Re: [Unattended] Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 207

2005-06-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Brad Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *** Unrecognized bus type in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/host_bus Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 207 *** find-boot-device failed *** Dropping to shell Please run: cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/host_bus ...and

Re: [Unattended] fixing mailing list Reply to: address?

2005-05-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
I agree with Matthew; lists which set Reply-To are simply broken. Here is a fairly complete explanation: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Users need to distinguish reply to sender from reply to all (aka. followup). - Pat ---

[Unattended] Apologies for the spam

2005-05-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Apparently someone made a spam run forging this list as the sender, and some very broken software generated a bunch of automatic responses. (All autoresponders are bad, but some are worse than others.) I have added a filtering rule which should mitigate this problem if it happens again. If the

[Unattended] Re: Setting up a working developer environment

2005-03-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Stefan Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Folks, can anyone tell me how to setup a working unattended developer environment? I downloaded the sources from cvs and tried to run make release. Don't do that. The top-level Makefile is for making releases only; make release is how I

[Unattended] Re: Setting up a working developer environment

2005-03-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Stefan Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Folks, can anyone tell me how to setup a working unattended developer environment? I downloaded the sources from cvs and tried to run make release. Don't do that. The top-level Makefile is for making releases only; make release is how I

Re: [Unattended] linux disk request

2005-01-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Felipe Navarrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you all know the linux boot disk as of 4.4b just boots immediatly and if you forget to take it out of the cdrom, when you come back an hour later it is still booting from the CD and getting nowhere. True, but you can remove the CD as soon as the

Re: [Unattended] sun-jre REBOOT=ReallySuppress not working?

2005-01-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems like the REBOOT=ReallySuppress switch isn't working with the 1.5.0_01 version of sun-jre. On both a win2k (through unattended) and on a winxp (just installing sun-jre), it asks for a reboot when using the command in sun-jre.bat. Not happening for me... Did

[Unattended] Unattended 4.6 released

2005-01-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
No major changes in this long-overdue release, but lots and lots of small bug fixes and updates. NEWS.txt entry is appended. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.6 (2004-Jan-02) (Linux) Add g(un)zip to boot disk since it is needed for non-English keyboard support. (DOS) Fix warnings about deleting

Re: [Unattended] NTFS cluster size

2005-01-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jordan Share [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions are still using 512byte clusters? I had the impression that the move to the linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable 4k clusters. Or was I just thinking that

Re: [Unattended] DOS bootdisk

2004-12-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Pietro Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo, I'm trying to setup unattended, but the DOS bootdisk does not recognize my dhcp server, using the GNU/Linux bootdisk I do not have this problem. Someone have some suggestions? What error message(s) do you get, exactly? You might try the 4.6

Re: [Unattended] Windows updates for ws2k3 cannot be run in DOS mode?

2004-12-30 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Could you be more specific? I just finished building a ws2k3 system using our provided ws2k-updates.bat file, and all of the updates applied fine. What update(s) are giving you problems, exactly? As for Windows Components, you can find a reasonably complete (as of ws2k3) list at:

Re: [Unattended] problem with base.bat file also

2004-12-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
mike veinott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking through the mailing list, I see someone having a similar problem to the one I am having. (Kaari's problem with base.bat file message from 2004-09-30). During my install of Win2k with SP4 integrated, the process would stop about the install of

Re: [Unattended] Problem installing Office XP

2004-12-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Every version of Office XP (with/without FrontPage, that sort of thing) has its own name for setup.exe. Just edit officexp.bat to match yours. - Pat (stuck at RDU because my flight was just cancelled) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First of all: The unattended project is

Re: [Unattended] pxe boot undis3c dos file copy stalls

2004-12-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Paul Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using the undis3c driver to pxe boot blades with broadcom Gigabit NICS to DOS The install begins but the file copy is dreadfully slow and stalls - randomly in the region of 20% any ideas/help appreciated Please try the Linux-based boot disk. We have

Re: [Unattended] Configuring share options

2004-12-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can also use dhcp optioin 233 to distibute the share! Yes, exactly. If you are using ISC DHCP on Unix, you can add a line like this to /etc/dhcpd.conf: option option-233 z_user=myuser z_pass=sekrit z_path=//myserver/myshare; If you are using a

Re: [Unattended] Pre-Install Drivers unattended Unsigned drivers

2004-12-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Remi Woler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2 questions this time. 1. I've got the pre install driver thing working (thanks Brad Erdman), but still got a little question about it. Yet, a nice menu asks me which driver I want to load, and what other default drivers I want to load. Is there a way to

