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Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 help!
 
 I got some new HP dc7100s computers
 and they have a new NIC - again.
 
 The NIC is Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit

I believe that is the marketing name for the bcm5700.

For the DOS boot disk, that should be the b57.dos driver.

For the Linux boot disk, it should be the tg3 driver, detected
automatically.

Which boot disk are you using?  If Linux, please indicate what error
you are getting and send the results of lspci and lspci -n for the
network card.

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Re: [Unattended] How does install.pl determine which partition to use for OS?

Brauer, Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 how does install.pl determine which partition to use for the OS
 installation?

Under DOS, it always uses the C: drive, which is the first active FAT
partition.

Under Linux, the /etc/master script scans for the first active
partition and uses that.

 Is there any possibility to use something else than /dev/hda1?  I
 need ro reinstall WinXP on some dualboot/multiple partition
 notebooks quite often, so any info is appreciated.

To install on a particular partition, delete it and create a 2G FAT32
partition in its place.  Then activate that partition.

This should work for dual-booting provided your boot loader activates
the partition from which it boots.

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Re: [Unattended] Problem with making Linux boot disk

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Klaus Wissmath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hello All,
 
 as newbee I spend some hours with getting
 - unattended 4.4b
 - Fedora core2
 then putting ../install to my Sambaserver..
 The first testing out of the box has been ok (more or less)
 
 But making a new linux boot-disk ( master should contain the correct
 login info ) failed:
   cd .../linuxboot
make failed
 
 Any advice is wellcome
 
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Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 lspci gives as the last line: ...Broadcom Corporation - Unknown device
 (1677)
 lspci -n gives as the last line:  ...:1677

Well, we should automatically load tg3 for device 14e4:1677.

I need to see all of the numbers on that lspci -n line.  Also, what
version of Unattended?

Thanks!

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Re: [Unattended] Just format drive C: and leave other partitions untouched - possible?

Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi list,
 
 most of our staff save their documents to drive D:
 
 In case Windows is messed up, we just format drive C:, leave D:
 untouched and reinstall Windows and all applications.
 
 How can this be done with unattended? Must I remaster the boot disk to
 provide a partition scheme like the one mentioned above? Or is it in
 \\server\install\lib\unattend.txt?

You probably want to edit Z:\site\unattend.txt, not
Z:\lib\unattend.txt.  We own the latter, so it may change in future
releases.

Try putting this in Z:\site\unattend.txt:

  [_meta]
  fdisk_cmds=fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1

This will delete the first partition and replace it with a 4000M FAT32
partition.  The first command (fdisk /delete) will probably fail if
the drive is blank...  There is no way to fix that without writing
some Perl for Z:\site\config.pl.

But as long as the first partition exists, this will cause Unattended
to blow it away and replace it with a fresh Windows installation.

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Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Also, what version of Unattended?
 
   unattended 4.2c

The current release (4.4b) should correctly detect this hardware and
load its driver.

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Re: [Unattended] Laptop Power Settings

2004-09-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Ty Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Has anyone found an easy way of changing the power settings from a
 script?

See the powercfg.pl script in the Unattended distribution
(install/bin/powercfg.pl):

  
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/unattended/unattended/install/bin/powercfg.pl?rev=HEADview=auto

If you have Server 2003 handy, you can steal powercfg.exe from it:

  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324347

It is rumored to work fine on XP at least.

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Re: [Unattended] Re: PXE Automated Network Installation

2004-09-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Alexandru Savescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 ..some questions:

 [*] why would you use the unattended-4.4b/linuxboot/tftpboot instead
 of unattended-4.4b/bootdisk/tftpboot ?!?

Because the Linux boot disk usually works better, both for features
(e.g., partitioning without reboot) and for reliability.

 [*] is filename pxelinux.0 enough or must the absolute path be
 specified?! like filename /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 ???

The filename is relative to the TFTP root.  So if you invoke tftpd
with /tftpboot as the root, pxelinux.0 is sufficient.

 [*] I found the following line at
 http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#dhcp : TFTP daemon runs under
 chroot (tftp-hpa will do this if you specify the -s (secure) option;
 this is highly recommended) ..back to my question: is its use
 recommended for this purpose?!

This should not matter.  chroot is a security measure which you
might as well enable, but it should have no visible effect.

 [*] I have included the range from to declaration within the
 subnet block, see below:

 subnet 131.188.xxx.x netmask 255.255.255.0 
 {
   range 131.188.118.200 131.188.118.231;

 ..now with this configuration only hosts (pxe-clients) which get an
 IP in this range may reach the pxelinux.0 ?!? true or false?!

False.  All the range statement does is tell the DHCP server to hand
out a dynamic address to any host which requests a lease.  The TFTP
server configuration is distinct, and usually allows anonymous access,
so any host may access pxelinux.0.

The next-server and filename options tell the PXE client where to
find its boot image.

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Re: [Unattended] poweredge 2400

2004-09-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 (in french)
 le fichier fourni par le fabriquant et que le programme d'installation
 essaie d'installer essaye d'utiliser est endommagé ou n'est pas valide:
 Types de fichiers manquant ou interdits spécifiés dans la section:
 Files.SCSI.perc2
 (translate in english/partial)
 the file provided is corrupted or invalid:
 Type of files missing or banned in the following section
 Files.SCSI.perc2

I suspect the English version is actually Illegal or Missing File
Types Specified in Section Files.SCSI.Name.

 [Files.Scsi.perc2]
...
 dll = d1, perc2cin.dll
 dll = d1, perc2evt.exe

The dll lines are illegal in txtsetup.oem.  See
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=275334.

Of course, that KB article is hideous; it refers to OEMDIR and gives
some vague description of how to figure out what that is.  They say to
look at the driver's .inf file and figure out where it wants to
install the DLL.  Unfortunately, the destination directory is not
spelled out; instead, it will be a number like 11 (called a logical
directory identifier, or LDID).  This Google search should get you
started:

  http://www.google.com/search?q=ldid+destinationdirs

In my experience, you can usually just delete the dll = ... lines
from your txtsetup.oem file and ignore the OEMDIR stuff.

Have fun!

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with Promise Fasttrak100 TX2 Raid Contr oller (SoftwareRa id)

2004-09-09 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Schneider, Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 and get the array working on my Knoppix
 System.
 I had to include the modules 
   dm
   raid1 (for mirror)
 additionally I set the kernel option PDC202xx_force

I wonder if that last is necessary when you have the dm module?  No
matter, I have added it.

 I will be pleased if you can implement them in the new build.

Done.  Please try the 4.4c-pre2 test release at
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/.  You should only need
the linuxboot piece, but be sure to update Z:\linuxaux.  (Because
the binaries have changed and the new modules are under there.)

Hm.  I still need to know when to load these modules, exactly...

 To create and manage the array (a mirror here) I use mdadm, but
 raidtools will work as well.

So do we need these on the boot disk?

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Re: [Unattended] Three questions

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Robin Eklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1: Everytime i install a new unattended version i allways have to
 run mapznrun.bat and postinst.bat manually after windows installs
 (of course, i then change install.pl to do this for me), have i
 missed something or is something wrong in my configuration ?

The latter, I suspect.  What, if anything, do you have in
Z:\site\unattend.txt and Z:\site\config.pl?

