Max Lovius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I want to do is : > > (1) remotely reboot a computer. > (2) have the first boot, partion hard drive. > (3) have the second reboot, continue the unattended installation.
Easy enough. > (4) have a system that will then change automatically "unattended" > (in some way) to boot straight of the hard drive. Harder. You need a way for the install.pl on the client machine to indicate a state change back to the TFTP (or maybe DHCP) server. The easiest approach, I think, is to export the pxelinux.cfg directory inside the TFTP root as a Windows share, modify the boot disk to mount it as P: or whatever, and edit install.pl to generate a pxelinux config file named after the system's IP address. You will need to configure your DHCP server to hand out a fixed IP address to the client, I am afraid, unless you have programmatic control over the DHCP options (which is unlikely unless your DHCP server is a Unix box). This will work, although it will not be secure because anybody on your network might map the pxelinux.cfg directory and scribble all over it. This can probably be corrected... You could export a different directory (call it "incoming.cfg" or somesuch) and have install.pl write its config file there. Then you would manually or automatically move that file over to pxelinux.cfg, but only if you were expecting it to appear. So anybody on your network could still drop files into "incoming.cfg", but those files would have no effect unless you moved them over to pxelinux.cfg. How much work are you willing to do to make this happen? You should probably start by downloading a copy of SYSLINUX (see http://syslinux.zytor.com/) and reading the pxelinux.doc file... - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
