Re: [Unattended] select all RETAIL [MassStorageDrivers] drivers by default?

[Patrick Benton]

> 
> $u->>{'_temp'}->{'scan_windrivers_path'} = "/z/drivers/" ;
> I now dont have this line in my config, so I will give it a try. who
> knows. anyway about "up to date unattended"... the latest stable
> version is 4.8 and that cannot select drivers automatically and if in
> svn there are scripts to help it do so, is it close to a new stable
> release? sometimes i test things, but it depends on the time I have...
> who knows, I will see.
> 
I think thats what you are missing. I just impalement this and its
really slick. I like that it only copies over the drivers I need. Rather
then having to use the $oem$/$1 directory structure and all of its
problems. You still need to use the OEM part if you want to install
things that cant be detected. Like printers and such. But thats not a
big deal.

> > some users reported a way to  implemented, but I had not had time to
> > look at it.
> > If I can give me my own opinion on this, I feel that XP will stay for a
> > while, even MS is offering solutions (VirtualPC) to get it working in 
> > the long term.
> yes, I agree that the winxp will linger on in corporate environment.
> but with individual user enverironment... well, one cannot even buy a
> computer without w7, so the time of change is really close.
> unfortunatelly... so we are all looking forward to know a way to
> install that unattendedly, too :)

I humbly disagree that XP will stay around for awhile. It is now 3 OS's
behind. its a 8+ year old OS and its showing its age.

MS has always offered solutions to get prior OSs working under a virtual
environment. Well.. from windows 2000 on. Thats why they purchased
virtual PC so that companys would upgrade to windows 2000 from NT4.0.
Point is, its nothing new. its not like M$ is admitting you should stay
with XP.

Did I mention that XP is a 8+ year old OS? thats like from Win 3.0 all
the way to win 2000. In other words, if this was the year 2000, what you
said would be akin to "I feel that win 3.1 will stay around for awhile."

But of course, our definition of "awhile" might be different. i see XP
sticking around for another year, maybe two.

anyways, I doubt this was the first time this question was brought up on
the list. and I know it won't be the last. 

Unattended is a fantastic solution for this windows installation
problem. and I really don't want to go to an image based solution ;) But
I might have to. (or go to unattanded-gui but then miss that fancy scan
for drivers in linuxboot bit)

At least thats my two cents. unfortunately i'm not smart enough to
figure out how to get vista and up installed using unattended so I cant
offer any good solutions. Nor can I make a good cost-benefit analysis.
shrug. maybe its not worth it and I can accept that.

You DO agree that at some point in our lifetimes?... we'll have to
figure out how to get windows vista and up installed using unattended
right? I mean, at some point Microsoft is going to stop patching it. and
so many security holes that never been patched will be found that it
would be dumb to keep using it. (like how win95 would be a bad idea to
use on the internet)

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Re: [Unattended] procedure to keep up to date

[Patrick Benton]

I was talking about just unattended

Whats the relation of unattended and unattended-gui ? Is unattended-gui
the frontend to unattended? Perhaps I should be looking into that...

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-Original Message-
From: Mario Gzuk [mailto:mariog...@technikz.de] 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:03 AM
To: Patrick Benton
Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Unattended] procedure to keep up to date

Hi Patrick.
Are you talking about unattended or unattended-gui? unattended-gui has
an internal update mechanism which can be found in the settings section
of the web GUI. Let me know if you need help with this.

greetings mario

Patrick Benton wrote:
> What is the procedure to keep up to date on the latest unattended?
> 
> is this the correct command?
> svn co
https://unattended-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/unattended-gui
> 
> would that wipe out all my customizations? or leave files that have a
> different name alone?
> 
> I tried looking in the docs but couldn't find anything. Wiki not much
> help either. But I could just be blind...
> 

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[Unattended] procedure to keep up to date

[Patrick Benton]

What is the procedure to keep up to date on the latest unattended?

is this the correct command?
svn co https://unattended-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/unattended-gui

would that wipe out all my customizations? or leave files that have a
different name alone?

I tried looking in the docs but couldn't find anything. Wiki not much
help either. But I could just be blind...

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Re: [Unattended] unused additional OEM drivers

[Patrick Benton]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:37 +0200, FwdTmp wrote:
> hello everyone,
> 
> Is there any way to get rid easyly the unused driver? I mean my

> Any suggestion would be welcome! TIA


I would be interested to know what other unattended users do this-

First thoughts come to mind

clear out old drivers you no longer need (what a pain!)

there is a procedure on the wiki on how to use the driver pack. I've
found the driver pack had no drivers for my new computers... but it
7zips them to cut down on the size. Maybe using the same type of thing
to cut down on the size. 7ziping the drivers and then having the gui
mode windows installer unzip them... I think there is still an upper
limit that 7ziping will not get around. But it would still be faster to
copy from the network...


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Re: [Unattended] My last try to fix memdisk boot problem

[Patrick Benton]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 01:34 +0200, Bernd Krautmann wrote:
> - Original Message - 
> From: "tovis" 
> To: "Conrad Lawes" 
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Unattended] My last try to fix memdisk boot problem
> 
> 
> > Hi Brend
> >
> > It's only a wild guess. When some thing so mystheriouse you should have
> > check every thing what you think is good - cable, switch ...
> 
> I checked already everything...without success :(
You could try using just plain syslinux first. Burn to Cd or start it up
in dosbox. The same configs should work for both syslinux and pxelinux.
this will allow you to better test the your configs. and perhaps narrow
it down to why its not working.

> 
> > Have you tried any live CD? Boot process is very similar, also using
> > memdisk (personally I have use RIP, but a Knoppix ar Debian is also good.
> >
> I tried fetnd.imz image copied on a DOS floppy...and it worked
> 
> I have to use DOS because after the boot process I want to start 
> partition-magic and ghostthats the reason why I want to use DOS ... and 
> f*** it worked already for more than one year...I am really confused
it worked for pxelinux netboot for more then one year? 

are you trying to backup a system before you run unattended? I guess i'm
lost why you need partition-magic and ghost to format/reinstall windows
using unattended. Are you doing something interesting?

Anyways - I've found clonezilla and gparted to be much much better then
partition-magic and ghost. With ntfs-3g (giving you full read/write
access to ntfs) i'm not sure why you wouldn't want to use linux as a
good system rescue and tool solution.

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

[Patrick Benton]

Interesting.

But I was talking about unattended's DOS Boot disk. Not dos boot disks
in general

Patrick 

-Original Message-
From: tovis [mailto:mailer.to...@freemail.hu] 
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:51 AM
To: Patrick Benton
Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

Hi Patrick!

DOS boot method some times take a very good job. I'm succeed integrate
Hiren's boot disk (exclude mini XP) on my Debian deployment "system".
Unfortunately, I suspect, that the Hiren's boot disk is an illegal
collection, but highly power full tool for windows repair.

Sincerely
  Tovis

> oh. Didn't catch that. Guess I could have looked at the .imz file more
> closely.
>
>
>
> I guess the real question is - why is he using a dos boot disk and not
> the linux boot? I'm just curious. Maybe he has some good reason to go
> the dos boot rout?
>
>
>
>
>
> Patrick Benton
>
> IT Specialist
>
> Commnet Wireless LLC
>
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>
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> P Before printing this document, please think about the environment
>
>
>
> 
>
> From: Radu - Eosif Mihailescu [mailto:radu.mihaile...@linux360.ro]
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:03 PM
> To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8
>
>
>
> Patrick,
>
> He's using memdisk because he's using the DOS boot disk to start the
> installation.
>
> "undis3c.imz" is a 1.44MB floppy (80 cylinders x 2 heads x 18 sectors
x
> 512 bytes each) image that is perfectly bootable with memdisk (albeit
> using 'keeppxe' on the command line to actually have it work once
booted
> :-) )
>
> The solution you are suggesting below pertains to the Linux boot disk
> (also the recommended method by Unattended's authors), not the DOS
one.
>
> 
>
>
> So, r...@krautmann.net, please try to switch to the Linux boot disk and
> see if it solves your problem.
>
>
> Have a nice evening everyone,
> @Dexter
>
> On 08/02/2009 10:34 PM, Patrick Benton wrote:
>
> Why are you using memdisk? Its ok at booding dos boot disks. But
doesn't
> seem to do well on CD images. This is my relevant pxelinux.cfg.
>
> label unattended
> MENU LABEL ^Unattended Windows install
> kernel unattended/bzImage
> # Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line.
> append initrd=unattended/initrd z_path=\\ntinstall\install
>
>
> in otherwords, extract out the netboot stuff. Boot the kernel and
append
> the initrd. Works great.
>
> Patrick Benton
> IT Specialist
> Commnet Wireless LLC
>
>

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> 720-733-7688
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>
> -Original Message-
> From: r...@krautmann.net [mailto:r...@krautmann.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 AM
> To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8
>
> Hi friends,
>
> I have a serious problem with unattended-4.8.
>
> I installed everything on my eisfair server. DHCP, DNS and TFTP are
> running.
>
> When I start one of my clients it gets successfully an IP address, and
> then the message appears
>
> "Loading unattended/memdisk..OK"
> "Loading unattended/undis3c.imz..OK"
> Ready..
>
> And from this point nothing happens anymore.
>
> When I try take different memdisk version I have either the same
> result or it reboots after the message "Ready".
>
> I hope somebody could help me, because I had already running a very
> stabil unattended-4.7 version...and now I thought I make it better
> (F***   Never change a running system :)
>
> (But I tried 4.7 also with the same result)
>
> Thanks for you help
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

[Patrick Benton]

oh. Didn't catch that. Guess I could have looked at the .imz file more
closely.

 

I guess the real question is - why is he using a dos boot disk and not
the linux boot? I'm just curious. Maybe he has some good reason to go
the dos boot rout?

 

 

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IT Specialist

Commnet Wireless LLC

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720-733-7688

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From: Radu - Eosif Mihailescu [mailto:radu.mihaile...@linux360.ro] 
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:03 PM
To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

 

Patrick, 

He's using memdisk because he's using the DOS boot disk to start the
installation. 

