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I set up Window 2000
SP4. Disk Defragment runs but does not close after completion. Any
ideas?
set it when it is being
called optionally?
Thanks,
Tyler
Hepworth
Computer
Specialist
Nature's Sunshine
Products
Title: Message
Trying to boot a
Toshiba Portege via external pcmcia CD drive. I was able to successfully
boot and load the dialog script once. I chose to partition the whole drive
at which point the computer rebooted. Cannot get it to boot from the cd
any longer. I get the the following
Hepworth
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Unattended] MEMDISK Error
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Loading e100b.imz
Ready.
MEMDISK 2.07 2.07-pre5 Copyright 2001-2003 H. Peter Anvin
There were some problems with compressed floppy images and MEMDISK 2.07. We
Title: Message
Hi
all,
I would like to know
how to install everything but Access and FrontPage in an Office install. What
would I add to the command line to do this?
Thanks,
Tyler
Title: Message
HP has taken to
bundling their drivers into binary executables called SoftPAQs. It is
possible to extract the contents from the executable, but still the driver setup
files do not contain .inf files that point to dlls, etc. The driver setup
files are all in setup.exe format.
If you are on a domain and have point and print setup on your print servers,
you can also use a simple vbscript to install the printers
Set WshNetwork = CreateObject(WScript.Network)
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection \\printserver\printer_name
Put those lines in a .vbs file and then push
-Original Message-
From: Paul Griffith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 7:19 AM
To: Tyler Hepworth
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Unattended] Unattended printer installation
Just a follow up question as I debate using Ghost or the unattend package.
How do you
Title: Message
I wanted a way to
specify printers during the initial dialog and have them installed as part of
the process. I made some modifications to install.pl and created a
printers.pl script that I placed in the "site" folderto accomplish this
task. I keep a text file in "site" that
Title: Message
Is it possible to
add custom questions to the initial install dialog without modifying
install.pl? I have already made one patch to install.pl but I want to stay
away from that if possible so that I don't run into problems with
upgrades.
Thanks,
Tyler
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
I got network booting to work using nothing more than a Microsoft DHCP
server and the builtin Microsoft tftp client. No RIS, no third party tftp
daemons needed. It works quite well.
It is possible to setup a PXE server on Widows 2000 server without
installing RIS. Do all of this on whatever
Yes, there are several default options and custom options can be added as
well. The list of default options can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn
ol/windows2000serv/reskit/tcpip/part4/tcpappe.asp.
Tyler
Cool! Does anybody know if
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Notes
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printers.pl and printers.txt both go in install\site
-Original Message-
From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:22 AM
To: Tyler Hepworth
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Adding
Swipe a copy from windows 2003 server. It works perfectly on XP. Haven't
tried it on 2K. If someone has a place that you can host the file, I will
email it to you so you can share it with the rest.
-Original Message-
From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
I placed the following in my perl script so it could use Inifile.pm
Use lib 'Z:\\lib';
But now it is giving me this error when the script runs:
Can't locate object method new via package Unattend::Inifile (perhaps
you fo
rgot to load Unattend::Inifile?) at Z:\site\getextension.pl line 3.
There are two issues here:
Basically,
you use the $u hash to add a new [_meta]
variable. Or better yet, you use it to create an entire new
section (call it [_local] or [_site] or something) and put
your variables in there.
1). I did figure out how to add a question using the $u hash and
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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:57 PM
To: Tyler Hepworth
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Error when calling Unattend::Inifile
Tyler Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But now it is giving me this error when the script runs:
Can't locate object method new
I spent several hours scouring the web about this issue and found the module
Win32::Sound that is available via ppm from ActiveState. Here is some
sample code to mute and unmute the volume.
use Win32::Sound;
Win32::Sound::Volume(0); # turn sound off
Win32::Sound::Volume(65535); # set sound to
on the machine and
the DVD is not always on D:? Is there a way to dynamically adjust for that
scenario?
Tyler
-Original Message-
From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:07 PM
To: Tyler Hepworth
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Unattended
Matt,
The applications/bat files that show up in the menus are all controlled by
the bat files themselves. To remove any applications from the menu, delete
the corresponding bat file from the scripts directory. To add a file to the
master script menu (base,developer,sales,etc) then create a bat
Mangano, Aron wrote:
How does everyone find the MAC address of the PC easily and
quickly to insert into the .csv file when trying to insert
the product key into the OS automatically. ???
Windows XP has a command line tool (so I hope it will run in dos) called
getmac.exe. This will also
-in.
not necessary to use third party client).
Cheers,
Tyler Hepworth
PXE HOWTO without RIS.tar.gz
Description: Binary data
-Original Message-
From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:05 AM
To: John Lilley
Cc: Mangano, Aron; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Windows auto update how to?
For the record...
I just read about this unattend.txt
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.
Thanks,
Tyler Hepworth
, close. Oh, well!
I have checked the hard drive and can install windows manually from the
windows setup cd. Is there any other information you need from me?
Thanks,
Tyler Hepworth
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Ah, crud. I messed up the SCSI support.
It appears to be that way ;-)
Could you try the Linux boot disk in 4.2c-rc1? I just
uploaded it to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/.
(I also uploaded just linuxboot.iso in case you do not want
to download the whole thing.)
Please
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