Re: [Unattended] Network Card Problem

2004-07-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I am 99% sure I am using the latest linux cd. When you say After the failure, try running: udhcpc --interface=eth0 --now --script=/etc/udhcpc-script what will this actually do? It is the command we use to obtain a DHCP lease. Maybe the

[Unattended] Testers wanted (Linux boot disk enhancement)

2004-07-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
If you use the Linux-based boot disk, I need your help to test something which I hope to add in the next release. Go to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ and download the find-boot-device script. Copy it to Z:\linuxaux\etc. Boot the Unattended Linux boot disk, let it map /z and start

[Unattended] Re: mozilla 1.7.1 update

2004-07-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steven Piercy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: here is a slightly modified version of the mozilla.bat - for mozilla1.7.1 (cause of a security flaw: http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html ;) - just figured it wasn't enough to require a patch. anyway here it is (i know... why brag about a

Re: [Unattended] Network Card Problem

2004-07-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pat and others I am having a problem with the linux boot cd on a new Dell Laptop. It is an Inspiron 5150. It has an onboard Broadcom 4400 10/100 Network Card. My problem is this, when I boot off the cd it discovers the card fine but then it says:

Re: [Unattended] RE: mozilla 1.7.1 update

2004-07-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Paul Baumgardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The -ma -ira switches don't seem to work. The installer just sits there asking where you'd like to install Firefox. None of the buttons are responsive except the Cancel button. I found there was a bug filed for this issue:

Re: [Unattended] Some feedback on boot CDs

2004-07-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Shane Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Jul 2004 at 13:58, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Shane Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 4.3 linux cd boots just fine; it proceeds flawlessly on our Optima lab machines but on our IBM PC300 classroom machines it borks with lots of hda

Re: [Unattended] bootini

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patches gratefully accepted. 'esn' = qr{Sistema operativo anterior en}, Committed. Thank you! - Pat --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings

Re: [Unattended] linuxboot floppies?

2004-07-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Might it be possible to make a Linux-Boot-Floppy, maybe one which can access a USB CD-Rom drive so that it then could start the Linuxboot CD and start unattended? Hm. I had assumed that if we needed to boot from floppy, we would need to load everything from

[Unattended] Re: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Driver

2004-07-01 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some reason, the unattended will simply not detect the network driver which renders the whole process useless. The .inf and .sys files etc are placed in the usual correct folders and are even copied correctly to the PC into the Drivers folder.

Re: [Unattended] Some feedback on boot CDs

2004-07-01 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Shane Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 4.3 linux cd boots just fine; it proceeds flawlessly on our Optima lab machines but on our IBM PC300 classroom machines it borks with lots of hda: errors: hda: dma_timer_recovery: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost

Re: [Unattended] How to change Computer Description

2004-06-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jeremy Johnstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to script the Computer Description of Windows XP Pro? E.g. a command to mimic the motions of going to : My Computer, Properties, Computer Name, Enter Computer Description The Description field of the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI

Re: [Unattended] SATA Drive Problem

2004-06-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 00:1f.2 IDE Interface Intel 82801EB /ER (ICH5/ICH5R) ultra ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02) The contents of lspci produced the following: (which corresponded to the above) 00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086: 24d1 (rev 02) That should be handled by the

Re: [Unattended] Dos-boot disk error

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Loic Himmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello when I want boot on the Dos-boot disk .There is one error : can't launch install.pl : Permission Denied (EACCES) After that failure, please try each of the following commands in order and report the results: Z: cd \dosbin dir more

Re: [Unattended] smb_add_request: timeout

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Paul Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now the problem my be link to this one computer (Intel Desktop board 815EFV/815EPFV) since I am able to use unattended on two other computers (a P4 2.4Ghz and a Celeron 1Ghz) without any problems. What Ethernet hardware does that have? This could be a

Re: [Unattended] SATA Drive Problem

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried everything to get the unattended to work but alas I couldn't. The problem being that the linux boot cd would not recognize the SATA drive. Well, as the screen was loading (it is fast) but I was able to glimpse a line which seemed to indicate

[Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Apart from minor bugfixes, most changes are in the Linux boot disk. We added MySQL client libraries and the DBI and DBD::mysql Perl modules. I have no MySQL database handy with which to test; if you do, please give it a try. I look forward to your feedback. The 2.6.7 Linux kernel might provide

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is a terrible question to ask, but is there a timeframe for dropping support for dos booting? Are you for or against the idea? :-) No, I have not given any thought to ditching the DOS boot disk. It requires little maintenance and it is not

Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP 5i drivers issues

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
In my experience, F6 does not work so well with unattended installs. Welcome to the world of TXTSETUP.OEM: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#txtsetup http://www.google.com/search?q=txtsetup.oem+site%3Amail-archive.com ...and of course:

Re: [Unattended] ATA66 mounting issue with Linux booting

2004-06-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Kevin P. Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, when the Linux boot happens, the HDD is /sys/block/hde! No good. Yeah, our disk selection algorithm needs some work. I have a plan; I will take an initial crack at an implementation for the next release. I am hoping you can act as a tester?

