[Unattended] Serial ATA Experiences, Dell Optiplex GX280?

2004-07-29 Thread Matt Disney
It's time for me to order some new hardware, so I was wondering if anyone out there could share their recent experiences with SATA drives and Unattended? Also, I'm specifically considering an Optiplex GX280 so if anyone has some of those I'd like to hear about how Unattended has worked out for

[Unattended] File locking problems

2004-07-29 Thread SMcCullough
Hello. I am doing a massive install across a brand new high school, which will be going live in September. When I do a deployment of 20 machines or so, I seem to run into an error in the first install phase of windows. Since the driver.cab file is large, whenever 2 computers try to get the

Re: [Unattended] File locking problems

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am doing a massive install across a brand new high school, which will be going live in September. When I do a deployment of 20 machines or so, I seem to run into an error in the first install phase of windows. Since the driver.cab file is large, whenever 2

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I don't want to issue the information all over the campus, and I don't want to the reconfigure the server each time I want to install a host. I have no idea how to solve both problems currently. Starting with version 4.2b, our Linux boot disk

[Unattended] auto logon local when in a domain?

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Piercy
Hey all, I have yet to get a satisfactory result using autolog.pl for automating logons during the install. I gave up on setting that in the meta section since it seems to get placed last on the todo list, after I dont need it any more. I have been modifying the postinst.bat to get my

[Unattended] problems with base.bat / optional scripts

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Styne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Now that I've gotten unattended working like a champ, I've been trying to do a little bit more with it. I might mention I'm PXE booting with the linux installer, in case that makes a difference. Going through the initial questions before

Re: [Unattended] problems with base.bat / optional scripts

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Styne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Going through the initial questions before an install, I selected base.bat and VNC as an optional program to install. My understanding was that base.bat would remove the Boot Previous OS line from the Windows startup menu, and that VNC would be

Re: [Unattended] auto logon local when in a domain?

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steven Piercy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I have yet to get a satisfactory result using autolog.pl for automating logons during the install. I mostly use it manually to start application installs on machines which are already built. I gave up on setting that in the meta section since

Re: [Unattended] problems with base.bat / optional scripts

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Styne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 29, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Does anything happen post-install? For example, does ActivePerl get installed? Nope, no extra software is installed. Just the OS. Do you have anything in Z:\site\unattend.txt or

Re: [Unattended] problems with base.bat / optional scripts

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Styne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope, no extra software is installed. Just the OS. I assume you downloaded all the required stuff (e.g., ActivePerl) to Z:\packages? Do you have anything in Z:\site\unattend.txt or Z:\site\config.pl? Here's unattend.txt: This is your

Re: [Unattended] problems with base.bat / optional scripts

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Styne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat, On Jul 29, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: I assume you downloaded all the required stuff (e.g., ActivePerl) to Z:\packages? Er, no -- I didn't. :( Has the required stuff been discussed on the mailing list? Or did I manage to

Re: [Unattended] problems with base.bat / optional scripts

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Styne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Er, no -- I didn't. :( Has the required stuff been discussed on the mailing list? Or did I manage to overlook it on the website? I've been RTFM'ing like a madman. Hm, you appear to have found a fairly serious omission in the documentation. I apologize.