattended] Problems creating user

Hi! I am trying to create a user with this command: todo.pl net user itcampus password /add /expires:never /active:yes /fullname:\itCampus GmbH\ /comment:\Account fuer Fernzugriff\ (on windows 2000 servers installed by Unattended) The net user command is valid according to the documentation

Re: [Unattended] Problems creating user

Hi Matt! What is wrong is that you are unable to set the password expiration flag from the net command (even though you can set just about everything else...don't get me started). The expires option is for account expiration, not password expiration. Ouch. Thanks for that correction. The

Re: [Unattended] helping with documentation...

Hi Mike! *I'm willing to spend some time working on the documentation* I LOVE that sound! Especially the db/csv stuff as I just got that working. I think most of the db/csv documentation that users need is there, but I would want to re-write it as more of a set-by-step how-to. Go ahead!

Re: [Unattended] unattend.txt is no so unattended

Hi Hugo! I believe the right place for unattend.txt is Z:\site\unattend.txt That is true. z:\lib\unattend.txt is an example file, and is not really used by the installer. No. This file contains important defaults and should not (as in must not) be edited/replaced. config.pl reads

Re: [Unattended] Comments and Criticism

Hi Evan! screw your environment all to h***. I may have come across harsh, which I don't mean to, just direct. I think you have done some good work here. I just don't agree with some of your statements because they go contrary to facts that I know. If you do not like our system, please do

[Unattended] important: Windows Server 2003 (ws2k3-updates.bat)

Hi! After having tested the Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003 Server today, I removed all patches from ws2k3-updates.bat (because they are completely included in SP1), added SP1 to ws2k3-updates.bat and created a new ws2k3sp1-updates.bat. At present, SP1 is only available for english (ENU) and

[Unattended] important: Windows Server 2003 (ws2k3-updates.bat)

Hi! After having tested the Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003 Server today, I removed all patches from ws2k3-updates.bat (because they are completely included in SP1), added SP1 to ws2k3-updates.bat and created a new ws2k3sp1-updates.bat. At present, SP1 is only available for english (ENU) and

Re: [Unattended] important: Windows Server 2003 (ws2k3-updates.bat)

Hi Michael! Wonderful! I was heartily looking forward to not having to run a 300M Windows Update session every time I installed a new box! :) Unfortunately, I'm not presently seeing the changes you mentioned in CVS HEAD, am I looking in the wrong place? No. The public cvs on

Re: [Unattended] Driver Install

Hi Gregory! [Unattended] OemPnPDriversPath = audio\RealtekALC850;misc\SMBus;net\WinXP;net\test Yes, there is the mistake: the directory names must not exceed 8 characters in length. Shorten RealtekALC850 to rtalc850 and try again. Additionally you should lower-case directory/filenames. cu

Re: [Unattended] Adding device drivers

Hi Sean! Does anyone have any examples of adding device drivers to the os dir? Yes. I do. How can I help you? I attempted to follow the instruction on the website and went to the microsoft link. The link references 2003 and XP, but I'm working wirh 2000 right now. There is no difference.

Re: [Unattended] (non-)option to boot to previous OS

Hi Greg! After installation of either WinXP or Win2k, at every bootup I get the Windows boot menu. The 2 options are the installed operating system, or Previous Operating System on C:. If I choose this other one I get a message: This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy

Re: [Unattended] (non-)option to boot to previous OS

Hi Adam! Just taking a quick look between the two versions, the only difference in the bootini.pl is the languages saying about the operating system, right at the top, so I don't think it's the bootini.pl coding. Well just after having written my previous mail, I have installed 5 new

Re: [Unattended] UnattendedFile in mysql DB... am I missing something?

Hi Jeffrey! I assume ece-test-ua-2.txt belongs in /unattended/site/ (/z/site/), ack and I've moved sample-config.pl to config.pl, but unattended still pulls the default unattend.txt If I remove the default unattend.txt it acts like there is none and starts asking for a computer name.