Re: [Unattended] bootini

2004-06-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
David Cruz Langreo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same as me. I've got problems with the Spanish Version. The bootini.pl script does not have support for Spanish because nobody has contributed it yet. It would be a one-line addition near the top of the script:

Re: [Unattended] OEM Drivers By Group

2004-06-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Wim Vandersmissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if I understand this correctly, if you set OemPreinstall=No and you put your drivers in $OEM$\$1\Drivers\gx110 and specify OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\gx110 only the directory Drivers\gx110 will be copied to %SystemDrive% and not anything else

Re: [Unattended] Howto fetch an URL under linux?

2004-06-12 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Johannes Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Therefore I would like to do a wget from the client under linux. Unfortunately, there is no wget. BusyBox has a wget clone, but we do not include it. Fixed in next release. I will look at making a test release tomorrow. I am planning to wait for

Re: [Unattended] OT: NT4 Tape Driver

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
I have used NTBackup (aka. Windows Backup) to dump Exchange 2000 to a flat file. Does this not work with Exchange 5.5? You might have to do it from the command line: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Automating_MS_Exchange_Server_55_Backup_With_NTBackup.html - Pat

Re: [Unattended] OT: NT4 Tape Driver

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exchange 5.5 on a NT 4.0 Server. The command line utility that comes with Exchange 5.5 works as descried in the article you have linked to below. Ah, looks like MS added the /f switch to ntbackup in Windows 2000. Time to upgrade? :-) I

Re: [Unattended] shortcut.pl + arguments

2004-06-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bad explication. real problem is wheren using special as target, how do you give a shortcut name different than application ? You just specify the complete path to the shortcut. For example: shortcut.pl C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE

Re: [Unattended] Problem with e1000 bootdisk

2004-06-09 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Greg Pendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to boot DELL 260GX with onboard Intel 1000 adapter using 4.2C bootcd (using e1000 driver). [snip] When using e1000 computer stops after Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP. and then after ~3 minutes it starts to beep continuously and flashes

Re: [Unattended] Problem with e1000 bootdisk

2004-06-09 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Greg Pendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Thanks for your response. I'll try linuxboot. One more question: I'm using 4.2c version and i can't remove the Edit files confirmation. I've tried in my [_meta] : edit_files = 0 and edit_files = n But it still prompts me for editing. What

Re: [Unattended] Setting up unattended to allow for windows/linux boots

2004-06-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Nicholas Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We currently have a partitioning schemeon our machines that looks like: /dev/hda1 /boot 100MB /dev/hda2 Windows 10GB /dev/hda3 / 10GB /dev/hda5 swap~512MB We currently hard-wire the dosemu C: drive to /dev/hda1. (Well,

Re: [Unattended] Perl DBI

2004-05-28 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you plan to build a version of unattended (Linux version) that includes the Perl DBI module by default? This is certainly a goal. But it is not completely trivial. This is one of the costs of rolling our own Linux distribution... DBI itself is the

Re: [Unattended] How to set admin password as blank

2004-05-27 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
jed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I knew about the automatic logon problem with a blank password, i got around it by adding this vbs script to the end of the scripts. You could use that script, or you could just run: autolog.pl --logon=1 --user=Administrator --password= See

Re: [Unattended] linuxboot disk compilation problem

2004-05-27 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Vincent Malguy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, i got this error when i try to compile a linux boot disk i run this command under win2000 with cygwin. From http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html: Can I use Cygwin to rebuild the disk images on Windows? For the DOS boot disk, yes.

