[Unattended] FastTrak TX4000/S150 TX Series RAID controller install workaround
So, I was having problems getting the new linux-based unattended to work with these systems. I had the txtsetup.oem stuff all sussed out for the dos-based boot disk (which I first did about a year ago). Since then, I moved to the linux-based unattended setup. As we only have about 3 machines with this controller, I'd not had to reinstall any of them in the time since migrating to the linux-based installer. Alas, I recently *did* need to reinstall some, and there seem to be some gotchas. Luckily, I found a workaround. Initially, I would do an unattended install, just like I normally would, and select the proper mass storage controller from the menu. But, when I would try to boot the system after the initial setup, I would get: Invalid BOOT.INI file Boot from C:\winnt\ NTDETECT failed A subsequent reboot would cause the system to start, but then die when it tried to go to native mass storage drivers (instead of using BIOS). These symptoms are much like what one would see if the mass storage driver setup was screwy, which threw me for a while. Turns out, though, that the linux driver for the FastTrak doesn't actually use the RAID features at all. It just sees sda, sdb, sdc (or however many disks you have, presumably). So all of Unattended's setup work was happening only on /dev/sda1, and not on the mirror. I think this then caused Windows to freak out when it tried to go to the native RAID drivers, and the data on the two disks was different. I had started with a mirrored array of two disks. What I did was unplug all but one of the disks (breaking the array), and install via unattended onto that disk. The initial and subsequent few reboots all went well (did the conversion to ntfs, did the initial install, etc.). At this point, I put all the disks back in, and rebuilt (repaired) the mirror (copying the data from the single disk I started with to the second disk). Everything continued to work, ActivePerl installed itself, defrag commenced, etc. So, I figured I'd send this mail to the list, in case anybody had been using one of these controllers with a mirroring setup, and wanted to be able to use unattended to install them. It's kind of a kludge, and I think it'd only work for mirroring setups, but it's better than nothing. :) Jordan --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Linux kickstart?
Conrad Lawes wrote: If you're using the PXELinux loader, then you should be able to deploy both Window$ and Linux OSs be simply modify the pxelinux.cfg/default (or IPHEX) file. Indeed, we both kickstart and use Unattended from the same dhcp/tftp/pxelinux setup. The pxelinux stuff is just a bootloader. You can load any kernel/initrd you want with it. It is not specific to Unattended. Jordan --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] serial console settings?
John Heim wrote: At 08:01 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote: John G. Heim wrote: If I want to do a serial console install, what should I set the terminal settings to? I have my terminal emulator set to 9600,8n1 but I am not getting anything. I append: console=ttyS0,9600 to the append line on in the pxelinux.cfg/default file. According to the FAQ, there already is a serial console enabled. But you may be right in saying that you have to configure it by adding it as a boot parameter because I am not getting a serial console. I tried the following procedure but the CD I ended up with wasn't bootable: 1 Mount linux boot CD copy to temp dir on HD 2) edit isolinux.cfg # isolinux/pxelinux configuration file serial 0 115200 default unattended label unattended kernel bzImage # Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line. append initrd=initrd console=ttyS0,115200n8 3) Here is where I think I went wrong (could be at step 4 though) $ mkisofs -o linuxboot.iso ./temp 4) cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 linuxboot.iso What am I missing? Well, I don't know about the CD (I use PXE), but if it gives you a boot: prompt, then you can try: unattended console=ttyS0,115200n8 at that prompt. Then you can at least troubleshoot it. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] serial console settings?
John G. Heim wrote: If I want to do a serial console install, what should I set the terminal settings to? I have my terminal emulator set to 9600,8n1 but I am not getting anything. I append: console=ttyS0,9600 to the append line on in the pxelinux.cfg/default file. Jordan --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Trouble with WindowsServer2003-KB886903-x86-enu.exe
Jordan Share wrote: I'm trying to install this update: :: ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2003 :: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-004 But it seems that the update itself kicks off a reboot, while install.pl is trying to kick off a reboot. The system refuses to shutdown the cmd window automatically, and thus the install hangs. Is anybody able to install this update ok? Actually, I got this sussed. I needed a /norestart argument in addition to the /q /i that were already there. Jordan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/info/Sentarus/hamr30 ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Trouble with WindowsServer2003-KB886903-x86-enu.exe
I'm trying to install this update: :: ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2003 :: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-004 But it seems that the update itself kicks off a reboot, while install.pl is trying to kick off a reboot. The system refuses to shutdown the cmd window automatically, and thus the install hangs. Is anybody able to install this update ok? Thanks, Jordan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/info/Sentarus/hamr30 ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Multiple OSes
Allan Stones wrote: Hey there, whats the possibility that we could install grub or lilo onto the system and windows onto another drive or something to finalyl allow windows to support multiple OSes from installation? We use grub to multiboot 2 windows and 1 linux. General steps that we use: Unattended based: * partition up the system, creating 2 30% partitions for windows, and the various (boot/swap/root) partitions for linux * delete the first windows partition, and create a FAT partition for installation, marked as active * install windows on first partition * after install, blow away second partition, create a FAT partition, mark it as active * install windows on second partition At this point, you have 2 windows on there, but can only boot to the second one (the active partition). Linux step: * kickstart the box with a standard install * set up grub to boot among the 3 partitions, hiding/unhiding and marking the windows partitions as appropriate Then we can use grub to multiboot amongst the 2 windows, and also the linux. Presumably you could have 3 windows, and a boot partition, if you prefered. Jordan --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] AD authentication Linux installs....
