Re: [Unattended] Testers wanted! Linux boot disk v0.0

"Tim Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Works fine on a Dell Optiplex GX200, GX400 & PE1400 server. Cool. > On a Dell D600 laptop and PE1750 server, /etc/master said it got as far > as loading the NIC drivers properly, but failed to get a DHCP lease. Well, that is a little odd. What does "i

linuxboot 0.1

Download from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ (as usual). Changes: - Fixed numerous bugs in the Makefile. "make download" followed by "make iso" might even work for you now, although I still have not tested it from scratch... If you do, let me know how it goes. - New scr

Re: [Unattended] Testers wanted! Linux boot disk v0.0

"Tim Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the server, 2 are shown: > 02:00 1434:1648 (rev 02) & > 02:01 1434:1648 (rev 02) I suspect you meant "14e4" (Broadcom) instead of "1434" (unknown)? This could be explained by not having a DHCP server (or a cable) on the device Linux calls "eth0". The

Re: [Unattended] Testers wanted! Linux boot disk v0.0

"Tim Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 14e4 is correct in both cases. Vendor 14e4 is Broadcom, whose Linux support in general is notoriously poor. (They refuse to release programming specifications for their hardware.) > Also, FYI, I booted a Knoppix 3.3 CD on both machines and got the > sam

linuxboot 0.2

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ Changes: - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.3 and klibc 0.110 - Add README.txt and NOTES.txt files to source (which, by the way, is now in Unattended project CVS as unattended/linuxboot) - Add support for Promise Serial ATA RAID hardware (maybe) Things

Re: linuxboot 0.2

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What tool should I use to look at the partitions on the drive it > sees? The answer should be: mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt ls /mnt But I forgot to include the NTFS module. Fixed for next time. (The "-o ro" is technically redundant sinc

Re: Linux boot disk

Morten Odgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the VMware 3.2 IDE disk when no partitions are present (this works > without error when an ntfs partition is present): > > ... > Making device /dev/hda > Making device /dev/hda[0-9]* > Internal error: /sys/block/hda/hda[0-9]*/dev not found > *** Dr

linuxboot 0.3

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ Changes: - Fixed bug when mass storage device has no partitions, added support for BusLogic SCSI controllers, and added driver for "Yenta compatible PCMCIA-CardBus bridge" controllers. Thanks to Morten Osgaard. - Fixed multiple build an

Re: linuxboot 0.3

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, if you could include an "fdisk" utility such as cfdisk, or > sfdisk, that might be useful for poking around with drive > recognition. On some of the boxes I have available, there aren't > neccessarily partitions that I can mount to verify the di

linuxboot 0.4

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ Changes: - Fixed numerous Makefile bugs. I believe "make download" followed by "make iso" (or "make tftpboot") will actually work now. Thanks again to Shad. - Added pcmcia-cs package (specifically cardmgr and some of /etc/pcmcia), and

Re: Pcmcia network adapter test

Morten Odgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My Dell Inspiron with 3com 589ET 10baseT pcmcia adapter behaves a > little strange. It seems a little random whether I get a DHCP lease > or not. I've tried it quite a few times now and it consistently > fails about 1 time out of 4. Shad has been havin

Status of Linux boot disk

(Those of you on unattended-cvs already know some of this.) Things are going well. Or they were until this afternoon... We (that is, Shad and I) have install.pl running under Linux. It invokes Parted to partition the drive without rebooting. It lets you type your passwords without having them

Re: (no subject)

"Max Lovius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Untill : make: *** No rule to make target > `../bootdisk/empty-boot.img.gz', needed by > `stage1/var/lib/dosemu/drives/dosboot.img'. Stop. I have moved linuxboot into the main unattended distribution. So in the next release it will live in unattended-4

Re: Linux boot rather than DOS?

Once Linux is running, dosemu and FreeDOS will work the same on any system; the "virtual" machine on which FreeDOS runs is the same everywhere. We are 90% of the way to having a completely working Linux-based boot disk. Humor me: Wait a few days and try it out :-). - Pat -

Re: Status of Linux boot disk

It turns out that the SYSLINUX author (and Michael Brown at Dell) had a better idea, so I implemented it: http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2004-February/003269.html This should put us back on course for a usable release Real Soon. - Pat ---

Unattended 4.0rc1

I have uploaded "Unattended 4.0 Release Candidate 1" to: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/unattended-4.0rc1.tar.gz http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/unattended-4.0rc1-dosboot.tar.gz http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/unattended-4.0rc1-linuxboot.tar.gz Download unat

Re: New Linux boot disk used to install Linux too?

Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How difficult would it be to modify the new Linux boot disk to allow > installation of Linux as well as Windows? Could we integrate it > with RedHat's Kickstart or Debian's FAI? Booting a diskless Linux and installing Linux are very different things.

Re: Unattended 4.0rc1, DOS boot make problem.

"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The offending line is 36: > > driver_uc=`echo $$driver | tr [[:lower:]] [[:upper:]]` \ > > I added a Space after the backtick (and before the two tabs), and now it > builds fine. Odd... It worked okay in unattended 3.5. The only thin

Re: [Unattended] Linux boot

(redirected to unattended-devel) Mark Pavlichuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tried compiling the Linux boot iso on a Debian testing/unstable > laptop. Compiling parted failed, but the patch documented at this URL > permitted me to continue : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-

Unattended 4.1-pre1

Unattended testing release 4.1-pre1 is available for download at . The big changes here are improved i18n support (Dutch, Russian, German), and an updated Linux boot disk with kernel 2.6.4. This may provide better device drivers, in particular for Adapt

Re: Bug in Linux boot fdisk procedure?

"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm dropped back to a DOS prompt and the C: drive exists, but there are > no files in it, and I am not able to create any files or directories. > > C:\>mkdir testdir > MKDIR failed for 'testdir'. > > C:\>echo test > testfile > Can not redirect

Re: Patch for office2k.bat and XP slipstream instructions.

Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the recent changes to office2k.bat there has been a small mistake > in the naming of the german patch after download. See the attached > diff against 4.1-pre3. Applied; thanks. > In the html\os.html file there are instructions for integrating the X

Unattended 4.0b-rc1

Download from . But hurry, because I am itching to make this release. Except for improved language support, it should be "bug fixes only". More or less. Oh, and now it is distributed as ZIP files instead of .tar.gz. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.0b

Re: Patch for winxpsp1-updates.bat

Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Microsoft has done it again, some locations for patches have > changed. The filenames now use Qxx instead for kbxx. Thanks, Niels. I have changed winxpsp1-updates.bat, win2ksp4-updates.bat, and ws2k3-updates.bat for all current langua

Re: Docs Update: cygwin and step-by-step guide

"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In HTML this time. > > I'll try to pretty these up as time goes on. Jeff, these are excellent. Thank you! I have uploaded them to: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/step-by-step.html http://unattended.sourceforge.net/cygwin.html I have also

Re: Docs Update: cygwin and step-by-step guide

"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fixed in the attached .diff > I also added a style sheet that I hope will prove to be useful throughout > the documentation. Applied. I am releasing 4.0b right now (more or less). I am sure you will be glad to hear that all the archives are named .zip

Re: Minor patch to a the scripts in /scripts: removing most (all?) c:\ refrences to %systemdrive% instead

"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This fixes most of the application install scripts to work with > machines without a c: drive. In my case %systemdrive% is m: I had some trouble applying this patch, because it converted the line endings from CRLF to LF. So I tried editing the entire pa

Re: [unattended-devel] customizing bootini.pl for your country

"Sylvain Faivre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just commited a CVS patch for the "bin/boot.pl" file, in order to > make it work with the French version of Windows too. I have checked in a slightly cleaner (IMO) implementation. Just edit this hash at the top to add your translations: my %regex

Re: RE : [unattended-devel] customizing bootini.pl for your country

"Sylvain Faivre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However I think you didn't get the French characters right, and if > it is the case I might submit a patch again tomorrow. That is possible. I tried to cut and paste, but Emacs needed me to pick an encoding... I picked UTF-8 which is probably wrong

Re: RE : What is the preferable way to send new files to the dev list? sourceforge doesnt allow zip attachments?

"Sylvain Faivre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easiest method might be to store the zip file on a web server > and post a link to it... This is what I suggest. If you do not have write access to a public Web server, send it to me directly (using [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I can upload it to the

Re: RE : [Unattended] Unattended authentication issues....

(redirected to unattended-devel) "Sylvain Faivre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, maybe an option to enable/disable this domain thing would be > useful, because some people (like me ;-) ) created a user on the > file server to map the drive, and not on the domain. So this would > break authent

Re: [unattended-devel] customizing bootini.pl for your country

Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Here's the dutch patch for bootini.pl... [snip] Gerhard Heift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > here is the german on added: [snip] Applied. Thank you! - Pat --- This SF.Net email is spo

Re: RE : [Unattended] Unattended authentication issues....

