[Unattended] Trouble with bootcd

2004-08-26 Thread peter999
I try the unattended project the first time. I have made a linux-boot-cd and try to boot a DELL Optiplex PC. The onboard ethernet controller is a Intel Ethernet Pro 100. When i use the driver e100b, the system find the adapter, but NETBIND reports a HARDWARE FAILURE. Any suggestions ? Thanks

Re: [Unattended] clear text pw during install

2004-08-26 Thread Steven Piercy
thx - but I wonder if someone has done this also after the fact (after I already deployed my machines for a domain that isnt ready for use). Batchable? I've got the reg fix here: --- REGEDIT4 ;Contributor: Herb Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ;Updated:

Re: [Unattended] PXE booting / BIOS Setup

2004-08-26 Thread Jay Lee
Now I know I am not the first person with this problem but how do you get around the problem of the PC booting continously from the network when PXE boot is selected as the first device in the 'Boot Order' list. We normally use Intel motherboards (865GLCL). It would be nice if I could do

Re: [Unattended] PXE booting / BIOS Setup

2004-08-26 Thread Paul Griffith
Thanks for the suggestion, I do sure miss those SPARC boxes. STOP-A enter PROM password boot net install -w go home. Paul On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:55:05PM -0400, Jim Dew wrote: I just leave my machines booting from network. And use a delay in my default.cfg before it continues on to

[Unattended] possible bug in linux bootdisk, master script?

2004-08-26 Thread Tft Tco
I just tried the linux bootdisk with unattended 4.4b. it worked until the script wanted to mount the install share. that was the point when it said: *** Trying smbmount \\myserver.local\install /z -o ttl=60,username=geust,ro *** smbmount did not work so i was checking the script, it

[Unattended] compaq n1015v (netboot) pb

2004-08-26 Thread Julien TOUCHE
i've a problem with unattended network boot on hp compaq n1015v notebook with Realtek RTL8139 C+ Fast Ethernet NIC * realtek card is not recognized by linux or irq conflict (acpi=off) i've copy the following part of dmesg (no network and no floppy because modules are on network) 8139too:

Re: [Unattended] possible bug in linux bootdisk, master script?

2004-08-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Tft Tco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so i was checking the script, it actually does the following command: smbmount \\myserver.local\install /z -o ttl=60,username=geust,ro Not exactly. The master script does: smbmount $Z_PATH /z -o ttl=60,$mount_opts ...which is not the same. A more

Re: [Unattended] compaq n1015v (netboot) pb

2004-08-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * realtek card is not recognized by linux or irq conflict (acpi=off) I assume you have tried it without acpi=off ? Please try booting with the shell option, or just type Ctrl-C before the script loads the modules. (Either way will give you a shell

Re: [Unattended] Trouble with bootcd

2004-08-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
peter999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try the unattended project the first time. I have made a linux-boot-cd and try to boot a DELL Optiplex PC. The onboard ethernet controller is a Intel Ethernet Pro 100. When i use the driver e100b, the system find the adapter, but NETBIND reports a

[Unattended] upgrading win2ksp3

2004-08-26 Thread Steven Piercy
hi all, I'm using unattended to upgrade some of our win2k boxes that had previously run sp3. So I decided to run the Apps_only script and call base.bat for the upgrade. All worked fine until the %winver%-updates.bat - to which my machine was looking for win2ksp3-updates.bat. So to fix it, I

[Unattended] Diskless boot questions

2004-08-26 Thread Richard Greaney
I have set up the server side for unattended to the point where a Windows install works when booting off a CD made from the iso image. I would like to improve this to extend to bootable NICs as well as bootable floppy disks as not all workstations I work with have CD-ROMs or bootable NICs. I

Re: [Unattended] possible bug in linux bootdisk, master script?

2004-08-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Tft Tco wrote: I just tried the linux bootdisk with unattended 4.4b. it worked until the script wanted to mount the install share. that was the point when it said: *** Trying smbmount \\myserver.local\install /z -o ttl=60,username=geust,ro ***

Re: [Unattended] compaq n1015v (netboot) pb

2004-08-26 Thread Julien TOUCHE
Patrick J. LoPresti a écrit : Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * realtek card is not recognized by linux or irq conflict (acpi=off) I assume you have tried it without acpi=off ? yes Please try booting with the shell option, or just type Ctrl-C before the script loads