[Unattended] Anybody had success with VMware?
Hi all, has anybody ever have successfully used unattended to install within VMware and would share his or her experiences? Particularly I would like to know: - VMware version - configuration of VM (.vmx file would be great) - unattended version - which boot disk? DOS or Linux based? Original or customized? Just want to know if it does make sense to continue with VMware testing... Regards Gerhard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Help on install.pl
Hi,
I want do do the following in install.pl:
- first asking for computername
- then execute wget like this: wget
http://somewhere/unattended?computername=$u-{'UserData'}-{'ComputerName'} -O
/tmp/unattend.txt
- then read the unattended.txt like $u-read(/tmp/unattend.txt);
- then let the script asking for all unaswered fields (like partions,
software and so on)
I have read the Reading different answer files based on OS type but no
solution. Maybe someone can help me with this.
thank you
mario gzuk
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[Unattended] Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on a ProLiant server that has an embedded virtual install disk
Wondering if anyone has a workaround for this unattend.txt bug? http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?t hreadId=43315 **SNIPPED** The problem occurs because the Windows Server 2003 Installer interacts with the embedded virtual install disk when the OEMPreinstall flag is set in the UNATTEND.TXT file, but no files are specified to be preinstalled. **SNIPPED** Now keep in mind we *DO* have files in $oem$ (duh!) and we've tried to disable this VDsk in bios and also tried to add support for that disk but NO-GO. Any ideas? __ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Literature, Science, Arts 1007 East Huron, Room 201,BetaID:243340 Cell: (734) 323-8776 Ann Arbor,MI 48104-1690 www.umich.edu/~donofrio Fax: (734) 647-8333 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ [http://arc.pasp.de/] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Problems with HostRaid (IBM, adaptec, etc...)
Hi there. I'm trying to use the HostRaid functions in the latest IBM 306 and 336 servers. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec. There is no problem when installing with HostRaid disabled, and the 2.6 kernel used by unattended works just fine. It seems there is no support in the 2.6 (or 2.4) kernels to install this type of RAID hardware, and the binaries provided by Adaptec are just only for Redhat Enterprise, SUSE Linux, and alike...And there is no source available anywhere for the a320raid driver. Adaptec denies to provide that source because of licensing problems. There are drivers provided by Adaptec for Windows 2000, and 2003. The problem here is just that the initial 2.6 kernel loaded after Windows installation does not support those controllers. Anyone has had success when installing windows with unattended and hardware like this one? Thanks Kitai SysAdmin Ya.com Internet Factory --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up?
Matthew J. Harmon wrote: Alright, so making some great headway on the Unattended install, thank you to everyone[0] who responded with my questions about the Windows post install. The issue I was running into was the the 8.3 filenames, I decided to try and make directories descriptive. Also, Lewis brought up bart's pe?, what is that? Bart's PE Builder is a free software that can create a Windows-XP-based environment that completely runs from CD, no installation needed, it's like Knoppix, but Windows based. Look here: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ To the question, I am now in the part of the install which will require imaging machines that people already have used. So, most would like to backup their data - prior to it being blown away. Any recommendations on how to go about this, and still do a clean install? We usually use two partitions, C: for OS and programms, D: for user data like excel sheet, winword documents and so on. Assuming every user keeps his own stuff on D: drive only, you can configure unattended just to wipe out C: and leave D: untouched, have a look at the thread just format drive c: and leave other partition untouched... that was originated by me. Of course it's a little bit difficult to strictly separate system data from user data. For example, I always tweak MS-Outlook to store it's PST files on drive D:, but I don't care about MSIEs favorites that are stored somewhere in c:\documents and settings. This procedure turned out to work well before reinstalling a PC: - tell the user to move all important data to drive d:, let user decide what important means - make a complete backup of all hdd partitions with an imaging tool like Ghost, Drive Image or True Image. External USB disks with capacities of 80 GB and above are inexpensive these days and are fine for storing complete PC backups - keep the full backup in a safe place - reinstall the PC - wait a few weeks (or months), if user doesn't claim about missing things you can delete the backup HTH Gerhard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up?
