Brian May wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 16:47 +1000, Brian May wrote:
1. Can't download the packages files. I imported the install/scripts
directory straight from CVS, so it doesn't contain any extra files:
As of the last CVS update it is now:
--14:19:59--
If your using driverpacks, then stick to using they're method, and
everything works great. That way it copies all the drivers compressed
instead of extracted, since it's faster copying *297.34 MB* compared to
copying *1714.7 MB* if your using all the drivers. Also, you have to
worry about
Nott, Andrew wrote:
Hi all,
I've been experimenting with Unattended over the last few days. I have
my installation share set up for winxpsp2, packages downloaded, and
linux boot cd burned. I'm having one minor issue - the boot cd fails
to mount the install share if I tell it to just accept
Ben Walton wrote:
I could swear that when xp hit the streets there was much hulabaloo from
Redmond about releasing service packs every 6 months...I can find no
reference to it via google. Does anyone else remember this at all, or
am I thinking of something completely different.
Thanks
-Ben
This is what someone else posted which works great for me.
for %%i in (%Z%\packages\mozilla\firefox_extensions\*.xpi) do todo.pl
\%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\
-install-global-extension \%%i\
todo.pl \%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\ -CreateProfile
default
todo.pl
Good news. The new Sourceforge CVS server is up running, and all the
changes are up-to-date, including the Windows updates that were posted
on the 13th. You need to change the scripts website to reflect the
new changes. The site is
http://unattended.cvs.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended/
From what I've seen after I heard about this, it mostly works. There
are a few updates that do need to restart the computer, otherwise
following updates will detect that that patch wasn't installed and
refuse to install. That's pretty much just with win2k, esp. after
installing IE6, Directx
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp521_full_emusic-7plus.exe
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Or do what the driverpacks do, and use short directory names. For
example, the drivers directory is just called d instead of drivers,
categories directories inside just have the first or first two letters
of the driver. So for the Realtek 97 sound driver, it's \d\s\r.
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
Which server are you using? Windows or Linux, etc.?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean the MAC - PXE boot image mapping? No. There is only one image
on both machines.
Tcpdump on the new server doesn't show ANY UDP connections when the client
starts up, whereas tcpdump on old client shows
Artturi Kyrömies wrote:
Not quite right.
I do not only _removed_ .reboot-on 194 but _replaced_ it with
.ignore-error 194 so the install will not fail!
My goal was to use everything the unattended way except the reboot
mania with the updates.
I can not see how Autopatcher fits in... one thing
PDFCreator 0.9 -
http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-0_9_0_GPLGhostscript.exe
Firefox 1.5.0.1 - enu -
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.5.0.1.exe
Winamp 5.13 -
Anders Nyström wrote:
hello
I am using a batch file to set/unset the DHCP options
everytime when I want install unattended
but there is one option 043 Vendor Specific Info
that I can not script, somehow becouse of the datatype
netsh dumps the dataype as DWORD
but does not accept its own dump
Jan Tietjen wrote:
Hi Nelson,
Nelson Witten wrote:
Hello -
I recently got the unattended system going in a lab to test it out.
The only downside I see with the project is the length of time it
takes to install the OS and applications. For my situation it takes
just about 3 1/2 hours to
Jan Tietjen wrote:
I can not see how Autopatcher fits in... one thing are the missing
languages supported by this tool.
The only point was that Autopatcher installs all the updates, then
reboots after they are all installed
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The updates need updating in cvs. There's updates out for Windows XP
2000 that came out on the 11th, and Winamp came out on the 20th.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have noticed that too. Automatic update DOES seem to indicate that
the Windows Installer 3.1 should be installed, but it only
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone explain to me what this line in the adobe-reader.bat file
is trying to do? I can't find any reference to what %m or %%m referrs
to, and that script will randomly fail on me.
todo.pl for %%m in (\%TEMP%\adberdr\Adobe Reader 7.0*.msi\) do
msiexec /qb /l*
Jerome Brown wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:25:36 -0700
To: unattended list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Unattended] Intel NIC not getting installed even with DriverPack
I'm trying to get a stack of Sony Vaio
Eugene Kotlyarov wrote:
BTW does anyone know links for Spybot and Sun Jre for non-interactive
download?
http://fileforum.betanews.com/sendfile/1043809773/1/spybotsd14.exe
I think this should work.
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Williams Timothy C SSgt 72 OSS/OSW wrote:
Is it 020 for central time or 20? We have 20 in our
unanswered file, but does not seem to work. Just want to clarify if it
is supposed to be 020 for Win XP. Thank you..
SSgt Timothy Williams, //MCSE//
IT Systems Administrator
72nd
Or even faster, browse to c:\netinst, and drag postinst.bat onto mapznrun.bat
At 01:27 PM 7/20/2005, you wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Landy Bible enlightened us:
I had a laptop I was trying to use Unattended to set up. It turned out
that the network driver didn't get
Are you trying to put the info in the database? What everyone's suggesting
is to put the lines into \site\unattended.txt.