Re: [Unattended] Whole c option

2004-05-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
jed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why when i select the whole c option does it only create a 4gig partition? and how do i fix it? The partition gets converted to NTFS and expanded during OS installation, as directed by these settings in unattend.txt: [Unattended] FileSystem=ConvertNTFS

Re: [Unattended] config.pl help

2004-05-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am doing my first CONFIG.PL try! (help needed as I get, for me, not understandable errors) What I am trying to do is when user OPENRIS logs in (automatic) then unattend is almost silent, but when ANDERS logs in unattend would read

Re: [Unattended] Problem using Linux boot disk 4.2

2004-05-21 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please let me know if it works, so I can release 4.2c ASAP... Works like a champ! :-) 4.2c released. The only change is fixing the loading of the SCSI disk module, which I messed up at the last minute. I think I need a vacation. At least this

Re: [Unattended] Windows auto update how to?

2004-05-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
For the record... I just read about this unattend.txt setting: [Unattended] DUDisable=No Apparently, this causes Windows Setup to connect to Windows Update to download everything during installation. Read all about it by searching for DUDisable (second occurrence) at:

Re: [Unattended] Problem using Linux boot disk 4.2

2004-05-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have checked the hard drive and can install windows manually from the windows setup cd. Is there any other information you need from me? I need to know exactly what kind of hardware is in the machine, particularly mass-storage hardware. The output

Re: [Unattended] Server Space

2004-05-18 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
DeLisle, Seth (GE Infrastructure) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a couple of people poked around way back when, there has been no activity on the wiki I set up. I was thinking it might still be useful if we don't make it a copy of the unattended site. Instead it might be nice to accumalate

Re: [Unattended] PXE Howto without RIS on Windows 2000 Server

2004-05-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps you would be interested in adding this to the documentation. I wrote a tutorial on how to setup PXE booting on Windows 2000 server without RIS. The tutorial includes setting up the DHCP portion of the PXE boot and it shows how to configure the

Re: [Unattended] 4.1a: install.pl problem

2004-05-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * it stops just after partition question internal error at /z/dosbin/install.pl line 504 main::convert_fdisk_parted(' fdisk /delete /pri:1') called at /z/dosbin/install.pl line 1412 Ah, your fdisk command is preceeded by a space. Our parser

Re: [Unattended] Windows auto update how to?

2004-05-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
John Lilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True. But bandwidth isn't really an issue where I work and by it's nature the script is out of date in a few days after it's release. We usually do a pretty good job of keeping our scripts up-to-date in CVS. Well, except for this week, when I forgot to

Re: AW: [Unattended] dosemu.bin segfaults

2004-05-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Johannes Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'm answering it myself... Using unicode_stop helps a lot. That is odd, because we never invoke unicode_start. You are the first person to report this problem. If you want me to help debug it, first I need to know what you are doing differently

Re: [Unattended] Creating Menus For Different Builds

2004-05-13 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Wow, I really must be losing it. OK, one more time: $u-{'_maunsell'}-{'department'} = sub { print Choose department:\n; return menu_choice (map { $_ = $_ } ('Admin', 'Civil', 'Mechanical', [etc.]

Re: [Unattended] mapznrun.bat not found

2004-05-12 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to use office2k.bat, but I receive an error stating C:\netinst\mapznrun.bat can not be found. Is there something I need to do to have mapznrun.bat copied over during the install? Are you running office2k.bat on a machine which was installed using

Re: [Unattended] Hot fix 832483 script howto....

2004-05-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Felipe Navarrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody know how to script hotfix 832483 without autoit. Please let me know. Otherwise I guess I can write an autoit script for it. Thanks, Our update scripts install this automatically. For example:

Re: [Unattended] Problem with linux tftpboot

2004-05-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mark McRitchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It does complain just before prompting to partition the drive about C/H/S not multiplying out to 3145728. Hm, this hurts. Are you sure about 3145728? Because that is supposed to be the size of the disk in sectors (512 bytes each), which

Re: [Unattended] Problem with linux tftpboot

2004-05-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mark McRitchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The image boots ok from the network, I get the z: drive mapped and pick just the base.bat to install, but when I get to the last step, which asks if I want to edit the various files or continue, it then bombs out with awk: command not found and tr:

Re: Fwd: Re: [Unattended] problems with unatteded-info?

2004-05-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is the last message I see on unattended-info QUOTE language dependent updatesTUSSEY Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED]4 2004-04-03 23:49 UNQUOTE Oh, you are talking about the archives on SourceForge... Yeah, they said something about an

Re: [Unattended] problems with unatteded-info?

