Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And here I like seeing the progress bar' because it tells me the
computer is doing something and isn't frozen, as well as how it's
going. Just my two cents.
Yeah, I like progress bars too, which is why I opted for /qb instead
of /qn like Sun documents.
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
imdos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try osdn.dl.sourceforge.net that is the one i used successfully
yesterday
Some of the SourceForge download mirror sites appear to be broken. I
have submitted a SF support request.
Meanwhile, if you have trouble downloading, or if
unattended-4.0b-linuxboot.zip
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On a side note,I couldn't get the linuxbootdisk to work in a
vmware environment, the system just keeps taking cpu when dosemu
boots, but nothing ever happens.
Funny :)
Hardware - Windows - Emulated Hardware (VMWARE) - Linuxbootdisk
- Emulated
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to release 4.0b this weekend. I will make sure international
keyboard support goes into 4.1.
I implemented this last night. Now when I add:
kbd=fr-latin1
...to the kernel command line, my keyboard gets all screwed up;
qwerty becomes
For a long time, I have represented a single point of failure for the
Unattended SourceForge project. Since I am the sole administrator
of the project, it would be annoying if anything were to happen to me.
(The source code is available to anybody, of course. But the
project's administration
Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The following items are not supported in LinuxBoot v4.0a :
a)The Realtek Cardbus PC Card (Model EP-4103DL) is not detected by
the Linux kernel. This card uses the rtl8139 controller.
This may be fixed in 4.0b. Apparently, the Linux kernel does not
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I just take the linux boot disk and keep everything else the
same?
Not quite. See the FAQ (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html);
in particular, the link titled copying some new stuff.
- Pat
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Add the folowing lines to the _meta tag in your unattend.txt
z_user = domainname\userid
Sounds like cheating to me :)
True, but it should serve as a workaround.
On the upside the Linux Boot Disk took domainname\jmblack and seems
to be 'doing the
OK, so the linuxboot .zip archive was broken and missing the
install/linuxaux directory... Whoops.
It is fixed now.
Also, since my karma is such that things never fail one at a time, my
users.sourceforge.net Email has been dead for the past 14 hours or so.
I was forwarding it via my old
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* linux bootdisk errors
could not open /lib/modules/2.6.3
ide-core.ko, ide-generic.ko
when loading ide-generic ide-disk
/etc/master: line 164: make-blkdev-nodes: commande not found
sys/block: fd0, ram0-14
else network seems ok
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
oops ... was it
works well
Good to hear.
on debian, i make:
cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz
/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz for french, for example.
maybe this:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-15.html
OK, I
Unattended version 4.0b is now available for download from
http://unattended.sourceforge.net. This is primarily a bug-fix
release.
The most interesting addition is Shad's install/site/sample-config.pl.
It is so interesting that I think I will start a different thread to
discuss it.
Thanks to
Eugene Kotlyarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Reason is that makefile is oriented on bash, and make uses simple
sh. There is some environment variable to set up program for make
subshell, but last time I've tried it, it didn't work.
For complicated reasons, make ignores the environment
Sylvain Faivre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In case you're upgrading from unattended 3.x, you might also want to
refresh your whole setup. I don't know if the 4.x boot disk works
with a 3.x install share.
You definitely need to refresh Z:\dosbin (especially install.pl) and
Z:\lib (especially the
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, I've found an ALL POWERFUL CHECKBOX in Winzip configuration
(though I haven't tested it yet).
Options-Configuration-Miscellaneous-TAR file smart CR/LF conversion
My guess is that UNchecking this box will make things work properly.
mark harburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Got a link/requirements for wiki? I'd be happy to offer/host it since this
project helps me out so much.
Matt sent a couple of links as examples of Wikis he liked:
I'm personally fond of BestPractical's wiki for RequestTracker
software
Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The install.pl script starts and I told it that I want to use whole
drive c:, to format the drive and overwrite the mbr.
I did not see anything to suggest that the hard drive was actually
formatted.
We defer that step until dosemu is running, because
I went through various old messages to the mailing list and put
together this:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html
The star of the show is the link to Jeff's Quick Install Guide. I
will update the link as soon as mail-archive.com indexes the latest
revision.
Once the Quick Install
Jeff Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I assume that mcopy is part of the mtools package.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find mtools in the cygwin's
setup list of applications. Is it possibly known by another name?
Do I have to compile from source?
Eugene provides links for mtools and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only used a 10 second delay, and it worked like a charm.