At 05:07 PM 7/20/2005, you wrote:
I don't seem to see what I am doing wrong, I dropped in what you suggested
for the partition value associated with the mac address of my
At 12:34 PM 5/25/2005, Chad Anderson wrote:
Thanks. It works to create the shortcut, but not with the description I
give it. Here is my example
shortcut.pl --description Excel c:\program files\microsoft
office\office11\excel.exe special:AllUsersDesktop
Instead of the shortcut using a
Hi, you don't need to use shortcut.pl with todo.pl. For example:
:: OPTIONAL: Install Charred Dirt
@Echo off
echo Installing
todo.pl timeit %0
shortcut.pl c:\games\CDirt\cdirt.exe special:AllUsersDesktop\Charred Dirt
shortcut.pl c:\games\CDirt\cdirt.exe
Any of these spoofs are supposed to be forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but
because of all the headers, it wasn't accepted. Can we put a block against
paypal as the subject line in this list?
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you could always just install firefox first the adobe, otherwise you
need to use something like start /wait command so a command prompt
waits till the termination of the install program before going to the
next one
It's probably better if Firefox is installed first, just like IE upgrades
are,
Is it Windows 2000? If so, try slipstreamming SP4 into the install directory.
At 11:27 AM 5/3/2005, you wrote:
Has anyone had any luck with the Dell OEM W2K + SP2 disc - it is green
in color.
I am successfully installing XP Volume and XP Retail, but this 2K won't
work. It dies on the initial
Are you using vmware 4.5? I think this was one of the problems with
4.5. Try either 4.0 or 5.0.
At 10:26 AM 4/26/2005, you wrote:
Hello,
I believe this is a known bug/problem in VMware. Try to search the
archives for the syslinux list. This has been discussed numerous times.
HTH,
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At 03:16 AM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
Hi,
I have in my unattend.txt the following lines:
[Shell]
DefaultThemesOff=No
DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes
I want the xp-theme, with the classic start menu.
But when install is finished and I log in with a fresh, new user, the user
gets the classic look and not
At 04:21 AM 3/30/2005, you wrote:
if you are using OEM installation then when it comes to activating
Microsoft will
have a fit.
in my situation we are using OEM so I have used the CSV procedure.
Cheers
Steven Pretlove
If I use a unattend.txt containing the Product Key, I would be
installing the
At 04:19 AM 3/21/2005, you wrote:
Hi Greg!
I can (must) confirm this problem. (And I think, a second one too:
Win*-notips.pl seems to fail too).
Actually we have a script called bootini.pl which solves this
problem, but for some reason it is not called or does not work
anymore.
cu
Niels
With
In dos, you can only work through a drive letter. You can't directly use a
unc path.
At 01:09 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote:
Hello
Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
When running appsonly.bat from a mapped network drive, it will launch
appsonly.pl. If running the batch file from a unc path, appsonly.pl won't
Or the even easier answer is just modify the config.pl, and have the
different unattended.txt files in the site directory. For example from my
config.pl:
# File to hold site-specific customizations.
# Enable maximum warnings and disallow sloppy constructs.
use warnings;
use strict;
my
At 03:50 AM 1/20/2005, you wrote:
Hi all,
can anybody recommend some freeware tool for erasing temp files, browser
caches etc. that can be deployed with unattended?
I like iiSystemWiper (www.iisoftware.net) very much, but unfortunately
there is no silent mode install.
Regards
Gerhard
I haven't
I like the layout better than the original. However, this one is missing a
link to the news.txt file.Also, it would be helpful if it also says the
latest official version. (ie, not what's in testing)
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Just a couple updates for the two programs I wrote for controlling the volume.
For both programs, if the sound card isn't set up in Windows yet, it will
exit without any message boxes.
Download from http://www.capprogramming.com/unattended/mute.zip, and
At 03:29 AM 10/19/2004, you wrote:
Friends,
It would sure be nice and convenient for the testing of unattended if
the linux boot disk problems, preventing it from booting under vmware
4.5.x would be solved.
Has anybody had success in that department?
It's not just Unattended that has problems with
Couldn't you just disable the mouse keyboard, all though I don't know if
autoit would still work.
At 08:06 PM 10/18/2004, you wrote:
I would assume it doesn't. I'm not using any AutoIT scripts at the
moment, hopefully I can avoid them for this reason.
-Murray
-Original Message-
From:
At 12:08 PM 9/27/2004, you wrote:
Hi list,
has anybody of you ever managed to successfully add a Win XP driver for a
SmartLink modem to his OS installation point? This modem is very commonly
used in Notebook PCs.
Regards
Gerhard
I've got a ECS Desknote that uses a Connexant modem, and I'm
The full version of Adobe Reader 6.0.2 is now available for download, so
you don't need to install .01 and then the .02 update.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html#reader602full
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What I did was in z:\site\config.pl:
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use warnings;
use strict;
my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia-new ($u-{'_meta'}-{'OS_media'});
my $os_name = $media_obj-name ();
At 08:12 AM 9/11/2004, you wrote:
Julien TOUCHE wrote:
could someone commit the patch part ?