"undis3c.imz" is a 1.44MB floppy (80 cylinders x 2 heads x 18 sectors x
512 bytes each) image that is perfectly bootable with memdisk (albeit
using 'keeppxe' on the command line to actually have it work once booted
:-) )

The solution you are suggesting below pertains to the Linux boot disk
(also the recommended method by Unattended's authors), not the DOS one.




So, r...@krautmann.net, please try to switch to the Linux boot disk and
see if it solves your problem.


Have a nice evening everyone,
@Dexter

On 08/02/2009 10:34 PM, Patrick Benton wrote: 

Why are you using memdisk? Its ok at booding dos boot disks. But doesn't
seem to do well on CD images. This is my relevant pxelinux.cfg.
 
label unattended
MENU LABEL ^Unattended Windows install
kernel unattended/bzImage
# Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line.
append initrd=unattended/initrd z_path=\\ntinstall\install
 
 
in otherwords, extract out the netboot stuff. Boot the kernel and append
the initrd. Works great.
 
Patrick Benton
IT Specialist
Commnet Wireless LLC
 

support: 
720-733-7688
supp...@commnetwireless.com
 

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-Original Message-
From: r...@krautmann.net [mailto:r...@krautmann.net] 
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 AM
To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8
 
Hi friends,
 
I have a serious problem with unattended-4.8.
 
I installed everything on my eisfair server. DHCP, DNS and TFTP are
running.
 
When I start one of my clients it gets successfully an IP address, and  
then the message appears
 
"Loading unattended/memdisk..OK"
"Loading unattended/undis3c.imz..OK"
Ready..
 
And from this point nothing happens anymore.
 
When I try take different memdisk version I have either the same  
result or it reboots after the message "Ready".
 
I hope somebody could help me, because I had already running a very  
stabil unattended-4.7 version...and now I thought I make it better  
(F***   Never change a running system :)
 
(But I tried 4.7 also with the same result)
 
Thanks for you help
 





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Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

[Patrick Benton]

Why are you using memdisk? Its ok at booding dos boot disks. But doesn't
seem to do well on CD images. This is my relevant pxelinux.cfg.

label unattended
MENU LABEL ^Unattended Windows install
kernel unattended/bzImage
# Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line.
append initrd=unattended/initrd z_path=\\ntinstall\install


in otherwords, extract out the netboot stuff. Boot the kernel and append
the initrd. Works great.

Patrick Benton
IT Specialist
Commnet Wireless LLC
 

support: 
720-733-7688
supp...@commnetwireless.com
 

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-Original Message-
From: r...@krautmann.net [mailto:r...@krautmann.net] 
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 AM
To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

Hi friends,

I have a serious problem with unattended-4.8.

I installed everything on my eisfair server. DHCP, DNS and TFTP are
running.

When I start one of my clients it gets successfully an IP address, and  
then the message appears

"Loading unattended/memdisk..OK"
"Loading unattended/undis3c.imz..OK"
Ready..

And from this point nothing happens anymore.

When I try take different memdisk version I have either the same  
result or it reboots after the message "Ready".

I hope somebody could help me, because I had already running a very  
stabil unattended-4.7 version...and now I thought I make it better  
(F***   Never change a running system :)

(But I tried 4.7 also with the same result)

Thanks for you help


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Re: [Unattended] WG:

[Patrick Frei]

Hi Torben

 

If you want to use a CNAME you have to enable it on the registry on the
Server, see this article:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B281308&x=10&y=11

 

Regards

Patrick

 

Von: Klassen Torben (Gem. Leopoldshöhe) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2008 14:52
An: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: [Unattended] WG:

 

Hi again,

 

let me correct myself. Im able to ping my PDC as ntinstall, but Im not able
as a "normal" user to connect to \\ntinstall   or
\\ntinstall\install  . Even an Administrator is
not able to list \\ntinstall\install  . Maybe
because of the CNAME?

I have added a CNAME in the Forward Lookupzone as you can see in the
picture.

ntinstall domainname.localdomain.

 

I have no idea what to do now..

 

Thanks

 

 

  _  

Von: Klassen Torben (Gem. Leopoldshöhe)
Gesendet: Mo 08.12.2008 14:40
An: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: 

Hello List!

This is my first post here because Im stuck in getting unattended running. I
created a user named "guest" with the password "guest" and when I logon with
a machine and try to get \\ntinstall\install 
everything works fine, but when I try to boot from the linux installcd it
stucks with the following message:

 

CIFS mount failed w return code = -5

mount error 5 = input/output error.

 

What should I do? I would love to see it up and running :).

 

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[Unattended] are you still around?

[Patrick Benton]

Noticed the last version was back in 2004. is this project still active
or is it dead?

 

Are you going to support newer versions of windows? (vista, 2008)

 

Will you update the pages to talk about newer offices? (when I see
officeXP I get worried that this project is no longer being worked
on...)

 

 

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[Unattended] Question about the Boot Disks

[Mullaley, Patrick S (Pat)]

I am brand new to this, and I realize that netbooting has been done for
decades (Solaris at least). I am trying to build a Linux (Ubuntu) box
that can house a few boot images and configure the machines after a
fresh install. I want to have this all done over a network, using the
PXE boot option. I have 23089743 questions, but I would like to start
with the obvious first and then move into the more mundane.

1) Where / How do I build a Windows XP boot image? Is it just a bootable
ISO image? If so, do I place an 'unattend.cfg' file in there too so it
answers all the groovy install questions?

2) Are there actions available after the last boot to trigger variances
in the installation, like IP addressing, hostname, etc. or would I need
a different 'image' for each variant?


That should get me really scratching my head.

Thanks in Advance,

Patrick

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[Unattended] Broadcom driver implementation in unattended?

[Patrick Schmidt]

Hi,

 

i’m using unattended since some months and i’m
very satisfied with it. Good work!

But now i’ve a little problem. Broadcom released new
B57xx-gigabit drivers and i can’t use the unattended

installation with the new computers. I tried it with the „universal
3com“ driver on the linux boot disc, but the „undis3c“

command doesn’t work. It gives me the answer „could
not find kernel image: undis3c“. Now my question: Is it possible to

implement the new broadcom driver to the linux boot disc and
how can i run the setup after choosing „undis3c“ from the
driverlist?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

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[Unattended] Appsonly by ssh

[Patrick Schmidt]

Hi there,

i hope this ist he right way of asking a question about an
unattended problem.

I want to run an appsonly-installation by ssh on a windows
xp-prof machine.

The installation of the perl-package runs without any
problems. But the selection

in the appsonly.pl doesn’t work and it gives me a
mistake on line 156.

It seems that the choice.exe in the bin directory doesn’t
work fine.

Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?

 

Thank you very much!

 

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Re: [Unattended] Preventing or altering Unattended's last autolog change?

[Patrick Bergenhenegouwen]

Hi Shane,

This is wath I use.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultDomainName"="EMEA"
"AltDefaultDomainName"="EMEA"

This way the domain listed is always the default.

Greets,

Patrick

- Original Message - 
From: "Shane Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unattended" 
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:05 AM
Subject: [Unattended] Preventing or altering Unattended's last autolog change?


After a long hiatus I've gotten back to using unattended, and now 
(except for those pesky recalcitrant IBM PC300 machines) between it and 
autoit3 have almost everything smooth as silk, even including (yay!) 
nothing-but-net installs on those machines which actually respect LAN 
booting and PXE instead of merely pretending to. :p

Key word being "almost" :). When unattended is tidying up after itself, 
it appears to run autolog.pl one last time to disable automatic logins. 
However this is resulting in our users being presented with a login that 
defaults to the local machine rather than the domain (and further they 
have to click on Options to even see that this is so and change it). 
Being a school, some of our users aren't quite savvy with figuring that 
out, and I'd like to neaten it out.

I've looked through the .bat files in scripts and haven't found where 
it's doing this. Have I missed it or is it hardcoded into Unattended?

Regards,

Shane Curtis
-- 
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[Unattended] unattended

[Patrick de Verville]

hello, i'm a french boy and i've got a problem with the automatisation of my 
windows XP
So i've got a question:How do you notice the path where drivers are stocked in 
your unattended.txt,because i've got a problem during the installation of my 
drivers?
thanks for your answer

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Re: [Unattended] ifshlp.sys problem with unattend 4.6

[Patrick Bergenhenegouwen]

Oops not read the subject.
- Original Message - 
From: "Patrick Bergenhenegouwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "unattended-info" 
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Unattended] ifshlp.sys problem with unattend 4.6




Hi Kai

I have installed and configured your fantastic tool. I used it already for some 
machines using PXe boot. Now I have to install a DELL Notebook (latitude d800) 
and I cannot get the network running. I get always this error when running net 
inizialize:

Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed

I also changed already emm386 but with no success.
I also downloaded the dell b57.dos driver, renamed it to b57dell and made new 
images, again: no success.

Do you have an idea?

This look like some dos errors whit loading the driver.

Whitch version of unattended ar you using, and why not use the linux boot disk

Cheers,

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Re: [Unattended] ifshlp.sys problem with unattend 4.6

[Patrick Bergenhenegouwen]

Hi Kai

I have installed and configured your fantastic tool. I used it already for some 
machines using PXe boot. Now I have to install a DELL Notebook (latitude d800) 
and I cannot get the network running. I get always this error when running net 
inizialize:

Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed

I also changed already emm386 but with no success.
I also downloaded the dell b57.dos driver, renamed it to b57dell and made new 
images, again: no success.

Do you have an idea?

This look like some dos errors whit loading the driver.

Whitch version of unattended ar you using, and why not use the linux boot disk

Cheers,

Patrick

Re: [Unattended] Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 207

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Brad Erdman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> *** Unrecognized bus type in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/host_bus
> Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 207
> *** find-boot-device failed
> *** Dropping to shell

Please run:

cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/host_bus

...and send me the output.  Apparently the find-boot-device script
needs to be taught a new bus type.

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Re: [Unattended] Change of address

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Please use the link at the bottom of every message
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info) to
unsubscribe your old address and subscribe your new address.

With over 500 subscribers, manually handling requests like this is not
really feasible.