2004-05-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is possible to set the UNC name of the server share, and the username and password to use to mount it, in DHCP option 233. The structure is basically to set the option to z_path=\\server\install z_user=username z_pass=password. The linuxboot

Re: [Unattended] Z: not mounted after setup finished

2004-05-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am ashamed, but I dont know what I am doing wrong I am using the linux boot CD, which work fine now (just have to change the server, user, password still - someday they will be fixed also) but when the POSTINST script is to be run; there is no Z: -

Re: [Unattended] Re- Inserting OEM Product Kets from Spreadsheet (Mangano, Aron)

2004-05-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I stupidly edited the csv files with Microsoft Excel. I opened and saved them as csv but It changes the format to dos or similar I guess. Hm, this does not make sense to me. Our CSV parser should work with either DOS or Unix style line endings. We

Re: [Unattended] /lib/modules/ linux boot failing

2004-05-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Joe Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FATAL: could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/piix.ko no such file. This probably means that you did not populate Z:\linuxaux (by copying install\linuxaux to your install share). The next release should give better diagnostics when

Re: [Unattended] cant get linux ti boot

2004-05-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to boot a vmware wth the linuxboot 4.1b-pre1 but gets the following error ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...

Re: [Unattended] problem with onboard Intel 100/Pro on Toshiba A40

2004-05-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Urs Rau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess my question at this time is, what if anything can I do to try finding out what goes wrong when loading the dos ndis e100b.dos driver? This may be a bad interaction with FreeDOS EMM386. (I was wrong to make it the default based on so little testing.)

Re: [Unattended] [_meta] key for choose optional scripts question

2004-05-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Yeager, Elizabeth D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there one? What is it? [_meta] middle=foo.bat;bar.bat The three keys top, middle, and bottom declare scripts to run. top holds the master script and middle holds the optional scripts. Yes, these names are horrible and we should have

Re: [Unattended] making bootimages

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Yeager, Elizabeth D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to change the mapping of the Z drive from //ntinstall/install share I am supposing that I should edit the template autoexec.bat file, putting in the correct name of the server and samba share. Yes. However, if you use the Linux boot disk, you can

Re: [Unattended] shortcut.pl + arguments

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i try to get some shortcut with arguments: something like \path\to\mozilla -mail seems unattended shortcut.pl can't handle that. True. This would be tricky to handle because the target itself can have spaces in it. I have added a --arguments option

Re: [Unattended] Windows 2000 Freezing During Installation

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't seem to receive a response on this so I thought I would ask the list again. I am not sure anybody has a very good answer... The chipset drivers are now installing correctly but the video drivers still cause the machines to lock up. I have

Re: [Unattended] OT: Spyware, Adware, and other annoying software installation pre vention, no-spyware.bat and no-spyware-update.bat

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
DeLisle, Seth (GE Infrastructure) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Please excuse my nitpicking . . . We are getting way off-topic. But briefly... :-) But I think this statement is incorrect: Sure, it's just a bunch of registry settings. But a book is just a bunch of words, and

Re: [Unattended] Bug: shortcut.pl doesn't use target_dir for the WorkingDirectory

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Scott Gilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I submitted a bug along with the simple fix a few weeks back: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=930861group_id=62053atid=499855 Sorry about that. I should keep a closer eye on the bug and support trackers, but the SourceForge

Re: [Unattended] FreeDos Boot

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Yeager, Elizabeth D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When my client starts to boot FreeDos is just freaks out instead. It gets as far as: Loading Boot Sector... Booting... then it spits out the version, and copyright info for FreeDos after that it freaks. The messsages say: Illegal

Re: [Unattended] linuxboot.iso: libpthread.so.0 not found and other issues

2004-04-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jan Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i've come across a couple of problems with the linuxboot.iso. a)I think there's a symbolic link missing to z/linuxaux/lib/libpthread.so in /lib. We added threading support to our Perl in 4.1a. It sounds like you updated your Z:\linuxaux without

Re: [Unattended] Multiple unattend.txt files?

2004-04-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Neil Robst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for this Max. PXELinux can call a different pxelinux.cfg file based upon that the client's IP address. Therefore is there something I can put in the pxelinux.cfg config file that will pass a parameter name containing the unattended.txt file to

Re: [Unattended] linuxboot with standard distro kernel / initrd kickstart or autoyast

2004-04-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Let's take this to the unattended-devel list. I will reply there. - 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

Re: [Unattended] Unattended Freezing During Video Card Install

2004-04-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My new prob is this.when Windows 2000 SP4 gets to the point where it installs the video drivers ...ie you can see the files at the bottom of the screen whilst it copies, the installation does one of two things: 1. If I use the drivers supplied on