Jeffrey C Albro wrote: Ahh, that's good for linux installs (gonna add that to my bag of tricks!), but that doesn't allow you to pick Windows OR Linux during the Unattended interactive phase, right? Right, instead you pick which one you want by which pxe boot option you select. Thus, you don't even have to go into Unattended if you just want to kickstart linux. E.g., at the boot: pxelinux prompt, I type un to pxeboot unattended, and do a windows install, or ksf3 to pxeboot and kickstart linux. I see no reason to involve Unattended in the installation of linux. It's just as easy (easier, in my opinion) to simply boot kickstart directly from the pxe prompt. Jordan --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] PXE Install Solution?
Tony Worrall wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make an unattended installer that takes a file with something like: macaddress|osversion|ipaddress|admin username|password It should be able to install an OS (based on osversion - say redhat, debian,freebsd or Windows) based on the MAC address that it uses to get an OS with. for RedHat, its easy. I can just make a mapping between macaddress and ipaddress in dhcpd.conf, and have it load a PXELinux.cfg file that has something like: LABEL linux KERNEL pxeboot.linux/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=pxeboot.linux/initrd.img ks=http:192.168.167.254/pxe.php ksdevice=eth0 and I can write a PHP page that'll parse the above file, and generate a kickstart config with the appropriate ip and password. However, I've no idea how to approach this with windows. Can someone recommend how I change the unattended installer to use a different IP or username, based on it's mac address ? First, let me suggest that you start new threads when posting to the list, rather than replying to an old message and changing the subject. When you do that, the threading gets screwed up, because your new (unrelated) mail still has an In-Reply-To header in it, with the old messageid. In response to your question, you can use the unattend.csv file to have unattended do different things, based on an inheriting hiearchy. You can probably extend this to meet your needs. I use netsh to set the IP addresses statically for my lab machines (they can dhcp on the mgmt NIC, but the test NIC needs to have its IP set statically). Jordan --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Boot on Lan - Variables (z_user...Etc)
Ziad O'Hanlon wrote: Another trivial question: I would like to set personnal variables for boot on lan: z_user, z_pass et z_path. I don't know how to change option 233 on tftp32 as dhcp server, so I would like to modify this parameters using another way: Do I need to modify the /pxelinux.cfg/default? Because I tried with these settings: # isolinux/pxelinux configuration file default unattended label unattended kernel bzImage z_user=myuser z_pass=mypass z_path=//myserver/myinstallfolder append initrd=initrd #end of default configuration file but it seems not working... What am I doing wrong?? You need to put the stuff to be appended to the kernel's command line in the append section, thusly: label unattended kernel bzImage append initrd=initrd z_user=myuser z_pass=mypass z_path=//myserver/myinstallfolder See: http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#config Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what DEVICE to boot from. With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into your non bootstrapping CD-ROM, and the disk would start reading and booting from the cd-rom. It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be found. Well, there is this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ That will let you boot floppy-CD. I don't know if it is what was included with Debian 3.0, though. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
Stefan Kell wrote: Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from CD? To be honest, no. :) The docs explicitly talk about this functionality, but I have never had cause to use it. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] NTFS cluster size
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions are still using 512byte clusters? I had the impression that the move to the linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable 4k clusters. Or was I just thinking that for no reason? Well, it does not depend on the Linux boot disk. It depends on which OS you are installing (winxp/ws2k3 good, win2k bad) and which version of format.exe you have in Z:\dosbin. Aha. I moved from 3.5 (.6?) to the linux bootdisk. I think it was about that time that I read the thing about the updated freedos format command, and the two blurred in my mind. See Is FAT - NTFS conversion a bad idea? in http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#ntfs, then ask again if you still have trouble. Yeah, I'm primarily using win2k, so 512byte clusters it is then! :) Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] NTFS cluster size
Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions are still using 512byte clusters? I had the impression that the move to the linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable 4k clusters. Or was I just thinking that for no reason? Thanks, Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell it to Use Whole Disk ? It already does, or tries to. By default, our first partitioning command is fdisk /clear 1 which translates into the Parted command parted mklabel msdos. Have you made any changes to Z:\dosbin\install.pl, Z:\site\config.pl, or Z:\site\unattend.txt related to partitioning? Unless the mklabel command also preserves some state, which I suppose is possible. Wow, that would be broken... I *have* fiddled with the site\config.pl for partitioning, but I just double-checked what happens when you select Whole Disk C, and it still does the $pre_cmds;$ret;$post_cmds. $pre_cmds is just 'fdisk /clear 1'. I will double check whether manually invoking parted mklabel msdos after an FC2 install fixes the broken stuff. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended
Jordan Share wrote: Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell it to Use Whole Disk ? It already does, or tries to. By default, our first partitioning command is fdisk /clear 1 which translates into the Parted command parted mklabel msdos. Have you made any changes to Z:\dosbin\install.pl, Z:\site\config.pl, or Z:\site\unattend.txt related to partitioning? Unless the mklabel command also preserves some state, which I suppose is possible. Wow, that would be broken... I *have* fiddled with the site\config.pl for partitioning, but I just double-checked what happens when you select Whole Disk C, and it still does the $pre_cmds;$ret;$post_cmds. $pre_cmds is just 'fdisk /clear 1'. I will double check whether manually invoking parted mklabel msdos after an FC2 install fixes the broken stuff. Ok, here's the whole deal. Please let me know if you see any flaws in the methodology: * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we kickstart). * Reboot * Attempt a standard Whole Disk C: install via unattended * fails to boot after copying files * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we kickstart). * Reboot * Attempt a standard Whole Disk C: install via unattended * fails to boot after copying files * Reboot * Attempt a standard Whole Disk C: install via unattended * fails to boot after copying files * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we kickstart). * Reboot * Attempt a standard Whole Disk C: install via unattended * fails to boot after copying files * dd /dev/zero over the beginning of the drive * Attempt a standard Whole Disk C: install via unattended * succeeds * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we kickstart). * Reboot * Run parted manually * mklabel msdos * (forget the exact commands, but make a 4 gig fat32 partition) * set 1 boot on * Continue install as normal * fails to boot after copying files * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we kickstart). * Reboot * Run parted manually * mklabel msdos * Reboot -- *critical step* * Attempt a standard Whole Disk C: install via unattended * succeeds So, something is broken if I don't reboot after doing the mklabel. I suppose it could be the BIOS, but I got this behaviour on 2 different motherboards: a SuperMicro P4SCE, and a Tyan Tomcat i7210 (S5112). Since we typically multiboot 2 windows and 1 linux, with the linux installed last, I just use sfdisk to fix the partition table as part of the linux install. Still, it is vexing that a Whole Disk C: install doesn't just work. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended
So, I have a lot of lab machines. Some of them had Fedora Core 2 installed on them, and I wanted to instead install Windows (2000 and XP) on them instead. Naturally, I used our unattended setup to kick off the install. Everything went fine until the first reboot (when you start booting into windows for the first time, so that it can install). Windows would never boot. I couldn't get it to boot no matter what I did. I reinstall FC2, and that booted fine. This was on 2 different motherboards, and 5 machines total, all with this problem. Finally, I decided to just dd /dev/zero over the first 8megs of the disk, and try reinstalling. Boom, everything works just as you'd expect it to. I talked to some friends, and they said there was a known bug with parted and FC2. A little web research found me this: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html So, I think that even when parted is told to fully wipe and repartition the drive, it does not update the geometry in the partition table, which causes Windows to freak out, and not boot. If there just is no partition table (say, if it is all zeros :), then parted creates one, and all is well. -=-=- Woops. Ok, so in the process of writing the above, I decided to do a bit more research. And found this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg1.html So, looks like you all already knew. :) Anyway, I didn't remember seeing anything on the list, so I guess I'll go ahead and send it. Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell it to Use Whole Disk ? Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Alternate partitioning schemes?
I would like to use this partitioning scheme (I think :): 'fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk /ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk /log:100,100 /spec:131', The idea is that it will create: * 2 partitions for use with windows, each 30% of the disk size * 300meg (perhaps excessive) partition which I will use for a linux /boot partition. * extended partition for the rest of the disk * 6 gig partition within the extended partition (linux /) * 2 gig swap partition * rest of disk into extra partition But, the install.pl doesn't seem to care for the 130 and 131 partition types. :) I think it would be possible to just translate them to linux-swap and ext2 respectively (as it does for translating 7 to ntfs). I am attempting to bend install.pl to my will, but my perl is perhaps not as mighty as it should be. Jordan --- 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 Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Alternate partitioning schemes?
Jordan Share wrote: I would like to use this partitioning scheme (I think :): 'fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk /ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk /log:100,100 /spec:131', The idea is that it will create: * 2 partitions for use with windows, each 30% of the disk size * 300meg (perhaps excessive) partition which I will use for a linux /boot partition. * extended partition for the rest of the disk * 6 gig partition within the extended partition (linux /) * 2 gig swap partition * rest of disk into extra partition But, the install.pl doesn't seem to care for the 130 and 131 partition types. :) I think it would be possible to just translate them to linux-swap and ext2 respectively (as it does for translating 7 to ntfs). I am attempting to bend install.pl to my will, but my perl is perhaps not as mighty as it should be. The parted that is in the release doesn't seem to accept logical as a partition type, although the docs indicate that it should: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html#SEC18 Does anyone know why this would be? Jordan --- 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 Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] absolute file name not to exceed 64 characters - a case for another perl tool script
Urs Rau wrote: The documentation @ http://unattended.sourceforge.net/os.html says: NOTE: The total absolute length of any file name, including the leading \os\...\$oem$ portion, must not exceed 64 characters or winnt.exe will get an error when it tries to copy the file. I know from bitter experience that this is true. ;-) But why does the error only bite when using the linux boot disk and _not_ when using the dos boot disks? (I am relatively sure that the error did not come up under DOS but under the linux boot disks it now does tell me about files that can't be copied.) It didn't happen with Unattended 3.5 because they were using MSDOS, and this is a Freedos problem. I ran into the same problem when I converted to the latest version. Except I forgot what it was. So I googled for it. Surprisingly, I found someone with the exact same problem that I had. Oh. It was *me*, in a thread that started from when I tested 4.0, months ago. Heh. :) Jordan --- 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 Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] absolute file name not to exceed 64 characters - a case for another perl tool script
Urs Rau wrote: Thanks Jordan, On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:35:48 -0700, Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It didn't happen with Unattended 3.5 because they were using MSDOS, and this is a Freedos problem. But this tells me about loads of files that are over the 64 absolute filename + path limit, but all of these appear to make it to the HD intact. Perhaps it is just a limit on the path, and not the filenamepath together? But the files I do get error messages about are the ones that are 4 levels of directories down relative to $OEM. Maybe the problem is not the 64 character filename limit at all or maybe there are two problems? Problem 1 being the 64 characters filename length issue. And problem2 being the case of subdirs more than 4 levels down from $OEM$ (meaning more than 8 levels down in total). I ran into the same problem when I converted to the latest version. Except I forgot what it was. So I googled for it. Surprisingly, I found someone with the exact same problem that I had. Oh. It was *me*, in a thread that started from when I tested 4.0, months ago. Heh. :) FMI what was the subject of the thread? Here is the link to the archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00090.html Jordan --- 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 Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Some (apparently harmless?) error messages happen right before/as dosemu starts
I am getting these error messages: --- Creating c:\netinst\unattend.txt...done. 1) Edit c:\netinst\unattend.txt 2) Edit C:\netinst\postinst.bat (will run after OS install is done) 3) Edit c:\netinst\doit.bat (will run when you select Continue) 4) Continue X) Exit this program Select: [1234X] 4 ERROR: Unable to open console to evaluate the keyboard map. Please specify your keyboard map explicitly via the $_layout option sh: line 1: awk: command not found sh: line 1: tr: command not found sh: line 1: awk: command not found sh: line 1: tr: command not found ERROR: unknown window sizes li=0 co=0, setting to 80x25 Linux DOS emulator 1.3.1.0 $Date: 2004-07-11$ Last configured at Mon Aug 2 15:56:18 EDT 2004 on linux This is work in progress. Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. - I am installing via serial, which is probably related to some of them, but I am wondering about the missing awk and tr. Everything seems to go ahead and work properly, but I figured I'd ask about them Jordan --- 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 Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] How to keep a current Unattended setup?