Thanks!

 - Pat


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> Hi Pat
> 
> Today I change addess from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Can you please update the dist list?
> 
> Have a nice weekend!
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Re: [Unattended] fixing mailing list "Reply to:" address?

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

I agree with Matthew; lists which set Reply-To are simply broken.

Here is a fairly complete explanation:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Users need to distinguish "reply to sender" from "reply to all"
(aka. "followup").

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[Unattended] Apologies for the spam

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Apparently someone made a spam run forging this list as the sender,
and some very broken software generated a bunch of automatic
responses.  (All autoresponders are bad, but some are worse than
others.)

I have added a filtering rule which should mitigate this problem if it
happens again.  If the noise level continues to rise, I will close the
list to non-subscribers.  Personally, I hate subscriber-only lists,
but I hate noise even more.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] todo.pl wont wait for groupwise

[Patrick]

Put this before your setupline.

start /wait

> Hi,
> im having an issue where todo.pl wont wait for Novell GroupWise client
> to finish installing before moving to the next application on the list.
> Sometimes on slower machines the pc will reboot while groupwise is only
> 1/2 way through the install. Any ideas how I can make it wait?
>
> -Lachlan
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[Unattended] Re: Setting up a working developer environment

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Stefan Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello Folks,
> 
> can anyone tell me how to setup a working unattended developer
> environment?  I downloaded the sources from cvs and tried to run
> make release.

Don't do that.  The top-level Makefile is for making releases only;
"make release" is how I actually create and upload a new release.

What you want to do is "cd bootdisk" and then type "make", to build
the DOS boot disk.

Or "cd linuxboot" and then do "make download" followed by "make" to
build the Linux boot disk; see README.txt inside the linuxboot
directory.  Getting this to work will likely require a fairly modern
Linux system like Fedora Core 3 or CentOS 4.  I use Fedora Core 3.

If you encounter problems, ask on unattended-devel.

> I'm trying to include expat and several perl xml modules into the
> linux boot image.

If you can convince them to install under /z/linuxaux/opt/perl, that
should also work.  But I concede that's annoying to maintain...

If it's not too large, I could probably just add these to the
distribution.  Which XML modules, exactly?

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[Unattended] Re: Setting up a working developer environment

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Stefan Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello Folks,
> 
> can anyone tell me how to setup a working unattended developer
> environment?  I downloaded the sources from cvs and tried to run
> make release.

Don't do that.  The top-level Makefile is for making releases only;
"make release" is how I actually create and upload a new release.

What you want to do is "cd bootdisk" and then type "make", to build
the DOS boot disk.

Or "cd linuxboot" and then do "make download" followed by "make" to
build the Linux boot disk; see README.txt inside the linuxboot
directory.  Getting this to work will likely require a fairly modern
Linux system like Fedora Core 3 or CentOS 4.  I use Fedora Core 3.

If you encounter problems, ask on unattended-devel.

> I'm trying to include expat and several perl xml modules into the
> linux boot image.

If you can convince them to install under /z/linuxaux/opt/perl, that
should also work.  But I concede that's annoying to maintain...

If it's not too large, I could probably just add these to the
distribution.  Which XML modules, exactly?

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Re: [Unattended] Dell latitude D600 ??

[Patrick Bergenhenegouwen]

Hi

What is the bios version you use. I test it with v14 no problemo.

greets,
Patrick

I allready upgraded to 4.6 and It still hangs the system.
It seems to be freezing when it trys to scan for Pcmcia adapters.



Felipe Navarrete wrote:

> Dell latitude D600 ??
> Does it work with 4.6 ?
> Im still using 4.4b and it freezes?
>
> Any help appreciated...
> I will begin searching online now.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Felipe
>
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Re: [Unattended] winxp updates.bat

[Patrick Bergenhenegouwen]

MessageHi Mark,

What you need to do is slipstream SP2 in your os dir.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337&st=0



My winxp OS directory contains a version of xp patched to sp1.

Currently only the winxpsp1-updates.bat file is getting run but I want to
install SP2 on the machines.

Whats the best way to do this?
  1) replace winxpsp1-updates.bat with winxp-updates.bat
  2) call winxp-updates.bat after winxpsp1-updates.bat

Greets,

Patrick



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RE: [Unattended] Switching Users during install

[Patrick Bulteel]

Yes please...

-P

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
Hyclak
Sent: 05 January 2005 04:48
To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Switching Users during install


On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:51:51AM +0100, Peter Ivanyi enlightened us:
> > I have run into a piece of software for which I need to create a 
> > local user and have that user install said software. The process 
> > will go something like
> > this:
> > 
> > Start regular unattended install as Administrator
> > Install some apps
> > Run stupid_app.bat:
> >   * Create local user as an administrator
> >   * Change autolog.pl to run as local user
> >   * Reboot
> >   * Install software
> >   * Change autolog.pl to run as administrator again
> >   * Take away administrator privelidges from local user Continue 
> > installing other apps
> > 
> > The tricky part is how do I change back to administrator without 
> > hardcoding the username/password in my script? I will be able to 
> > play with the registry since for the duration of the install, the 
> > local user will have administrative rights which will be taken 
> > away...would the best bet be to grab the registry keys, save to a 
> > temporary file, then replace them when finished?
> 
> If there is problem only with permissions you can do it after complete

> installation under administrator for ex. with setacl
> (http://setacl.sf.net) otherwise :(
> 

Unfortunately it goes beyond that. This is a student version of the
software that is "Not Licensed for Network Use", whatever that means. I
did manage to get my hack above to work. If anyone is interested I can
share that.

Matt

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Re: [Unattended] sun-jre REBOOT=ReallySuppress not working?

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> It seems like the REBOOT=ReallySuppress switch isn't working with
> the 1.5.0_01 version of sun-jre. On both a win2k (through
> unattended) and on a winxp (just installing sun-jre), it asks for a
> reboot when using the command in sun-jre.bat.

Not happening for me...

Did you make any changes at all to sun-jre.bat?

According to the docs, the "NETSCAPE6=1" option is no longer
supported, but it does not seem to cause any problems.

Things to try:

  REBOOT=Suppress instead of ReallySuppress

  /norestart instead of REBOOT=...
  (new switch supported by the 3.0 Windows Installer; see
  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/standard_installer_command_line_options.asp)

Are other people having the same problem?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] linux disk request

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Felipe Navarrete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As you all know the linux boot disk as of 4.4b just boots immediatly
> and if you forget to take it out of the cdrom, when you come back an
> hour later it is still booting from the CD and getting nowhere.

True, but you can remove the CD as soon as the initrd is done loading,
when you see the first Linux kernel initialization messages.  That is
what I do...

> has this been addressed in newer releases or is this to
> come in the future?

No, and since you eventually have to eject the CD anyway, the current
approach minimizes total effort.  So I kind of like it the way it is.
But I don't care that much; if this bothers enough users, we can
change it.

> OR!
> how difficult would it be for me to do this myself?

Not too hard...  You need to edit the isolinux.cfg file on the CD-ROM
to display a menu and let you choose what to boot.  The DOS boot disk
already does something like this, so you can use it as a template.
Download unattended-4.6-dosboot.zip and take a look at
bootdisk/iso/isolinux/isolinux.cfg.  Also read the SYSLINUX
documentation (http://syslinux.zytor.com/).

If you come up with a complete procedure, send instructions here and I
will add a link in the FAQ.

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.6 released

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > No major changes in this long-overdue release, but lots and lots of
> > small bug fixes and updates.
> > ...
> 
> Do the boot disks include any additional network card drivers compared
> to rel. 4.5?

On the DOS boot disk, no.

On the Linux boot disk, I am not sure.  The developers are constantly
adding and tweaking drivers.

What hardware are you having trouble with?  If you can tell me what
"lspci" and "lspci -n" show for your network card, I can tell you
whether we should support it.

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Re: [Unattended] NTFS cluster size

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions
> are still using 512byte clusters?  I had the impression that the move
> to the linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable
> 4k clusters.
> 
> Or was I just thinking that for no reason?

Well, it does not depend on the Linux boot disk.  It depends on which
OS you are installing (winxp/ws2k3 good, win2k bad) and which version
of format.exe you have in Z:\dosbin.

See "Is FAT -> NTFS conversion a bad idea?" in
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you still have trouble.

 - Pat


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[Unattended] Unattended 4.6 released

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

No major changes in this long-overdue release, but lots and lots of
small bug fixes and updates.

NEWS.txt entry is appended.

 - Pat


** Changes in version 4.6 (2004-Jan-02)

(Linux) Add g(un)zip to boot disk since it is needed for non-English
keyboard support.

(DOS) Fix warnings about deleting non-existent DHCP cached state file
(dhcp.prm).

Set [Unattended]/DriverSigningPolicy to "Ignore" in
Z:\lib\unattend.txt (slords).

(Linux) Upgrade to Linux 2.6.10, MySQL 4.0.23a, DBD-mysql 2.9004, DBI
1.46, glibc-20041122, Parted 1.6.20, Perl 5.8.6, Samba 3.0.10,
wireless_tools.27, dmidecode 2.5, and module-init-tools 3.1.
"Downgrade" to dosemu 1.2.1, since it works fine and we have no reason
to use the CVS version.

Add Norwegian support to bootini.pl; thanks to Tor Haakon Gjerde.

Add Norwegian download URLs everywhere; thanks to Espen Stefansen.

Make Adobe Reader an optional package.  Update it to version 7.0,
language permitting.  Thanks to Godfrey Livingstone.

(DOS) Fix warnings when building under recent Cygwin (ekot).

(DOS) Upgrade to FreeDOS Beta 9 Service Release #1.  Do not load any
UMB provider by default, because usually it hurts more than it helps.

(DOS) Upgrade b44.dos and e1000.dos to latest versions.

Add Internet shortcut (URL) support to shortcut.pl.

Always clean up our installation mess, whether or not any post-install
scripts are selected (slords).

Fix CSV file parser to permit blank lines (slords).

