[Unattended] New SATA only client .. how do I update Unattended?

2005-09-28 Thread John Nelson
I'm running PXE boot to Unattended (4.6) installation. New clients have SATA only drives .. and the Unattended installation fails on linux and DOS boot. How do I update my Unattended files? I have my PXE/DHCP/Unattended server on a separate network ... with no access to the Internet world. So

[Unattended] Selecting different builds?

2005-05-07 Thread John Nelson
Wow-wee .. I've got it working. Now, I want to setup a menu displayed to the user. The menu comes from the PXE/TFTP boot server. The user can select to install: 1) Linux 2) WindowsXP 3) Windows2003 How do I direct a specific install to occur? Can I pass a parameter to the install.pl

[Unattended] RE: partition problem

2004-12-14 Thread John Nelson
so i changed the install.pl: my $ret = menu_choice ('Do nothing (continue)' = undef, 'Run partitioning tool manually (experts only)' =$interactive_cmd, '10G C:, rest D:', = 'fdisk /pri:10240;fdisk /pri:100,100 /spec:7', '20G C:, rest D:', = 'fdisk

[Unattended] Newbie question: WinXP install

2004-11-22 Thread John Nelson
OK. I've got everything communicating. Just a question of how it works. I boot PXE, format and it copies the WinXP files over. Then a reboot happens. Should I go to Local (harddrive) or PXE? If local, it gives me a choice of Previous OS or Upgrade/Install OS. Selecting the 2nd tells me its