Hi.

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:29:05PM -0000, Paul Lewis wrote:

> Does anyone else Unattended while installing Dell PCs? Do you think it
> would be a good idea to try and share the problems (and hopefully
> fixes!) that we encounter while installing Dell PCs. Maybe we could
> document the models that are known to work, and any fixes/hacks that
> need to be applied to particular versions of unattended to get other
> models working.

How is Dell computers diffrent then others in regards to unattended? 

Sure I have had trouble with the DELL PC's we got, but some 
Fujitsu-Siemens have been causing me a bit of trouble as well, and Im 
sure that IBM PC's have their querks as well.

The only major trouble I have had that was DELL specific was that DELL 
OptiPlex 745 with some mainboards hangs on reboot in Linux, so you had 
to powercycle them to get the installation going. 

Two minutes of googling, a minute to comment out a line reboot.c and 90 
minutes recompling unattended. Problem fixed.

Otherwise most problems are related to new chipset drivers, so that 
linux reconice SATA drives.

Nils
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Nils Østbjerg
SAMF-IT, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark

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