I hate random delays. But since we do not even know what we are
waiting for, never mind how to wait for it from a cmd shell, I do not
see any choice.
I have added a 10-second delay to
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Synopsis: Unattended installation using Windows 2000 Server goes
great. Then it fails to complete the perl installation.
Hm. I have installed 2000 Server using Unattended before, but it has
been a while.
It auto-logs on successfully (as
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So I'm still not sure whether it's time dependent or not. Very
frustrating though!
The next step, I guess, is to add something like this to the top of
perl.bat:
ping -n 120 localhost nul
This will sleep for two minutes before attempting to
Gerhard Heift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Pat,
was a lot of work, but now the patch should be OK...
Applied. Thank you!
- Pat
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Jeffrey A. Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been having trouble trying to get mapznrun.bat and postinst.bat to
run after the initial OS install. I'm running my own unattend.txt in
install/site. Text of the _meta section is below.
Ah, that would be a problem... Not all of those settings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what I mean is, can the sub ask_os be substituted for something that
cooperates with the asset number stuff? So the os installation is
completely based on the asset number I fill in.
Absolutely! To get an idea how this works, read the later sections of
Gerhard Heift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
i have collected the links for the german patches for Win2k, IE6 and
Office 2k. The DirectX and Defrag-Scripts are also included. Pherhaps
somebody could need them.
Cool! But these patches do not apply cleanly against our current
development
imdos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scanning for OS directories under Z:\...
None found! Bailing at Z:\dosbin\install.pl line 656.
Wait, that's not right. It should have said:
Scanning for OS directories under Z:\os...
Have you made any changes to Z:\lib\unattend.txt,
OK, OK, so I should have tested install.pl under DOS.
Makes me wonder about the whole release candidate idea, though.
Release 4.0a is coming Real Soon; either tonight (because 4.0 is just
broken) or tomorrow (to coincide with Microsoft's hotfix release
schedule).
Meanwhile, another release
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a possibility to not re-compile all the utilities, just to
have another server setting?
Version 4.0a allows this. Just edit pxelinux.cfg/default to add
something like this to the append line:
z_user=myself z_pass=sekrit
Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For those of us without Linux, can we make this change.
I am not sure. Linux makes these values visible as a flat text file
(/proc/cmdline), which is very handy. I have no idea how to access
these settings from under DOS+memdisk, or even whether it is
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only thing that I've been meaning to try is:
a:\MODE COM1:96,N,8,1
a:\CTTY COM1
I have added FreeDOS mode.com to the DOS boot disk in 4.0a (coming
soon). And ctty is a shell builtin. So this might actually work.
Ok, I'll have to follow up with
Ah, this we can already do.
Open install.pl and find the ask_fdisk_cmds() subroutine. Copy it to
Z:\site\config.pl and rename it as my_ask_fdisk_cmds() or whatever.
Edit that copy to do whatever you want.
Flesh out Z:\site\config.pl like this:
sub my_ask_fdisk_cmds () {
... your
Although tomorrow is Microsoft Tuesday, I decided not to wait. I
think it is important to have our current stable release actually
work. Also, I chose to announce this one both on SourceForge and on
Freshmeat, so it may get more exposure than usual.
Share and enjoy.
- Pat
** Changes in
imdos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scanning for OS directories under Z:\...
None found! Bailing at Z:\dosbin\install.pl line 656.
This means the system did not find anything which looks like a Windows
CD under Z:\os.
smb.conf
--
[install]
path = /install
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
For the DOS boot disk, I think this is just a property of your BIOS;
either it supports
Unattended 4.0 Release Candidate 2 is available from
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/.
Download the main distribution (unattended-4.0rc2.tar.gz), plus one or
both of the -dosboot and -linuxboot tarballs. Extract everything to
the same place.
Changes since 4.0rc1:
- Added support
Luciano Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm wondering how far off this is (approximatly) If we're talking
about a week, I'd rather wait off setting up my install point for
the new version to be released, but if its more than 2 weeks out,
I'd go ahead and make my install point.
I am waiting
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My RAID card is an Adaptec SCSI RAID 2110S. There don't seem to be
drivers for it on the iso image.
It is possible that the drivers are there, but that they do not
advertise themselves properly via a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE declaration.
This is why
Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm starting to work on pre-install for Me, using the OEM
pre-install as the base, and working from there. I do eventually
want to add it to the unattended, but that would take a lot more
work.