 2: I use the linux boot-disk and feed the clients with user/pwd/path
 through dhcp-option 233
 Looks like this in dhcpd.conf:
 
 option unattended code 233=string;
 #if option user-class=Unattended{ # This has no effect, it renders the
 option useless.
 #if option user-class=Unattended{ # have also tried this without effect
   option unattended z_user=username z_pass=x z_path=//machine/nti44;
 #}

According to the dhcp-eval man page, this should be:

if option dhcp-user-class = Unattended {
  option unattended z_user=username z_pass=x z_path=//machine/nti44;
}


Note the name of the variable (dhcp-user-class) and the whitespace
around the special characters...  The latter may not matter, but why
take chances?

Please let me know if this works, because I have never actually tried
it.

 3: Wouldnt it be great if we started discussing these thing on the
 wiki-site forum instead, it would be a lot easier to search through?

I hate Web fora.  They are clunky, slow, and the text editing is so
limited as to be painful.  So I do not participate in them except
under duress.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ has a pretty good search engine.  And
Google also works OK if you include terms like site:mail-archive.com
and unattended.

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with Promise Fasttrak100 TX2 Raid Contr oller (SoftwareRa id)

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

(I apologize for the delay in responding.)

Schneider, Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 So I will go on experimenting with the modules and options.
 For sure I can test a new Linux bootdisk.

Thanks; we will definitely take you up on that.

 By the way. I tested my system with Knoppix-CD (Kernel 2.6.6) and
 there I can see the partitions.

Yeah, I think I know what is happening.  To support these
software-based RAID cards, Linux uses a utility called dmraid:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2uDZ2-3ui-35%40gated-at.bofh.it

My guess is that Knoppix already includes this thing, and we need to
put it onto our own boot disk.

Since I do not have one of these cards, I will need your help to test
whatever I implement.  And I will probably not have time to try until
this weekend.

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[Unattended] Re: Scanning OS for device drivers

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Thanks Pat
 
 I am using Windows XP and according to that link:
 
 In Microsoft Windows XP, the maximum length of the OEMPnpDriversPath value
 is 4,096 characters.

It (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312535) also says:

  When you use Winnt.exe, the OEMPnpDriversPath value is limited to
   1,024 characters.

And we definitely use winnt.exe :-).

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[Unattended] Re: Scanning OS for device drivers

2004-09-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I am having a few issues when using config.pl in the site folder to 
  automatically scan for device drivers.

What code are you using, exactly?

  I have a structure as follows:
  
  In the drivers directory I have folders for Chipset, Storage, Video, 
  Lan, Sound etc etc.
  With the auto method the Lan and Sound drivers will simply not install.
  
  If I comment out the section in config.pl and the choose the drivers 
  manually they work fine

When you say choose the drivers manually, what do you mean, exactly?
You press (2) to select all, or something else?

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Re: [Unattended] question

2004-09-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Adriel Navarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am running 4.4b with the linux boot over a samba share. I noticed
 that I now get a menu asking what optional scripts I want to run,
 where does it generate this list from?

It generates the list by scanning Z:\scripts for all of the .bat files
whose first line reads OPTIONAL: 

 Is there a way to automatically answer these questions in the
 unattended file?

Yes, by setting the [_meta]/middle key.  This is documented (briefly)
in http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.html.

 I'm still having trouble getting the NIC card configs working right,
 it seems to be ignoring anything I put in the unattended file for
 NIC 2 and continues using dhcp after the install. Here is the
 relevant part:
  
 [Networking]
 InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

Redundant, as it turns out (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=247952),
but not harmful.

 [NetAdapters]
 Adapter0=params.Adapter0
 Adapter1=params.Adapter1
 Adapter2=params.Adapter2

OK, as far as it goes, but where are your [params.Adapter0],
[params.Adapter1], and [params.Adapter2] sections?

Without those sections, Setup has no way of knowing which adapter is
Adapter0, which is Adapter1, and which is Adapter2.  You can
either identify them by PCI location or by PCI vendor/device ID plus
MAC address.  See
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_u_paramsadapterinstance.asp.

 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter2]
 SpecificTo=Adapter2
 NetBIOSOptions=1
 DNSDomain=x
 DefaultGateway=192.168.202.210
 SubnetMask=255.255.128.0
 DNSServer=192.168.252.11,192.168.252.12

Should that be DNSServerSearchOrder?

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Re: [Unattended] shorter shutdown time

2004-09-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1, where do I change the 5 second reboot/shutdown timeout to 3
 seconds

This is not a user-configurable option.  But you can open
Z:\install\bin\todo.pl and edit this line:

reboot (5);

Change the 5 to a 3 and you will be all set.  Until the next release,
anyway...

 2, does anybody have a Blaster-Removal script

http://www.google.com/search?q=blaster+removal+tool turns up free
tools from Symantec and Microsoft.

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Re: [Unattended] DOS based boot disk leads to VMWare crash

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I booted a Virtual Machine (VMWare 4.5.2 Build 8848) from the DOS
 based boot disk.
 
 It seemed to do something but when Netbind was invoked, VMWare crashed
 with a nonrecoverable error.

The virtual machine crashed, or the emulator itself crashed?

If the latter, that is a bug in VMware and you should report it to
them.

While we are on the topic, has anybody tried asking the VMware folks
(or mailing lists) about our little dosemu-on-Linux-on-VMware
performance problem?

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Re: [Unattended] German keyboard layout for Linux-based boot disk?

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi all,
 
 how can I customize the Linux-based boot disk in order to have
 German keyboard layout?

I was going to suggest configuring your DHCP server to send the
kbd=... switch in DHCP option 233, but it turns out the boot disk
configures the keyboard before grabbing a DHCP lease.  This is fixed
in next release, but for now you have the options:

  1) Edit the isolinux.cfg file as Mario described and burn a new CD;
 or

  2) Hold down the Shift key while the CD is booting to get a
 boot: prompt.  Then type unattended kbd=de-latin1.

Perhaps we ought to add a menu to the Linux boot CD.

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Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think
 it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap
 on the image)

I could add the eject command, but actually figuring out which device
to eject is not easy in general.  The CD-ROM device could be IDE or
SCSI or USB.

 or, even cuter, use one of the tools to fiddle the BIOS boot order
 so the CD-ROM drive is no longer the first boot device.

Cute idea, but heavily BIOS dependent.  Might make a nice contribution
for the Wiki, though...

 It would also be useful to do a Windows-CD feature theft and do the
 press any key to boot from CD thing.

This is probably the best idea.  It means we actually have to write
distinct pxelinux.cfg and isolinux.cfg files, though :-).

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with Promise Fasttrak100 TX2 Raid Controller (SoftwareRa id)

2004-08-31 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Schneider, Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hello,
 
 Im using unattended4.4 and the linux bootdisk.
 The master script stops on the following message
 
 Unable to determine boot device at 
 
 some lines above I noticed that the module pdc202xx_new is loaded, but it
 says:
 
 PDC20270: Neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) 

Hm.  I am still doing some research on this message.  But since you
are trying to use software RAID, you may be out of luck:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1tljU-3Wf-1%40gated-at.bofh.it

The problem is that the software RAID driver for Linux is not the same
as the one Promise wrote for Windows.  This may be a case where the
DOS boot disk is your best option.

