So, I was having problems getting the new linux-based unattended to work
with these systems.
I had the txtsetup.oem stuff all sussed out for the dos-based boot disk
(which I first did about a year ago). Since then, I moved to the
linux-based unattended setup.
As we only have about 3 machines
Conrad Lawes wrote:
If you're using the PXELinux loader, then you should be able to deploy
both Window$ and Linux OSs be simply modify the pxelinux.cfg/default (or
IPHEX) file.
Indeed, we both kickstart and use Unattended from the same
dhcp/tftp/pxelinux setup.
The pxelinux stuff is just a
John Heim wrote:
At 08:01 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
John G. Heim wrote:
If I want to do a serial console install, what should I set the
terminal settings to? I have my terminal emulator set to 9600,8n1 but
I am not getting anything.
I append:
console=ttyS0,9600
to the append line on in the
John G. Heim wrote:
If I want to do a serial console install, what should I set the
terminal settings to? I have my terminal emulator set to 9600,8n1 but I
am not getting anything.
I append:
console=ttyS0,9600
to the append line on in the pxelinux.cfg/default file.
Jordan
Jordan Share wrote:
I'm trying to install this update:
:: ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack
1 on Windows Server 2003
:: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-004
But it seems that the update itself kicks off a reboot, while install.pl
is trying to kick off
I'm trying to install this update:
:: ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1
on Windows Server 2003
:: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-004
But it seems that the update itself kicks off a reboot, while install.pl
is trying to kick off a reboot. The system
Allan Stones wrote:
Hey there, whats the possibility that we could install grub or lilo onto
the system and windows onto another drive or something to finalyl allow
windows to support multiple OSes from installation?
We use grub to multiboot 2 windows and 1 linux.
General steps that we use:
Jeffrey C Albro wrote:
Ahh, that's good for linux installs (gonna add that to my bag of tricks!),
but that doesn't allow you to pick Windows OR Linux during the Unattended
interactive phase, right?
Right, instead you pick which one you want by which pxe boot option you
select. Thus, you don't
Tony Worrall wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to make an unattended installer that takes a file with
something like:
macaddress|osversion|ipaddress|admin username|password
It should be able to install an OS (based on osversion - say redhat,
debian,freebsd or Windows) based on the MAC address that it uses to
Ziad O'Hanlon wrote:
Another trivial question:
I would like to set personnal variables for boot on lan:
z_user, z_pass et z_path.
I don't know how to change option 233 on tftp32 as dhcp server, so I would
like to modify this parameters using another way:
Do I need to modify the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the
distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from,
and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what
DEVICE to boot from.
With this floppy, you could boot it,
Stefan Kell wrote:
Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from
CD?
To be honest, no. :) The docs explicitly talk about this functionality,
but I have never had cause to use it.
Jordan
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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions
are still using 512byte clusters? I had the impression that the move
to the linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable
4k clusters.
Or was I
Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions are
still using 512byte clusters? I had the impression that the move to the
linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable 4k clusters.
Or was I just thinking that for no reason?
Thanks,
Jordan
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell
it to Use Whole Disk ?
It already does, or tries to. By default, our first partitioning
command is fdisk /clear 1 which translates into the Parted command
Jordan Share wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell
it to Use Whole Disk ?
It already does, or tries to. By default, our first partitioning
command is fdisk /clear 1 which translates
So, I have a lot of lab machines. Some of them had Fedora Core 2
installed on them, and I wanted to instead install Windows (2000 and XP)
on them instead.
Naturally, I used our unattended setup to kick off the install.
Everything went fine until the first reboot (when you start booting into
I would like to use this partitioning scheme (I think :):
'fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk
/ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk
/log:100,100 /spec:131',
The idea is that it will create:
* 2 partitions for use with windows,
Jordan Share wrote:
I would like to use this partitioning scheme (I think :):
'fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk
/ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk
/log:100,100 /spec:131',
The idea is that it will create:
* 2 partitions
Urs Rau wrote:
The documentation @ http://unattended.sourceforge.net/os.html
says:
NOTE: The total absolute length of any file name, including the leading
\os\...\$oem$ portion, must not exceed 64 characters or winnt.exe will
get an error when it tries to copy the file.
I know from bitter
Urs Rau wrote:
Thanks Jordan,
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:35:48 -0700, Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It didn't happen with Unattended 3.5 because they were using MSDOS, and
this is a Freedos problem.
But this tells me about loads of files that are over the 64 absolute
filename + path limit
I am getting these error messages:
---
Creating c:\netinst\unattend.txt...done.
1) Edit c:\netinst\unattend.txt
2) Edit C:\netinst\postinst.bat (will run after OS install is done)
3) Edit c:\netinst\doit.bat (will run when you select Continue)
4) Continue
X) Exit this program
Select:
I'd like to leverage the CVS repository to keep my unattended scripts
directory current, but I don't want to build my own binaries.
Can someone lay out a general overview of how this would be accomplished?
I am migrating from 3.5 to the linux boot disk. I am already PXE booting,
etc., and I am
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anybody who uses unattended with a usb-stick or anybody who
can tell me where to start at ??
Yes. See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#usb-boot.
There is also this page on the wiki:
Oliver Kuhl wrote:
Hi all,
this weekend I got my first unattended network installation of Windows
XP including drivers and some basic applications to work. Really a good
piece of software - so a big thank you! to the developers! :-)
But now I have a question. Is it possible, to use unattended
Michael Styne wrote:
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Steven.
On Aug 2, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Steven Piercy wrote:
What are the rest of ya's using for bootup control on systems.
Serial console is where it's at, for our purposes, anyway.
