RE: [Unattended] Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files

2004-02-04 Thread Max Lovius
Jordan Share wrote: Rather than change the config files (if that is indeed what you need to do), you might consider changing the IP addresses handed out to the various MAC addresses. pxelinux.0 will get its config file based on what IP address it was given. So you could dynamically

Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM

2004-02-04 Thread Dag Nummedal
Jordan Share writes: Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: He asked a question about dealing with .dll files; I have tried the method documented in KB275334 and it seems to work: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=275334 It should be possible to automate these steps, but not at install time

Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM

2004-02-04 Thread Jordan Share
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:

RE: [Unattended] Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files

2004-02-04 Thread Brad Erdman
Hi, For number 4, I have a small hack in install.pl that replaces the tftpboot file from booting from the network to booting from the local disk. It does this once the machine has repartitioned etc, right before it starts to copy files. Brad -Original Message- From: Max Lovius

[Unattended] RE: Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files

2004-02-04 Thread Rönnblom Janåke /Teknous
Hi! Im currently also looking into a completly unattended installation for our local schools. The idea is that a teacher or student should be able to reboot the computer and reinstall it by choosing INSTALL instead of LOCAL from the pxelinux prompt. My idea for a solution is to have a

[Unattended] Cant locate inifile.pm in @inc

2004-02-04 Thread Tyler Hepworth
Title: Message 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 message: "Can't locate

Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM

2004-02-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

Re: [Unattended] Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files

2004-02-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

RE: [Unattended] Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files

2004-02-04 Thread Brad Erdman
Harder. You need a way for the install.pl on the client machine to indicate a state change back to the TFTP (or maybe DHCP) server. The easiest approach, I think, is to export the pxelinux.cfg directory inside the TFTP root as a Windows share, modify the boot disk to mount it as P: or

Re: [Unattended] Cant locate inifile.pm in @inc

2004-02-04 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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