At least, I *think* that is what is going on.

On the other hand, there is a kernel configuration option called
PDC202XX_FORCE.  That may be what this person is talking about:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1xWO5-7Dy-25%40gated-at.bofh.it

So we could try enabling that, although I do not (yet) understand
exactly what it does.

The whole 2.6 kernel + Promise software RAID thing is just
confusing.

 with the lspci command I found the Raid controller:
 02:05.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology Inc. PDC20270 (Fasttrak100
 LP/TX2/TX4)(rev02)

Please send me the output of lspci -n -s 02:05.0, so I will know
exactly what device we are dealing with.

If I roll a new Linux boot disk, can you test it for us?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] No active partition found

2004-08-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Axel Dammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 When I boot my test-pc with the Linux-Boot-CD, there comes an error
 after showing the partition table:
 
 
 Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-2445.679 MB
 Disk label type: msdos
 Minor   Start   End Typefilesystem  Flags
 1   0.031   2047.500primary fat16
 Information: don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
 
 No active partition found!

This means the install.pl script exited before it did anything, and it
exited with a success status.  The active partition check is part
of /etc/master, which invokes install.pl and checks its exit status.

Have you edited Z:\lib\unattend.txt or put anything in
Z:\site\unattend.txt or Z:\site\config.pl ?

Something very strange is going on here.  Even if you typed X to
exit the script (or install.pl thinks you did because of some keyboard
problem), the script would exit with a failure code and the active
partition check would not run.

We need to find out why install.pl is exiting on you.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

2004-08-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

jo / ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Now I get another error later on:
 
 Bios EDD Facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
 ..done loading edd
 *** ...and locate the boot device
 *** find-boot-device failed
 *** Dropping to shell
 
 # with 1 Maxtor 2B020H1 IDE HD and 1 CD-Drive

This probably means that the IDE driver did not load.  Look earlier in
the output for messages where it is trying to load ide-generic,
ide-disk, and similar.

Does ls /sys/block show any hdX directories?

Does lsmod show that ide-generic and ide-disk are loaded?  If not,
what do modprobe ide-generic and modprobe ide-disk say?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Diskless boot questions

2004-08-27 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Richard Greaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Can somebody please tell me where I might find linux boot .imz
 files, or how to set up unattended to use the Linux boot ISO image
 as my init ramdisk?

Look under unattended-4.4b/linuxboot/tftpboot.  Everything you need is
there, except for the main boot image itself pxelinux.0 (which you
have already installed).

In particular, you need the bzImage and initrd files, plus the
different pxelinux.cfg/default file.

Let me know if this is not clear, and thanks for the reminder that the
documentation needs an overhaul.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] - Error 53 with net use

2004-08-27 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Francois CORVAISIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm using the Dos Boot disk and each time i arrive at the part where
 it mout z: to the serveur net use does that error 53.  The M$
 support says that it could happen because i'm not really log on the
 domain or that there is some name problem, wherease i'm using the IP
 @ of the comp. and the Starting network... command ends
 successfully...

Starting network... just means loading network drivers.  It's the
net use command that actually maps the share and is failing for you.

Are you saying you are trying to use an IP address?  Like net use
\\192.168.1.1\install?  That will not work.

 And i ping the machine with other boot disk...

ping accepts IP addresses.  net use does not.  Either use a
NetBIOS name, or (better) try the Linux boot disk, which accepts both
IP addresses and DNS names.

 - Pat


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

2004-08-27 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I too am seeing this message from the 4.4b linuxboot cd.

Your error is slightly different:

 *** Trying mount.cifs \\ntinstall\install /z -o
 ttl=60,username=installer,ro
 mount error: could not find target server.  TCP name ntinstall/install not
 found

This means the boot disk was unable to resolve the host name
ntinstall.

Our DOS boot disk uses NetBIOS name resolution (WINS, broadcast),
while our Linux boot disk uses DNS.  So it is possible for one to work
where the other fails.  Maybe I will change this in the next
release...  But meanwhile, either get DNS working or use the server's
IP address instead of its name.

 - Pat


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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 accurate manual simulation would be:

  Z_PATH='\\ntinstall\install'
  smbmount $Z_PATH /z -o ttl=60,username=guest,ro

Assuming this still works, please try:

  more /z/dosbin/install.pl

If that fails, we can debug from there.  If it succeeds, then we have
a bit of a mystery.

In the next release, we will produce slightly better diagnostics for
these sorts of failures.

 - Pat


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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
prompt before the network drivers are loaded, which is what we want.)

Then run modprobe 8139cp by hand.  Maybe loading the 8139too driver
somehow messed up the state of the hardware.

If loading the driver by hand does not work, then we need to collect
the dmesg output so we can send a bug report to the Linux folks.

 i've copy the following part of dmesg (no network and no floppy
 because modules are on network)

Actually, we include the floppy driver on the boot disk for exactly
this reason.  You should be able to put in a formatted floppy and
then:

  mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
  (copy stuff to /mnt/...)
  umount /mnt/fd0

 * with undis3c:
 with emm386.exe - same text to display in loop
 no emm386 - UMB's unavailable - hang

Well, FreeDOS has given us a lot of trouble.  You can copy all of our
stuff to a disk with MS-DOS and try that instead...

But really, we should be able to get the Linux boot disk working.

 - Pat


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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 HARDWARE FAILURE.

The e100b driver and NETBIND command are part of the DOS boot disk,
not the Linux boot disk.

My suggestion is to try the Linux boot disk.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Longstanding bug in Unattended boot floppy.

2004-08-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In my experience if you pull out the floppy before the OS starts
 installing Unattended won't work properly. But once the OS starts
 installing you can pull out the floppy and re-use it in another
 system without trouble. I recently did about half a dozen systems
 with a single floppy and didn't have any trouble.

Fair enough, but Dag is still right.  The boot disk should not be
trying to use the same lease.

I have applied his proposed fix.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] question about partitioning, software and driver installing

2004-08-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 hi,
 i got a few question:
 1. How could i change the install.pl (i dont have any clue about perl)
 to part the harddisk half c and other half d, automatically?

First you ask about it publicly, embarrassing me into doing something.

Next, download a new install.pl from
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ and copy it to Z:\dosbin.
You will find a new menu option to use a 50/50 split for C:/D:.

 2. How could i give MS Office 2000 the Product key?  i only got the
 update version, so normally i have to copy word97.exe on c: for the
 update to find an old version, but with unattended it wasnt
 nessesary, only key and Workgroup Samples folder (please excuse my
 bad english, i hope you know what i mean) for Word is needed in my
 case

In later versions of Office, you can add PIDKEY=... to the msiexec
command line, where ... is your product key with all hyphens
deleted.  I do not know whether this works for Office 2000.

 3. is the only way to integrate drivers to copy them in the os
 folder an then choose the needed subdirs? do i have to know every
 hardware part from my computer and find all the driver .inf files?
 thx for every help

I usually just add them all, or almost all, because most drivers are
only loaded for the hardware they actually drive.  (The .inf file
specifies PCI vendor/device/subvendor/subdevice ID numbers.)

