[Unattended] PXE Setup without RIS in pure Microsoft Environment

2004-02-05 Thread Tyler Hepworth
I got network booting to work using nothing more than a Microsoft DHCP server and the builtin Microsoft tftp client. No RIS, no third party tftp daemons needed. It works quite well. It is possible to setup a PXE server on Widows 2000 server without installing RIS. Do all of this on whatever

Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM

2004-02-05 Thread mark harburn
this would be great for us, we have loads of diffrent types of hardware comming through our place, how about a pre-parser to chuck all the txtsetup.oem files into a single clean one with only the stuff they need, i.e. dump them in a folder with subdirectories and pull out the relavent info and

RE: [Unattended] Similar project - merging possible?

2004-02-05 Thread Tyler Hepworth
Yes, there are several default options and custom options can be added as well. The list of default options can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn ol/windows2000serv/reskit/tcpip/part4/tcpappe.asp. Tyler Cool! Does anybody know if

RE: [Unattended] Adding questions to install dialog

2004-02-05 Thread Tyler Hepworth
There are two issues here: 1). I did figure out how to add a question using the $u hash and I created a new section - [_oe]. However, the section was printed at the top of the unattend file (before comments or anything else). I don't like it there. I want it at the bottom, underneath [_meta].

RE: [Unattended] Need suggestions for a few tasks

2004-02-05 Thread Tyler Hepworth
Swipe a copy from windows 2003 server. It works perfectly on XP. Haven't tried it on 2K. If someone has a place that you can host the file, I will email it to you so you can share it with the rest. -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [Unattended] Similar project - merging possible?

2004-02-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Alexander Schuppisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are developing a similar open-source project for large networks which is still somewhat different to your approach. We are thinking about a merge with unattended, but we don't know, if this is A) welcomed and B) how our sources are

RE: [Unattended] Similar project - merging possible?

2004-02-05 Thread Brad Erdman
The floppy contains also busy-box, a dhcp-client and samba(!) plus NFS-Support. After booting, a ash-shellscript gets started. The floppy gets its settings (namely the Win-share location and other relevant infos) from custom DHCP-Options from the DHCP-Server. Cool! Does anybody know if