Upgrade to Opera 7.54u1, Windows Installer 3.0, Shockwave 10.1.0.011,
WinAmp 5.07 (nrichthof).  Upgrade to PuTTY 0.56 (dolphinbofh).
Upgrade to PHP 4.3.10 and Sun JRE 1.5.0_01.

Add PHP 5.0.3 (nrichthof).

Fix numerous download locations and installation scripts all over the
place (slords).

Upgrade to SYSLINUX 2.13.

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Re: [Unattended] Windows updates for ws2k3 cannot be run in DOS mode?

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Could you be more specific?  I just finished building a ws2k3 system
using our provided ws2k-updates.bat file, and all of the updates
applied fine.

What update(s) are giving you problems, exactly?

As for Windows Components, you can find a reasonably complete (as of
ws2k3) list at:

  
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_u_components.asp

 - Pat

Remi Woler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> While installing a few windows updates (getting the box completely
> ready unattended), some updates say "This program cannot be run in DOS
> mode". Whoesh, there goes Bill's speech about no DOS in NT-based
> operating systems. Ah well, any way to get around this? Can todo.pl
> create some run_once batch file?
> 
> While I am at it, another question pops up:
> * Is there a list somewhere with all windows components, so I van
> disable/enable some of them?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Remi
> 
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Re: [Unattended] DOS bootdisk

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Pietro Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hallo, I'm trying to setup unattended, but the DOS bootdisk does not
> recognize my dhcp server, using the GNU/Linux bootdisk I do not have
> this problem. Someone have some suggestions?

What error message(s) do you get, exactly?

You might try the 4.6 prerelease version at
.  It has some DOS boot
disk changes which might help.

> OK, the first one may be "Use GNU/Linux bootdisk!", but it gives me
> other problems, when I have more time at work I'll study it better.

In general, we prefer that you use the Linux bootdisk if possible,
since we actually stand a realistic chance of fixing its bugs.  Here
again, I suggest trying the 4.6 prerelease.  If it has problems, tell
us what they are; i.e., what do you see on the screen, exactly?

We may not fix every problem reported, but we can fix no problems
which are not reported.

Thanks!

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Re: [Unattended] problem with base.bat file also

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

mike veinott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Looking through the mailing list, I see someone having a similar
> problem to the one I am having. (Kaari's "problem with base.bat
> file" message from 2004-09-30).  During my install of Win2k with SP4
> integrated, the process would stop about the install of IE6.

Your problem is not the same as Kaari's, though.  His problem is that
the autologon works but the automatic invocation of todo.pl does not.
This is consistent with something rebooting the machine behind
todo.pl's back; that would leave the autologon in place without giving
todo.pl a chance to hook itself to run at logon.

In theory, the "/r:n" switch (which ie6.bat passes) should prevent
ie6setup.exe from doing this, but maybe it is not working for Kaari
for some reason.

Your problem is different; it sounds like the reboots are working but
the autologon is getting trashed somehow.  Why installing IE would
disable automatic logon is beyond me...

My first question for you and Kaari: Did you follow the instructions
in Z:\packages\ie6sp1\README.txt (and in ie6.bat)?  That is, did you
run this command to download the offline installation files:

ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"""

Note that I have not yet reproduced either of your problems; I built a
few Windows 2000 machines yesterday without trouble.  However, it has
been a while since I downloaded the offline installation files myself,
so I will look to see if they have changed.

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Re: [Unattended] Problem installing Office XP

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Every version of Office XP (with/without FrontPage, that sort of thing)
has its own name for setup.exe.  Just edit officexp.bat to match yours.

 - Pat
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Re: [Unattended] Pre-Install Drivers unattended && Unsigned drivers

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Remi Woler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 2 questions this time.
> 1. I've got the pre install driver thing working (thanks Brad Erdman),
> but still got a little question about it. Yet, a nice menu asks me
> which driver I want to load, and what other default drivers I want to
> load. Is there a way to make this as unattended as the other questions?

Yes.  See "Computing OemPnPDriversPath automatically" in
.

> 2. The Raid driver is not signed by Microsoft. Therefor, the windows
> installation asks 3 times if I am really really really sure I want
> to install this driver. Is there any way to surpress this message?

As others have mentioned, you can set [Unattended]/DriverSigningPolicy
to "Ignore" (see  and
).

We have added this to Z:\lib\unattend.txt for the next release.

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Re: [Unattended] Configuring share options

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Moritz Engel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You can also use dhcp optioin 233 to distibute the share! 

Yes, exactly.  If you are using ISC DHCP on Unix, you can add a line
like this to /etc/dhcpd.conf:

 option option-233 "z_user=myuser z_pass=sekrit z_path=//myserver/myshare";

If you are using a Windows DHCP server, see step 8 of
.  (The other steps
are for doing PXE boot.  This step is for setting the boot disk
options, which will work with the CD-ROM as well.)

All of this is only supported by the Linux-based boot disk.  But it is
easier than editing the boot disk itself, and will automatically work
with future releases.

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Re: [Unattended] pxe boot undis3c dos file copy stalls

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Using the undis3c driver to pxe boot blades with broadcom Gigabit
> NICS to DOS The install begins but the file copy is dreadfully slow
> and stalls - randomly in the region of 20%
> 
> any ideas/help appreciated

Please try the Linux-based boot disk.  We have a few reports of DOS
having trouble with gigabit Ethernet, and there is really very little
we can do about it.

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Re: [Unattended] Windows-"Tools"

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"Sebastian Mellmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi everybody.
> Is there any possibilty of deleting programs like windows-messenger, outlook
> express etc.?

You can not prevent them from being installed, but you can "remove
access" to them via unattend.txt.  See
 and
.

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Re: [Unattended] oem driver dir + symlink

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Julien TOUCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Cory Bosley a écrit :
>
> > Default: unix extensions = no
> 
> problem has small chance to be from samba. navigation with windows
> browsing is really ok.

Cory is (probably) right, especially if your server is Samba 3.x.  It
is not a "problem" with Samba, exactly...  It is a limitation of
Windows.

Windows knows nothing about symlinks.  So when a Windows client
accesses a symlink on the server, the server resolves it to the actual
file or folder; the client does not even realize it is traversing a
link.

When a Linux client (e.g., the Unattended boot disk) accesses the
share, Samba makes the symlink itself visible.  But it will probably
not resolve correctly from the client's point of view.

You can test this by doing "ls -l" from the Unattended client to see
how the symlinks appear.  Also do "man smb.conf" on your server and
read the section on "unix extensions".

This is also mentioned briefly in the first question in the FAQ
(http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html).

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Re: [Unattended] 4.5 BUG changing keyboard

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Julien TOUCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> beginning with my update of 4.5, the setting of keyboard with pxe params
> doesn't seem to work anymore. i get:
> 
> loadkeys ...
> sh: gzip command not found
> Loading ...

Yeah, this is a bug in 4.5 which is fixed in CVS.

We are a little overdue for a release.  But Microsoft is poised to
release patches one week from Tuesday and Linus said something about
wanting to release Linux 2.6.10 by Christmas.

Also, I upgraded my workstation to Fedora Core 3, and now I cannot
even build the 2.6.9 kernel.  You gotta love open source.

Anyway, I am inclined to wait a few more weeks.  I may roll a
pre-release in the next week or two if people are up for testing it.

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Re: [Unattended] dell precision 670/pcix/Unable to determine boot device

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Julien TOUCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> after the poweredge 4300, i've the same class of problem with a dell
> precision 670 (which has a pcix bus)

I have fixed find-boot-device to recognize PCI-X, so this warning will
be gone in our next release:

> *** Unrecognized bus type in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/host_bus

But that is not the real problem.  The real problem is that the
Adaptec driver is not loading.  Try running "modprobe aic79xx" by hand
and re-running /etc/master.  If that works, we can fix it easily.
(Although I will be on vacation for a week starting in about two
hours.)

> see the end of message for full details.
> 
> if someone could help or point the relevant correction to make ? same
> for poweredge 4300 and i2o_block .

Your i2o_block problem on the 4300 is something completely different.
If we are lucky, it will magically be fixed in the next release of the
Linux kernel.  If not, we will have to cobble together a bug report
for them.

Sorry I have not been around lately.  My employer actually gave me
work to do...

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Re: [Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended

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Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell
> it to "Use Whole Disk" ?

It already does, or tries to.  By default, our first partitioning
command is "fdisk /clear 1" which translates into the Parted command
"parted mklabel msdos".

Have you made any changes to Z:\dosbin\install.pl, Z:\site\config.pl,
or Z:\site\unattend.txt related to partitioning?

Unless the mklabel command also preserves some state, which I suppose
is possible.  Wow, that would be broken...

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Re: [Unattended] followup to last post

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"Scott Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> **
> BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
> ...done loading edd
> *** ...and locating the boot device
> *** find-boot-device failed
> *** Dropping to shell
> bash-3.00#
> ***

That is very strange, because find-boot-device should not fail without
printing some sort of diagnostic.

What happens if you run "find-boot-device" by hand after you are
dropped to the shell?

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[Unattended] Copy error during Windows install

[Patrick Barnes]

I'm trying to use Unattended to automate the install of Windows XP Pro
from an OEM CD over a network boot.  I think I have everything set up
correctly, and I am able to start the installation without trouble, but
after Windows Setup finishes copying files to the hard drive and reboots,
it comes up with errors saying that it was unable to copy files.  When I
have used the original CD for installations, I know that after this first
reboot, it does continue to copy files from the CD, and I suspect that
these facts are related, but I don't know how to work around this issue. 
Any ideas?


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[Unattended] Fix my file corruption problem...

[Patrick Bulteel]

It turns out that I was using the smartdrv on a windows 2000 install. I
commented it out from the autoexec.bat and was able to get it working! 

Now to automate the installs of oracle client, etc!

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[Unattended] First question: Corruption of files.

[Patrick Bulteel]

Hi again...

I had a question as to what might be corrupting the files in the
C:\netinst directory.