Re: [Unattended] video and audio

Hi Thomas! For your convenience, I created installation scripts for you: Real Alternative, http://www.richthof.de/niels/unattended/realalt.bat Quicktime Alternative, http://www.richthof.de/niels/unattended/quickalt.bat xVid Codec http://www.richthof.de/niels/unattended/xvid.bat and Ogg

Re: [Unattended] Setup cannot copy files...

Hi Jonathan! It seems however that when setup runs, the install starts then it reboots and the installer prompts me because it cannot find some files...seemingly for hardware which does not concern me: Abridged list: hraiddisk1 aichmgt.inf aichmgt.cat aarich.inf All of these files

Re: [Unattended] BartPE

Hello Hans! Anyone tried to combine a BartPE boot with Unattended? .. looks like a powerful tool. It definitely is ... but I don't see an advantage or a benefit in combining it with Unattended. What do you think? cu Niels -- A: Weil es die Lesbarkeit des Textes verschlechtert. F: Warum ist

RE: [Unattended] questions

Hi Brad! This depends only on your server. If it is capable to serve 50 simultaneous, Unattended will do. If you use an old pentium server,you will have trouble to serve more than one clients at a time. I don't really think it matters how fast your machine is this case. Unattended

Re: [Unattended] Unattended Perl scripts w/ MSSQL?

Hi Stefan! has anybody ever tried to run the perl scripts against a MS SQL server? nobody that I know of. Has anybody already written a database script like the ones in lib/cvs or lib/mysql? If you do, please provide us with your install/site/conf-mssql.pl, so we can add it to the

Re: [Unattended] Dell Precision 670 - Adaptec SCSI RAID

Hi Sebastian! I'm having some problems getting the unattended install to work on a dell precision 670 with an adaptec scsi raid controller. Here is what I've done so far: Did I miss something? Yes, you did. Please copy the same files again in a subdirectory under ...\$OEM$\$1 If the files

[Unattended] Unattended documentation rewrite

Hi! After several days of hard work, I proudly announce the completion of a rewrite of the Unattended documentation and a stylish makeover of our website at http://unattended.sourceforge.net/. As being a second-language speaker I concentrated on re-using old content as much as possible and

Re: [Unattended] winxp updates.bat

Hi Mark! My winxp OS directory contains a version of xp patched to sp1. Currently only the winxpsp1-updates.bat file is getting run but I want to install SP2 on the machines. Whats the best way to do this? 1) replace winxpsp1-updates.bat with winxp-updates.bat 2) call

Re: [Unattended] AutoIt driven scripts - how to disable mouse and keyboard?

Hi Gerhard! I have some setups that only can be automated with AutoIt. I would like to disable /shutdown keyboard and mouse before running those scripts. How can I achieve this? There is a registry hack possible. Have a look at http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/tip0571.htm For all non-germans:

[Unattended] Media Player 9 wants to be clicked

Hi! Out of sudden, the silent installation of mediaplayer9 in win2ksp4- updates does not work any more. It displays a EULA and waits for mouse clicks. This is reproducible. Any ideas? cu Nels-- Niels Sören Richthof, Entwickler itCampus Software- und Systemhaus GmbH Niederlassung Halle

Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available

Hi Tomasz! However, There is a GPL project called WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net - which aims to install/upgrade/remove software/packages after the machine was installed. I know wpkg since it was a first idea on our mailinglist and long before it became a SF-project. The problem is

Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available

Hi Tomasz! A service, added to each machine created with the help of Unattended, which will check if software installed on each of these machines matches a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine / machine profiles etc. That is not that easy as it sounds. One solution

Re: [Unattended] tightvnc - setting password + starting as a service - how?

