Re: [Unattended] speaking of wish lists

2004-03-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] speaking of wish lists

2004-03-08 Thread Andrew Clark
I also have one for the wish list. Every time that I upgrade install.pl I have to edit the disk partition section to make the selections fit in my environment. I change it to the following: Whole disk C: - this is for older testing machines with a small hdd less then 18GB 8GB C: rest D: -

Re: [Unattended] speaking of wish lists

2004-03-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] speaking of wish lists

2004-03-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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] speaking of wish lists

2004-03-03 Thread Jordan Share
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.