It seems to me that the files that are created (unattend.txt, doit.bat,
log directory, etc) are corrupt. Winnt.exe started by complaining there
was an error on line 1 of the c:\netinst\unattend.txt. From this I
discovered that the file was a binary file instead of txt. If I try to
view or do anything with it my system then gets corrupted (or so it
looks, but it might be that the "terminal" gets corrupted.) This problem
particularly happens if I try to "dir C:\netinst\logs\"

I copied the files over to my Z drive to see what was in it. File
reports it as a data file. 

The size of the original unattend.txt file is 1034 bytes. After adding
the info into the users section (and file becoming corrupt) it's now
2431. 

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? 

Things I had to go to get this far were:

1. Changed the bootdisk from opendos to MS DOS 7. (This fixed my problem
of getting an IP address with my pcntnd (VMWare) card.)
2. Changed the fdisk.exe command to fdisk from the MS DOS 7 disk I had
and modified the way it worked within the install.pl script. I was
noticing this problem before so I thought that maybe because I booted
with DOS 7, that the fdisk included with the disk wasn't working.
3. Changed format.exe to format.com from the MSDOS disk - again thinking
this might be the cause of the corruption.

Anyway, none of this has changed, so I assume something else is going
on.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I will gladly publish what I have done,
including bat files, etc for software I install (maybe Oracle 8 and 9
client and DBs as well as SQL server, etc.)

Thanks,

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[Unattended] Wiki unattended site spammed...

[Patrick Bulteel]

Hi everyone,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you go to the recent changes
page and to the python page... Lots of links to ads.

On the other hand, I want to thank everyone that's helped with this
project. I am finding the information very useful and I'm in the process
of deploying unattended at my work place. I have had some problems and I
still have some questions... I'll send another email on that.

Thanks,

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Re: [Unattended] problem wit undis3c in bootdisk.iso

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Christian Volk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a problem, booting from a CDR, I burned with bootdisk.iso.
> After Isolinux is booted, i chose "undis3c" image, but the bootloader
> told me, that there is no image present.

The undis3c driver relies on the UNDI/PXE network stack, meaning it
only works when you boot from the network (not floppy nor CD-ROM).  So
we do not bother to include it on the CD-ROM image.

If you want a CD-ROM which automatically supports lots of network
cards, try the Linux-based boot disk.

> What does "Unknown file type ." in line Making bootdisk.iso
> mean?

Some kind of warning from your version of mkisofs.  It doesn't happen
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Re: [Unattended] problems with 4.5

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Brad Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build the Linux boot disk am having some problems.  When I
> unzip and run make I get:
> cp -f misc/linux-config linux-2.6.9/.config
> cp: cannot create regular file `linux-2.6.9/.config': No such file or
> directory
> make: *** [linux-2.6.9/.config] Error 1

You have to run "make download" first.  This is (poorly) documented in
the README.txt file.

You do not have to build the Linux boot disk to use it, though...

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[Unattended] Unattended 4.5 released

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

This may be the first release with (significantly) more work from
other people than from me.  To all of the developers, and to users who
sent patches, thank you!

Special thanks to Shad, who tested every Windows+IIS+Office
combination, ensuring that this is probably the most robust release we
have had for a long time.

NEWS.txt entry is appended.

 - Pat


** Changes in version 4.5 (2004-Oct-23)

Completely overhaul sample-config.pl to allow automatic machine
configuration from spreadsheet or MySQL database (slords).

(Linux) Compile everything for i586 to fix "Illegal Instruction" crash
on older machines (dolphinbofh).

New script install/tools/script-update, to keep a local installation
up-to-date with our CVS repository (nrichthof).

(Linux) Add /etc/protocols so that LDAP and MySQL modules can actually
work.  Thanks to Andrew Bartlett.

(Linux) Add partitioning support for logical partitions, extended
partitions, and Linux partitions.  Thanks to Jordan Share.

(Linux) Use DHCP-supplied WINS servers (in addition to DNS) when
mapping install share.

New script install/tools/msparse.pl, which slurps direct download URLs
from Microsoft download pages (dolphinbofh).

Include version on boot disk and install share, and warn if they do
not match.

Fix bootini.pl not to damage boot.ini for unrecognized languages
(ekot).

Add --icon switch to shortcut.pl.  Thanks to Moritz Engel.

Several todo.pl improvements: Add new .missing-ok directive
(slords). Add CHS language (thanks to Andrew Clark).  Set
"Administrators" environment variable to localized name of
Administrators group (thanks to Jan Brauer).

Use localized Administrators group name when adding users to
Administrators group.

Upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.3, Sun JRE 1.5.0, .NET 1.1 SP1 (nrichthof), and
Winamp 5.05 (nrichthof).

Fix numerous non-English download URLs (ekot).

(Linux) Upgrade to Linux 2.6.9, Bash 3.0, DBI 1.45, MySQL 4.0.21,
Parted 1.6.15, BusyBox 1.00, Samba 3.0.7, and zlib 1.2.2.

Upgrade to SYSLINUX 2.11.

(DOS) Upgrade Realtek RTL8169/RTL8110S driver to 1.03.

Add September and October hotfixes (MS04-027 through MS04-038).
Upgrade to Media Player 10.


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Re: [Unattended] Failure to load driver for Tulip card

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Paul Kopacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Only the pertinent bits:
> 
> Next, we'll look for PCI Ethernet hardware...
> Looking for PCI devices of class 0x020 (mask 0x00)
> 00:09.0 Class 0200: 1011:0014 (rev 21)
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
> 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)
> *** And I suppose we may as well look for PCMCIA devices...
> cardmgr[303]: no sockets found!
> *** Now that we have loaded the modules (maybe), let's try DHCP...
> *** eth0 not found
> *** eth1 not found
> *** eth2 not found
> Failed to obtain DHCP lease

Ah, I stand corrected.

But that output is quite useful.  This appears to be a (trivial) bug
in the de4x5 driver, which fails to export its "module device table"
properly.  I have sent a bug report to the Linux networking folks.

Meanwhile, please try this after you are dropped to the shell:

modprobe de4x5
/etc/master

...and let me know if it works.

I will look into fixing this in our next release.

Thanks!

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Re: [Unattended] Failure to load driver for Tulip card

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Paul Kopacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm using the Linux boot disc.  The NIC is a DLink DE-530 with a DEC
> 21041-PA controller on it.  The boot disc seems to detect it, but
> does not end up loading any drivers.

I do not know what you mean.  Our boot disk detects a card if and only
if it loads a driver.

What are you seeing on the screen, exactly?

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Re: [Unattended] how to find out silent install options

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I apologize for the long delay in replying.

"Anders Nyström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just tried successfully out adobe-reader install and wonder;
> where have you found options  -p\"-s /v\\\"/qb
> from adobe or installshield site or just googling
> and can anybody explain what it is its doing?

See .

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Re: [Unattended] Bochs

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Apologies for the long delay on this.

Mark McRitchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Think I need to get the ne.ko driver onto the unattended CD
> though. I'm not sure how to go about rebuilding the ISO.
> 
> @Pat - any chance of getting ne.ko onto the latest testing snapshot?

We can add ne.ko to the boot disk, but making it load automatically
will be hard.  In general, ISA devices do not support "Plug and Play"
like PCI devices do.

I suppose we could unconditionally load the NE2000 driver, but I am
not even sure that will work right on all systems...  So I am
reluctant to add something like this.

It would be better if Bochs could emulate a PCI network card (like
VMware does).

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Re: [Unattended] todo.pl and quotes

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Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have had some problems when command itself contains quotes, example:
> copy \\server\share\files.* "C:\documents and settings\user"
> 
> How can this be handled?

Use backslash to escape quotes inside quotes:

todo.pl "copy \\server\share\files.* \"C:Documents and Settings\user\""


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Re: [Unattended] Linux boot disk problem

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Brad Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have switched to the Linux boot disk and am having a problem.  It is not
> able to find the unattended site file.  I get "Unable to open
> z:\site\c0a84c28t.txt: No such file or directory at
> /z/lib/Unattended/Inifile.pm line 270."  Then "install.pl exited non-zero",
> and finally "*** Dropping to shell".

Well, we do not read any file named "c0a84c28t.txt" by default.  So I
am guessing you have modified Z:\site\config.pl.

To work with the Linux boot disk, file names need to have a call to
"dos_to_host()" wrapped around them.  So, you need to take things like
this this:

$u->read ('z:\site\whatever');

And replace them with things like this:

$u->read (dos_to_host ('z:\site\whatever'));

The dos_to_host call converts DOS-style file names into Unix-style
file names when invoked from the Linux boot disk.  When invoked from
the DOS boot disk, it leaves the name alone, letting you write code
which works correctly from either boot disk.

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Re: [Unattended] Win XP Pro - automatically install terminal services?

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Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi list,
> 
> is is possible to automatically install and enable terminal services?
> Any ideas?

In XP, Terminal Services is called "Remote Desktop".  You might be
able to enable it with the [Components]/TSEnable key
(http://support.microsoft.com/?id=230597).

You can also enable or disable it with the rdconfig.pl script, which
is part of the Unattended distribution in Z:\bin.  See
.

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Re: [Unattended] Linux boot disk, illegal instruction error

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Fixed in next release.

Please try the linux boot disk from the 4.4c-pre2 test release at
.  (Do not forget to update
your Z:\linuxaux.)

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Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot

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jo / ak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When starting with the linux boot disk, on some machine the
> installation process hangs copying the os files and the first
> reboot with 
> 
>   NTLDR not found
> 
> A message before said
> 
>   *** Found no legacy BIOS data.  Probably no big deal. 
> Continuing.
> 
> The disk is an old Fujitsu M1638TAU 2,5 GB. Is there a way to
> tell the program about disk geometry? And what data does it
> exactly need?

It needs the geometry of the drive from the BIOS's point of view.  You
might be able to learn this by entering the system's BIOS utility.
You can certainly learn it by booting to DOS and running "fdisk /info
/tech".

We normally determine the geometry automatically by asking the Linux
EDD module, which has code to query the BIOS for this information.
But if your BIOS is too old, then this does not work.

The geometry is the cylinder/heads/sector count.  You pass these to
our Linux kernel by pressing Shift while booting (to get the "boot:"
prompt), then typing:

unattended hda=1024,240,63

...or whatever the cylinder,head,sector values are.

