RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended
It is just a replacement for the MS-DOS boot disk. Burn the linux boot ISO image to a CD, boot up the target computer with this CD, then it accesses the network just like the DOS boot disk did. The rest of the setup is the same, except that you don't have to reboot to format your drive. Also, I found it to run way faster than the DOS boot disk. In case you're upgrading from unattended 3.x, you might also want to refresh your whole setup. I don't know if the 4.x boot disk works with a 3.x install share. Sylvain. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Teresa Jeremy Envoyé : vendredi 19 mars 2004 12:39 À : Unattended List Objet : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended Can someone provide a quick overview of the new linux module that has been added in v4.0? How does one update prior versions to use Linux instead of DOS? Thx. TJ Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70alloc_id638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended
Sylvain Faivre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case you're upgrading from unattended 3.x, you might also want to refresh your whole setup. I don't know if the 4.x boot disk works with a 3.x install share. You definitely need to refresh Z:\dosbin (especially install.pl) and Z:\lib (especially the Z:\lib\Unattend tree). And you need to copy over Z:\linuxaux (included in the ...-linuxboot.tar.gz archive). Unless I am forgetting something, that should be sufficient to make your install share compatible with either the DOS or the Linux boot disk. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended
Ok, I got my rh90 server setup with unattended (OpenRIS) v4.0. I booted the bzImage kernel via PXE, no problems here. The install.pl script starts and I told it that I want to use whole drive c:, to format the drive and overwrite the mbr. I did not see anything to suggest that the hard drive was actually formatted. Anyway, the script continues on and finds my XP source files. On the final stage, where it should start installation via the doit.bat script, Linux triggers a SIGHUP error then reboots the computer. I get a no active partition found error when it tries to boot from the local hard drive on the subsequent bootup. My client computer is an older Compaq DeskPro SF with a 6GB IDE drive. What am I missing? Thx. TJ -- - Original Message - DATE: 19 Mar 2004 11:18:48 -050 From: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Unattended List [EMAIL PROTECTED],Sylvain Faivre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for responding. I should mention also that I'm performing my 'unattended' via PXE network boot. I read somewhere that it is possible to overwrite the default username, password, and share mapping. Can this be done via the pxelinux.cfg/default setting? Yes. You just have to add some kernel parameters to the append line in pxelinux.cfg/default like these: z_user=myself z_pass=sekrit z_path=//myserver/myshare You can even use a DNS name for mysever. Probably. If you omit any of z_user, z_pass, or z_path, they will keep their current defaults (guest, guest, //ntinstall/install, respectively). - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: RE : [Unattended] Using the Linux version of unattended
Teresa Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The install.pl script starts and I told it that I want to use whole drive c:, to format the drive and overwrite the mbr. I did not see anything to suggest that the hard drive was actually formatted. We defer that step until dosemu is running, because FreeDOS format has the /a (align clusters) switch which we want to use. I might try to port that support to mkdosfs someday, but that is not a very high priority since we plan to run dosemu anyway. Anyway, the script continues on and finds my XP source files. On the final stage, where it should start installation via the doit.bat script, Linux triggers a SIGHUP error then reboots the computer. Linux crashed? That is interesting. Thank you for testing :-). If you could catch the exact error message, that might be useful. But first... Unattended 4.0b-rc1 includes the 2.6.4 Linux kernel which might work better. Could you please give it a try (from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ )? The other thing you might try is adding noapic to the kernel command line (append ... noapic in pxelinux.cfg/default). - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