The exception I found was a touchpad driver which always put a stupid
icon in the system tray even on machines with no touchpad.  So I have
to un-select that one by hand.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Problem installing application

2004-08-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Ralf Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 After installing Windows Xp the PC reboots and will show 2 windows.
 
 One is the cmd.exe window. Here I can see
 
 Mapping \\192.168.69.143\install on Z: ...
 
 Successful
 
 ...done.
 
 Any key to continue ...

All of this appears in the command window?

I do not know what is generating the Any key to continue...
message.  You are the second person to report this, but I am unable to
reproduce it.  So I need your help to debug it.

First, please edit Z:\install\bin\mapznrun.bat to delete this line
(should be the first line):

  @echo off

Then retry the installation, and tell me the last thing you see before
the Any key to continue... message.

Second, after the installation has finished, please confirm that these
lines appear in C:\netinst\unattend.txt:

  [GuiRunOnce]
  ; Command which runs after OS installation finishes
  Command0 = C:\netinst\mapznrun.bat C:\netinst\postinst.bat

Finally, examine C:\netinst\postinst.bat to see if it makes sense.

 The second one asked me if I would like to reboot since System
 parameters have been modified.

This is a dialog box?  If so, it is harmless.  It will go away when
the machine reboots again after we get this working.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Problem installing application

2004-08-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Never mind; I found it.  pause (in perl.bat) takes no arguments.
Sorry about that.

Your problem is that you need to download Activestate Perl.

Error message fixed in next release.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] CVS problem

2004-08-16 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 This isn't really an unattended problem, but I have been getting a
 Bad Gateway error when trying to browse CVS from the sourceforge
 website.  Even all the links on http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
 give me the same error.
 
 This has been happening for about a week now. Anyone else see this?
 
 I am not using a proxy server, BTW.

SourceForge is having a problem with anonymous CVS access for certain
projects, including ours.  See:

  http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352group_id=1

The penultimate update from 2004-08-12 says ...the pserver based CVS
server that hosts projects that have a first letter of c,d,g,a,w,x and
u had a hardware malfunction that is currently being worked on.

I *knew* I should have named it OpenRIS.

The most recent update from 2004-08-13 says, We anticipate this
service to be back up sometime later today.  This provides more
empirical evidence supporting my theory that the SourceForge admins
are aliens for whom time operates very differently.  But their service
is reasonably priced (free), so I am not really complaining.

With any luck, it will be fixed within the next few days.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] dhcp option 233

2004-08-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

jo / ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 With the linux boot disk 4.4a, I tried to use the DHCP option
 233. A /var/run/dhcp.out was written with the line
 
   unattend='z_user=hanswurst z_pass=secret z_path=//at-12/install'
 
 but this share wasn't used. The system asks for
 \\ntinstall\install  again and again. Using single and double \\
 in dhcpd.conf doesn't change anything. Any idea?

I broke the DHCP option processing in 4.4.  Whoops.

Fixed in next release, which I will probably roll tomorrow.

 - Pat


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[Unattended] Unattended 4.4a released

2004-08-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

The bug where we invoked Parted in semi-interactive mode and consumed
the output bothers me.  And XP SP2 final is out.  And the new Linux
kernel supports more hardware.

So here goes 4.4a.  Not many changes but not well tested, either.  So
we may or may not see 4.4b later this week.

NEWS.txt entry is appended.  Enjoy!

 - Pat


** Changes in version 4.4a (2004-Aug-14)

(Linux) Fix serious bug in master script which could cause a hang just
after install.pl finishes.

(Linux) Upgrade to Linux 2.6.8.1, Perl 5.8.5, klibc 0.157.

(Linux) Add Net::LDAP and Convert::ASN1 Perl modules.

Tweak post-install scripts for Windows XP SP2 final.

Fix prepare script to download to a temporary file and rename into
place, so that zero-length files from failed downloads do not confuse
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Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.4a released

2004-08-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

teresa jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Unattended 4.4 Linux version appears to be missing the Perl DBI/DBD
 modules for mysql.  I read somewhere that DBI/mysql support was
 included.

What makes you think they are missing?  Under
Z:\linuxaux\opt\perl\lib\site_perl\5.8.5\i686-linux-thread-multi, you
should find both DBI and DBD::mysql modules.

But they have not been tested, because nobody ever responded when I
asked for testers.  :-)

So, how are you trying to invoke them, exactly, and what error (if
any) are you seeing?

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Re: [Unattended] Office 2003: Where do I have to put the key?

2004-08-13 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

The %PIDKEY% environment variable thing is a holdover from a bad idea
I had a while ago.

What I do is to edit the last line of ofc2003.bat to replace
PIDKEY=%PIDKEY% with PIDKEY=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY.  That's the
product key without hyphens.  (I am pretty sure removing the hyphens
was necessary for Office XP, but apparently you can leave them in for
Office 2003.)

 - Pat


Martin Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hello,
 
 I try to install unattended Office 2003. But I don't know where I
 have to put the key... I've read somewhere that it can/should/must
 be set with a environment variable (PIDKEY) but do you have an
 example where/how I should do this? (sorry for the stupid question
 :-) )
 
 Thanks
 Martin


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Re: [Unattended] Re: Unattended

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   What I've investigated yet: ANI uses DHCP to pass basic options,
   unattended doesn't. But I guess that's not all.

Actually, you can use DHCP option 233 to pass configuration data to
Unattended.  This is mentioned very briefly in the FAQ
(http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#linux).  It is a simple
string of options, like this:

z_user=DOM\myuser z_pass=sekrit z_path=//server/install

 yes, that definetly needs to be explained somewhere, now that c't
 did an article about Unattended, we're getting also a lot more
 traffic from supposedly more people with your question and we will
 put the answer in a FAQ list.

Our lists have received a flood of subscriptions from .de this week
(Willkommen!).

Has anybody actually tried both systems in production?  I think that
would provide the most useful comparison.

 - ANI supports user defined DHCP options to pass basic options (that
 results in a maintenance-free bootmedia) and DHCP-Userclasses,
 usefull to serve different client- or domain-types even in the same
 subnet.

What do you mean by DHCP Userclasses?  Our boot disk sends
Unattended as the DHCP user class option (DHCP code 77, defined by
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3004.html), which allows the DHCP server
to distinguish our boot disk's leases from other leases.

 - The linux-bootmedia can be PXE, CD-Rom or floppy disk. We put a
 lot of effort into getting samba and linux so small that it fits a
 floppy disk. Unattended has NO floppy disk support, because they use
 a normal sized linux as base. We need floppy disk support because
 of older hardware not having CD-Rom (deliberetly) and no
 PXE-capable-NIc.

I have a plan for supporting floppy boot, although it would require
multiple floppies.  I am not sure I will ever implement it, though.
The set of machines which lack support for CD-ROM, network, and USB
boot is small and shrinking.  And older hardware tends to work OK with
our DOS boot disk.

 - ANI installs a so called hidden Maintenance- (with
 Windows installation files) and an installation media partition on the HD
 drive. Unattended has not. These partition allows us to trigger
 reinstallation of windows without access to the net and to do
 mass-reinstallation/upgrades of computers without having to download all
 files for each computer again, but instead only the few changed files
 are downloaded (important to reduce traffic). These partitions even
 allow us to reinstall/upgrade the OS remotely and centralised with
 scripts over night, as long as the computer's NIC supports Wake-On-Lan.
 Unattended needs the presence of a person at the computer to reinstall
 the OS.

