[Unattended] Re: fixing mailing list "Reply to:" address?

2005-05-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:47:59AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Is it possible that someone fixes the "Reply to:" address of this > mailing list? It doesn't appear broken to me. > Now it doesn't have any "Reply to:" address, and when someone presses > the "Reply" button in a mail client,

[Unattended] Re: Re: Unattended without DHCP

2005-01-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:37:16AM +0100, Oliver Kuhl wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:33:44PM +0100, Jose Buzon Zarzuela wrote: > > > >>I read about this projekt. It is pretty cool and makes the life of admins > >>easier. But i have the

[Unattended] Re: Unattended without DHCP

2005-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:33:44PM +0100, Jose Buzon Zarzuela wrote: > I read about this projekt. It is pretty cool and makes the life of admins > easier. But i have the following problem: > We have a domain without a dhcp. As far as i read to make the installation > you need a dhcp. Is there any p

[Unattended] Re: Turning off user input

2005-01-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:03:53PM +0100, Stefan Schlesinger wrote: > Well ... since the environment should really get completeley automated, > I don't wanna force anyone to answer any questions. Does any kind of > switch exist, that'll turn off unattended from asking things? Give Unattended the i

[Unattended] Re: Unattended- IRC channel?

2004-11-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:53:12AM -0800, Jimmy R. wrote: > Is there an IRC channel for this mailing list? > > I was thinking it would perhaps give us a good method > to help one another out and exchange configuration > ideas and concepts. In what way does a mailing list not "give us a good metho

[Unattended] Re: unattended software testing methodology

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:57:51PM +, stephen mc murray wrote: >I'm a student in my final year of my computer networking honers degree. > I have decided to do my thesis on unattended installations. The initall > research stage was simple enough (hence how I came across this forum) > howe

[Unattended] Re: Unattend problem

2004-10-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:25:49AM -0500, Wolfe, John wrote: > We are working on getting an unattended installation set up by using a > floppy disk to install from the network. Our problem is, we have > multiple locations and servers from which an unattend can pull the > install from. 2 things ha

Re: [Unattended] office2k: remove some components

2004-09-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:28:49AM +0200, Julien TOUCHE wrote: > i'm looking for a way to install office2k without some part like, for > example, access, outlook (or maybe force some extra part o install). > > it seems an administrative install setup take all and i've not managed > to use Remove e

Re: [Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: > when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like "... if > running from CD you can eject it now ..." which is gone some seconds > later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message > "please remove

Re: [Unattended] Machine Dependent Productkeys

2004-09-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:59:37PM +0200, Tft Tco wrote: > I want to have an unattended install with retail products where each of > them needs / should have a separate product key. > > does anybody know how I can get an individual product key that is based on > the machine name? Yup, although

Re: [Unattended] possible bug in linux bootdisk, master script?

2004-08-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Tft Tco wrote: > I just tried the linux bootdisk with unattended 4.4b. > it worked until the script wanted to mount the install share. that was the > point when it said: > *** Trying smbmount \\myserver.local\install /z -o > ttl=60,username=geust,ro >

Re: [Unattended] Updating Machines Built w/ Unattended...

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: > What if, instead of querying a few text files under NETINST on the built > machine for software to install and settings, we instead wrote this > information, as well as extra information about packages already installed > into the Win

Re: Install script. was: Re: [Unattended] SATA Drive Problem

2004-07-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
it easier... > > onsdag 30. juni 2004, 03:35, skrev Matthew Palmer: > > On (roughly) this point, would anyone be interested in Debian packages of > > I'm using Debian on my machines, > and one of the things apt gets right is when a config-file has changed and > it will

Re: [Unattended] SATA Drive Problem

2004-06-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:27:21PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > I know, updating to new releases of Unattended is kind of a pain. I > wonder if there is anything we can do to make it easier... Create a clear separation of what's user-modifiable and what's not, to the point (possibly) of cr