Hi Tomasz! I would like to install TightVNC using Unattended, so that after it is installed, I can log on to the machine remotely using password I specified (with Unattended). Is it possible? Yes, with a registry hack. After TightVNC is installed, you apply an registry patch which

[Unattended] Adaptec AIC-7902 HostRAID

Hi there! Has anyone tried to install with linuxboot on a system with Adaptec AIC-7902 with HostRAID enabled? I did and it does not work. The linuxboot cd can only find the scsi channels as long HostRAID is not enabled in the SCSI BIOS. These are the messages when RAID is disabled on channel

RE: [Unattended] todo.pl and quotes

Hello Ty! Ok then, how about using c:\docume~1 instead of c:\documents and settings? That should eliminate the need for quotes around the second path. I don't like this idea. In my german versions this path is namens cd:\dokumente und einstellungen. After an unattended-run, I have both

RE: [Unattended] todo.pl and quotes

Hi Ty! I *think* you can put the entire command in quotes like this. copy \\server\share\files.* C:\documents and settings\user This is wrong! See other post. cu Niels --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on

Re: [Unattended] Q883357

Hi Chris! Can someone add the English version of this patch to the list please, the link is below Applied. Thanks for your attention! cu Niels --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive

Re: [Unattended] Adobe Reader 6.0.2 full

Hi Adam! The full version of Adobe Reader 6.0.2 is now available for download, so you don't need to install .01 and then the .02 update. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html#reader602full I don't see the italian and russian version. Do you? If not, we have to wait for them

Re: [Unattended] problems installing win NT4

Hi Holger! Is win NT4 supported by unattended-4.4b ? Look into the faq and search for Can I install Windows NT? The answer there is Not right now. Patches are welcome. cu Niels --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be

Re: [Unattended] Unattended script for Total Commander?

Hi Gerhard! anybody have a script for unattended installation of Total Commander (formerly known as Windows Commander, www.ghisler.com)? Yes I have. You wont believe it how easy it is! Get the installer from the website and put it somewhere. Open it with Winzip (or if you have

[Unattended] KB837272

Hi! I have noticed that the Mediaplayer9-Fix KB837272 cannot be installed by unattended on my german win2000 (prof.|server) computers. It responds with error code 67 and todo.pl (winsp4-updates.bat) stops. To find the problem I started the patch manually. It reported that the integrity of

Re: [Unattended] article in German c't magazine

Hi! I will ask Heise if we can get a pdf-Version for the website. I received the answer: it is no problem, but expensive. So everyone who wants to read that article - go an buy it. cu Niels --- SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Unattended] Need help understanding win2ksp4-notips.pl

Hi Egil! like to remake win2ksp4-notips.pl why? Anything wrong with the perl-version? cu Niels --- 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

Re: [Unattended] RE: xp sp2

Hi Marcus! Take it sp1 script is not getting replaced by sp2 since all new cd's are currently sp1 ? Just think it would save a lot of reboots. Correct, I didn't place it into winxpsp1-updates.bat. Two reasons: First the SP2 package ist currently available only in english and german.

Re: [Unattended] RE: xp sp2

Hi Patrick! We will keep winxpsp1-updates.bat as individual updates. I suspect many sites will delay deploying SP2 for a while, possibly a year or more. SP2 is no ordinary update; in some ways, it is more like a major OS upgrade. Many people will be very conservative about rolling it out,

Re: [Unattended] article in German c't magazine

Hi Patrick! found an article about Unattended in German c't magazine 17/04. Maybe, but I do not have a copy, and it appears to be print edition only. I am not 100% sure, though, because I am just a dumb Yank and do not speak German :-). Does most c't content eventually appear on the Web

Re: [Unattended] more fra + java details + one question

Hi Julien! * one for jre: disable javaupdate by default and no webstart icon Thanks, applied. (These both things are really annoying) * some fra updates for winxpsp1 Erm, you definitely want to update your scripts files from the cvs or yesterdays distribution. I spend much time on filling

Re: [Unattended] Some questions about

Hi Stefansen! But when I trying to use Unattended with both a norwegian and english WinXP, and when i get the option to choose which XP to install, I can select between xp with Language English and Language?? English. The last one should be Norwegian. Is there any way to let Unattended know

Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

Hi! Case sensitivity is more a property of the server than the client. I suspect if you set unix extensions = off in your smb.conf file it will fix the problem. This is my guess, anyway; it would be nice to know for certain. man smb.conf look for name mangling the install-share should