If you are willing to do the work, I would be willing to
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it possible to boot from, map a drive to, and install from DVD.
I have branch offices overseas that I would like to ship a disk to,
rather than trying to set up servers at each site.
In theory, yes. In practice, I know of nobody who has tried it.
Just to add a bit to Ryan's answer...
raman singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. I have to install Linux (Redhat) on some systems and MS OS (all
win 98 - Win2k3) on some. I know before hand which system should
have what OS.
Good luck with Windows 98.
For RedHat, you can use their kickstart
Aron Mangano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Firstly, what has happended to the mailing list. I used to receive
emails regulary but I haven't received one now for more than 2
months. I used to receive them almost daily.
Well, you successfully sent this message to the list :-).
Perhaps mail to you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having an issue when it is time to start the install.pl I get
an error (Can't Locate attributes.pm in @ INC (@INC contains: Z:\lib
/dev/env/djdir/lib/perl5 etc.)
Max is right; this is an eight-character limitation.
It is why we ship a file named attribut.pm in
Rönnblom Janåke /Teknous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any way of having the CTRL+C working or is there another
way of breaking for example ping?
I use CTRL-ALT-DEL :-). And ping -c 5.
The CTRL-C handling has something to do with initial consoles and TTYs
and stuff, which I do not
Judging from the slew of unsubscribe requests, not everyone on the
unattended-info list is interested in the Linux-based boot disk.
So I think now is a good time to start using the unattended-devel
list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel/
I originally created
Rönnblom Janåke /Teknous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Partially works, it loads the appropriate drivers but the udhcpc-script
is wrong since my network isn't a 255.255.255.0 network but for example:
192.168.138.128 net
192.168.138.190 default gw
192.168.138.191 broadcast
192.168.138.170
Or, how I spent my weekend.
I could not find a diskless Linux distribution which does everything I
want, so I rolled my own. There is something approximating a
Linux-based boot disk under http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/
called bootdisk-0.0.iso.
This is for testing only; it does not
(Administrative note: Sorry I haven't been around lately. You can
blame IBM for consuming all my free time:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/challenges/February2004.html
But I do have some cycles to burn on Unattended this weekend.)
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
pommerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when I change the unattended.txt file (by config.pl or by a final
edit), is there a log-file, where I can see what happened during the
unattended installation?
No, although there is an open feature request for this on the
SourceForge page.
Patches are
Nils Østbjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I was wondering why auconfig.pl sets
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/WindowsUpdate/Auto Update
instead of using the policies in
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Policies/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate/AU
Well, at the time I wrote
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, it turns out that the MSCLIENT stack *can* do DNS resolution;
you just have to load the dnr.exe tool first. And possibly
configure it.
I finally got around to experimenting with this, only to find that
dnr.exe is only useful for ping
DeLisle, Seth (GE Infrastructure) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First of all let me thank Patrick and everyone who has worked on the
Unattended project. It makes the world seem like a better place ;)
Positive feedback is always nice. Thank you!
I poked around in the mailing list archives and
pommerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
how is it possible to disable/enable sound during installation
(base.bat)
Interesting question.
The best I can find is this VB script from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=178456
I tried and failed to find a way to do this from Perl. The
Hagen Muench [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This would really be nice. One time, we tried out to boot from memory
stick. We didn't solved this problem yet.
I have read you need a fairly sophisticated BIOS, and that such BIOSes
are often buggy. But it would be fun to try just the same.
| With all
Max Lovius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I try on the client to use IO::Socket, IO::Handle, I die with can't
locate SelectSaver.pm in @INC (@INC contains: Z:\lib
/dev/env/DJDIR/lib/perl5 /dev/env/DJDIR/lib/perl5/site
/dev/env/DJDIR/lib/perl5/site...then the other modules same thing.
There
Alexander Schuppisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We are developing a similar open-source project for large networks
which is still somewhat different to your approach. We are thinking
about a merge with unattended, but we don't know, if this is A)
welcomed and B) how our sources are
Dag Nummedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jordan Share writes:
Yes, I have read that KB article. It says, The correct OEMDIR
destination can be found by searching the INF file used to install
the device or driver.
Ah. Well, that is embarrassing.
Would you believe I treated OEMDIR as a
Max Lovius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I want to do is :
(1) remotely reboot a computer.
(2) have the first boot, partion hard drive.
(3) have the second reboot, continue the unattended installation.
Easy enough.