Re: [Unattended] system often freeze during partitioning

2004-04-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
pommerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, when I try the DOS boot disk from 4.1, I get the error: - config.sys error in line 13 DEVICEHIGH=\net\ifshlp.sys ^ Kernel: allocated 40 Diskbuffers = 21280 Bytes in HMA

Re: [Unattended] setting Computer name to dns hostname

2004-04-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Paul Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am new to perl and have a simple /install/site/config.pl perl script to set the ComputerName to the dns hostname. I am using unattended v4.1, here is my script. Well, it depends on what you mean by the DNS hostname. DNS maps names to IP

Re: [Unattended] setting Computer name to dns hostname

2004-04-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my $host = gethostbyaddr (inet_aton ($addr)); if (!defined $addr) { warn Unable to gethostbyaddr ($addr): $? $^E\n; return undef; } Argh. Of course that should read if (!defined $host

Re: [Unattended] Enable ACPI

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Wim Bonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a computer here wich i try to install using unattended-linux. But the ide_disk driver does not work, i shows somthing like hda: DMA timeout error This is a SIS5513 IDE Controller. According to

Re: [Unattended] Perl DBI woes

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to implement a system for unattended which takes system information out of an SQL database (in this case, an IRM database) and uses it for various configuration parameters for unattend.txt. Hence, I need the DBI modules in the linux boot

Re: [Unattended] More info on Perl DBD issues

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently Perl_Gthr_key_ptr is a threading thing, so it looks like the perl in Unattended hasn't been built with thread support. Was that done for any particular reason? It is what you get if you simply download Perl and build it, accepting all

Re: [Unattended] system often freeze during partitioning

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have experienced this issue. I have tried 2-3 different versions of the b57.dos driver. All create the machine to hang. The problem is that is does it randomly when accessing the hard disk. For me it would lockup on any 1 of the 5 fdisk commands I

Re: [Unattended] kbd - cannot open include file ...

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Symptom of a file being on the network share but not on the bootdisk where it is needed. Fixed in next release. (Which will probably be 4.1a, and will probably be Real Soon.) - Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello list, I tried to use the kbd=de-latin1 feature in 4.1, but on booting I

Re: [Unattended] Bad quotes! Naughty quotes!

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For Patrick and anyone who's hit this: I think that the credentials placed in c:\netinst\tempcred.bat shouldn't be quoted. We added the quotes because some people were having trouble with special characters, like whitespace. It causes (Win2K at least)

[Unattended] Unattended 4.1a released

2004-04-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Who needs testing, really? NEWS.txt entry is appended. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.1a (2004-Apr-19) This is a bug fix release, mostly. Handle for username in mapznrun.bat. Make installation scripts run quietly (@echo off). Thanks to Jeff Black. (I know, this is not really a bug fix.

Re: [Unattended] How update online

2004-04-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
TUSSEY Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi All As i read thru some of the changes I could see that this project is a living project and needs to be updated very often. How can i update my present Version ( 4.0b) to incoorporate all these changes going on? We use CVS for revision control.

Re: [Unattended] VMWare network driver

2004-04-13 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Martin Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: | For the DOS boot disk, the pcntnd driver should work. For the Linux | boot disk, the driver should be selected and loaded automatically. Only true if using the vlance mode in the ethernet settings. When using the vmxnet

Re: [Unattended] Re: Logging in as Network Administrator

2004-04-09 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We could modify todo.pl to hook the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...\Run key instead, which will cause it to run no matter who logs on next. I am reluctant to do this, because if the automatic logon gets interrupted and some random user logs on, the whole

Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

2004-04-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk? I have tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway). Add something like this to the append line of pxelinux.cfg/default:

Re: [Unattended] Winnt.exe copying files graphics on linuxboot disk

2004-04-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Max Lovius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it normal that the graphics (the lines look like _ _ _ _ _ on the dialog)(not _)on the winnt part of the installation... A bit like winnt is using the wrong font! This seems to be related to Linux or is it just me, before I start looking? It

Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

2004-04-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Maybe this is because /dev/ttyS0 does not exist on the boot disk :-). I will roll a new

Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

2004-04-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No go. If the order is console=tty console=ttyS0,9600, I get: Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed WELCOME!!! Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file

Re: [Unattended] Linux boot z_user too back slash or not

2004-04-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Max Lovius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: append initrd=initrd root=0:0 init=/linuxrc z_user=username/domain z_pass=password z_path=\\server\install For the linux boot (smbmount) to connect to a windows 2003 share this seems ok z_user=username/domain or user/workgroup in the smb doc. Wait,

Re: [Unattended] connect problem...