Some of our users have made fully unattended installations work.  But
you are correct that we do not contemplate it out of the box.

 - ANI provides integration abitlities of existing user and user group
 concepts (unattended?).

I do not know what this means.  Could you elaborate?

 - ANI has a nice UI in case of errors, warnings :-)

Um, uh, we print a diagnostic and Abort/Retry/Ignore :-).

 - ANI considers some security aspects, wich are desirable especially in
 big networks:
 -- We have encrypted passwords for the account to mount the install share
 and join the domain with the computer. The password is NEVER stored on
 the client side, either in encrypted or decrypted form. Unattended
 stores the password on the client side.

True, but we delete it when we are done.

I have never understood encrypting a password such that it can be
decrypted automatically.  If the machine can decrypt it, so can the
user; isn't that just giving a false sense of security?  Either you
make a technician type the password when it is needed, or the password
is available anonymously over the network.  In real security terms,
there is nothing in between.

 -- We have the abbillity to lock CD-Rom and floppy disk access and
 other devices depending on the group the loged on user is part
 of. Unattended has not.

Can you elaborate?  Are you talking about after the machine is
installed?

I have not used ANI, so I am not sure what features (if any)
Unattended has which ANI lacks.  Since you managed to fit everything
on a single floppy, I would suspect our hardware support is broader,
especially for mass-storage controllers (S-ATA/SCSI/RAID).  And I
suspect we have better support for customized partitioning schemes.

But really, the biggest difference is in philosophy.  In some ways,
Unattended is more like a framework for creating a deployment system
than an actual deployment system.  Our default configuration is
extremely basic.  But the potential is endless, since you can provide
custom Perl code which runs before the installation even starts.  So
you could choose an OU based on the machine name, or you could set the
host name by looking up its Dell service tag in a MySQL database.  All
it takes is the right code, and our community is experimenting with
and sharing all sorts of ideas.

ANI is a deployment system.  It

Re: [Unattended] Re: Unattended

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Rönnblom Janåke /Teknous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Any example of how to use this?

It depends on your DHCP server.  Maybe somebody here can provide an
example.  If not, maybe you can figure it out send us an example
yourself.

I have never used this feature; somebody requested it and it seemed
like a good idea.  It should be possible to conditionalize on the user
class with either Windows DHCP or ISC DHCP version 3.

For Windows DHCP, this article looks promising:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=240247

For ISC DHCP, you can find some ideas here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=option+user-class+isc

...although there seems to be some confusion over whether the option
is named user-class or dhcp-user-class.

 Could this be used to only send Z_* variables to clients when they
 are booting from the linuxdisk and not when WindowsXP boots and
 requests a new ip address?

That is the idea, yes.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] RE: xp sp2

2004-08-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Niels S. Richthof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Two reasons:

I can think of some others.

 Second I thought that most of us have the installation media of XP
 without a service pack. Maybe I'm wrong with that but the first
 reason remaines.

With SP1, slipstreaming into OEM media did not work.

 I would like to wait changing winxpsp1-updates.bat until SP2 is 
 released for esn, fra, ita, nld, nor and rus at least!

We will keep winxpsp1-updates.bat as individual updates.  I suspect
many sites will delay deploying SP2 for a while, possibly a year or
more.  SP2 is no ordinary update; in some ways, it is more like a
major OS upgrade.  Many people will be very conservative about rolling
it out, and we should support them.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] article in German c't magazine

2004-08-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi list,
 
 found an article about Unattended in German c't magazine 17/04.

Cool!  If I am reading the table of contents correctly, it is on page
188.

 Maybe it would be of interest to put this article on the web site.

Maybe, but I do not have a copy, and it appears to be print edition
only.  I am not 100% sure, though, because I am just a dumb Yank and
do not speak German :-).

Does most c't content eventually appear on the Web site?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] OS Location

2004-08-10 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Sean Branam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi all...
 
  
 
 I placed a dir on \install\os\ named win2kpro
 
  
 
 Within that I copied the cd. Just for eas of access to other files in
 the future. I know I only need i386.

So z:\os\win2kpro\i386 exists?

 I boot off the linux cdonce I get to the point where it's going
 to tell me which OS I can install, it dies saying none found.

  
 
 Any ideas?

After it dies, please type the following command:

ls /z/os/win2kpro/i386

What do you see?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.4 released

2004-08-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 At 02:33 PM 8/6/2004, you wrote:
 Add July hotfixes (MS04-018 through MS04-025).  International
 download URLs thanks to the usual suspects (Niels Richthof, Wim
 Vandersmissen, Eugene Kotlyarov).  Upgrade to DirectX 9.0c.
 
 You also added the August IE updates/hotfixes as well.

MS04-025 was released on 30 July.  So strictly speaking, they were all
in July :-).

Looks like the August updates will be dominated by XP SP2.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] more fra + java details + one question

2004-08-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 one note, i didn't find (again) on advanced page of the site how do you
 define default response to error when installing updates
 (Abort/ignore/retry).
 it's important for non-enu languages, some system update files doesn't
 exist (a todo for todo.pl) and stop unattended setup.

We should probably just skip those updates if they are not present.
Do you happen to know which ones they are?

 - Pat


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

2004-08-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

As I have mentioned, I and others use Unattended when joining a
domain. Automatic logon to the local administrator account works just
fine.

In short, I have no idea what you are talking about.

True, automatic logon will not work if you encrypt the administrator
password. See the documentation for EncryptedAdminPassword:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/resources/documentation/windowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_u_guiunattended.asp

In particular, the Important note at the bottom says:

Important

* If you use this entry to install an encrypted Administrator
password during an unattended installation, Setup disables
Autologon.

So don't do that.

- Pat

Steven Piercy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

ok... - here is the trick... winderzXP wants to log to domain by def
when joined to one... so setting the autologon reg key for local
account jimmies it all up!
but i dont want 300 times the domain admin logon traffic while
deploying! is the best idea to join domain last?

ah... and I bet unattended will not work right if the administrator
password in unattend.txt is encrypted (did that using ms' setupmgr)

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[Unattended] Unattended 4.4 released

2004-08-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Bunch of small fixes, one major fix (Linux boot disk on Compaq
hardware), a few minor improvements, and filling in the international
download URLs (courtesy Niels Richthof).

With XP SP2 and Linux 2.6.8 imminent, we will probably have another
release within a month or so.  But I think we have plenty to make this
one worthwhile.

Get it from the download page:

  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62053

As always, your feedback is welcome.

NEWS.txt entry appended.

 - Pat


** Changes in version 4.4 (2004-Aug-06)

(Linux) Fix serious bug in find-modules-pci script, which prevented us
from loading the correct mass storage driver on certain systems
(especially Compaqs).

(Linux) Try mount.cifs if smbmount fails, since the latter does not
support SMB signing, and Windows Server 2003 requires it by default.

(Linux) Implement and use new script find-boot-device to find the
Linux device corresponding to the boot device (BIOS disk 80h).

(Linux) Ensure dmfe driver loads before tulip, since the latter does
not work right on some hardware.