Re: [Unattended] Windows-Tools

2004-12-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Sebastian Mellmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody. Is there any possibilty of deleting programs like windows-messenger, outlook express etc.? You can not prevent them from being installed, but you can remove access to them via unattend.txt. See

Re: [Unattended] oem driver dir + symlink

2004-12-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cory Bosley a écrit : Default: unix extensions = no problem has small chance to be from samba. navigation with windows browsing is really ok. Cory is (probably) right, especially if your server is Samba 3.x. It is not a problem with Samba,

Re: [Unattended] 4.5 BUG changing keyboard

2004-12-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: beginning with my update of 4.5, the setting of keyboard with pxe params doesn't seem to work anymore. i get: loadkeys ... sh: gzip command not found Loading ... Yeah, this is a bug in 4.5 which is fixed in CVS. We are a little overdue for a

Re: [Unattended] followup to last post

2004-11-13 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Scott Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ** BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found ...done loading edd *** ...and locating the boot device *** find-boot-device failed *** Dropping to shell bash-3.00#

[Unattended] Unattended 4.5 released

2004-10-23 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
This may be the first release with (significantly) more work from other people than from me. To all of the developers, and to users who sent patches, thank you! Special thanks to Shad, who tested every Windows+IIS+Office combination, ensuring that this is probably the most robust release we have

Re: [Unattended] Bochs

2004-10-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Apologies for the long delay on this. Mark McRitchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Think I need to get the ne.ko driver onto the unattended CD though. I'm not sure how to go about rebuilding the ISO. @Pat - any chance of getting ne.ko onto the latest testing snapshot? We can add ne.ko to the

Re: [Unattended] how to find out silent install options

2004-10-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
I apologize for the long delay in replying. Anders Nyström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just tried successfully out adobe-reader install and wonder; where have you found options -p\-s /v\\\/qb from adobe or installshield site or just googling and can anybody explain what it is its doing?

Re: [Unattended] todo.pl and quotes

2004-10-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have had some problems when command itself contains quotes, example: copy \\server\share\files.* C:\documents and settings\user How can this be handled? Use backslash to escape quotes inside quotes: todo.pl copy \\server\share\files.*

Re: [Unattended] Win XP Pro - automatically install terminal services?

2004-09-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, is is possible to automatically install and enable terminal services? Any ideas? In XP, Terminal Services is called Remote Desktop. You might be able to enable it with the [Components]/TSEnable key

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot

2004-09-23 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
jo / ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When starting with the linux boot disk, on some machine the installation process hangs copying the os files and the first reboot with NTLDR not found A message before said *** Found no legacy BIOS data. Probably no big deal. Continuing. The

Re: [Unattended] system error 1231 while installing winxp

2004-09-21 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Martin Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to install WinXP SP2. After installing a while I get the following error message on (the so far installed) windows (sorry, it's in german): [...] Mapping \\instpc\install on Z:... Systemfehler 1231 aufgetreten. Das Netzlaufwerk ist nicht

Re: [Unattended] problems installing win NT4

2004-09-21 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Holger Jehle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is win NT4 supported by unattended-4.4b ? See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#winnt. You are correct that NT does not support FAT32, so you will have to start with a FAT16 partition instead. None of the current developers have much interest in

Re: [Unattended] Getting rid of master post-installations scripts?

2004-09-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nevertheless, unattended shows me a dialog asking choose master post-installation script which lets me choose base.bat or sales.bat (that don't exist anymore on the installation share!). Yeah, that default is there for backwards compatibility before

Re: [Unattended] Install windows by unattended using an usb stick

2004-09-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[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. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] Problem with making Linux boot disk

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Redirected to unattended-devel list. 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

Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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,

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

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE

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):

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

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

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

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

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

[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

[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,

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

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

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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest

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

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

[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

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,

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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: [Unattended] Compaq/HP DL360/380 Gig interfaces

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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.

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

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

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

Re: [Unattended] File locking problems

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[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

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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.

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

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

[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

Re: [Unattended] Some feedback on boot CDs

2004-07-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-07-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] boot problem

2004-07-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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 :

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

2004-07-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been using unattended for absolutly ages now, and I have just decided that I need to update from version 1 before I loose track of the project completely. I cannot believe the project will be two years old in September. Sometimes I wonder that I haven't

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile the linuxboot disk: $ make download $ make [... stuff ...] mkdir -p stage1/usr/sbin/ ; cp -f dmidecode-2.4/dmidecode stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp ; strip stage1

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