I'd like to leverage the CVS repository to keep my unattended scripts directory current, but I don't want to build my own binaries. Can someone lay out a general overview of how this would be accomplished? I am migrating from 3.5 to the linux boot disk. I am already PXE booting, etc., and I am very comfortable with how 3.5 works. Thanks, Jordan --- 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 Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Install windows by unattended using an usb stick
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anybody who uses unattended with a usb-stick or anybody who can tell me where to start at ?? Yes. See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#usb-boot. There is also this page on the wiki: http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/KeychainBooting It has relatively specific instructions for windows. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Installing WinXP two times into different partitions
Oliver Kuhl wrote: Hi all, this weekend I got my first unattended network installation of Windows XP including drivers and some basic applications to work. Really a good piece of software - so a big thank you! to the developers! :-) But now I have a question. Is it possible, to use unattended for the following scenario: Partition 1: 20 GB, Windows XP (Office) Partition 2: 20 GB, Windows XP (Developing) Partition 3: 80 GB, Data I would like to install XP into partition 1 first (which works without problems) and then install another instance of XP into Partition 2, so that I can select which OS to boot. Is this possible? If yes, which partitions do I have to create and how do I tell XP to install into the second partition? I don't think you can do the split you describe. We've got a couple dozen machines in the lab that we multiboot, but we have 6/10/rest partitions. We use the dos boot disks from Unattended 3.5, so this may well not be a limitation anymore. (although, I think part of the limitation may be the windows boot loader) What we are doing is creating (at least) 3 primary partitions. We set the first one to be the Active partition, and then install unattendedly as normal. This grows the partition from the initial 2gigs, up to the 6gig limit imposed by the 2nd partition. Then, we mark the 2nd partition active, and do another normal install (the fdisk command for unattended just marks the partition active, and doesn't do any repartitioning). This grows the 2nd partition up to the 3rd partition (we chose 10gigs total for the 2nd partition, but this could probably be anything). I was definitely not able to do a normal install (for the second OS) if the first partition was larger than about the 6gigs that we ended up at. I seem to recall there being some kind of boot sector distance limitation, but I don't have any links for you. I've installed 2k/xp/2k3 on many machines this way, with each OS in either position (i.e. first or second). We subsequently install linux within the 3rd partition, and use grub to boot among the 3 installed OSes. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control
Michael Styne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven. On Aug 2, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Steven Piercy wrote: What are the rest of ya's using for bootup control on systems. Serial console is where it's at, for our purposes, anyway. Mike Us too. We default to pxe boot (which itself defaults to exiting, and subsequently booting to the next bios choice, which is hard disk). If we want to do an install, we just enter that pxelinux boot choice at the prompt. If anyone knows how to reliably determine (under dos) whether the serial port can be written to, I'd love to hear it. Apparently, the RJ45-DB9 adapters that we use do not pass the carrier detect signal, so that doesn't work. I'm trying to use the same boot disk for both serial based and normal installs. I suppose I may end up just using separate boot disks. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Setting up unattended to allow for windows/linux boots
Nicholas Young wrote: If I use the whole C: option it works correctly so the problem should not be hardware related. Has anyone had success in a similiar situation. I believe the problem is that the C: is not been created correctly so the format fails and the windows swap cannot be created. My next test is to manually setup the system and then attempt to do no partitioning and just format the C:, this is currently been setup, and I will post results of this when it is done. We use the Unattended system to install our lab machines, so we have 2 windows partions (for different flavors) and 1 linux partition. I bet your problem is that you are not making the windows partion the first active partition on the disk before you try to install Windows. We install both window's first, then install the linux. The procedure is: * fdisk the disk into the partitions we want to use (6gig win, 10gig win, 6gig linux, 2gig linux swap, rest of drive for a second linux partition. I think there is also a boot partition in there.) * We use this fdisk command (all one string, no linebreaks): 'fdisk /pri:6000;fdisk /pri:1;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk /ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk / log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk /log:100,100 /spec:131' * the $post_cmds string is: 'fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /prio:2000;fdisk /activate:1' * Then we install windows via unattended (we are still using 3.5) * To install the 2nd windows partition we use this fdisk command: 'fdisk /delete /pri:2;fdisk /prio:2000;fdisk /activate:2' * That activates the second partition, and so windows thinks that c: is the second (10gig) partition. * At this point, you can only boot to the 2nd windows install, so we install linux (and grub). * Our menu.lst looks like this: title Windows partition 1 unhide (hd0,0) hide (hd0,1) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive savedefault title Windows partition 2 unhide (hd0,1) hide (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 makeactive savedefault title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-30.9rbt) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9rbt2 ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0 initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9rbt2.img savedefault * As you can see, grub does makeactive and hides/unhides the appropriate partitions to make windows see the C: drive properly. This system works pretty well. If you need to reinstall one of the windows, you can just recreate the proper partition, and make it active. Then install windows (blowing away grub from the MBR of the disk). Then, you boot to a grub floppy (although we just netboot a memdisk image of a grub floppy), and reinstall grub to let you boot any of the 3 operating systems. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] How to run my own scripts