Note that DOS fdisk may be off by one in its display of the head
and/or sector counts.  It's a long story...

If this is a one-off installation, you can use DOS fdisk to create the
4000M FAT32 partition, boot the Linux boot disk, and tell it to leave
the existing partition table alone.

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Re: [Unattended] Unattended XP Home and Pro

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"Jay Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Maybe unattend.txt should be specific to each os directory in future
> releases?

No need.  Something like this in Z:\site\config.pl should do what you
want:

==
use warnings;
use strict;

$u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductKey'} =
sub {
my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new ($u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'});
my $os_name = $media_obj->name ();
if ($os_name =~ /Windows XP Home/) {
return simple_q ("Enter license key for $os_name:");
}
elsif ($os_name =~ /Windows XP/ {
return 'MY-XP-KEY';
}
elsif ($os_name =~ /Windows Server 2003/) {
return 'MY-SERVER-2003-KEY';
}
return undef;
};

1;
==

Replace MY-XP-KEY with your volume license key.  I am assuming that
the string "Windows XP Home" appears in the OS name of the Home
edition; I do not have a copy myself.

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Re: [Unattended] problems installing win NT4

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Holger Jehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is win NT4 supported by unattended-4.4b ?

See .

You are correct that NT does not support FAT32, so you will have to
start with a FAT16 partition instead.

None of the current developers have much interest in this ourselves,
but we will gladly accept patches if someone gets it working (without
breaking the other OSes, of course).

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Re: [Unattended] Bochs

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Mark McRitchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Heya,
> 
> I'm trying to get the Unattended Linux boot running under Bochs
> (http://bochs.sf.net), and I'm having limited success...
> 
> I can get it to boot, but then I get:
> 
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
> WELCOME!!!
> Illegal instruction

This is consistent with the boot disk's behavior when used on an i586
(instead of i686) system.

This should be fixed in the next release.  Could you please try
the 4.4c-pre2 test release at:

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/

You can just download the "linuxboot" file, but do not forget to
update Z:\linuxaux on your install share.

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Re: [Unattended] system error 1231 while installing winxp

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Martin Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I try to install WinXP SP2. After installing a while I get the
> following error message on (the so far installed) windows (sorry,
> it's in german):
> 
> [...]
> Mapping \\instpc\install on Z:...
> Systemfehler 1231 aufgetreten.
>
> Das Netzlaufwerk ist nicht erreichbar. Weitere Informationen [...]

"The network location cannot be reached."

> But my install share is well configured (installation on another pc
> was successful). What could be the problem? Maybe windows doesn't
> know the network card (driver)?

That would be my guess.  What kind of system is this?

What happens if you open the Network Control Panel after the
installation fails?  Do you see your adapter?  Can you reach the
network; e.g., map the share by hand?

If the network adapter is missing, you probably need to add drivers to
the installation share.  See
.

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Re: [Unattended] Install windows by unattended using an usb stick

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> Is there anybody who uses unattended with a usb-stick or anybody who
> can tell me where to start at ??

Yes.  See .

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Re: [Unattended] Getting rid of master post-installations scripts?

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Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Nevertheless, unattended shows me a dialog asking "choose master
> post-installation script" which lets me choose base.bat or sales.bat
> (that don't exist anymore on the installation share!).

Yeah, that default is there for backwards compatibility before we
introduced the ":: MASTER ..." comment lines.  I did not want the new
boot disk to break the old install share needlessly.

Perhaps it is time to change that default.

> How can I get rid of this dialog?

Add this to Z:\site\unattend.txt:

  [_meta]
top=""

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Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

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"Anders Nyström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Also, what version of Unattended?
> 
>   unattended 4.2c

The current release (4.4b) should correctly detect this hardware and
load its driver.

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Re: [Unattended] Just format drive C: and leave other partitions untouched - possible?

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Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi list,
> 
> most of our staff save their documents to drive D:
> 
> In case Windows is messed up, we just format drive C:, leave D:
> untouched and reinstall Windows and all applications.
> 
> How can this be done with unattended? Must I remaster the boot disk to
> provide a partition scheme like the one mentioned above? Or is it in
> \\server\install\lib\unattend.txt?

You probably want to edit Z:\site\unattend.txt, not
Z:\lib\unattend.txt.  We "own" the latter, so it may change in future
releases.

Try putting this in Z:\site\unattend.txt:

  [_meta]
  fdisk_cmds="fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1"

This will delete the first partition and replace it with a 4000M FAT32
partition.  The first command (fdisk /delete) will probably fail if
the drive is blank...  There is no way to fix that without writing
some Perl for Z:\site\config.pl.

But as long as the first partition exists, this will cause Unattended
to blow it away and replace it with a fresh Windows installation.

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Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

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"Anders Nyström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> lspci gives as the last line: ...Broadcom Corporation - Unknown device
> (1677)
> lspci -n gives as the last line:  ...:1677

Well, we should automatically load tg3 for device 14e4:1677.

I need to see all of the numbers on that "lspci -n" line.  Also, what
version of Unattended?

Thanks!

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Re: [Unattended] Problem with making Linux boot disk

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Redirected to unattended-devel list.


Klaus Wissmath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello All,
> 
> as newbee I spend some hours with getting
> - unattended 4.4b
> - Fedora core2
> then putting ../install to my Sambaserver..
> The first testing out of the box has been ok (more or less)
> 
> But making a new linux boot-disk ( master should contain the correct
> login info ) failed:
>   cd .../linuxboot
>make failed
> 
> Any advice is wellcome
> 
> Klaus
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Unattended] How does install.pl determine which partition to use for OS?

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"Brauer, Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> how does install.pl determine which partition to use for the OS
> installation?

Under DOS, it always uses the C: drive, which is the first active FAT
partition.

Under Linux, the /etc/master script scans for the first active
partition and uses that.

> Is there any possibility to use something else than /dev/hda1?  I
> need ro reinstall WinXP on some dualboot/multiple partition
> notebooks quite often, so any info is appreciated.

To install on a particular partition, delete it and create a 2G FAT32
partition in its place.  Then activate that partition.

This should work for dual-booting provided your boot loader activates
the partition from which it boots.

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Re: [Unattended] new network card needed

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"Anders Nyström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> help!
> 
> I got some new HP dc7100s computers
> and they have a new NIC - again.
> 
> The NIC is Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit

I believe that is the marketing name for the bcm5700.

For the DOS boot disk, that should be the b57.dos driver.

For the Linux boot disk, it should be the tg3 driver, detected
automatically.

Which boot disk are you using?  If Linux, please indicate what error
you are getting and send the results of "lspci" and "lspci -n" for the
network card.

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Re: [Unattended] Laptop Power Settings

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Ty Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Has anyone found an easy way of changing the power settings from a
> script?

See the powercfg.pl script in the Unattended distribution
(install/bin/powercfg.pl):

  
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/unattended/unattended/install/bin/powercfg.pl?rev=HEAD&view=auto

If you have Server 2003 handy, you can steal powercfg.exe from it:

  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324347

It is rumored to work fine on XP at least.

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Re: [Unattended] ActiveSync 3.7.1?

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Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:01:26AM -0500, Ty Moffett enlightened us:
> > What does the "start /wait" do?  Is that part of unattended?
> > 
> 
> It's a windows built-in command. Run start /? in a command shell for
> more details.

The todo.pl script already waits for each command to complete and
monitors its exit status.  For working installers, "start /wait" is
redundant; for broken installers, "start /wait" will not help.  Either
way, it is not necessary.

If this is an InstallShield installer, try running it with "/s /sms".
Otherwise, you may have to contact the vendor...

Is this installer something I can download?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] poweredge 2400

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Julien TOUCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> (in french)
> le fichier fourni par le fabriquant et que le programme d'installation
> essaie d'installer essaye d'utiliser est endommagé ou n'est pas valide:
> Types de fichiers manquant ou interdits spécifiés dans la section:
> Files.SCSI.perc2
> (translate in english/partial)
> the file provided is corrupted or invalid:
> Type of files missing or banned in the following section
> Files.SCSI.perc2

I suspect the English version is actually "Illegal or Missing File
Types Specified in Section Files.SCSI.Name".

> [Files.Scsi.perc2]
...
> dll = d1, perc2cin.dll
> dll = d1, perc2evt.exe

The "dll" lines are illegal in txtsetup.oem.  See
.

Of course, that KB article is hideous; it refers to "OEMDIR" and gives
some vague description of how to figure out what that is.  They say to
look at the driver's .inf file and figure out where it wants to
install the DLL.  Unfortunately, the destination directory is not
spelled out; instead, it will be a number like 11 (called a "logical
directory identifier", or LDID).  This Google search should get you
started:

  http://www.google.com/search?q=ldid+destinationdirs

In my experience, you can usually just delete the "dll = ..." lines
from your txtsetup.oem file and ignore the OEMDIR stuff.

Have fun!

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Re: [Unattended] Re: PXE Automated Network Installation

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"Alexandru Savescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ..some questions:

> [*] why would you use the unattended-4.4b/linuxboot/tftpboot instead
> of unattended-4.4b/bootdisk/tftpboot ?!?

Because the Linux boot disk usually works better, both for features
(e.g., partitioning without reboot) and for reliability.

> [*] is filename "pxelinux.0" enough or must the absolute path be
> specified?! like filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0" ???

The filename is relative to the TFTP root.  So if you invoke tftpd
with /tftpboot as the root, "pxelinux.0" is sufficient.

> [*] I found the following line at
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#dhcp : "TFTP daemon runs under
> chroot (tftp-hpa will do this if you specify the -s (secure) option;
> this is highly recommended)" ..back to my question: is its use
> recommended for this purpose?!

This should not matter.  "chroot" is a security measure which you
might as well enable, but it should have no visible effect.

> [*] I have included the "range  " declaration within the
> subnet block, see below:

> subnet 131.188.xxx.x netmask 255.255.255.0 
> {
>   range 131.188.118.200 131.188.118.231;

> ..now with this configuration only hosts (pxe-clients) which get an
> IP in this range may reach the pxelinux.0 ?!? true or false?!

