[Unattended] missing ntldr

2005-10-08 Thread jo / ak
Unfortunately, the NTLDR not found also occurs with version 4.7pre and an Intel D915GAG board with S-ATA drive attached. I was able to work arround this by 1) make partitions with parted 2) boot with a win95b disk, execute fdisk /mbr and format c: 3) use unattended with do nothing on

[Unattended] new scripts for wincvs, winmerge and python

2004-10-09 Thread jo / ak
have a look at http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/Scripts - Jo --- 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

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot

2004-09-25 Thread jo / ak
Uff ... now it worked, after I * deleted all disk related parameters from site/unattended.txt [_meta] section, * booted with a win95/2 boot disk, * ran fdisk to build a primary fat32 partition, * rebooted, * did the format c: /s by myself , and * answered continue/no to the

[Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot

2004-09-23 Thread jo / ak
When starting with the linux boot disk, on some machine the installation process hangs copying the os files and the first reboot with NTLDR not found A message before said *** Found no legacy BIOS data. Probably no big deal. Continuing. The disk is an old Fujitsu M1638TAU 2,5 GB. Is

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot

2004-09-23 Thread jo / ak
Thanks for your hints. You are right, the Bios is pretty old (Award 4.51PG of 1995). fdisk /info /tech worked with the Freedos fdisk (not with the MS-DOS 6.22 or Win95/2 fdisk). Unfortunataly it reported slightly other values than the bios (620/127/63 vs. 622/128/63). I tried both ways: 1)

Re: [Unattended] create users

2004-09-07 Thread jo / ak
Zitat von Assi Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What the command line . eg todo.pl net user user1 secretpw /add /expires:never todo.pl net localgroup groupname domname\user1 /add Jo --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE

[Unattended] trailing backslash cut off

2004-09-06 Thread jo / ak
I had a minor problem (in 4.4b) when executing a batch file with the entry: todo.pl xcopy /s /i /q /y z:\packages\akdosapp\* c:\ The error message is: Running: xcopy /s /i /q /y z:\packages\akdosapp\* c: Fehler beim Analysieren der Befehlszeile xcopy /s /i /q /y z:\packages\akdosapp\* c:

[Unattended] add printer share - how?

2004-09-06 Thread jo / ak
Does anybody know how share a printer from the command line? By enhancing the Wiki NetworkPrinter script, for example? (May sound funny, but I use a local printer share to mount a network printer to lpt1 for old dos applications). Any hints would be highly appreciated. jo

Re: [Unattended] Complete unanttended/remote install

2004-09-01 Thread jo / ak
If somebody can insert a CD (and remove it a minute later ...), no other user interaction is required. It's possible do all the rest with dhcp option 233 and pre-configuration of unattend.txt. Worked fine for me with 4.4b. Jo Zitat von Sebatian Latza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone, short

Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

2004-08-29 Thread jo / ak
Unfortunately, it doesn't work either (same messages) - so the question is open again. Thanks, Jo Zitat von Wim Vandersmissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you try this bootdisk on http://bofh.be/unattended/linuxboot.iso and let me know if you also get the illegal instruction

Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

2004-08-29 Thread jo / ak
and you're using an AMD box. The bash in the new iso I just put up is compiled for i386, which should give no problems. Could you try again? (http://bofh.be/unattended/linuxboot.iso) --Wim On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:49:35PM +0200, jo / ak wrote: Unfortunately, it doesn't work either (same

Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

2004-08-29 Thread jo / ak
It works great - the illegal instruction is gone! Thank you very much!! Now I get another error later on: Bios EDD Facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found ..done loading edd *** ...and locate the boot device *** find-boot-device failed *** Dropping to shell # with 1 Maxtor 2B020H1 IDE HD

Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

2004-08-29 Thread jo / ak
Zitat von Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does ls /sys/block show any hdX directories? it shows hda/hda1, no hdc You were right, there is an error earlier, in PIIX4. But I don't understand what's going on: loading ide-generic [...] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO mode;

Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

2004-08-28 Thread jo / ak
I have the same problem with two different PCs (both comparatively old, with Asus P/I P55T2P4 and Asus TXP4 Mainboards). Version is 4.4b. For me, the sequence is: .. WELCOME! Illegal Instruction! Illegal Instruction! Illegal Instruction! Illegal Instruction! Hm, may be we are on a serial console.

[Unattended] Script textpad.bat

2004-08-19 Thread jo / ak
Here a script for the installation of Helios Textpad: :: OPTIONAL: Install Textpad editor :: URL|ENU|http://download.textpad.com/download/v47/txpeng473.exe|packages/textpad/txpenu473.exe :: URL|DEU|http://download.textpad.com/download/v47/txpdeu473.exe|packages/textpad/txpdeu473.exe @Echo off

[Unattended] dhcp option 233

2004-08-15 Thread jo / ak
With the linux boot disk 4.4a, I tried to use the DHCP option 233. A /var/run/dhcp.out was written with the line unattend='z_user=hanswurst z_pass=secret z_path=//at-12/install' but this share wasn't used. The system asks for \\ntinstall\install again and again. Using single and double \\ in