jed wrote: Ease up i've read that page and it doesn't explain it in enough detail and i'm having trouble getting things to work probaly. I've set this in my unattended [_meta] top = base.bat middle = middle.bat Middle.bat is one i've written, but because my script performs a reboot as well as other stuff it is interfering with the other unattended scripts. I want to know how to get my script to run absolutly last after all unattended scripts? My apologies, that page does in fact not mention the bottom key, which is analogous to top and middle, but runs last. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Questions about check and prepare bash scripts
Tyler Hepworth wrote: Is it possible to pass the results of the check script to the prepare script so that only the missing items are downloaded instead of the entire ~1 GB? I ran check and have about 50 items missing, but I do not want to download each of them by hand. Doesn't the prepare script check for the existence of the target file before downloading? Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] ip address help
Stephen Briney wrote: Can someone help!! I have a system where I want to be able to install several machines completely unattended, headless and keyboard less. In each of our systems we have 4 pcs that must have the following ip addresses. 192.168.100.111 192.168.100.112 192.168.100.113 192.168.100.114 I want the unattended boot disk to install windows using dhcp, but I need the network settings to be changed to one of the static addresses during post install. I want to create one boot disk per ip address set-up, so that if I want to install a 192.168.100.111 system, I just have to select the correct bootdisk. Dose anyone know of an elegant way of doing this? Are there any scripts I can use to change the network setting during post install? Any ideas/help would be much appreachated!! Thanks for all the great work you are doing, I have found the system to be very flexible and successful!! steve What OS are you using? You might be able to make use of the netsh command. I have systems with two adapters (that I'm still manually naming to mgmt and test), I use [a variant of] this netsh script to give them the proper IP: (invoked as netsh -f FILENAME) -=-=-=-=-=-=- pushd interface ip # Interface IP Configuration for mgmt set address name = mgmt source = static addr = 10.0.25.40 mask = 255.255.0.0 set address name = mgmt gateway = 10.0.0.1 gwmetric = 1 set dns name = mgmt source = static addr = 10.0.0.2 set wins name = mgmt source = static addr = none # Interface IP Configuration for test set address name = test source = static addr = 10.11.25.40 mask = 255.255.0.0 set dns name = test source = static addr = none set wins name = test source = static addr = none popd -=-=-=-=-=-=- Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk? I have tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway). Add something like this to the append line of pxelinux.cfg/default: console=ttyS0,9600 Ok, I get this: Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed WELCOME!!! Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Master script exited! bash-2.05b# I tried it with just console=ttyS0,9600 and with console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600. Both times I got the same error. Both times only over the serial, not on the physical console. When I didn't have the console=tty0 entry, I get no output after Ok, booting the kernel on the screen (which is expected). With it, I don't get any output after Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will roll a new pre-release of Unattended tonight and get back to you. OK, I have uploaded 4.1-pre2 to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. It has device nodes for /dev/ttyS0 through ttyS3. Give it a whirl and let me know what happens. Thanks again! No go. If the order is console=tty console=ttyS0,9600, I get: Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed WELCOME!!! Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Master script exited! bash-2.05b# cd /dev bash-2.05b# ls console kmem port random tty2 tty5 ttyS1urandom core mem pts tty tty3 tty6 ttyS2zero full null ram1 tty1 tty4 ttyS0ttyS3 and if the order is the other way around, I again only get kernel messages on the serial port (no script output). Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No go. If the order is console=tty console=ttyS0,9600, I get: Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed WELCOME!!! Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Sigh. Think first, patch second. The problem is that we are trying to launch bash shells on virtual consoles 2 and 3, and then /etc/master on virtual console 1. None of this makes any sense if you are using a serial console. I have taken a crack at working around this and uploaded a new prerelease to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. It may not work, but at least it should fail differently... Ok, now when I have the order at console=tty console=ttyS0,9600, it all works as expected (master script to the serial, kernel messages to both serial and tty). It is beyond weird to see the winnt.exe running in teraterm pro. :) However, I still get the errors I described in an earlier mail (Bugs in 4.1, to the dev list). Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Detecting the active NIC
I primarily use the Unattending infrastructure to rebuild lab machines. These machines have a variety of network cards, which come up in varying orders. They all have 1 mgmt interface, and 1 test interface. I'd like to be able to rename the network connections in Windows according to their purpose (e.g. mgmt and test). Then I can use netsh to give them their IP addresses, etc. (Being able to give them IP info without renaming would also be acceptable). Does anyone know a way to determine which adapter has link? Given that, I can name that one mgmt, and then toggle link (via the switch) on the test interface to find it. (I can't just use the other nic for test, because some of the machines have an onboard GigE that is cheezed, so their test NIC is a generic 100mbit card.) I'm trying to get a 100% unattended install together. I did finally try the CTTY COM1 trick (for DOS serial console), and it works. I am going to add in a timeout that asks whether you want to install over serial (and defaults to no) to all the bootdisks today. Then I can at least start the reinstall remotely. Even if I were to set the MAC addresses in the DHCP server (a somewhat compelling argument), that'd only handle the mgmt interfaces, so I'd still need to figure out which of the other NICs is the real test interface. Thanks, Jordan Share --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know a way to determine which adapter has link? If these machines are running Windows XP, you can use the NetConnectionStatus property of the Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_networkadapter.asp We ship a generic WMI enumeration script (instances.pl). Try running instances.pl Win32_NetworkAdapter with the cable connected and disconnected to see the difference. But since the NetConnectionStatus property was first introduced in Windows XP, this will not show any difference on Windows 2000. For Win2k, the best idea I have is to run ipconfig and parse the output... I need to do both, so it looks like I'll just have to parse ipconfig. I'm trying to get a 100% unattended install together. I did finally try the CTTY COM1 trick (for DOS serial console), and it works. I am going to add in a timeout that asks whether you want to install over serial (and defaults to no) to all the bootdisks today. Then I can at least start the reinstall remotely. Glad to hear that worked. If you have time to try it with the Linux boot disk, I would be interested to hear the results of that, too. What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk? I have tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway). Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] No system disk or disk error