False.  All the "range" statement does is tell the DHCP server to hand
out a dynamic address to any host which requests a lease.  The TFTP
server configuration is distinct, and usually allows anonymous access,
so any host may access pxelinux.0.

The "next-server" and "filename" options tell the PXE client where to
find its boot image.

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with Promise Fasttrak100 TX2 Raid Contr oller (SoftwareRa id)

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"Schneider, Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 and get the array working on my Knoppix
> System.
> I had to include the modules 
>   dm
>   raid1 (for mirror)
> additionally I set the kernel option PDC202xx_force

I wonder if that last is necessary when you have the dm module?  No
matter, I have added it.

> I will be pleased if you can implement them in the new build.

Done.  Please try the 4.4c-pre2 test release at
.  You should only need
the "linuxboot" piece, but be sure to update Z:\linuxaux.  (Because
the binaries have changed and the new modules are under there.)

Hm.  I still need to know when to load these modules, exactly...

> To create and manage the array (a mirror here) I use mdadm, but
> raidtools will work as well.

So do we need these on the boot disk?

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Re: [Unattended] PXE Automated Network Installation

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"Alexandru Savescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [*] added folowing lines in /etc/inetd.conf: 
> tftp   dgram   udp   wait  root   /usr/sbin/tcpd   /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
> /var/lib/tftpboot 
> (btw, can I use the -s flag here for /usr/sbin/tcpd??) 

I do not know what the -s flag does.

> [*] populated the /tftpboot directory using the files from unattended- 
> 4.4b/bootdisk/tftpboot/ 

I would probably use unattended-4.4b/linuxboot/tftpboot instead, but
no matter.

> Now I got stuck on the DHCP config. The DHCP server is another
> machine in the LAN. The /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf looks like this:
> 
> allow booting; 
> allow bootp; 
> 
># Group the PXE bootable hosts together 
>group { 
>   # PXE-specific configuration directives... 
>   option dhcp-class-identifier "PXEClient"; 
>   next-server pxe_boot_server_address; 
> 
>   # You need an entry like this for every host 
>   # unless you're using dynamic addresses 
>   host hostname { 
>  hardware ethernet ethernet_address; 
>  fixed-address hostname; 
>   } 
>} 
> 
> What should I understand by next-server?! Is it the same machine
> which runs the tftpd (in this case includes also the /tftpboot
> directory)

Yes.  next-server should be the DNS name or IP address of the TFTP
server.  It is where the PXE client will read the boot image from.
You also need:

filename "pxelinux.0"

...which specifies the file name of the boot image.

> What about the host entry?!?  

Remove it.

> I would like to install the OS' from any host connected to the LAN,
> not only from a specific one..

Then you need a "range  " declaration.  I believe this must
appear within a "subnet" block.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I am still using ISC DHCP version
2.0 (long story).

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Re: [Unattended] ACPI problems

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Kevin Latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> More a Windows XP question than an Unattended specific one, but I
> really am hoping someone has overcome this before 'cos I really am
> stuc.

This sounds nasty.  You might try asking on one of Microsoft's forums.

> We've been using Acer notebooks for a while and they recently
> changed their range to include the ATi IGP9000 over the old intel
> 865M (or whatever it was) and they just won't accept my Unattended
> installation I've been using for months.  I get to the "installing
> drivers" bit of the GUI mode installer and I'm BSODed with an 0xA5
> ACPI NOT SUPPORTED error.  Clearly it's got to be something to do
> with either the IGP or the updated Phoenix BIOS that supports it.

That seems likely.  The actual error is "ACPI_BIOS_ERROR" and you can
read about it at:

  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/BCCodes_88b7f4db-e17c-44c4-ac53-73fc37945efc.xml.asp

That page also tells you how to interpret the parameters on the blue
screen.  (Not that this is likely to help.)

> If I just use Acers preloaded XP (a sysprep job) then I get an ACPI
> Uniprocessor PC HAL.

So Acer gives you a recovery CD, but it is nothing like a normal
installation CD?  That stinks.

Maybe they are doing something like Intel does with their "chipset
software".  See:

  ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/7484/ENG/readme.txt

Search for "$$".  Basically, Intel has you copy some stuff to
$OEM$\$$\INF in addition to setting up the OemPnPDriversPath.  Maybe
the ATI chipset drivers can work similarly?  I don't know.

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[Unattended] Happy 2nd birthday

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

According to , our
SourceForge project was registered on September 8, 2002.

I would like to wish a Happy Birthday to the project, and to give my
thanks to all of you developers and users whose contributions and
feedback have made it so much fun.  This may be the first time
anything has ever held my interest for so long :-).

Thank you!

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[Unattended] Re: Scanning OS for device drivers

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Mangano, Aron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  Thanks Pat
> 
> I am using Windows XP and according to that link:
> 
> "In Microsoft Windows XP, the maximum length of the OEMPnpDriversPath value
> is 4,096 characters."

It (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312535) also says:

  "When you use Winnt.exe, the OEMPnpDriversPath value is limited to
   1,024 characters."

And we definitely use winnt.exe :-).

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with Promise Fasttrak100 TX2 Raid Contr oller (SoftwareRa id)

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(I apologize for the delay in responding.)

"Schneider, Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So I will go on experimenting with the modules and options.
> For sure I can test a new Linux bootdisk.

Thanks; we will definitely take you up on that.

> By the way. I tested my system with Knoppix-CD (Kernel 2.6.6) and
> there I can see the partitions.

Yeah, I think I know what is happening.  To support these
software-based RAID cards, Linux uses a utility called "dmraid":

  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2uDZ2-3ui-35%40gated-at.bofh.it

My guess is that Knoppix already includes this thing, and we need to
put it onto our own boot disk.

Since I do not have one of these cards, I will need your help to test
whatever I implement.  And I will probably not have time to try until
this weekend.

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Re: [Unattended] Three questions

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Robin Eklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1: Everytime i install a new unattended version i allways have to
> run mapznrun.bat and postinst.bat manually after windows installs
> (of course, i then change install.pl to do this for me), have i
> missed something or is something wrong in my configuration ?

The latter, I suspect.  What, if anything, do you have in
Z:\site\unattend.txt and Z:\site\config.pl?

> 2: I use the linux boot-disk and feed the clients with user/pwd/path
> through dhcp-option 233
> Looks like this in dhcpd.conf:
> 
> option unattended code 233=string;
> #if option user-class=Unattended{ # This has no effect, it renders the
> option useless.
> #if option user-class="Unattended"{ # have also tried this without effect
>   option unattended "z_user=username z_pass=x z_path=//machine/nti44";
> #}

According to the dhcp-eval man page, this should be:

if option dhcp-user-class = "Unattended" {
  option unattended "z_user=username z_pass=x z_path=//machine/nti44";
}


Note the name of the variable (dhcp-user-class) and the whitespace
around the special characters...  The latter may not matter, but why
take chances?

Please let me know if this works, because I have never actually tried
it.

> 3: Wouldnt it be great if we started discussing these thing on the
> wiki-site forum instead, it would be a lot easier to search through?

I hate Web fora.  They are clunky, slow, and the text editing is so
limited as to be painful.  So I do not participate in them except
under duress.

 has a pretty good search engine.  And
Google also works OK if you include terms like "site:mail-archive.com"
and "unattended".

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[Unattended] Re: Scanning OS for device drivers

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"Mangano, Aron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Well, I have a lot of drivers that appear and I only select the ones
> that I need.

I assume if you manually "select all" of the drivers it fails in the
same way?  (Otherwise, we have a very strange bug.)

Perhaps you are running into the 1024-character limit on
OemPnPDriversPath (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312535).  You can
check this by examining the value of OemPnPDriversPath in the
generated C:\netinst\unattend.txt file for a failing install.

> When however, I do the auto method by enabaling the section at the
> bottom of the config.pl file, the sound and lan drivers will simply
> not install. They used to though ???

This would happen if OemPnPDriversPath were too long and the lan and
sound drivers were toward the end of it.

If this is the problem, you can either start renaming things to make
each element of OemPnPDriversPath shorter, or you can write config.pl
code to select the correct subset of drivers automatically, or you can
live with selecting the drivers by hand.  This is, unfortunately, a
Microsoft limitation, so there is not much we can do about it.

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Re: [Unattended] question

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"Adriel Navarro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am running 4.4b with the linux boot over a samba share. I noticed
> that I now get a menu asking what optional scripts I want to run,
> where does it generate this list from?

It generates the list by scanning Z:\scripts for all of the .bat files
whose first line reads "OPTIONAL: ...".

> Is there a way to automatically answer these questions in the
> unattended file?

Yes, by setting the [_meta]/middle key.  This is documented (briefly)
in .

> I'm still having trouble getting the NIC card configs working right,
> it seems to be ignoring anything I put in the unattended file for
> NIC 2 and continues using dhcp after the install. Here is the
> relevant part:
>  
> [Networking]
> InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

Redundant, as it turns out (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=247952),
but not harmful.

> [NetAdapters]
> Adapter0=params.Adapter0
> Adapter1=params.Adapter1
> Adapter2=params.Adapter2

OK, as far as it goes, but where are your [params.Adapter0],
[params.Adapter1], and [params.Adapter2] sections?

Without those sections, Setup has no way of knowing which adapter is
"Adapter0", which is "Adapter1", and which is "Adapter2".  You can
either identify them by PCI location or by PCI vendor/device ID plus
MAC address.  See
.

> [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter2]
> SpecificTo=Adapter2
> NetBIOSOptions=1
> DNSDomain=x
> DefaultGateway=192.168.202.210
> SubnetMask=255.255.128.0
> DNSServer=192.168.252.11,192.168.252.12

Should that be "DNSServerSearchOrder"?

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[Unattended] Re: Scanning OS for device drivers

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"Mangano, Aron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  I am having a few issues when using config.pl in the site folder to 
>  automatically scan for device drivers.

What code are you using, exactly?

