Hi list members, is there any news or effort on installing vista or server 2008 with unattended?
I found this link to be a good push in the right direction: http://sysadminman.net/blog/archives/8 to bad its depending on a windows-env to setup and configure all the needed files. The method described will result in a Vista background beeing displayed with a shellbox (something like cmd, a prompt). From there setup needs to be started somehow, and the dvdroot needs to be mounted somewhere... But how to get there when using only Linux? It requires the Windows Automated Installation Kit, an ISO file that can be easily mounted so no problem on that part. =Problem #1 How to get the Windows AIK files extracted from the file(s) inside the ISO to access the pxe boot files? =Problem #2 next step would be mounting the winpe.wim file but that can't be done in linux? Is there a linux alternative to imagex? =Problem #3 bcdedit..... Perhaps this could be replaced by grub? The peimg tool is used to copy extra drivers on to the .wim file but that sounds like a rather exotic copy/paste action. Some Perl/Bash could be used to accomplish the same. Shouldn't pose a big problem. Also, the unattended-gui project appears to be able to 'install' vista/08 but it looks like they are using dd and netcat to simply ghost a pre-installed disk image and that is not wanted. These are just some quick thoughts but perhaps some one can shed some more light on the subject. - Harm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