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) wrote: We have been using Unattended for some time now without major problems. Unfortunately we are now having to install Toshiba Techra S1 laptops. After we boot from the network and type INST to start the installation we get the followin error. Non system disk or disk error What can this be? Virtually all the time that I get this error, it is because the BIOS does not have a floppy drive configured. Even if the machine doesn't have a physical floppy, it still needs to have the BIOS set for a floppy. I've always figured that this is because memdisk hooks the bios to emulate the floppy, and if the bios isn't there, then there are problems. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Re: Online docs (Was: Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide)
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 project helps me out so much. Mark Harburn - Shameless plug http://www.face2meet.com - - Original Message - From: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matt Disney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: [Unattended] Re: Online docs (Was: Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide) Matt Disney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure how much better this would be than SF docs in your opinion, Pat, but have you considered a wiki? I like the collaborative editing idea. But right now, everything in Unattended is hosted at SourceForge, and I don't think they provide support for Wikis. And I do not really have the resources to set one up myself. If somebody else were to set one up, I would be happy to link to it from the home page. I cannot promise to do any more than that, though... - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Off Topic: PXE
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 time I checked. They also sell PXE on Disk for additional NICs including Gigabit, USB and PC Cards. Their website is http://www.argontechnology.com -- - Original Message - DATE: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:12:50 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Unattended Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Hello all, I am using unattended4.x to install windows 2000 workstations and recently I started testing with PXE and the pxelinux version that is shipped with unattended. This al goes fine on systems with PXE built-in. Some systems don't and I use the Windows rbfg.exe utility for these. Also no problem here. But some systems don't have PXE built-in, and are not supported by rbfg.exe. So I started looking for another solution, which I thought was etherboot (www.etherboot.org). The puzzle seemed solved, but when starting a system with an etherboot floppy, the following happens: This system detects the network card, gets a DHCP lease and then it spits out pxelinux.0 is not a valid image. Is there someone with similar problems or even better, someone with a solution? I know there are some configuration settings for etherboot, and I've tried a few, with no luck. I also tried Rom-o-Matic from the etherboot site. Thanks, Michel --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the officially supported list, though. We certainly aspire to support it. It is very, very similar to Win2k. It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do not yet install, but otherwise it should work the same as 2k. Just to chime in with another data point, we install w2kserver with Unattended all the time. win2kpro, win2kserver, and win2kadvserver all install the same for me. I even use the same $oem$ directory for all of them. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Unattendedly installing Windows NT ?
Has anyone been able to unattendedly install Windows NT? I'm plodding through it, but there's a lot of stuff that is different from 2k and up. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] speaking of wish lists
I've been meaning to experiment with this, but it'd be super-nice if the install.pl script were able to output to the serial port instead of/as well as the console. We have a bunch of machines hooked up to serial concentrators, and it'd be nice to be able to /fully/ automatedly install them. :) I've filed an RFE on sourceforge, but I figured I'd send it to the list, and see if anyone else was interested. Jordan --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Starter Question
raman singh wrote: Thanks to all of you for replying. It seems I can use this package. I can live without have win95/98 and ME. I installed the unattended package and tried. I feel the documentation does not explain all the steps involved, for a starter. I could not make it work. I have the following setup, RH9 where I have Unattened installed, with DHCP and tftp server. And Winows 2000 as a share for Images. Now, when I boot a system with PXE network card, I get the IP from DHCP server, and it loads the memdisk, and undis3c.img (when I type inst on the prompt). But, while loading boot sector, it gives me the following error Non-System disk or disk error Replace and press any key when ready. Could someone please help in solving this problem. What do you mean while loading the boot sector. If you mean that the memdisk doesn't work, and you don't ever boot to the floppy, then I have a guess. You need to have the floppy enabled in the BIOS, even if you don't have a physical floppy drive on the system. Otherwise Memdisk doesn't work. If you google for: non-system disk or disk error memdisk You get this as the 3rd hit: http://blog.jwiz.org/archives/000713.html The 4th hit also answers the same question. Jordan (Ok, blatant blog-plug. :) --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] (no subject)
Stephen Briney wrote: how is progress giong on booting from a usb pen drive? I remember reading about it in the message list some time ago. I want to boot a dell inspiron 8600 with it. i am able to boot a freedos image using usb. Thanks Steve. If you can boot a freedos image, can't you just as easily boot any floppy image, including the Unattended ones? I use syslinux on my pendrive, and can boot to several floppy images, linux kernal+initrd, etc. Obviously, you have to use a floppy image with the appropriate driver for your NIC (since there is no PXE stack for the universal driver to leverage), but other than that it is exactly like PXE booting, virtual floppy emulated using memdisk and all. Where are you getting hung up? Jordan --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Similar project - merging possible?