(Linux) Upgrade to BusyBox 1.00-rc2, klibc 0.152, nano 1.2.4,
pcmcia-cs 3.2.8, Samba 3.0.5, DBI 1.43, and DBD::mysql 2.9004.

(DOS) Upgrade emm386.exe to latest test release.  Downgrade umbpci to
3.56 (latest stable release).

Upgrade Z:\dosbin\format.exe to FreeDOS format 0.91r.

Upgrade downloads+scripts for Adobe Reader 6.02, Mozilla 1.7.2,
ActiveState Perl 5.8.4 build 810, PHP 4.3.8, and Sun JRE 1.4.2_05.
New script (opera.bat) from Niels Richthof.

Add initial support for Spanish (ESN).  Thanks to David Cruz Langreo.

Fill in download URLs for all languages.  Thanks, Niels!

Numerous minor bug fixes.

Add July hotfixes (MS04-018 through MS04-025).  International download
URLs thanks to the usual suspects (Niels Richthof, Wim Vandersmissen,
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Re: [Unattended] Some questions about

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Stefansen Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 But when I trying to use Unattended with both a norwegian and
 english WinXP, and when i get the option to choose which XP to
 install, I can select between xp with Language English and
 Language?? English. The last one should be Norwegian. Is there any
 way to let Unattended know that this is a norwegian edition?

The Perl code which determines the language is in
unattended/install/lib/Unattend/WinMedia.pm.  It just reads the
Localization=... value in the [Product Specification] section of
the i386/prodspec.ini file on the OS media.

So, the first step is to examine i386/prodspec.ini on your Norweigan
media.  What do you see?

You can also compare the various .ini, .sif, and .inf files between
the English and Norweigan versions.  If you can find a better way to
identify the language from the media, we will use it!

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Compaq DL380 problem

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Rampanelli Michael J [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 BIOS EDD facility - 2 devices found (I have 2 hard drives installed)
 /etc/master line 1 find-boot-device command not found
 Find boot device failed

You need to update Z:\linuxaux.  In particular, you need to copy over
Z:\linuxuax\usr\bin\find-boot-device, which is new in 4.4.

Mangano, Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am not at work at the moment so I cannot remember exactly but
 there is a typo in the latest release.

Fixed in current prerelease (4.4-rc2), now available from
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/.

I hope to get the final 4.4 release out some time in the next few
days.  I was hoping to wait for Linux kernel 2.6.8, but it is taking
too long (Linus released 2.6.8-rc3 yesterday).  Our serious bug with
Compaq hardware is demanding a release now.

Thanks!

 - Pat


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[Unattended] Re: Minor bug in CVS variant of perl.bat

Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hello,
 
 the halt loop is using a wrong label (the colon must preceed halt).
 
 The patch below uses pause instead of echo in order to not consume
 CPU (well, why not?) and when you press any key, the situation is
 re-checked, mayhap the share was re-built.

Applied.

 The msiexec line contains my favorit settings. :-)

...

 +start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt %perl_msi% /i 
 TARGETDIR=C:\Perl ADDLOCAL=PERL_FEATURE,PPM,PERLSE,EXAMPLES PERL_PATH=Yes 
 PERL_EXT=Yes

Isn't C:\Perl the default installation directory?

What feature(s) does your ADDLOCAL option include which are not
included by default?  I am not adverse to this change, but I want to
keep it minimal.

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Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

Bunting, Glen, IG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I tried using the 4.4-test5 cd and was able to make the initial
 connection using the ip instead if the server name.  However when it
 is scanning for the os directory it errors out with the following:
 
 Unable to open /z/os/win2ksp4/i386/txtsetup.sif
 No such file at /z/lib/Unattend/IniFile.pm
 
 Which is correct. There is no txtsetup.sif file located there.  Do I
 need one for the Linux boot cd?  If so what do I need to put in it?

There is a txtsetup.sif file in the i386 directory of every Windows
CD.  It is how Unattended identifies Windows installation media...
Check again?

Something very strange is happening here.  We check for the existence
of the txtsetup.sif file before we try to open it, so it should not
crash.

What kind of file server are you using?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

Bunting, Glen, IG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think I figured out part of the problem.  I am running a Samba
 Server.  The problem appears to be that when the script was looking
 for txtsetup.sif, it is case sensitive.  I did have a TXTSETUP.SIF.

This is very similar to a problem reported earlier today on the
unattended-devel list.

 In a future revision can you make it so the script is case
 insensitive?

Case sensitivity is more a property of the server than the client.  I
suspect if you set unix extensions = off in your smb.conf file it
will fix the problem.  This is my guess, anyway; it would be nice to
know for certain.

In any event, our next actual release will have smbmount re-enabled,
which apparently avoids this problem by not supporting Samba's unix
extensions.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

Niels S. Richthof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 man smb.conf
 look for name mangling
 
 the install-share should have:
 
 case sensitive = no

I am skeptical that this is the problem, for two reasons.

First, case sensitive = no is the default.  You would have to
explicitly set it to yes to break things, which would be a strange
thing to do.

Second, the reports suggest that this problem is related to using
mount.cifs instead of smbmount.  If the Samba server had case
sensitive = yes, it would never have worked.

My guess is that mount.cifs (which invokes the fancy new Linux CIFS
client) is allowing the Linux client and server to negotiate unix
extensions, including some kind of case sensitivity even when the
server is not configured for it.

Also, we have some evidence that checking for the existence of
txtsetup.sif (when the actual name is TXTSETUP.SIF) works, but trying
to open it fails.


Glen Bunting writes:

 That makes sense.  Any idea as to why it was unable to run:
 
 winnt /rx:lang /s:Z:\os\win2ksp4\i386 /u:C:\netinst\unattend.txt ?

Maybe winnt.exe is upper case, and FreeDOS does not print a proper
diagnostic?  Hard to say for sure, but whatever the problem is, I
highly suspect it has the same underlying cause.

I uploaded a 4.4-rc1 to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/
earlier today, with the smbmount code re-enabled.  Care to give that a
try?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control

Steven Piercy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 can it be done? scripted? db needed?  how do I get pxelinux to
 look for an install flag for each systems mac addy? or some other type
 of do install flag?

PXELINUX supports a programming environment called comboot, although
it is extremely primitive.

More realistically...  PXELINUX will search for a configuration file
whose name is based on the IP address of the machine.  So if you can
manipulate your TFTP root, you can control what a particular machine
does when it boots.  See http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#config.

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Re: [Unattended] having some problems using v4.3

2004-07-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Adriel Navarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I tried adding these lines to my unattended file:
  
 [MassStorageDrivers]
 DELL PERC 4/Di RAID Driver for Windows 2000 = OEM
 [OEMBootFiles]
 TXTSETUP.OEM
 MRAID2K.CAT
 MRAID2K.SYS
 OEMSETUP.INF
 NODEV.INF
 OEMSETUP.INF
  
 But I then get this error once I choose what OS to install:
  
 do z/site/install failed: Can't use string (See comments for
 [MassStorageDrivers]) as ARRAY ref while string refs in use at
 /z/lib/Unattend/IniFile.Pm line 197.

Ooops, that is bug.  (And thank you for the thorough report.)  Fixed
in next release.

