Hi all, I wonder if anyone else bumped into this problem. To prevent long search, I thought it could be good, to give a short summary:
After slipstreaming sp3 into the xp install-media I gave it a first test by installation via CD. Everything ran fine, so I copied it to the unattended installation-share. Then a time of trouble and searching started. Always, when it came to the part, the installation began copying files, It stopped with the message, that some files couldn't be copied. This issue came with the linux bootdisk (enhanced by the problem with older kernels in smbmounting a 2k3-share ) It also appeared with the DOS-bootdisks. As I found out at last, this is not the fault of unattended !! I'm not the guy always pointing with the finger at M$. Besides of not being open-source, they did a pretty nice job with xp .... But here they failed. Slipstreaming generates several files with names too long for the old 8.3 DOS-convention. "WINNT" called during the installation-process uses pure DOS. So it is unable to perform the task. If you run installation from disk, this won't happen, as "WINNT32" is called which is capable of long filenames. The problem is known to M$ but I didn't find, they have a solution yet. Neither do I. Might it be possible to change the behaviour of unattended, so it copies the files itself over the network - under linux it should work - an calls the installation, when this job is done. This could prevent further issues of this kind. Just a proposal ..... ;-) best regards R.Möller ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