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. I suppose the best option is to back out my change and figure > out how to get "DOMAIN\user" working on the DOS boot disk. Anybody > know how to extract a substring from a variable in a command shell? T

Re: Another download link for winxpsp1 Dutch

imdos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > :: > URL|NLD|http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/f/cdf236d4-c2fe-4100-a254-85206aa39037/Q814995_WXP_SP2_x86_NLD.exe|updates/winxpsp1/q814995_wxp_sp2_x86_nld.exe Applied. --- This SF.Net email is spon

Re: [Unattended] JRE2 Install command switch; this sparked an idea and a question :)

"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How difficult would it be to create a 2nd text file when first > executing todo.pl --go for use to keep track of where we are as far > as progress. I am thinking something along the lines of this (ugly > pseudo-code follows): > > Todo.pl --go > If exist

Re: Additional parameters for silent installs with Inno Setup

"Scott Gilroy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The parameters listed below should be helpful to anyone trying to do a > silent install with an Inno Setup program. The information on the > unattended web site is incomplete and only mentions the /silent > parameter, which in my experience is insuffic

Re: Openoffice, German Link, update

Gerhard Heift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The German link in the officeop.bat is wrong, here is the corrected > file... I also added the %WINLANG% to the installpath. Applied. I also added the language to the download path, so that the "prepare" script will create the directory automatically.

WinImage .imz files and memdisk

We learned last week (thanks, Jeff) that memdisk cannot handle compressed floppy images created by WinImage. Well, now it can. Maybe. I have submitted patches to the SYSLINUX/memdisk author. I have also uploaded my memdisk binary to . I have tested i

Re: Quieter Scripts, and improvements to mapznrun.bat

"jmblack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I updated the diff to current CVS. > > ftp://www.hansonsystems.com/unattended/MakeUnattendedScriptsaBitQuieterByDefault.diff > > Example output before and after applying the patch is attached. Couple of things: 1) This is not against current CVS; most

Re: CD installation (application only)

Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've been working on a way to get unattended to support installation from > CD/DVD. > > No I haven't solved it yet, but we're getting closer. I've added a > line in mapznrun.bat to check is there is a \dosbin\install.pl in > the root of any e

Re: How can I customize the initrd?

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the simplest way to edit that file and/or not have to enter > my own credentials every time? The file is actually two cpio archives in a row. For whatever reason, the normal cpio command only extracts one of them... So I am afraid there is no e

Re: Bugs with 4.1

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A couple of bugs: > > First, some of the directories under "os" have long filenames. This > is fine with the dos boot disk, presumably because it mangles them the > same for winnt as it does for install.pl. > > Under linux, though, the initial installe

Re: Bugs with 4.1

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't mind using shorter names, but maybe the master script should > give a warning if it finds directories with long filenames? Good idea; I will implement this sometime. > Also, you may want to change the docs that say (paraphrased) "it > doesn't ma

Re: Bugs with 4.1

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I now did these steps: > * do a production install, as normal, until it gets past the > convert to ntfs stage > * reboot into unbeta, and try to install, accepting all defaults > (Y at the partition prompt). Gratuitously (?) reboot immediatel

Re: Bugs with 4.1

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I am getting the error: > >> > >>Setup was unable to copy the following file: > >> > >>IA32 > >> > >>o press ENTER to retry the copy operation > >>[ etc. ] > >> > >>I did a find in the os directory and this is the only hit: > >>./win2ksp4/I386/$oem$/$1/

Re: Bugs with 4.1

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I am getting the error: > >> > >>Setup was unable to copy the following file: > >> > >>IA32 > >> > >>o press ENTER to retry the copy operation > >>[ etc. ] > >> > >>I did a find in the os directory and this is the only hit: > >>./win2ksp4/I386/$oem$/$1/

New Windows updates

Microsoft released some doozies yesterday, including new or updated fixes for multiple remote exploits. Remember the Blaster hole, which Microsoft fixed and then fixed again? Well, they fixed it again... I want to make a release soon, like this weekend or early next week. So now is a good time t

Re: Sun Java Update

Adam Peart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > j2re-1_4_2_04-windows-i586-p.exe is now out, but I can't figure out > the url used that Patrick lists. j2re-1_4_2_03-windows-i586-p.exe is > the last one used in the cvs. I am not sure where it came from myself, exactly. But I think I found it now (http:/

