Re: [Unattended] Off Topic: PXE

2004-03-19 Thread Teresa Jeremy
Argon Technology offers an updated version of RBFG that supports a few more NICs than the standard Windows version. This product, however, is not free. They were selling RBFG for $49.99US the last time I checked. They also sell PXE on Disk for additional NICs including Gigabit, USB and PC

[Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended

2004-03-19 Thread Teresa Jeremy
Can someone provide a quick overview of the new linux module that has been added in v4.0? How does one update prior versions to use Linux instead of DOS? Thx. TJ Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com

RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended

2004-03-19 Thread Sylvain Faivre
It is just a replacement for the MS-DOS boot disk. Burn the linux boot ISO image to a CD, boot up the target computer with this CD, then it accesses the network just like the DOS boot disk did. The rest of the setup is the same, except that you don't have to reboot to format your drive. Also, I

Re: [Unattended] Linux samba server not visible during install

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Griffith
NetBIOS is not routable. We get around this problem by having a interface for each of our four subnets. Take a look at BROWSING-Config.txt and BROWSING.txt in samba-version-here-/docs/textdocs Paul On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Felipe Navarrete wrote: Another detail I forgot to mention is that I

Re: [Unattended] Re: Online docs (Was: Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide)

2004-03-19 Thread mark harburn
Got a link/requirements for wiki? I'd be happy to offer/host it since this project helps me out so much. Mark Harburn - Shameless plug http://www.face2meet.com - - Original Message - From: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL

Re: [Unattended] Re: Online docs (Was: Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide)

2004-03-19 Thread Jordan Share
I can host it too. I like Twiki, because it's pretty flexible, had nice diffs of changes, etc. This is a link to the original wiki, if you've not seen them before: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki Jordan mark harburn wrote: Got a link/requirements for wiki? I'd be happy to offer/host it since this

Re: [Unattended] Off Topic: PXE

2004-03-19 Thread Jordan Share
They also have a PXE boot disk for VMware boxes. Which can be nice. Jordan Teresa Jeremy wrote: Argon Technology offers an updated version of RBFG that supports a few more NICs than the standard Windows version. This product, however, is not free. They were selling RBFG for $49.99US the last

[Unattended] unattended wiki

2004-03-19 Thread DeLisle, Seth \(GE Infrastructure\)
I don't know how enthusiastic the other offers of wiki hosting were; if someone else really wants to run a wiki I'll bow out, but . . . I created a wiki instance for unattended at http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended I left the default page there, since it has all kinds of documentation on

AW: Re: [Unattended] Networking problem

2004-03-19 Thread m . frei
Thanks for the reply. I'm using different Network Cards with different Drivers in different slots (rtl8139c, 3com905b, netgear 310tx etc). Finally I've found another card (an Intel with 4 ethernet ports) which works! The linuxinstall doesn't work yet. The Network Cards work correctly here, I

Re: [Unattended] cygwin - make

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Eugene Kotlyarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reason is that makefile is oriented on bash, and make uses simple sh. There is some environment variable to set up program for make subshell, but last time I've tried it, it didn't work. For complicated reasons, make ignores the environment

Re: RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Sylvain Faivre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case you're upgrading from unattended 3.x, you might also want to refresh your whole setup. I don't know if the 4.x boot disk works with a 3.x install share. You definitely need to refresh Z:\dosbin (especially install.pl) and Z:\lib (especially the

RE: AW: Re: [Unattended] Networking problem

2004-03-19 Thread Johnson, Chris A -ND
Hey Pat, It was me that reported the problem originally. I bypassed it by using tar on my linux box. However, I've found an ALL POWERFUL CHECKBOX in Winzip configuration (though I haven't tested it yet). Options-Configuration-Miscellaneous-TAR file smart CR/LF conversion My guess is that

Re: AW: Re: [Unattended] Networking problem

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I've found an ALL POWERFUL CHECKBOX in Winzip configuration (though I haven't tested it yet). Options-Configuration-Miscellaneous-TAR file smart CR/LF conversion My guess is that UNchecking this box will make things work properly.

Re: RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended

2004-03-19 Thread Teresa Jeremy
Ok, I got my rh90 server setup with unattended (OpenRIS) v4.0. I booted the bzImage kernel via PXE, no problems here. The install.pl script starts and I told it that I want to use whole drive c:, to format the drive and overwrite the mbr. I did not see anything to suggest that the hard drive

Re: [Unattended] Re: Online docs (Was: Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide)

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
mark harburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Got a link/requirements for wiki? I'd be happy to offer/host it since this project helps me out so much. Matt sent a couple of links as examples of Wikis he liked: I'm personally fond of BestPractical's wiki for RequestTracker software

Re: RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The install.pl script starts and I told it that I want to use whole drive c:, to format the drive and overwrite the mbr. I did not see anything to suggest that the hard drive was actually formatted. We defer that step until dosemu is running, because

[Unattended] Initial try at a FAQ

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
I went through various old messages to the mailing list and put together this: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html The star of the show is the link to Jeff's Quick Install Guide. I will update the link as soon as mail-archive.com indexes the latest revision. Once the Quick Install

Re: [Unattended] cygwin - make - round 2

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume that mcopy is part of the mtools package. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find mtools in the cygwin's setup list of applications. Is it possibly known by another name? Do I have to compile from source? Eugene provides links for mtools and