Re: [Unattended] CVS from behind a firewall

2004-07-28 Thread Russell Smith
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:25 pm, Kevin Lawry wrote: anybody point me at a resource that will help me get through this from a Linux box at my end? http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033group_id=1#firewall not sure about developer.

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-21 Thread Russell Smith
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:19 pm, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: 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? :-) Well, I am sort of begging to be pro dropping

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-17 Thread Russell Smith
I know this is a terrible question to ask, but is there a timeframe for dropping support for dos booting? On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:06 am, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Apart from minor bugfixes, most changes are in the Linux boot disk. We added MySQL client libraries and the DBI and DBD::mysql

Re: [Unattended] Switching between local and installation booting

2004-06-16 Thread Russell Smith
a machine to build. The script just copies linux to the mac address of the relevant machine, and you go and turn it on. Just a different idea. Regards Russell Smith. On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:33 pm, Dr. F. Lee wrote: Hi, In order to have a really unattended installation I have a software switch

Re: [Unattended] OEM Drivers By Group

2004-06-14 Thread Russell Smith
below is my current config.pl that does this. It helps reduce space on the HDD by copying only the required drivers to the hdd. All textmode stuff is still turned on, but I don't have anything much in that section of the install. $u-{'_meta'}-{'drivers_dir'} = 'none'; # Function to set

Re: [Unattended] few problems

2004-05-18 Thread Russell Smith
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Re: [Unattended] Wierd Issue

2004-04-28 Thread Russell Smith
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 04:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using the floppy as well as the CD bootdisk to run the network install. We have COMPAQ (HP) DL380s. Everytime I get to the point where I have to choose options after install.pl starts it locks up for some reason. I have to

Re: [Unattended] system often freeze during partitioning

2004-04-19 Thread Russell Smith
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Re: [Unattended] Some ideas about the unattended 4.0b version

2004-03-27 Thread Russell Smith
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:37 pm, TUSSEY Aloha wrote: Hi all, I haven't gone that far with my first setup but at least my first installation went thru to the level of the OS. As at now I have been thinking of the following: 1. A method for selecting and installing different languages of the an

Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP

2004-03-25 Thread Russell Smith
I have been installing win XP successfully on 2G for ages now. Are you copying a lot of drivers with the installation? Other than that, I can't think why it would complain about not enough space. I am using winxpoem for these installs though. Regards Russell Smith On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:26

Re: [Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheet

2004-03-25 Thread Russell Smith
that. /Thinking out loud gabble So with a number of options arising, SQL, LDAP, txt, csv. My thoughts are that people can just copy the relevant file over config.pl if so desired. Regards Russell Smith. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Unattended] Unattendedly installing Windows NT ?

2004-03-12 Thread Russell Smith
It does work, but requires a number of modifications. Last time I did this was with Unattended 1.0, Which is long gone by now :) you need to install the windows installer and service pack using cmdlines.txt in the NT install. if you do that you will be able to get NT4 to install. However it

Re: [Unattended] Format Confirmation Bypass in 4.0

2004-03-11 Thread Russell Smith
from install.pl /z:seriously is requied. eg format /y /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c: as 4.0 is using the format commands and freedos, the switches for this have changed slightly. Hope this helps. On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 03:43 am, Johnson, Chris A -ND wrote: The command to format the disk

Re: [Unattended] Runtime single package selection

2003-08-03 Thread Russell Smith
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 04:41 am, Scott Card wrote: Pat, Are you guys working on integrating some kind of one-off runtime additional applications to install selection set to choose from, into the next version? (Or maybe such a thing already exists and I just haven't been paying enough

Re: [Unattended] Stopping for no reason

2003-07-30 Thread Russell Smith
As Pat said, I think we will have to have something in the next release for this. It will also allow for connecting to authenticated servers for downloading programs. I'm working on that now a one of my locations. Results should be around soon. Then all I need is the time to commit them :)

Re: [Unattended] RE: TCPTSR.EXE doesn't obtain address

2003-07-24 Thread Russell Smith
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:40 pm, David Ehrmann wrote: Just wondering, what DHCP server (and version) are you running? isc-dhcpd-V3.0pl2 Compiled from source COMPILER=gcc3 CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe

Re: [Unattended] RE: TCPTSR.EXE doesn't obtain address

2003-07-23 Thread Russell Smith
My DHCP config, was running RH7.1, now running on gentoo, works a treat on both, except for rtl8139 PXE bugs that won't boot from a named bootfile, only the default one :(. allow booting; allow bootp; ddns-update-style interim; one-lease-per-client on; # Setup pxelinux space option space

[Unattended] Making AutoIt Simple

2003-07-05 Thread Russell Smith
to remember ... the autoit help is always a good starting point concerning autoit commands. WinWaitClose, Window Title [,Window Text [,Timeout]] Well most of the time anyway. :) Russell Smith --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre

[Unattended] Query? What do you run you unattended server on?

2003-07-05 Thread Russell Smith
:) It is also of interest to me what version of windows, or distro of linux you are running.. eg, I run my servers on 1, Gentoo Linux 2, Redhat Linux Thanks in advance for the demographic information :) Russell Smith --- This SF.Net email