Meanwhile, you can work around it by deleting this line from
Z:\dosbin\install.pl:

  $u-comments ('OEMBootFiles') = 'See comments for [MassStorageDrivers]';

However, you should not need to add any lines to Z:\site\unattend.txt
at all.  Just populate Z:\os\whatever\i386\$oem$\TEXTMODE with the
proper drivers and txtsetup.oem file.  Unattended will parse
txtsetup.oem and offer to generate the [OEMBootFiles] and
[MassStorageDrivers] sections for you automatically.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

2004-07-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Bunting, Glen, IG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have two question/problems.
 
 1.I am successfully able to run unattended using a dos floppy with
 an add on NIC (e10b).  This is on a Compaq/HP DL360/380 G3.  However
 when I try to do the same thing with the linux boot cd, it is unable to
 recognize the hard drive.  I Get an error message that states:
 
 Found no hard drives (amiraid/ar0 ataraid/d0 cciss/c0d0 iz0/had ida/c0d0
 rd/c0d0 had sda hdc) under /sys/block
 Your /sys/block contains ram0 - ram 15.
 
 How can I get the linux boot up cd to recognize the hard drives?

Is this using a Compaq RAID?

My script to decide which drivers to load was buggy.  Please try
4.4-test4 at http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ and let me
know if it works any better.

Failing that, please send me the output of this command:

lspci -n | grep 'Class 01'

 2. When I use the dos boot disk on the same servers as above with
 the integrated gig NICs, I am able to get the DHCP address, but then
 the server hangs.  It is not able to go any further.  It displays
 the ip address and the MAC address and that's all.  When I try to do
 the same thing with the linux boot disk, I am able to make the
 connection, I just can't see the hard drives.  Why does the dos
 startup hang, but the linux startup work?  This is using the Tigon
 chip, b57, choice for dos and that is what linux cd autodetect.

Basically, FreeDOS is broken six ways to Sunday.  But we cannot
distribute MS-DOS.  You can copy the files to your own MS-DOS based
disk, or you can try messing with the UMB providers in config.sys.
(Using umbpci.sys instead of emm386.exe, or *neither*, might help.)

I would rather work with you to fix our Linux boot disk.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

2004-07-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Bunting, Glen, IG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Booting from the 4.4-test cd, I was able to get an ip address, but when
 I tried to connect to the share, I was unable to.  I received a:
 Unable to connect to share
 smbmount did not work
 mount.cifs did not work
 mount error: could not find target server TCP name not found
 rc=4

Sorry; I left in some debugging stuff (skipping smbmount to test
mount.cifs).  Try giving the fully-qualified DNS name of the server,
or just using 4.4-test5 which I just uploaded to
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/.

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Re: [Unattended] File locking problems

[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
 computers try to get the file, an error is thrown and I have to walk
 each computer though manually. Is there any way to fix this and
 allow multiple computers to read the same file at the same time?
 This would be a great help

Is this with the Linux boot disk, the DOS boot disk, or both?

What kind of file server?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

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 sends the string
Unattended in the user class identifier (DHCP option 77 defined by
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3004.html).  So you can have your DHCP
server dispatch on this value and only set option 233 in leases
requested by our boot disk.

The details will vary depending on your DHCP server...  What kind are
you using?

 - Pat


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

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 installed -- that's how
 I would know that both items had worked. Unfortunately, neither of
 these things happened.

Yes, both of those, among other things, should happen after the
operating system is installed.

Does anything happen post-install?  For example, does ActivePerl get
installed?

Do you have anything in Z:\site\unattend.txt or Z:\site\config.pl?

 - Pat


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

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 it seems to get
 placed last on the todo list, after I dont need it any more.

Right, it gets invoked there to disable automatic logon at the end of
the installation.

 The main hickup seems to be that after joining a domain in
 unattended.txt, XP will not allow an autologon for a local user,
 that cancels out any autologon setting in the unattended.txt -
 figures

Back up a second.  Automatic logon as local administrator works fine
for me.  It is how I use the system, and I suspect I am not alone...

Do you have anything in Z:\site\unattend.txt, or have you edited
Z:\lib\unattend.txt?

 - Pat


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

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 Z:\site\unattend.txt?

 [Unattended]
  UnattendMode=FullUnattended
  OemSkipEula=Yes
  OemPreinstall=Yes
  TargetPath=\WINDOWS

I would delete this section, since it is redundant with our defaults.
(Except for UnattendMode, for which we prefer DefaultHide.)  This is
minor, though.

 [GuiUnattended]
  AdminPassword=Xt
  EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

No is the default for this, too, so you could omit it.

  OEMSkipRegional=1
  TimeZone=85
  OemSkipWelcome=1

Except for TimeZone, these are also redundant with our defaults.

But none of this should be causing your problem.

Take a look at C:\netinst\unattend.txt after the machine is installed.
That should have a [GuiUnattended] section which sets AutoAdminLogon
to 1 and a [GuiRunOnce] section which arranges for
C:\netinst\postinst.bat to run.

Your problem may just be that you have to download the Perl MSI and
copy it to Z:\packages...  And that we should do a better job of
diagnosing this failure mode.

 The big PUT YOUR CHANGES HERE is a dead giveaway. I take it I should
 read about config.pl then, eh? :)
 
 I guess I was under the impression that selecting those scripts during
 the pre-installation phase would just work.

It should just work.  The config.pl stuff is for advanced
(programmatic) customization.

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

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.

Our docs are in serious need of a rewrite.  One of these days...

I have added a better diagnostic message for this case in our next
release.

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Re: [Unattended] dl380 / test bootdisk 4.4

2004-07-28 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 re: test bootdisk 4.4:
 
 no drivers for cpqarray load at boot: no /dev/ida/c0d0. no drive.

This should be easy to debug.  Please run this command after the
failure and send me the output:

lspci -n | grep 'Class 01'

 post-boot module load doesn't make the disk available; parted can't
 see it.

That is not surprising because loading the module does not create the
device nodes.  What does ls /sys/block show before and after you
load the module by hand?

 this is the same problem with the 4.3 linux boot disk. note that
 this module isn't included on the iso in the version of the 4.4
 testboot that i've got. it is on the 4.3 linuxboot.

That is strange, because that is not something which changed between
4.3 and 4.4.  In both cases, /lib/modules/.../cpqarray.ko is a symlink
to /z/linuxaux/lib/modules/.../cpqarray.ko, which lives out on the
install share.

 re: fdisk and smartarray drive.
 i've tried a variety of combinations of fdisk options with the dos-boot
 scripts, trying to preserve the compaq system partition, including
 wiping it and recreating space for it with fdisk (something like /pri:19
 /spec:18; /prio:2000 /activate 2) with various freedos versions up to
 ~1.3.
 nothing i've done, allows me to preserve the compaq partition.

Your best bet is to partition by hand.  Then:

  1) Delete all of the partitions other than the utility partition.

  2) Create a new primary 4000M FAT32 partition.

  3) Mark it active.

From there, you should be able to format the drive and install without
too much trouble.