Mike
Us too. We default to pxe boot (which itself
Nicholas Young wrote:
If I use the whole C: option it works correctly so the problem should not be
hardware related.
Has anyone had success in a similiar situation. I believe the problem is
that the C: is not been created correctly so the format fails and the
windows swap cannot be created. My
jed wrote:
Ease up i've read that page and it doesn't explain it in enough detail
and i'm having trouble getting things to work probaly.
I've set this in my unattended
[_meta]
top = base.bat
middle = middle.bat
Middle.bat is one i've written, but because my script performs a reboot
as well
Tyler Hepworth wrote:
Is it possible to pass the results of the check script to the prepare
script so that only the missing items are downloaded instead of the entire
~1 GB? I ran check and have about 50 items missing, but I do not want to
download each of them by hand.
Doesn't the prepare script
Stephen Briney wrote:
Can someone help!! I have a system where I want to be able to install
several machines completely unattended, headless and keyboard less. In
each of our systems we have 4 pcs that must have the following ip
addresses.
192.168.100.111
192.168.100.112
192.168.100.113
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk? I have
tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the
serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway).
Add something like this to the append line
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I will roll a new pre-release of Unattended tonight and get back to
you.
OK, I have uploaded 4.1-pre2 to
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/. It has device nodes for
/dev/ttyS0 through ttyS3.
Give it a whirl and
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No go. If the order is console=tty console=ttyS0,9600, I get:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
WELCOME!!!
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
compelling argument), that'd only handle the mgmt interfaces, so I'd
still need to figure out which of the other NICs is the real test
interface.
Thanks,
Jordan Share
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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know a way to determine which adapter has link?
If these machines are running Windows XP, you can use the
NetConnectionStatus property of the Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) wrote:
We have been using Unattended for some time now without major problems.
Unfortunately we are now having to install Toshiba Techra S1 laptops.
After we boot from the network and type INST to start the installation we
get the followin error.
Non system disk
I can host it too.
I like Twiki, because it's pretty flexible, had nice diffs of changes, etc.
This is a link to the original wiki, if you've not seen them before:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
Jordan
mark harburn wrote:
Got a link/requirements for wiki? I'd be happy to offer/host it since this
They also have a PXE boot disk for VMware boxes. Which can be nice.
Jordan
Teresa Jeremy wrote:
Argon Technology offers an updated version of RBFG that supports a few more NICs than the standard Windows version. This product, however, is not free. They were selling RBFG for $49.99US the last
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the
officially supported list, though.
We certainly aspire to support it. It is very, very similar to Win2k.
It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do not
Has anyone been able to unattendedly install Windows NT?
I'm plodding through it, but there's a lot of stuff that is different
from 2k and up.
Jordan
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I've been meaning to experiment with this, but it'd be super-nice if the
install.pl script were able to output to the serial port instead of/as
well as the console.
We have a bunch of machines hooked up to serial concentrators, and it'd
be nice to be able to /fully/ automatedly install them.
raman singh wrote:
Thanks to all of you for replying. It seems I can use this package. I
can live without have win95/98 and ME.
I installed the unattended package and tried. I feel the documentation
does not explain all the steps involved, for a starter. I could not make
it work.
I have the
Stephen Briney wrote:
how is progress giong on booting from a usb pen drive? I remember
reading about it in the message list some time ago. I want to boot a
dell inspiron 8600 with it. i am able to boot a freedos image using usb.
Thanks Steve.
If you can boot a freedos image, can't you just as
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Between Linux, dosemu, and FreeDOS, I believe we can provide a
completely free infrastructure for installing Windows, which is a very
pleasing concept :-).
The one big question mark that I have with this approach is hardware
RAID cards. We have /several/ that 1) don't
Dag Nummedal wrote:
Jordan Share writes:
I'd like to find out if anyone has a pointer to the breakdown of what
each numeric code means.
The destination is defined by the [DestinationDirs] section in the inf file.
You can find the information you're looking for here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com
Max Lovius wrote:
I am working on fully unattended installations ideas.
Anyone done any work on changing pxelinux boot files? The last step!
Or some other way to complete the task of automation? Might I have missed
something?
The only thing I can think of is a perl or dos tftp client!
But thought
[I'm sending this again, since it didn't come through to the list the
first time. (Or hasn't yet, anyway) ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's great that the system autoscans for a mass storage driver and puts
them in the appropriate places, however i can only seem to get one mass
storage driver in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's great that the system autoscans for a mass storage driver and puts
them in the appropriate places, however i can only seem to get one mass
storage driver in at a time. Is it a case of altering textsetup.oem to
include mutiple d(n) with each of the relavent info and
Claus-Dieter Jahreis wrote:
Hallo,
trying to use unattended on an IBM IntelliStation ZPro with 3 GB RAM,
following error occurs executing install.pl:
Can't spawn fdisk /info /tech \tmp.txt: Not enough memory (ENOMEM)
at z:\dosbin\install.pl line 268
fdisk /info /tech \tmp.txt failed,
Jordan Share wrote:
Wolf wrote:
IMHO you are trying the wrong drivers here.
I've just checked their website and downloaded the (FastTrack
100-)Drivers and there ist an txtsetup.oem that lists the drivers.
Maybe it helps. Sorry if this is way off. I'm not sure I should have
written it myself
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am now trying to get another machine to work. It has a Promise
RAID chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E). I am
able to get the inital file copy to work. But, when it tries to go
into native win32 mode I
Jordan Share wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am now trying to get another machine to work. It has a Promise
RAID chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E). I am
able to get the inital file copy to work. But, when it tries to go
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