>  I have a structure as follows:
>  
>  In the drivers directory I have folders for Chipset, Storage, Video, 
>  Lan, Sound etc etc.
>  With the auto method the Lan and Sound drivers will simply not install.
>  
>  If I comment out the section in config.pl and the choose the drivers 
>  manually they work fine

When you say "choose the drivers manually", what do you mean, exactly?
You press (2) to "select all", or something else?

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Re: [Unattended] shorter shutdown time

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"Anders Nyström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1, where do I change the 5 second reboot/shutdown timeout to 3
> seconds

This is not a user-configurable option.  But you can open
Z:\install\bin\todo.pl and edit this line:

reboot (5);

Change the 5 to a 3 and you will be all set.  Until the next release,
anyway...

> 2, does anybody have a "Blaster-Removal" script

 turns up free
tools from Symantec and Microsoft.

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

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Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You can, however, use cdeject to pop the disc out (I don't think
> it's on the CD, but Patrick's a nice bloke about cramming more crap
> on the image)

I could add the eject command, but actually figuring out which device
to eject is not easy in general.  The CD-ROM device could be IDE or
SCSI or USB.

> or, even cuter, use one of the tools to fiddle the BIOS boot order
> so the CD-ROM drive is no longer the first boot device.

Cute idea, but heavily BIOS dependent.  Might make a nice contribution
for the Wiki, though...

> It would also be useful to do a Windows-CD feature theft and do the
> "press any key to boot from CD" thing.

This is probably the best idea.  It means we actually have to write
distinct pxelinux.cfg and isolinux.cfg files, though :-).

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Re: [Unattended] German keyboard layout for Linux-based boot disk?

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Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> how can I customize the Linux-based boot disk in order to have
> German keyboard layout?

I was going to suggest configuring your DHCP server to send the
"kbd=..." switch in DHCP option 233, but it turns out the boot disk
configures the keyboard before grabbing a DHCP lease.  This is fixed
in next release, but for now you have the options:

  1) Edit the isolinux.cfg file as Mario described and burn a new CD;
 or

  2) Hold down the "Shift" key while the CD is booting to get a
 "boot:" prompt.  Then type "unattended kbd=de-latin1".

Perhaps we ought to add a menu to the Linux boot CD.

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Re: [Unattended] All ine one MCE CDs with unattended

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"Daniel Briley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP TABLET EDITION USING UNNATTENDED
> 
>  
> 
> For anyone who searches for this info here’s the answer:
> 
>  
> 
> 1)   Change the path in doit.bat on the winnt.exe command from
> Z:\os\%OSDIR%\i386 to z:\os\%OSDIR%
> 
> 2)   Copy the cmpnents folder from either CD 2 of Tablet Edition or the
> 5in1 CD depending on what you have to Z:\os so you’ll end up with i386 and
> cmpnents in there.
> 
> 3)   Finally, add the /2 switch to the winnt.exe command (So that it
> copies both i386 and cmpnents to the HD)

We can automate steps (1) and (3) if we can distinguish the Tablet
Edition from other editions.  Could you please open i386\txtsetup.sif
on the Tablet Edition, search for "productname", and tell me what it
says?

Thank you!

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Re: [Unattended] DOS based boot disk leads to VMWare crash

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Gerhard Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I booted a Virtual Machine (VMWare 4.5.2 Build 8848) from the DOS
> based boot disk.
> 
> It seemed to do something but when Netbind was invoked, VMWare crashed
> with a nonrecoverable error.

The virtual machine crashed, or the emulator itself crashed?

If the latter, that is a bug in VMware and you should report it to
them.

While we are on the topic, has anybody tried asking the VMware folks
(or mailing lists) about our little dosemu-on-Linux-on-VMware
performance problem?

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Re: [Unattended] What does .reboot-on 194 mean?

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"Brauer, Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> what does .reboot-on 194 mean.
> I guess if the installer returns 194, todo.pl will initiate a reboot.

Yes.  I have just added a section to
 documenting the
.reboot-on directive.

> So far, so good.
> But how do i know which return value i have to expect from my installer?
> Is there any possibility to catch and print them to the screen?

By default, if the program exits non-zero, todo.pl halts and outputs
the exit status.  This gives you a chance to modify your installation
script to use ".ignore-err" or ".reboot-on", as appropriate.

Note that .reboot-on is meant to be used when the exit status actually
indicates whether the machine should be rebooted.  If it should always
be rebooted, it is better just to use a separate ".reboot" directive.

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Re: [Unattended] Problems with Promise Fasttrak100 TX2 Raid Controller (SoftwareRa id)

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Schneider, Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> Im using unattended4.4 and the linux bootdisk.
> The master script stops on the following message
> 
> Unable to determine boot device at 
> 
> some lines above I noticed that the module pdc202xx_new is loaded, but it
> says:
> 
> PDC20270: Neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) 

Hm.  I am still doing some research on this message.  But since you
are trying to use software RAID, you may be out of luck:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1tljU-3Wf-1%40gated-at.bofh.it

The problem is that the software RAID driver for Linux is not the same
as the one Promise wrote for Windows.  This may be a case where the
DOS boot disk is your best option.

At least, I *think* that is what is going on.

On the other hand, there is a kernel configuration option called
"PDC202XX_FORCE".  That may be what this person is talking about:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1xWO5-7Dy-25%40gated-at.bofh.it

So we could try enabling that, although I do not (yet) understand
exactly what it does.

The whole "2.6 kernel + Promise software RAID" thing is just
confusing.

> with the lspci command I found the Raid controller:
> 02:05.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology Inc. PDC20270 (Fasttrak100
> LP/TX2/TX4)(rev02)

Please send me the output of "lspci -n -s 02:05.0", so I will know
exactly what device we are dealing with.

If I roll a new Linux boot disk, can you test it for us?

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Re: [Unattended] No active partition found

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Axel Dammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When I boot my test-pc with the Linux-Boot-CD, there comes an error
> after showing the partition table:
> 
> 
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-2445.679 MB
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor   Start   End Typefilesystem  Flags
> 1   0.031   2047.500primary fat16
> Information: don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
> 
> No active partition found!

This means the install.pl script exited before it did anything, and it
exited with a "success" status.  The "active partition" check is part
of /etc/master, which invokes install.pl and checks its exit status.

Have you edited Z:\lib\unattend.txt or put anything in
Z:\site\unattend.txt or Z:\site\config.pl ?

Something very strange is going on here.  Even if you typed "X" to
exit the script (or install.pl thinks you did because of some keyboard
problem), the script would exit with a failure code and the "active
partition" check would not run.

We need to find out why install.pl is exiting on you.

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Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

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jo / ak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> it shows hda/hda1, no hdc

Hm.  That means the driver did load.

> You were right, there is an error earlier, in PIIX4.

Just a warning, I think.

> loading ide-generic

[snip]

> ide 0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide 1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15

Here the ide-generic driver grabs both IDE controllers.

> loading piix
> PIIX4: IDE Controller at PCI slot :00:01.1
> PIIX4: Output revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PIIX4: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0
> PIIX4: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1

Here the piix driver fails to grab either because ide-generic already
has them.  Not a big deal; the generic driver should work fine at some
cost in performance.  (Although this is a minor bug we should fix.)

> Now we will load the EDD module ...

What do you see under /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80?  In particular,
how does /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/sectors compare to
/sys/block/hda/size?

 - Pat


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Re: [Unattended] Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed.

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"Daniel Briley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I traced through the config.sys file and it says the
> DEVICE= and DEVICEHIGH= lines are erroneous. It is
> pointing at the equals character in each of these lines.
> 
> I assume the errors I mentioned first are being caused
> by the config.sys file not being processed succesfully.

I have seen something like this before.  It is some bad interaction
between FreeDOS and memdisk on certain systems.  It should work if you
put the image onto a physical floppy and boot from it.

A better idea is to use the Linux boot disk, which at this point is
superior to the DOS boot disk in almost every way.

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Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

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jo / ak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Now I get another error later on:
> 
> Bios EDD Facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
> ..done loading edd
> *** ...and locate the boot device
> *** find-boot-device failed
> *** Dropping to shell
> 
> # with 1 Maxtor 2B020H1 IDE HD and 1 CD-Drive

This probably means that the IDE driver did not load.  Look earlier in
the output for messages where it is trying to load ide-generic,
ide-disk, and similar.

Does "ls /sys/block" show any hdX directories?

Does "lsmod" show that ide-generic and ide-disk are loaded?  If not,
what do "modprobe ide-generic" and "modprobe ide-disk" say?

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Re: [Unattended] Unable to boot from Linux-CD

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Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I think the problem lays with the fact that bash is compiled for
> i686 and you're using an AMD box.

Ah, good thinking, Wim!  I would have missed it.

It is not just bash, though.  *Everything* has to be compiled for the
right CPU architecture, including glibc and the kernel.  Especially
glibc, which likes to push the architecture to its limits.

Right now, we compile for i686, which means Pentium II or above.

> The bash in the new iso I just put up is compiled for i386, which
> should give no problems.

Windows 2000 itself requires a i486 or higher, I believe.  And
realistically, nobody will be installing a modern Windows on anything
less than a Pentium.  I think we should target i586.

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Re: [Unattended] poweredge 2400: Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device line 207.

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Julien TOUCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> SCSI subsystem initialized
> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>  
>  aic7880: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs

It found a SCSI controller

> Using anticipatory io scheduler
> (scsi0:A:5): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
>Vendor: NEC   Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:466  Rev: 1.06
>Type:   CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

...with a CD-ROM

> (scsi0:A:6): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
>Vendor: SONY  Model: SDT-1 Rev: 01u4
>Type:   Sequential-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 02

...and a tape drive attached.

But your disks are on a RAID, I assume?

> >>> lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 05)
> 00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 05)
> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 80960RM [i960RM Bridge] (rev 01)
> 00:02.1 Memory controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 2/Si (rev 01)

There it is.  According to , this
should be handled by the aacraid driver.  But for some reason, we are
not loading that driver.

As a workaround, try doing "modprobe aacraid" and then running
/etc/master by hand again.

To allow me to debug this, please run:

lspci -n -s 00:02.1

Thank you for the thorough report!

 - Pat


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