(4) have a system that will then change automatically unattended
(in
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote a script that use Unattended::Inifile to grab a value out of
the unattend file. However, this does not take place until fairly
late in the install after perl and windows have been installed.
When the script executes, I get the following
Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using unattended to install servers from 3 vendors: IBM,
Compaq/HP, and Dell. What is the easiest way to make sure I have
all the drivers I need for each vendor? I'd like to be able to
install Win2k on any server from each of the three vendors.
I have uploaded another (probably final) test release to:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing
If you are going to have problems with the new FreeDOS-based boot
disk, now is the time to find out. Come on, you know you want to.
This release includes a brand-new version of FreeDOS
Well, it turns out that the MSCLIENT stack *can* do DNS resolution;
you just have to load the dnr.exe tool first. And possibly
configure it.
I have put a copy of dnr.exe in
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. To try it:
1) Add it to your boot disk
2) Edit \net\tcputils.ini to add a
Sorry about all the virus warning messages this week. I keep adding
filtering rules and cranking down the SpamAssassin threshold, but it
is amazing how many different ways stupid software can say Look at
this virus I am bouncing.
Just wanted you all to know that I am working on it. The only
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can security patches be integrated in the windows install files in
the same way service packs are?
Sort of. See
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/os.html#hotfixes
- Pat
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Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to know how to install everything but Access and
FrontPage in an Office install. What would I add to the command line
to do this?
Which version of Office? (It may not matter here, but it can in
general.)
You need to learn the names of
Sylvain Faivre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I submitted a modified script for French updates a few months ago,
and Pat had plans to have multiple files to download the required
updates for different languages (instead of just adding other
languages' URL's in the files like win2ksp4-updates.bat).
Unattended 4.0-test1 is now available. You can download it from:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/
SourceForge CVS is a little broken at the moment, so I rolled this
straight from my own development tree. What could go wrong?
The NEWS.txt entry looks like this so far:
Stephen Briney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At what point dose mapznrun.bat get put on the local machine (or do
I have to do it!). When windows finished installing I get the error
message cannot find mapznrun.bat. I'm using v 3.4. Thanks, steve.
What is the complete and exact text of the error
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
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Loading e100b.imz
Ready.
MEMDISK 2.07 2.07-pre5 Copyright 2001-2003 H. Peter Anvin
There were some problems with compressed floppy images and MEMDISK
2.07. We upgraded to 2.08 in Unattended 3.5; please try it and let me
know what
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I upgraded to 3.5. I got past the memdisk error, but now the bootup hangs
at:
Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP
Doesn't go any farther than that.
That is very, very strange. Especially since it worked once. I
assume you have tried rebooting and
Stephen Briney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have found that it is the partition info on the hard disk that is
causing the boot disk to hang. This was because the hard disks I
was using had Linux on previously. The simple fix was to write over
the partition table on the disk and then use the
Stephen Briney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When using these motherboards the system prints something like
Starting MS Dos. And then straight away, the disk
access light goes out and nothing else.
...
The machines do a similar thing when I try and boot them with a boot
disk I created in
Norström, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I re-write the code so the todo.pl writes this correct into the todo
txt file?
This is a bug in the development tree, not in released code. In
general, such bugs should probably be reported to me personally or to
whomever committed the bad
Andrew Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I changed that on to
# Location of the to do list.
my $todo = $ENV{'systemdrive'}. '\\netinst\\todo.txt';
# Location of mapznrun script
my $mapznrun = $ENV{'systemdrive'}.'\\netinst\\mapznrun.bat';
this of course works great.
Just a thought
Norström, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My first question will be how to delay the mapping of the Z:\ drive?
For the record, Daniel was installing Perl in a non-standard place,
causing some (fragile) logic in mapznrun.bat to fail. I have replaced
that logic with ping -n 10 localhost nul,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+ I saw an out-of-memory error from winnt.exe, once or twice.
This is what you would expect if you had insufficient conventional
memory. The exact message is Setup is out of memory and cannot
continue.
+ Most often: The install starts with its first phase of copying
Grigory Pendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Everything worked nice until i decided to remove GUEST account
access from UNATTENDED share. Currently i've shared the folder for
specific group only and i'm able to perform an installation while
logging initially with my username and password.
More
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If so, when should it be uninstalled in order to have everithing
else work?