I only asked about Bart's pe because I use it as a recovery/install medium. I have an issue and that is my SP2'ed Bart's PE (slipstreamed os and the merged into bart's fork files) cdrom; iso is about 689MiB anyways the older machines do *not know how to boot from cdrom* take like my old machine its bios doesn't have a clue what bootable cdrom is. Well I'd like to modify the floppy set; instead of running winnt32 or whatever it does just run the boot sequence for pehere is a link to the *six* floppies for XPprosp2 (home is different url) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=535d248d-5e10-4 9b5-b80c-0a0205368124displaylang=en **SNIPPED** The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP startup disk will automatically load the correct drivers to gain access to the CD-ROM drive and start a new installation of Setup. **SNIPPED** Anyone have any time free to check this out? __ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Literature, Science, Arts 1007 East Huron, Room 201,BetaID:243340 Cell: (734) 323-8776 Ann Arbor,MI 48104-1690 www.umich.edu/~donofrio Fax: (734) 647-8333 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ [http://arc.pasp.de/] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Hofmann Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up? Matthew J. Harmon wrote: Alright, so making some great headway on the Unattended install, thank you to everyone[0] who responded with my questions about the Windows post install. The issue I was running into was the the 8.3 filenames, I decided to try and make directories descriptive. Also, Lewis brought up bart's pe?, what is that? Bart's PE Builder is a free software that can create a Windows-XP-based environment that completely runs from CD, no installation needed, it's like Knoppix, but Windows based. Look here: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ To the question, I am now in the part of the install which will require imaging machines that people already have used. So, most would like to backup their data - prior to it being blown away. Any recommendations on how to go about this, and still do a clean install? We usually use two partitions, C: for OS and programms, D: for user data like excel sheet, winword documents and so on. Assuming every user keeps his own stuff on D: drive only, you can configure unattended just to wipe out C: and leave D: untouched, have a look at the thread just format drive c: and leave other partition untouched... that was originated by me. Of course it's a little bit difficult to strictly separate system data from user data. For example, I always tweak MS-Outlook to store it's PST files on drive D:, but I don't care about MSIEs favorites that are stored somewhere in c:\documents and settings. This procedure turned out to work well before reinstalling a PC: - tell the user to move all important data to drive d:, let user decide what important means - make a complete backup of all hdd partitions with an imaging tool like Ghost, Drive Image or True Image. External USB disks with capacities of 80 GB and above are inexpensive these days and are fine for storing complete PC backups - keep the full backup in a safe place - reinstall the PC - wait a few weeks (or months), if user doesn't claim about missing things you can delete the backup HTH Gerhard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] problem with autologon
matt, thank you for advice ! i tested that before without success using: todo.pl autolog.pl --logon=1 --user=Administrator --password=not4u2know in the same script. basically all those script are installing hotfixes for xp, ie, mplayer in unattended mode with norestart switch but i have to restart to apply a hotfix for mdac2.8 after installing mdac2.8 with todo.pl %Z%\scripts\xpsp1other.bat (xpsp1 ships with mdac2.7). is there any limitation for autologon in case of a machine not in a domain ? may i have switched something on that prevents the autologon ? cheers andy -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Matt Hyclak Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 15:28 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [Unattended] problem with autologon On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:26:02AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: i have difficulties understanding the autolog.pl feature. in my understanding i have to do something like this to reboot a machine after setup and automatically logon again to continue installation process: e.g. :: MASTER: Perform a basic XP installation (with post sp1 patches and other updates) @Echo off :: disable Autologon todo.pl autolog.pl --logon=0 ::install post xp sp1 other patches updates todo.pl %Z%\scripts\xpsp1otherup.bat todo.pl .reboot ::enable Autologon During next install todo.pl autolog.pl --logon=1 ::install post xp sp1 other patches todo.pl %Z%\scripts\xpsp1other.bat ::install post xp sp1 mplayer patches todo.pl %Z%\scripts\xpsp1mplayerup.bat ::install post xp sp1 ie patches todo.pl %Z%\scripts\xpsp1iesp1up.bat ::install post xp sp1 xp patches todo.pl %Z%\scripts\xppostsp1up.bat here is what happens. 1. machine is installing xp (unattended with autologon from unattended.txt) 2. machine executes xppostsp1up.bat 3. machine executes xpsp1iesp1up.bat 4. machine executes xpsp1mplayerup.bat 5. machine executes xpsp1other.bat 6. machine reboots 7. MACHINE DOESN´T LOG ON AUTOMATICALLY, I HAVE TO LOGON MANUALLY 8. machine executes xpsp1otherup.bat 9. machine reboots 10. machine is ready for user logon i´d like to get rid of point 7 and i thought using the autolog.pl would do the job of automatically logging on to the system and continue installation but it doesn´t. any ideas how i can solve my problem ? You probably need autolog.pl --logon=1 --user=Administrator --password=foobar so that windows knows who to auto logon as :-) -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] F.Y.I Domain Admin Password Problem
I sent my unattended distribution to an Admin at another location, but when he used it, the script failed right after he finished filling in the options. It turns out that his domain admin password had special characters in it. In this case a period ( full stop in England ) and a comma. Once he changed his password to letters and numbers only the script worked. John A. Edmiston Information Systems Analyst - The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. --- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] copy the i386 directory to harddisk.