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Between Linux, dosemu, and FreeDOS, I believe we can provide a completely free infrastructure for installing Windows, which is a very pleasing concept :-). The one big question mark that I have with this approach is hardware RAID cards. We have /several/ that 1) don't have linux drivers or 2) have really old linux drivers that only work on outdated kernels. I've been installing windows onto these boxes with unattended just fine. You do the txtsetup.oem dance, and you are good to go, since dos is just using BIOS to talk to the disk (as I understand it). Then I tried kickstarting RH9 onto these boxes (we are using them in a multiboot setup, with 2 windows partitions, and one linux partition). I did finally get the driver module wedged into the kickstart boot disks, but I am stuck running an older kernel, because these (binary-only) drivers are only provided for that one. So, if you do decide to go to an only Linux setup, one thing to keep in mind are these RAID drivers, and how you will be able to add them to the linux boot disk. Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM
Dag Nummedal wrote: Jordan Share writes: I'd like to find out if anyone has a pointer to the breakdown of what each numeric code means. The destination is defined by the [DestinationDirs] section in the inf file. You can find the information you're looking for here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/install/hh/install/create-inf_3aav.asp Fantastic. That is exactly what I was looking for. Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files
Max Lovius wrote: I am working on fully unattended installations ideas. Anyone done any work on changing pxelinux boot files? The last step! Or some other way to complete the task of automation? Might I have missed something? The only thing I can think of is a perl or dos tftp client! But thought I should ask, before I do something that I am seems like it should have been done. It's not clear (to me anyway) what it is you are trying to accomplish. Why do you need to change the pxelinux boot files? A couple of things you might consider: Rather than change the config files (if that is indeed what you need to do), you might consider changing the IP addresses handed out to the various MAC addresses. pxelinux.0 will get its config file based on what IP address it was given. So you could dynamically reconfigure your dhcp server to give out addresses from different pools. We have every machine PXE boot all the time, and default to localboot in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file. Thus, we manually tell it to boot to the unattended install (for the first boot) and then just let it reboot. It subsequently PXE boots, times out, then boots from HD. Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] re: oem drivers et al
[I'm sending this again, since it didn't come through to the list the first time. (Or hasn't yet, anyway) ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's great that the system autoscans for a mass storage driver and puts them in the appropriate places, however i can only seem to get one mass storage driver in at a time. Is it a case of altering textsetup.oem to include mutiple d(n) with each of the relavent info and then a diffrent folder for the actual storage of the files. If someone wanted to be really smart i guess they could make a txtsetup.oem parser and slipstream the relavent files straight into the xp portions of os folder into i386. It might be an idea to make this more clear on the website, as it is proberbly one of the more complex ones to install by guessing, the website would make you belive you had to follow your earlier post to do it manually, which i supose you have to do to an extent. I'm proberbly making myself sound stupid here, but a reply would be apreciated. mark harburn After an initial false start with this (due to having the wrong mass storage driver for the machine I was trying to install on), I think I have this sussed. I'm basically taking the drivers/files off the floppy that they come on, and rewriting the txtsetup.oem that each manufacturer provides, splicing the relevant sections into the master txtsetup.eom, and putting the files all into the $oem$\textmode directory. Here's the beginning of my current txtsetup.oem file: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Disks] d1 = 3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows 2000/XP/2003, disk1, d2 = Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for Windows 2000/XP/2003, hraidsk1, d3 = Promise FastTrak TX4000/S150TX Series Driver Diskette, fasttx2k, d4 = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Driver Installation Disk,Si3112r.sys, d5 = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Driver Installation Disk,si3112.sys, [Defaults] scsi = ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K [scsi] 3ware = 3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K = Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For Windows 2000/XP/2003 FastTrak_TX2K_w2k = Windows 2000: Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller (FastTrak S150 TX4), fasttx2k Si3112r_NT = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 Si3112_NT = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- after that I have the relevant [Files] [Config.] [HardwareIds] sections from the original txtsetup.oem files. One thing you have to be careful not to forget is to change each [Files] section to use the correct disk id as specified in the [Disks] section above. I forgot to change it once (and left it as the original value, which wasn't in the [Disks] section). This cause all kinds of weird, non-google-able errors. Another problem is if the driver tries to use a .dll or other weird file in its [Files] section. Then you have to 1) remove those lines from the [Files] section, and put them into $oem$\$$\path\under\winnt\directory. You should be able to tell where they go from the [DestinationDirs] portion of the original .inf file for those drivers. As far as I can tell 12 is $oem$\$$\system32. If anyone else knows a reference for this info, it'd be appreciated. For completeness, here are all the files in my $oem$\textmode directory: 3WDRV100.SYS 3waregsm.cat txtsetup.oem Si3112r.inf oemsetup.inf disk1 3WFLTDRV.SYS aarich.cat aarich.sys adhraid.cat adhraid.inf adaptec.inf hraidsk1 Fasttx2k.cat fasttx2k.inf fasttx2k.sys fasttx2k Si3112r.mpd Si3112r.sys SIISUPP.VXD SIWinAcc.sys si3112.cat SI3112.inf Si3112.mpd Si3112.sys Hope this helps, Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] re: oem drivers et al