I've commited it. Thanks.
What's the patch for, anyways?
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A few months ago people were asking about how to disable the volume since
Windows keeps rebooting every minute or two. SO I downloaded the source
code that Patrick pointed to and made it into a program that gets called
from the command line. To use it:
volume parameter
parameter = off or 0 -
At 07:08 PM 07/14/2004, you wrote:
note: I don't see a bat for firefox or thunderbird on the cvs either
(likely the same install syntax) - want me to add em? or just be shellfish?
I use firefox myself... nice and no IE holes... no Opera ads... just me
and a nice fast browser :-)
I've just started
And here's another option, since I have one computer that I had to do the
same thing. Let the unattended make the two partition, and then I created
a script in the scripts directory:
1prgfls.bat
:: OPTIONAL: Change Program Files to d:\ instead of c:\
todo.pl .reboot
todo.pl regedit /s
At 10:00 PM 05/24/2004, you wrote:
I've download the program from http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
I still can't get my PC to work with it.
It boots off the network card and starts to do something but ends up with
error message Could not find kernel image: Linux
Has anyone got instruction's on how to
I'm stuck on witch file name to use for the boot image. I tried using
bzImage, but the file size is 964k, so if you multiply by 1024 it gives you
get 987136 bytes / 512 = 1928. Using this method I get
NBP is too big to fit in free base memory
If I use pxelinux.0 it's 11800 bytes / 512 =
At 06:13 AM 05/14/2004, you wrote:
--On 14 May 2004 11:55 +0200 Stephan Lampe [ITXP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could try a shutdown -l or shutdown -r.
That causes an immediate logout or reboot, doesn't it? What I would like
to do is allow the user to continue working uninterrupted but convert
At 11:36 AM 04/30/2004, you wrote:
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one extra note: add a description option to shortcut.pl,
http://www.winnetmag.com/WindowsScripting/Article/ArticleID/9176/9176.html
Also in this article is Code to Customize the Quick Launch Toolbar
listing 3 at
Also, in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsprospecialfolders.asp,
you can also set the hotkey for the shortcut, not that I've ever used it.
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In the advanced.html file, the example says:
$u-{'UserData'}-{'ProductKey'} =
sub {
my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia-new ($u-{'_meta'}-{'OS_media'});
my $os_name = $media_obj-name ();
if ($os_name =~ /Windows XP/) {
return 'MY-WINDOWS-XP-KEY';
}
At 03:53 PM 03/25/2004, you wrote:
I have been installing win XP successfully on 2G for ages now. Are you
copying a lot of drivers with the installation? Other than that, I can't
think why it would complain about not enough space. I am using winxpoem for
these installs though.
The only time that
At 08:29 PM 03/23/2004, you wrote:
I tested the
install with both and it doesn't seem to effect the end result of having the
plugins registered but it does effect the noise level of the installation.
With /qb there is still a status window displayed while using /qn results in
absolute zen-like
What we really need is real package management...
- Pat
It's funny, I saw this message, and then yesterday we got a computer from
one of our suppliers who used the official XP pre-install, and I found this
program in the sysprep
directory. http://s90124432.onlinehome.us/autodriver.jpg
The
Just a little thing that I wish could be added. In the reboot the computer
script, there is a count down, but I also wish there was a cancel button in
the box in case you don't want to restart yet. I know the whole idea of
unattend is to walk away, but if you're there and you find you need to
At 09:43 AM 02/25/2004, you wrote:
I think you realy don't want to do that.
I think what you should do is place the files you want under the i386
folder in a folder $1, unless you are doing something dynamic?
The is a great web page at http://unattended.sourceforge.net/os.html
sorry...
Look at the
The best I can find is
http://www.msfn.org/unattended/xp/autologon.htm
The problem is that since I connect to a SBS server, I have to run a
setup to create the proper username.
I do not know much about SBS. How is it different from just joining a
domain?
What is the proper username? A local
I was wondering if there was a way I could get install.pl to create the
.bat files in the netinst directory and everything else, except the
instruction to run the mapznrun.bat
Under $u-{'GuiRunOnce'}-{'Command0'} = at the bottom of the sub you
have $ret = $mapznrun $postinst; Could I change
If you use todo.pl and shortcut.pl, which order do you put them in. For
todo you put them in reverse order, but do you put shortcut after todo or
before?
example:
todo.pl %z%\packages\mediaplayerclassic\mediaplayer.exe
shortcut.pl C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe
At 09:48 AM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
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
Something someone suggested on the MSFN forum for unattend switches:
del %allusersprofile%\start menu\WinZip.lnk
del %allusersprofile%\desktop\WinZip.lnk
could just put that in the cleanup.bat
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At 04:57 PM 1/6/2004, you wrote:
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
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 Player Classic,
shortcut was called
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