Hm.  It seems that many systems (Dell, Compaq) come with these utility
partitions nowadays.  And they are not easy to recreate once you
delete them.  Maybe we should have better support for preserving
them...  Call it a to do item.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] mapznrun problem with linux boot - there is no disk in the drive

2004-07-28 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

Daniel Kruszyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:37:42PM +0200, Niels de Groot wrote:
  The 4th line in mapznrun.bat is checking all local disks for a
  \dosbin\install.pl file, for use in installing unattend from a
  Cd/DVD instead of a network. It could be triggering your error.
  You can remove the line starting with for %%a. or comment it
  out. See if that helps and let us know.
 
 Ok, I finally got to borrow a card reader to test this.  Commenting
 out the 4th line in mapznrun.bat does work.  I wonder why that error
 doesn't appear with empty cdrom drives.

I do not know, but it doesn't.  if exist d:\foo\bar echo hi exits
immediately.

My inclination is to eliminate that line, and assume that people doing
DVD-ROM installs can arrange for %Z% to be set, statically or
programmatically, by c:\netinst\permcred.bat.

Any compelling objections?

 - Pat


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[Unattended] Test release 4.4-test2

2004-07-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti

A test release of Unattended is now available at:

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/

In addition to the usual round of updates, this release features fixes
for a few problems people have had with the Linux-based boot disk.
The new boot disk will almost work with your existing installation
share; just copy over Z:\linuxaux\usr\bin\find-boot-device and
Z:\install\dosbin\format.exe.

Please try this test release if:

  ...your primary hard drive is connected in a strange place (e.g., IDE
 slave or secondary controller); or

  ...you are using Windows Server 2003 as your file server; or

  ...you have a Davicom network card; or

  ...you just like testing things.

And let us know how it goes.  Thanks!

Preliminary NEWS.txt entry is appended.

 - Pat


** Changes in version 4.4 (2004-???-???)

(Linux) Try mount.cifs if smbmount fails, since the latter does not
support SMB signing, and Windows Server 2003 requires it by default.

(Linux) Implement and use new script find-boot-device to find the
Linux device corresponding to the boot device (BIOS disk 80h).

(Linux) Upgrade to klibc 0.146, nano 1.2.4, pcmcia-cs 3.2.8, Samba
3.0.5, DBI 1.43, and DBD::mysql 2.9004.

(Linux) Ensure dmfe driver loads before tulip, since the latter does
not work right on some hardware.

(DOS) Upgrade emm386.exe to latest test release.  Downgrade umbpci to
3.56 (latest stable release).

Upgrade Z:\dosbin\format.exe to FreeDOS format 0.91r.

Upgrade downloads+scripts for Adobe Reader 6.02, Mozilla 1.7.1,
ActiveState Perl 5.8.4 build 810, PHP 4.3.8, and Sun JRE 1.4.2_05.
New script (opera.bat) from Niels Richthof.

Add initial support for Spanish (ESN).  Thanks to David Cruz Langreo.

Add July hotfixes (MS04-018 through MS04-024) with international
downloads.  Thanks to the usual suspects (Niels Richthof, Wim
Vandersmissen, Eugene Kotlyarov).


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Re: [Unattended] Some feedback on boot CDs

Shane Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 16 Jul 2004 at 15:08, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
  OK, I have been putting this off for too long.  This weekend I will
  implement my find the boot device plan.
  
  I assume you will volunteer to test it :-) ?
 
 Will do. :)

Please download find-boot-device from
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ and let me know how it
behaves on your system where /dev/hdc (or was it hdb?) is the boot
device.

 And on 16 Jul 2004 at 15:20, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
  Well, this looks promising:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2cVUi-33T-11%40gated-at.bofh.it
  So, maybe try booting with noapic and/or ide0=serialize?
 
 Unfortunately no luck. I've now tried noapic, acpi=off,
 ide0=serialize, ide1=serialize, and combinations thereof without
 success.

Hm...  I am not sure what to tell you.  You could try installing a
Linux distribution with the 2.6 kernel (like Fedora Core 2, Suse 9.1,
or Mandrake 10.0).  They should experience a similar problem, and then
you can report the problem to the distribition vendor.

Or you can try reporting your problem directly to the linux-kernel
mailing list.  But if you tell them you are using some hacked up
distribution hand-rolled by me they might laugh at you :-).  I can
tell you that we are using a very stock 2.6.7 kernel.

 Checking the hashes (MD5, SHA1 and CRC32) of the
 unattended-4.3-dosboot.zip I downloaded from a mirror (don't know
 which) on the 22nd June, against the copies I downloaded again today
 from the Australian and Belgium mirrors, shows no difference:
 
 MD5:  8d2e883df10d0737e6aed41b730cfb1f
 SHA1: 349a64a0acfcc61306bf5028b52eca0e22aea4b5
 CRC32:956e7cf4
 
 Hashes for my local copy of the v4.3 dos diskboot.iso, extracted using 
 ZipGenius (GUI app made in 2004) and UnZip (CLI app made in 1996), also 
 show no difference:
 
 MD5:  9423e89ddaef8b7af7af335eebdb8023
 SHA1: 43a79f92e42fc8f50e0e068dc3cdcfbab3bbe68e
 CRC32:cca355bf
 
 Any ideas?

Drop the CD into a Linux box and compute the hash directly over the
media (md5sum /dev/hdc or whatever).

Other than that, I am again not sure what to tell you.  The CD boots
fine for me and for others, as far as I know.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Error when booting DOS boot disk, cwsdpmi not loading correctly

Torbjrn Thorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have a problem with the boot disk, though ..
 I got my debian unstable server giving DHCP and tftp, which works
 nice, and my PXE-enabled NIC loads everything fine, up to the
 loading of cwsdpmi.  It sits there for a bit, then exits with a
 Undefined error 13. error message, install.pl starts loading, but
 soon exits with an error message of needing cwsdpmi.

Well, my first suggestion is to try the Linux-based boot disk.

My second suggestion is to edit config.sys on the boot disk image
(undis3c.img) to umbpci.sys instead of emm386.exe as the UMB provider.
The former is there as a commented-out line.  Or comment out both
lines; if you are lucky, you can get away without any UMB provider at
all.

Finally, you could copy the boot disk's files to your own disk based
on MS-DOS.

I am sorry the FreeDOS boot disk has so many problems, but we really
cannot redistribute MS-DOS.  I am hopeful that FreeDOS will continue
to improve over time, and that the Linux boot disk will ultimately
supplant it...

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] boot problem

Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 i'm trying unattended 4.3 (on whitebox linux) on a hp compaq nx9005
 notebook and both pxe boot failed.
 
 with linux, it freezes. with at last:
   ACPI : subsystem revision 20040326
   spurious 8259A interrupt : IRQ7.
   ACPI : IRQ9 SCI : Level Trigger

Have you tried booting with ACPI disabled?

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#linux-problems

 with dosboot and undis3c.imz (network card is a National Semiconductor
 DP83815/816 10/100 Ma), i can trace and Emm386.exe is followed by an
 instant reboot. without, i get
   UMB's unavailable
   Kernel: allocated 40 Diskbuffers = 21280 Bytes in HMA
 
 ideas ?

Well, UMB's unavailable is just a warning message.  So, what happens
next?  Or does it just hang?

Also, try using umbpci.sys instead of emm386.exe.

 note: i also join a small patch to add FRA lang to office2k.bat

Applied for next release.  Thank you!

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Need help to create bootdisks - hopefully a simple one