Re: [Unattended] Message "Pervious Operating system on c:"

2004-05-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:47:28PM +1000, jed wrote: > Blank hard disk drive starting an unattended install why does it end up with > "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" and > "Pervious Operating system on c:" > i have to manualy editing the boot.ini to get rid of it. > Should unattended no do this

Re: [Unattended] get rid of the first questions

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:47:04PM +0200, Vincent Malguy wrote: > I am using the dos bootdisk. I have a question, how to get rid of the > first 2 questions before the file download ? > The first question is not so much a problem because it has a timeout > but the second must be answered and if i

Re: [Unattended] Problem using Linux boot disk 4.2

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:10:04PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > At least this should teach me not to make changes between -rc* and > final in the future... It's a lesson we all have to learn, unfortunately. My lesson would make you wince like you'd been kicked in the nuts -- might make you

Re: [Unattended] Server Space

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:53:26PM +1000, Mangano, Aron wrote: > 1. Is it possible that we can set up server space somewhere for users to > contribute files such as scripts they have written, etc etc. I'm sure I'm not the only person who could do this, but I'm willing to offer up some HDD space /

Re: [Unattended] problems with unatteded-info?

2004-05-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:24:13PM +0300, Anders Nystr?m wrote: > 1, I can not get any new updates on the unattended-info page? Can you rephrase that as an actual question? > 2, When can we change the default server, user and password for the > linuxboot It is possible to set the UNC name of the

Re: [Unattended] Perl DBI woes

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:22:19AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > Of all the third-party modules we might consider shipping by default, > DBI is clearly #1 on the list. I will look into adding it in the next > release as well. > > How soon do you need this? I've hacked around it for now by

[Unattended] Standard distro for linuxboot image?

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
I know this has been mentioned before, but I don't recall any conclusion being reached. What disadvantages are there to using a cut-down standard distro for the initial image? It'd certainly be a winner in situations like the one I'm facing at the moment... Debian has a nice command called deboo

[Unattended] More info on Perl DBD issues

2004-04-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
Apparently Perl_Gthr_key_ptr is a threading thing, so it looks like the perl in Unattended hasn't been built with thread support. Was that done for any particular reason? - Matt -- [the average computer user] has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash all the time, and we wi

[Unattended] Perl DBI woes

2004-04-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
I'm trying to implement a system for unattended which takes system information out of an SQL database (in this case, an IRM database) and uses it for various configuration parameters for unattend.txt. Hence, I need the DBI modules in the linux boot disk so I can go and play "query me, baby!". I'v

[Unattended] Bad quotes! Naughty quotes!

2004-04-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
For Patrick and anyone who's hit this: I think that the credentials placed in c:\netinst\tempcred.bat shouldn't be quoted. It causes (Win2K at least) to think that the previously empty string is, in fact, a pair of double quotes (""). It annoys the crap out of net use, because you set your Z_USER

[Unattended] DHCP Z driving

2004-04-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
For people who are planning on using this, a word of warning: if you have your z: share set up for guest access, make sure you set your z_pass to empty. By default, the system tries to use 'guest' as the password, which will hopefully fail on everyone's systems. Set an empty z_pass like this: o

[Unattended] RE: IRM [was: Some ideas from the new guy]

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > You may or may not be aware of the existence of a nice > little webapp called > > IRM. It can do machine, user, licence, networking > tracking, (and soon > > peripherals). My "dream" (called that because

RE: [Unattended] Some ideas from the new guy

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
> Package Management > *** > I was reading through the mail list archives and saw that > package management > is something that is needed/wanted. I agree wholeheartedly. [...] > good fit. Having a > central registry of all these "packages" that we can sync to > would be ideal.

Re: [Unattended] Internet Explorer plugins

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
> I'd like to be able to install some plug-ins required by some sites. > One in particular is installed only after logging onto the site. How > can I retrieve the installation file and install it on other computers > without having to log into the site, preferably by a mechanism > that doesn't nee