Hello group, I would like to have a copy of the i386 directory to my c:\ drive. I already had a try with a symlink and a copy of the files to i386/$oem$/$1/i386 but then windows bails out with no space available or a cannot copy GDIPLUS. Anyone has a better idea for me? Thnx, imdos --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
RE: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up?
The 6 boot floppies are nothing special. It's just the same program that starts up when you boot from the CD, but all the files are spread out onto floppies. I have an old machine at home that I installed XP on from the boot floppies because it didn't boot from CD-ROM. One thing that might help you - I think it was a previous version of debian had some floppy disk images on the cd. Once of them had some sort of boot manager that would allow you to boot from the floppy, hard drive, or CD-ROM (even if your BIOS didn't support it). I think it was originally intended for some sort of network boot, but the fact that I could make it boot from a CD-ROM even when my bios didn't support it was cool. You might try that with your Bart-PE disk. Boot from the debian floppy, insert your Bart-PE disk, select boot from CD-ROM, and off you go. :) Donofrio, Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/2004 01:06 PM To:Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up? I only asked about Bart's pe because I use it as a recovery/install medium. I have an issue and that is my SP2'ed Bart's PE (slipstreamed os and the merged into bart's fork files) cdrom; iso is about 689MiB anyways the older machines do *not know how to boot from cdrom* take like my old machine its bios doesn't have a clue what bootable cdrom is. Well I'd like to modify the floppy set; instead of running winnt32 or whatever it does just run the boot sequence for pehere is a link to the *six* floppies for XPprosp2 (home is different url) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=535d248d-5e10-4 9b5-b80c-0a0205368124displaylang=en **SNIPPED** The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP startup disk will automatically load the correct drivers to gain access to the CD-ROM drive and start a new installation of Setup. **SNIPPED** Anyone have any time free to check this out? __ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Literature, Science, Arts 1007 East Huron, Room 201, BetaID:243340 Cell: (734) 323-8776 Ann Arbor,MI 48104-1690 www.umich.edu/~donofrio Fax: (734) 647-8333 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ [http://arc.pasp.de/] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Hofmann Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up? Matthew J. Harmon wrote: Alright, so making some great headway on the Unattended install, thank you to everyone[0] who responded with my questions about the Windows post install. The issue I was running into was the the 8.3 filenames, I decided to try and make directories descriptive. Also, Lewis brought up bart's pe?, what is that? Bart's PE Builder is a free software that can create a Windows-XP-based environment that completely runs from CD, no installation needed, it's like Knoppix, but Windows based. Look here: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ To the question, I am now in the part of the install which will require imaging machines that people already have used. So, most would like to backup their data - prior to it being blown away. Any recommendations on how to go about this, and still do a clean install? We usually use two partitions, C: for OS and programms, D: for user data like excel sheet, winword documents and so on. Assuming every user keeps his own stuff on D: drive only, you can configure unattended just to wipe out C: and leave D: untouched, have a look at the thread just format drive c: and leave other partition untouched... that was originated by me. Of course it's a little bit difficult to strictly separate system data from user data. For example, I always tweak MS-Outlook to store it's PST files on drive D:, but I don't care about MSIEs favorites that are stored somewhere in c:\documents and settings. This procedure turned out to work well before reinstalling a PC: - tell the user to move all important data to drive d:, let user decide what important means - make a complete backup of all hdd partitions with an imaging tool like Ghost, Drive Image or True Image. External USB disks with capacities of 80 GB and above are inexpensive these days and are fine for storing complete PC backups - keep the full backup in a safe place - reinstall the PC - wait a few weeks (or months), if user doesn't claim about missing things you can delete the backup HTH Gerhard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business?