Re: DHCP for Z_PATH

Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just been trying out the new Linux bootdisk with Unattended > 4.0b, and it rocks longer and harder than ever. Thanks! Allowing DHCP options has been a goal from the beginning. Thank you for doing the legwork on this. > From the manpage, it appe

Unattended 4.1-rc1

Unattended 4.1 "release candidate 1" is now available for testing. You may download it from . If you have time to try it out over the next day or two, we would appreciate it. Shad is doing regression testing now; when he finishes in the next few days, w

Re: DHCP for Z_PATH

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hm. If we are going to steal a local DHCP option anyway, maybe we > should only take one but give it this syntax: > > z_user=... z_pass=... z_path=... OK, I implemented this. After various Googling, I sett

Re: Autoit Update

Adam Peart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They now have a new version of Autoit, and it's a lot more user > friendly as well as has more features to it. It also now has the > capability to create shortcuts. Nice, but I want to get 4.1 out the door and this is too big of a change. We will put thi

Re: Bugs with 4.1

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pretty sure that the boot disk I am using is MSDOS based. Ah, yes > it is: > strings command.com | grep 6.2 > Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) Version 6.20 > > Isn't this the one that comes with 3.5? Did any versions of > Unattended use a MSDOS based disk?

Re: not all "not to quote"-chars mentioned in IniFile.pm

Ingo Steuwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > troubleshooting some problems with special options for a network card we > needed to change the file IniFile.pm (in install/lib/Unattend): > > my $nq_out_chars = qr{[az-A-Z0-9_.,<>:/\-%\\\*]}; I think you meant qr{[a-zA-Z0-9_.,<>:/\-%\\\*]}.

Re: [Unattended] Standard distro for linuxboot image?

(redirected to unattended-devel) Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this has been mentioned before, but I don't recall any > conclusion being reached. What disadvantages are there to using a > cut-down standard distro for the initial image? It'd certainly be a > winner in situa

Re: 4.1 Release Questions

Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Pat, and All other devs :) Hey, Russ. Good to see you again :-). > 1. When using the Broadcom NetXtreme 1000 Card (I Think that's it) > the DHCP on udhcpc is still too fast if you plug the machine into a > fast port (100/1000). Can we adjust the s

Re: [Unattended] More info on Perl DBD issues

Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So would DBD be workable without threading support? Yes. But threads vs. no threads is a very fundamental runtime issue. Most modules compiled for one will not work with the other. Pure Perl modules are not a problem, of course. But any module which

Re: [Unattended] More info on Perl DBD issues

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did enable threading, though, and I have uploaded > unattended-4.1a-pre1 to > <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/>. You should only need > -linuxboot.zip; in particular, the Z:\install\linuxa

Re: Quieter Scripts

"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This time I'll include the patch, heh Applied. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Lea

Re: FYI: unable to "make download"

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > make: *** [download-klibc-0.115] Error 1 > > It looks like they have gone to 0.116. Indeed. Thanks for the heads up. Fixed in CVS; diff appended. - Pat Index: Makefile === RCS file: /

Re: 4.1 Release Questions

Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your waiting for the driver to initialize an get it's head together. > It takes this amount of time for the Broadcom card to get the Link > up and running properly. the Driver RX/TX lines come up after the > DHCP requests. At least that's what I'm wait

Re: 3 diff's updated winxpsp1, win2ksp4 and officexp

imdos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made 3 little diff's including new downloads primarily Dutch updates > and also one enu one! Thank you. > +:: "Outlook 2002 Security Patch: March 9, 2004" > +:: > URL|ENU|http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/1/7413bfd2-6f37-4463-904d-dbb4046f8491/offi

Re: moving computers to other ou than standard

"Gerritsen, G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can i put computers in another ou on install with > unattended. Standard they go to computers but i want them in another > ou right away. Set [Identification]/MachineObjectOU in Z:\site\unattend.txt. See .

Re: [Unattended] Compaq/HP server build?

(Let's move this discussion to unattended-devel.) Nils Olav Fossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ..yesterday I tried to boot a DL380 with the linux-image, > but it cant see the raid-controller.. > I have not gone further into this so far. Our Linux boot disk does not yet handle Compaq RAID contr

Re: [Unattended] Enable ACPI

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I did this for the next release. I just found that with ACPI enabled I have lots of trouble with IBM Thinkpads... First, my Thinkpad 600E systems fail to reboot correctly. Second, the network on my Thinkpad T22 does not

Unattended 4.2-rc1

Big changes here are the reversion from emm386 to umbpci on the DOS boot disk, and the upgrade to kernel 2.6.6 on the Linux boot disk. Complete (work-in-progress) NEWS.txt entry is attached. I would like to release this by the end of the week, so if you can find time to give it a whirl, I would ap

Re: 4.1a failure notes

"Scott Card" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - 4.1a (dos) boot disk fails on a Dell Inspiron 5150. The B44 nic > driver loads fine, but when it gets to NETBIND, it hangs. This > seems to be a memory management issue. If we use a much older > emm386 it gets past this spot but fails later. We have

International KB837272 ?

