RE: [Unattended] Adding perl DBI module
Our entire Perl installation lives on the network under Z:\linuxaux\opt\perl. So in theory you just need to get the modules installed under there. confused As I understand it, the z:\linuxaux directory would only be used if booted to the Linux Boot Disk (doable) during the 1st phase of the install BEFORE windows 2K/XP/2K3 is up and running. I suppose if the aim is only to get the database information at this early stage and write everything to text files on the local machine, as we do now, then doing it this way would work. It seems to me that a more comprehensive solution would be to also get the DBI module to function within windows (harder?) so that no, or almost no, configuration information has to be written to flat files. That and application installation without a full re-install, think upgrades to applications or rollouts of new apps, becomes a lot easier aswell. /confused --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #340 - 10 msgs
Checkout Microsoft's Tweakomatic. It will help you generate vbScripts to customise the OS. Scriptomatic is also very useful for accessing WMI via VBScript. www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview?url=""> ATTACHMENT part 3.6 message/rfc822 To: "Layne, Courtney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: "Unattended Info \([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [Unattended] Configure OS QuestionsFrom: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 24 Mar 2004 19:59:55 -0500"Layne, Courtney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes: How can I perform activities like adjusting performance options or setting page size? Anyone have any advice for these configuration activities? Thanks.You write scripts.I try to use WMI interfaces whenever possible, since they are usuallyclean, well-documented, and most likely to be supported in futureversions of Windows. And I can manipulate them using Perl.Which performance options do you want to adjust, specifically?The "Visual Effects Setting" does not appear to have a scriptableinterface. You can use a registry tweak for the top-level control:http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/41554/I did not see how to adjust the individual checkboxes, but theyprobably have registry hacks, too. Although registry hacks are evil.The "Processor Scheduling" setting (Programs vs. Background Services)can be changed using the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI class:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_operatingsystem.aspI just tried changing it on a Win2k system. Changing the toggle from"Programs" to "Background Services" modified three settings:ForegroundApplicationBoost 2 - 0QuantumLength 2 - 1QuantumType 1 - 2I suspect the first one is the most important.The "Memory Usage" setting (Programs vs. System Cache) is equivalentto the LargeSystemCache property in the Win32_OperatingSystem class.The docs say it is read-only, but the docs are wrong. See:http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ORe92jRsDHA.1876%40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl(You know, I had completely forgotten about that thread. Amazing whatyou stumble across sometimes when searching Google.)Finally, if by "page size" you mean "page file size", you can adjustit using the Win32_PageFileSetting WMI class:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_pagefilesetting.aspIf you can be more specific about what you are trying to do, I canwhip up some sample scripts.- Pat ATTACHMENT part 3.7 message/rfc822 From: "Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "'Patrick J. LoPresti'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: "'Unattended Info'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: RE: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgsDate: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:21:23 -0600Could someone upload a WinImage-created .imz file somewhere and send me a pointer? I would like to take a look at it... If I cannot figure out how to generate WinImage-compatible .imz files, I will change the extension in our next release. (I would just use .img.gz, but I recall that made ISOLINUX unhappy.) - PatWget ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.imzWget ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.img2 images, compressed and uncompressed both open fine in winimage...The 3rd (less intresting) image is ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.gzAnd is a gzip compressed version of cdboot.img-Jeff ATTACHMENT part 3.8 message/rfc822 From: Brad Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "'Patrick J. LoPresti'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheetDate: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:08:19 -0500Hi,Just some ideas. I am not much of a coder so I can't really offer samples.Everyone is going to want to do things differently. Would it be possible tooffer a variety of mechanism (spreadsheet(s), SQL, text file, etc.) to storethe relent information? A configuration file or config.pl could specifywhat mechanism will be used for that particular site. Support for eachcould be added incrementally.I personally would like to store the information in AD (LDAP).My 2 centsBrad ATTACHMENT part 3.9 message/rfc822 From: "Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "'Unattended Info'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: RE: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgsDate: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:10:15 -0600 Could someone upload a WinImage-created .imz file somewhere and send me a pointer? I would like to take a look at it... If I cannot figure out how to generate WinImage-compatible .imz files, I will change the extension in our next release. (I would just use .img.gz, but I recall that made ISOLINUX unhappy.) - PatI sent a compressed and uncompressed floppy image to your personal email.Hopefully 2 MB won't overload your inbox ;)-Jeff ATTACHMENT part 3.10 message/rfc822 To: "Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: "'Unattended Info'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgsFrom: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 24 Mar 2004 22:11:36 -0500"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes: Wget ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/cdboot.imz Wget