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's great that the system autoscans for a mass storage driver and puts them in the appropriate places, however i can only seem to get one mass storage driver in at a time. Is it a case of altering textsetup.oem to include mutiple d(n) with each of the relavent info and then a diffrent folder for the actual storage of the files. If someone wanted to be really smart i guess they could make a txtsetup.oem parser and slipstream the relavent files straight into the xp portions of os folder into i386. It might be an idea to make this more clear on the website, as it is proberbly one of the more complex ones to install by guessing, the website would make you belive you had to follow your earlier post to do it manually, which i supose you have to do to an extent. I'm proberbly making myself sound stupid here, but a reply would be apreciated. mark harburn After an initial false start with this (due to having the wrong mass storage driver for the machine I was trying to install on), I think I have this sussed. I'm basically taking the drivers/files off the floppy that they come on, and rewriting the txtsetup.oem that each manufacturer provides, splicing the relevant sections into the master txtsetup.eom, and putting the files all into the $oem$\textmode directory. Here's the beginning of my current txtsetup.oem file: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Disks] d1 = 3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows 2000/XP/2003, disk1, d2 = Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for Windows 2000/XP/2003, hraidsk1, d3 = Promise FastTrak TX4000/S150TX Series Driver Diskette, fasttx2k, d4 = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Driver Installation Disk,Si3112r.sys, d5 = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Driver Installation Disk,si3112.sys, [Defaults] scsi = ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K [scsi] 3ware = 3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K = Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For Windows 2000/XP/2003 FastTrak_TX2K_w2k = Windows 2000: Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller (FastTrak S150 TX4), fasttx2k Si3112r_NT = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 Si3112_NT = Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- after that I have the relevant [Files] [Config.] [HardwareIds] sections from the original txtsetup.oem files. One thing you have to be careful not to forget is to change each [Files] section to use the correct disk id as specified in the [Disks] section above. I forgot to change it once (and left it as the original value, which wasn't in the [Disks] section). This cause all kinds of weird, non-google-able errors. Another problem is if the driver tries to use a .dll or other weird file in its [Files] section. Then you have to 1) remove those lines from the [Files] section, and put them into $oem$\$$\path\under\winnt\directory. You should be able to tell where they go from the [DestinationDirs] portion of the original .inf file for those drivers. As far as I can tell 12 is $oem$\$$\system32. If anyone else knows a reference for this info, it'd be appreciated. For completeness, here are all the files in my $oem$\textmode directory: 3WDRV100.SYS 3waregsm.cat txtsetup.oem Si3112r.inf oemsetup.inf disk1 3WFLTDRV.SYS aarich.cat aarich.sys adhraid.cat adhraid.inf adaptec.inf hraidsk1 Fasttx2k.cat fasttx2k.inf fasttx2k.sys fasttx2k Si3112r.mpd Si3112r.sys SIISUPP.VXD SIWinAcc.sys si3112.cat SI3112.inf Si3112.mpd Si3112.sys Hope this helps, Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Not enough memory (ENOMEM)
Claus-Dieter Jahreis wrote: Hallo, trying to use unattended on an IBM IntelliStation ZPro with 3 GB RAM, following error occurs executing install.pl: Can't spawn fdisk /info /tech \tmp.txt: Not enough memory (ENOMEM) at z:\dosbin\install.pl line 268 fdisk /info /tech \tmp.txt failed, unexpected status 16777215 at z:\dosbin\install.pl line 270 Has anybody an idea? Some of the intel Gigabit Ethernet adapters have a very large PXE boot rom, so I have to use the driver specifically for those NICs, instead of the universal one. You could try using the boot disk specifically for your NIC, if you are using the universal one now. Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers
Jordan Share wrote: Wolf wrote: IMHO you are trying the wrong drivers here. I've just checked their website and downloaded the (FastTrack 100-)Drivers and there ist an txtsetup.oem that lists the drivers. Maybe it helps. Sorry if this is way off. I'm not sure I should have written it myself... ;-) Well, it's possible, but I downloaded these drivers from Intel's website, so I expect they'd be correct. I haven't actually tried installing with the floppy version though. I tried installing from CD with the floppy. Doesn't find any hard disks. Woops. Yep, there are indeed some Promise drivers on Intel's page. I'll give it a go with the other disks, and try to get the unattended thinger to work /after/ getting the normal floppy to work. *sigh* Thanks, Wolf. :) Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am now trying to get another machine to work. It has a Promise RAID chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E). I am able to get the inital file copy to work. But, when it tries to go into native win32 mode I get the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DISK error. Anyone have pointers on this? I have never tried this, although I believe it should work in theory. But I do not know of anybody else who has tried it. First, lets make sure Unattended is doing its job. I assume install.pl correctly offers you the two OEM drivers? Could you send along the [MassStorageDrivers] and [OEMBootFiles] sections of the generated unattend.txt? I manually added a [MassStorageDrivers] and [OEMBootFiles] section to the unattend.txt that is in my site directory. I hadn't realized that install.pl would scan them and create those sections. Let me try removing them and get back to you. [Disks] d1 = 3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows 2000/XP/2003, \disk1, d2 = Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for Windows 2000/XP/2003, \disk1, I am not sure it is a good idea to use the same tag file (\disk1) for both of these disks. You might try changing the second one to \disk2. Although since neither of those files really exist (do they?), I am not sure this will help. Yes, that file exists (it's the one from the 3ware disk, actually) and just has some human-readable info about the disk. I have also tried it with two entries, using \disk1 and \hraidsk1 (which came on the Adaptec disk). No dice. [Files.scsi.3ware] driver = d1, 3wDrv100.sys, 3wDrv100 driver = d1, 3wFltDrv.sys, 3wFltDrv inf = d1, oemsetup.inf catalog = d1, 3waregsm.cat [snip] [Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K] driver = d2,aarich.sys, aarich inf = d2,adaptec.inf inf = d2,adhraid.inf catalog = d2,aarich.cat Or, as an alternative, you could eliminate the d2 declaration from [Disks] entirely and use d1 instead of d2 in [Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K]. This is arguably a better plan, since what you are really doing is creating a single disk with multiple drivers on it... I will give this a shot too. Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers
Jordan Share wrote: Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am now trying to get another machine to work. It has a Promise RAID chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E). I am able to get the inital file copy to work. But, when it tries to go into native win32 mode I get the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DISK error. Anyone have pointers on this? I have never tried this, although I believe it should work in theory. But I do not know of anybody else who has tried it. First, lets make sure Unattended is doing its job. I assume install.pl correctly offers you the two OEM drivers? It does offer them both. Could you send along the [MassStorageDrivers] and [OEMBootFiles] sections of the generated unattend.txt? Ok here they are: [MassStorageDrivers] Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For Windows 2000/XP/2003 = OEM ; See comments for [MassStorageDrivers] [OEMBootFiles] txtsetup.oem aarich.cat aarich.sys adhraid.inf readme.txt 3waregsm.cat adhraid.cat oemsetup.inf disk1 3wdrv100.sys hraidsk1 3wfltdrv.sys adaptec.inf Or, as an alternative, you could eliminate the d2 declaration from [Disks] entirely and use d1 instead of d2 in [Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K]. This is arguably a better plan, since what you are really doing is creating a single disk with multiple drivers on it... I will give this a shot too. No good. Jordan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