Well, it is "Microsoft Tuesday", and Linux 2.6.6 was recently released. So it is almost time for Unattended 4.2. One sticking point is update 837272 (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837272). So far, I have only seen the English-language version of this update. I asked about it on one of Micros

Re: linuxboot with standard distro kernel / initrd & kickstart or autoyast

Mark Heslep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However it should be easy enough to pull the additional tools on the > fly. With Fedora, kickstart makes this easy enough in the %pre > section. I had in mind something like: > > wget dosemu > wget perl > wget bash > - unpack - > wget master.sh And

Re: linuxboot with standard distro kernel / initrd & kickstart or autoyast

Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes its possible to terminate anaconda and reboot at the end of the > %pre scripting section . However, a really interesting possibility > that I havnt tried would be to let Anaconda keep going through its > paces. This might be done (?) by giving anaconda a ze

New Unattended test release

I have uploaded a test release (4.1b-pre1) to . The major changes are entirely on the Linux boot disk. They include: - ACPI support - USB keyboard support If you have time, please give it a whirl. Thanks! - Pat --

Re: Problems compiling Linux boot disk

Jan Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > b)When i try it to compile myself, it always breaks when reaching the > klibc part. > unresolved symbols in tests/environ.o Neither Shad nor I have had this problem. I am running RedHat 9; he is running Fedora Core 1. What Linux distribution are you usi

Re: DHCP for Z_PATH, strangeness

"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) failure, if the dhcp option (233) is set to > > option unattended-options "z_user=localdomain\usernamegoeshere z_pass=password > z_path=//servername/sharename > > I get this from linux > *** Trying smbmount \\servername\sharename /z -o > usernam

Unattended 4.2-rc4

I have uploaded "Release Candidate 4" for Unattended 4.2 to . I plan to release the actual 4.2 tomorrow afternoon (U.S. Eastern time), since as far as I can tell nobody actually tries the release candidates anyway :-). Just a couple of bug fixes here, U

Re: office 2003 links

imdos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/4/f/b4f32f95-1d60-4cde-97df-c0f0d41066a6/Windows-KB833407-x86-NLD.exe > http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/a/d/7ad3b80c-24a4-4e42-a6b7-5cff9ead225d/office2003-kb834691-client-nld.exe > http://download.microsoft.com/

Re: 4.2 bug report

"Scott Card" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - DHCP discover fails every time without "acpi=off" on Inspiron 5150 > (B44). > - acpi=off required to resolve kernel panic on vmware workstation 4.51 Well, we are not doing anything strange here, so this is a bug in the Linux kernel's ACPI support. If

Re: International KB837272 ?

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it is "Microsoft Tuesday", and Linux 2.6.6 was recently > released. So it is almost time for Unattended 4.2. > > One sticking point is update 837272 > (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837272)

Re: implementing wireless support

Christian Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) the hardware detection need to be extended to USB and PCMCIA > devices Maybe not PCMCIA, since we already invoke cardmgr at startup to handle PCMCIA network adapters. Don't most of the CardBus adapters just show up as PCI devices anyway? For USB,

Re: diff updated winxpsp1-updates

Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dutch patches against current cvs, diff in attach I added these (MS04-016) and the MS04-015 URL you sent earlier. Thanks! (For future reference, please keep the URLs sorted in alphabetical order by three-letter language code.) - Pat --

Re: dmidecode

Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe it's useful to include dmidecode > (http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/) in linuxaux. I agree. Added in next release. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >F

Fwd: Success with wireless

Of possible interest to folks here. I wonder if Shad is the first person in the world to boot from a USB stick and install Windows over wireless. - Pat --- Begin Message --- I was successfully (although slowly) able to install XP Pro with a usb/wireless method. Even better was that the wire

Re: Linux boot rather than DOS?

"DeLisle, Seth (GE Infrastructure)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was able to get this to work using a patched version of mkdosfs, > and by moving to FAT32. What did your mkdosfs patch do? I went back and read your old messages, where you said this: First, the boot sector has stored in wi

Re: Using C programs to get Database Information?

Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wrote to the list recently about using a couple of C programs > instead of DBI to connect to a database. Is this a feasible option, > or do we want to go down the DBI path, which seems to have been > discussed for months, but we haven't been able to i

Re: Using C programs to get Database Information?

Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about postgresql? Is that able to be committed as well or not? I have not looked at it yet. It should be similar if we can get MySQL to work. I thought MySQL was in greater demand, and therefore would be more likely to get testing... - Pat -

Re: Single $oem$ directory for all OS Media with Linux Boot Disk ?

"James Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Unattended 4.2c with the Linux boot disk. I'm interested > in trying to fiddle things so that I can use a single $oem$ > directory regardless of whether I'm loading Win2k Pro, or Win2K > Server or Win XP. I was hoping I'd be able to do someth

Re: Unzip problems for 4.3 on windows

Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran into a small problem with updating my unattended share to 4.3: > extracting the linuxboot archive gives errors about illegal > filenames. They are causes by the ':' in the names, they are illegal > for Windows/DOS filenames. Those man pages are k

Re: KB870669 update

Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems like the update is the same for all languages, I downloaded the dutch, > russian, italian patch. They're all on the same URL, so maybe it's better to > change > > URL|ENU|http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/5/5/e55bbf16-ae16-4d58-8f75-32

Re: critical Update for Adobe Reader 6

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Attached is the patched file adobe-reader.bat (renamed to .txt due to > sourceforge-mta). Added. Thank you! - Pat --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Tr

Re: Dutch MS04-18 for ie6.bat

Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > :: > URL|NLD|http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/2/6/126e9e94-7cc3-4e49-bf08-21bc84e6b756/IE6.0sp1-KB823353-x86-NLD.exe|updates/ie6sp1/ie6.0sp1-kb823353-x86-nld.exe Added. > The rest from the updates will be diffed as soon as the sf > reposit

Re: Dutch links for winxpsp1 of recent updates

Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's also a typo in the MS04-24 download urls > > should be winxpsp1 instead of winspxp1 :-) Fixed; thanks. > I also added "Update package that includes Background Intelligent > Transfer Service (BITS) version 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 is available f

Re: German links for recent w2ksp4-patches

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Re: german links for ws2k3-updates.bat and winxpsp1-updates.bat

"Niels S. Richthof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Patrick, you told me twice to sort the language-urls in alphabetical > order in my diffs. Yes, that is the policy for new additions... > I was slightly amused to see that this is not the case in these two > batch files. ...but I felt that fixin

Re: win2ksp4-updates.bat

"Bilou Gateux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Found the FRA link for : > :: "L2TP/IPSec NAT-T Update for Windows XP and Windows 2000" > :: > :: > URL|FRA|http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/Q818043_W2K_SP5_x86_FR_fffa4

Re: mozilla 1.7.1 update

Steven Piercy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > here is a slightly modified version of the mozilla.bat - for > mozilla1.7.1 (cause of a security flaw: > http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html ;) - just figured it wasn't > enough to require a patch. > > anyway here it is (i know... why brag about

Re: Win2k SP4 updates FRA download links July updates

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Re: Autoit Update

If you start sending me converted scripts, I will start committing them to the repository. I assume you can name them *.au3 or something? - Pat Don Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this is old news ... I was looking into the new version of > AutoIt and it can coexist with 2.64. T

Re: compiling linux boot disk (was Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released)

(redirecting to unattended-devel) Steffen Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > 2nd try. I've downloaded all files on one host, moved the files > to another one and compiled. What kind of system are you using to build?

Re: compiling linux boot disk (was Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released)

Steffen, please apply the following patch to linuxboot/Makefile and let me know if it fixes your build problem. I apologize for the delay on this. Always a shame when one's work interferes with one's hobbies... - Pat --- Makefile.~1.79.~2004-07-24 19:08:31.0 -0400 +++ Makefile

Re: Bug in install.pl missing OemPreinstall

Steffen Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get prompted for a list of PnP-drivers to install and I do select > one, but the resulting unattend.txt does not have the setting > "OemPreinstall = Yes", hence, the driver does not get copied. Is > this intentional? OemPreinstall = Yes is set in Z:

Re: HP/Compaq Proliant ML350 G3

"Niels S. Richthof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is getting better than 4.3 because the master tries to load the > cciss-driver, but doing that the machine hangs. Have you tried booting with acpi=off? > Before it tries to load cciss, loading serverworks fails with a > kernel-error. It sou

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