I do not understand why anybody would want this. Having Perl is no
different than having Visual Basic, and nobody asks about uninstalling
THAT. But you are
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a volume license of office and have hardcoded the pidkey into the
office.bat file.
todo.pl %Z%\packages\officexp\setuppls.exe /qb /l*
c:\netinst\logs\officexp.txt ADDLOCAL=ALL NOUSERNAME=1
PIDKEY=X-X-X-X-X
Get rid of the
jbeckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a Dell Optiplex GX260 with that uses the e1000 network
driver. This network card driver isn't not included by default in
Windows XP, so I have followed the steps to add it using the
unattend.txt file, but it still is not installing correctly. I put
Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But something like this would probably be easier on your users:
shortcut.pl C:\...\mplayerc.exe special:AllUsersDesktop\Media Player
what I meant was it created the file mplayer.lnk, but I wanted it to
be called Media Player Classic
In that case,
Adam Peart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm new to the list, and have only used unattend a couple of times
with no problems, but I have a couple of questions.
1) with shortcut.pl, can you pass it the name of the shortcut to
create, not just based on the filename? (ie. mplayerc.exe for Media
James Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The following line inserted in the Sun JVM installation script
(Z:\scripts\sun-jre.bat) works with the new prepare script to download
the installation file:
::
URL|ALL|http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9504|packag
Gareth Budge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With regard to the additional drivers not installing, Windows itself
does not recognise that the device requires additional drivers to
have the PCI card function. We normally have to manually install
these extra 2 drivers ourselves, so I am hopeful that
Gareth Budge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. One of the drivers was unsigned, and it thus asked me to confirm if
I want to continue by selecting Yes. How do I prevent this?
In Z:\site\unattend.txt, put:
[Unattended]
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
See also
Brad Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1023
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=276278
That is for Win2k (with service pack). Does anyone happen to know if
the limit is the same for XP?
See also http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/25092/.
- Pat
Not many changes this time. The most important, and the reason for
having a release at all, is the update to SYSLINUX to resolve multiple
issues on various BIOSes.
There are several open tickets in the SourceForge Tracker, and I
apologize that we did not get to most of them. We should have more
Gareth Budge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
Okay well I have tried the suggestion and I am able to access the
share via Windows doing \\dvrinst\install however it comes back
with the same error when doing it from the bootdisc image.
Which suggestion did you try?
Can you please advise
Sylvain is correct.
In version 3.3, we switched to using compressed images, and we also
accidentally shipped a bad ISO image (no memdisk file).
In 3.4, we fixed the ISO image, but we still suffered from a SYSLINUX
bug involving compressed images on some systems. (Not on any systems
of mine nor
memdisk is more likely to be the culprit than pxelinux.0.
Can you humor me? I just rolled a new bootdisk.iso with SYSLINUX
2.08-pre11 and uploaded it to
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. Could you burn it to a
CD and try it?
- Pat
Brad Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That should
Brad Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No Dice. I replaced it and it still freezes. It says:
MEMDISK 2.07 2.07-pre5 Peter Anvin
then a bunch of lines staring with e820.
Is this the most recent version?
Latest is 2.08-pre11. You can download the whole enchilada from
Brad Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still more of the same. I only replaced the memdisk file, anything
else I should try?
The ISO works but booting from the network does not? That is odd...
In that case, we are probably looking at a bad interaction among
memdisk, MS-DOS, and your PXE
Gareth Budge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
\\192.168.0.50\install
The boot disk uses the MSCLIENT networking stack, which is pretty old.
It very possibly does not support IP addresses in the hostname field.
You could try populating \net\lmhosts with a line like this:
192.168.0.50 foobar
Well... There are many companies which make their money by supporting
open source products. Red Hat is perhaps the most prominent, but
there are lots of smaller ones.
As long as the source code remains free, I do not see a problem.
That said, I am not sure Unattended has enough users to make
Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How well does unattended handle servers with hardware RAID arrays?
Is there a special boot image I need to use?
A hardware RAID card usually hooks itself into the BIOS, so the
DOS-based boot disk should be able to see it.
If you have a normal hard
Hm, tricky.
According to this thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=uOmqnfa5BHA.2196%40tkmsftngp07
...the relevant registry entry is the Taskbar value under the
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Streams/Desktop
key. Obviously, it is a per-user setting.
James Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--13:40:38-- http://-o/
= `index.html'
Resolving -o... failed: Host not found.
That is doubly peculiar. First, the script uses -O, not -o.
Second, -o should be processed as an option.
I am strongly inclined to rewrite the script in Perl,
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