[Unattended] registry + other user
has someone some experience with script to edit registry of other users ? i explain: for now, i have *.reg o to modify HKLM et HKCU for Admin. but if i want to add some users (with Addusers for example) and change their registry settings only on each of them or their group, how ? HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is no good as i don't want same settings for all. example: have some settings for group admin, group users, group guest. Regards Julien --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Problems installing XP
We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended uses and don't know how to change that. I understand the 2000MB limit was due to the DOS boot. Any suggestions? Thanks Oriol de los Santos --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:26, DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) wrote: We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended uses and don't know how to change that. I understand the 2000MB limit was due to the DOS boot. The 2Gb limitation is only when using fat-16! When you select fat-32 you can allocate more Mb. At least that is when using the Linux bootdisk. But i am sure that the other bootdisk will work also. imdos Any suggestions? Thanks Oriol de los Santos --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] Problems installing XP
Resize the partition to minimal 4 gb. The Installation needs some amount of space. So just increase it. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) Verzonden: donderdag 25 maart 2004 18:26 Aan: Unattended List Onderwerp: [Unattended] Problems installing XP We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended uses and don't know how to change that. I understand the 2000MB limit was due to the DOS boot. Any suggestions? Thanks Oriol de los Santos --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP
I have been installing win XP successfully on 2G for ages now. Are you copying a lot of drivers with the installation? Other than that, I can't think why it would complain about not enough space. I am using winxpoem for these installs though. Regards Russell Smith On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:26 am, DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) wrote: We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended uses and don't know how to change that. I understand the 2000MB limit was due to the DOS boot. Any suggestions? Thanks Oriol de los Santos --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheet
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:51 am, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: The question is whether to leave this as an example or to make it (or something like it) the default. There appears to be a larger number of options that people want to support each day. If we have 10 different options for people to choose about how they store their data, which one should be default? I assume this is sort of where you question is going Patrick. This is why I still think you are better off leaving the default as answering the questions. Create information in the documentation about how to copy config-sql.pl, or config-txt.pl to config.pl. And what information you have to supply in the relevant files. This will mean people don't need to know how to use perl, just how to copy files :) I've found 2 bits that are hard with unattended; 1. Getting all the apps going by themselves 2. Getting it all to boot by itself, not user intervention (Spreadsheet, PXE) Thinking out loud gabble Usually people will want to sort out applications before worrying about how the machine boots, because they will be there testing everything. But then again, maybe they don't want to answer questions while doing that. /Thinking out loud gabble So with a number of options arising, SQL, LDAP, txt, csv. My thoughts are that people can just copy the relevant file over config.pl if so desired. Regards Russell Smith. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] Unattended 4.0b Documentation
Here's my attempt at documentation. But I hope someone else may benefit as well. Definitely ! Thx. P.S. I apologize for the tar.gz. I had to get around the paranoid mail filter on this end. ;) GreetZ, Stephan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] registry + other user
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: i explain: for now, i have *.reg o to modify HKLM et HKCU for Admin. but if i want to add some users (with Addusers for example) and change their registry settings only on each of them or their group, how ? HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is no good as i don't want same settings for all. example: have some settings for group admin, group users, group guest. With local profiles, you cannot do this until after the user has logged in for the first time. This is because the user-specific registry settings are stored in the profile, and a local profile is created (by copying the Default User profile) the first time a user logs in. i know, but if i try with group policy, i'm falling here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q315675sd=tech a complex procedure to have one group policy for admins, and one for the rest. i would prefer making a few more differences. If the user has logged in already, or if you are using roaming profiles, you can edit the NTUSER.DAT registry hive in the profile folder. For local profiles, this is normally C:\Documents and Settings\username. For roaming profiles, it is whatever network directory you use to hold the profiles. do you know if ntuser.dat can be prepared and copy on a new system thereafter ? if it's possible, we could load some reg for admin/machine entries and let somes ntuser.dat for guest, normal user, or any types of users. right ? http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/load_hive_reged.htm http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/unattended/unattended/install/bin/win2ksp4-notips.pl?view=markup thanks for the links. very interesting Regards Julien --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP
At 03:53 PM 03/25/2004, you wrote: I have been installing win XP successfully on 2G for ages now. Are you copying a lot of drivers with the installation? Other than that, I can't think why it would complain about not enough space. I am using winxpoem for these installs though. The only time that I broke the 2 g limit was when I tried using 700 mb worth of drivers. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] Re: unattended-info digest, Vol 1 #338 - 5 msgs
Thank you. It appears that a WinImage .imz file is not just a compressed .img file; it is actually a ZIP archive containing the .img file. Except the archive member is named .ima. I have created a pair of test files and uploaded them to http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/, test1.imz and test2.imz. One of them is a ZIP file containing a .img file; the other contains a .ima file. Could you please see if WinZip can open either or both of them directly? If this works, tomorrow I will test whether PXELINUX/ISOLINUX can handle them. - Pat Yes, both images open without error in winimage. When renamed to test1.imz.zip and test2.imz.zip they both also open in winzip. Good detective work :) I know from experience that WinImage compatible imz files do NOT work with ISOLINUX, both before and after the gzip support was added. -Jeff --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended uses and don't know how to change that. I understand the 2000MB limit was due to the DOS boot. Any suggestions? Upgrade to a more recent version of Unattended. 2G is the limit for a FAT16 partition under MS-DOS 6.22. You can try increasing it to 2047M, which might just be enough. But really, you need to change your DOS. Starting with version 4.0, Unattended switched to FreeDOS, which supports FAT32. We also now create a 4000M initial partition by default. You can also roll your own boot disk using MS-DOS 7 or 8, which also support FAT32. I believe our new DOS boot disk should work with the old install share. But I am not sure. The new Linux boot disk definitely requires an updated install share. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] registry + other user
Julien TOUCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: has someone some experience with script to edit registry of other users ? i explain: for now, i have *.reg o to modify HKLM et HKCU for Admin. but if i want to add some users (with Addusers for example) and change their registry settings only on each of them or their group, how ? HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is no good as i don't want same settings for all. example: have some settings for group admin, group users, group guest. With local profiles, you cannot do this until after the user has logged in for the first time. This is because the user-specific registry settings are stored in the profile, and a local profile is created (by copying the Default User profile) the first time a user logs in. If the user has logged in already, or if you are using roaming profiles, you can edit the NTUSER.DAT registry hive in the profile folder. For local profiles, this is normally C:\Documents and Settings\username. For roaming profiles, it is whatever network directory you use to hold the profiles. To edit these settings, you must first load the hive. Interactively, you would run regedt32, select Registry - Load Hive, navigate to the NTUSER.DAT file you want, and choose where in the registry the hive should appear. (Note that NTUSER.DAT is a hidden file.) Then you would edit the registry and unload the hive. MS documents this here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/load_hive_reged.htm From a Perl script, you would use Win32::TieRegistry, call the Load method to load the hive, make your registry changes, and call the Unload method. We use this approach to edit the Default User hive in our win2ksp4-notips.pl script. Search for NTUSER.DAT in: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/unattended/unattended/install/bin/win2ksp4-notips.pl?view=markup - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] JRE2 Install command switch
Don Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe this is the deal with the space (from the Sun silent install page): In the various command line examples below a space appears between the /v and the quote (); i.e., /v . The space is required for 1.4.2_01 and higher releases that are installed by the Windows Installation method (aka install from the web). For Windows Offline Installation no space should appear. And yet, when I read about the install formats is sure looks like we use the Windows Offline method. You would think so. The problem is that our direct download URL is wrong; it downloads the Web installer, not the full offline installer. Fixed in next release (diff appended). - Pat --- sun-jre.bat 21 Mar 2004 02:09:51 - 1.3 +++ sun-jre.bat 25 Mar 2004 19:11:00 - 1.4 @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ :: OPTIONAL: Install Sun Java Virtual Machine -:: URL|ALL|http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9504|packages/j2re-1_4_2_03-windows-i586-p.exe +:: URL|ALL|http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9505|packages/j2re-1_4_2_03-windows-i586-p.exe :: Download from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Unattended 4.0b Documentation
Here's my attempt at documentation. I know there have been a lot of docs flying by, and I haven't had time to process them. I've been working on this since Jeff Black's original guide, and it was started from that document. I created this for internal documentation. It's not perfect, since I was crunched for time. But I hope someone else may benefit as well. Cheers, Chris P.S. I apologize for the tar.gz. I had to get around the paranoid mail filter on this end. unattended_installation.html.tar.gz Description: unattended_installation.html.tar.gz