2004-04-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Roberto Caranci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while i am trying to start with the dos cd, i get this looping error message: GUEST was logged off successfully The command completed succesfully Mapping Z: to \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\install\... The net use command from MSCLIENT (the DOS network stack)

Re: [Unattended] Linux boot z_user too back slash or not

2004-04-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Max Lovius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I did read some where that it is better to only have one way to do things... Now I start to think the same way... :-) My only question is, How does samba know what is the domain and what is the username, or does it try both? What would happen if

Re: [Unattended] Various questions

2004-04-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
IT Helpdesk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I wish to add all domain users to the power users group in Windows 2000 Try: net localgroup Power Users DOMAIN\Domain Users /add (Where DOMAIN is your domain, of course.) 2. How to I install printers, all printers are currently shared off an NT4

Re: [Unattended] error message in inifile.pm

2004-04-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
TUSSEY Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have several times used one diskette but just today when I start the installation I get the following error: Internal Error at Z:\lib/Unattend/IniFile.pm line 331 (FILE) line 3. Aborting Any ideas? Thanx Internal error means you have found a bug

Re: [Unattended] automatic TCP/IP network printer install

2004-04-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
denis bonnenfant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, in my setup, all the printers are set in TCP/IP or LPR mode. so i have to create standard tcp/ip network ports on the workstations before installing the printers using the rundll33 printui.dll /... method I tried to use the .vbs scripts

Re: [Unattended] error running make images

2004-03-31 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
TUSSEY Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what i get: Making images/b44.imz...Bad media types ff/f0, probably non-MSDOS disk More information, please. Is this under Linux, Cygwin, or something else? What version of mtools? - Pat

Re: [Unattended] error running make images

2004-03-31 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Eugene Kotlyarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suppose you install Cygwin with Default text file type option set to DOS, you should reinstall it with Default text file type set to Unix. This is my guess for the problem, too. But you should not need to reinstall Cygwin. Instead, just set the

Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP

2004-03-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended uses and

Re: [Unattended] registry + other user

2004-03-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: has someone some experience with script to edit registry of other users ? i explain: for now, i have *.reg o to modify HKLM et HKCU for Admin. but if i want to add some users (with Addusers for example) and change their registry settings only on each

Re: [Unattended] JRE2 Install command switch

2004-03-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Don Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe this is the deal with the space (from the Sun silent install page): In the various command line examples below a space appears between the /v and the quote (); i.e., /v . The space is required for 1.4.2_01 and higher releases that are installed

Re: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgs

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can extract a .imz.tmp file when using 7-zip. this file can be written with rawrite or unix cat to floppy. Hm. I could have sworn .imz was the standard extension for a zipped disk image (.img) file. Does WinImage support compressed images? If so, how does it

Re: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgs

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WinImage does support compressed images, and it uses an extention of IMZ. The problem is that the images are not gzipped. As far as I can tell it is a different format altogether. (read: confusing) Could someone upload a WinImage-created .imz file

Re: [Unattended] Configure OS Questions

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Layne, Courtney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I perform activities like adjusting performance options or setting page size? Anyone have any advice for these configuration activities? Thanks. You write scripts. I try to use WMI interfaces whenever possible, since they are usually clean,

Re: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgs

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wget ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.imz Wget ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.img 2 images, compressed and uncompressed both open fine in winimage... The 3rd (less intresting) image is ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.gz And is a gzip

Re: [Unattended] Adding perl DBI module

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does one go about adding the DBI perl module to unattended Linux version? My plan is to read configuration info from a mysql database. Our entire Perl installation lives on the network under Z:\linuxaux\opt\perl. So in theory you just need to get

[Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheet

2004-03-23 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
In Unattended 4.0b, we added some new files to the install/site directory: hardware.csv software.csv sample-config.pl The file sample-config.pl is the actual config.pl which Shad uses. It automatically sets several installation parameters based on the values in two

Re: [Unattended] Using todo.pl outside building the machine

2004-03-23 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Norström, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Shad and Pat, I would need to be able to use todo.pl outside building the machine. For security reasons, I'm building the machines on a separate network and what I would like is to have the possibility to install applications on top in the

Re: [Unattended] Note on Samba 3 problem

2004-03-23 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Mark Pavlichuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samba 3 has a new option (called unix extensions) which should be turned off if you're using the Linux boot disk. If this option is switched on (which it is by default, at least on Debian) any symbolic links on a Samba share accessed by a samba

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