a little too good to be
true.
yes, give the thanks to Pierre Bourgin who coded all by himself.
Doesn't seem to work for me with the latest SVN snapshot.
Or, it needs some prior setup, for which I found no documentation.
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Gergo Szakal schrieb:
Have you integrated any drivers?
At first I didn't. Yes, I knew it won't work, at least when BIOS is in
SATA mode, but I expected that at least the bootloader will load.
So, right now, I integrated the SATA drivers, and used XP SP2
can see that the files are really on
the SATA drive.
Anyone has experience with installing Windows 2000 on a SATA drive with
Unattended?
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Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
Is it possible to set up Unattended so that it does a truly unattended
install?
What I mean:
- Unattended only asks if one wants to format the disk;
- hostname is retrieved automatically from DHCP, database or a file, and
the installation commences
It would have
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
Is it possible to set up Unattended so that it does a truly unattended
install?
What I mean:
- Unattended only asks if one wants to format the disk;
- hostname is retrieved automatically from DHCP, database or a file
), on
a 100 Mbit network.
Perhaps you could spot the place where it stops longer during the
installation?
Maybe you just download the patches from the internet during the
installation?
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I'm using Unattended for a while and it works quite nice.
Today I had to install 5 new systems on quite old hardware (some
Siemens-Nixdorf Scenic computers with 200 MHz CPU).
It didn't work - Unattended was started (where I picked a hostname
etc.), Windows 2000 files were copied, but after
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
I'm using Unattended for a while and it works quite nice.
Today I had to install 5 new systems on quite old hardware (some
Siemens-Nixdorf Scenic computers with 200 MHz CPU).
It didn't work - Unattended was started (where I picked a hostname
etc.), Windows 2000
Is there any floppy / CD, which would allow PXE booting for older
machines, which don't support PXE booting (via BIOS), or have the
network cards which don't support PXE booting?
I have a MS RIS floppy, but unfortunately, it doesn't support many
network cards.
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Is there any floppy / CD, which would allow PXE booting for older
machines, which don't support PXE booting (via BIOS), or have the
network cards which don't support PXE booting?
I have a MS RIS floppy, but unfortunately, it doesn't support many
network cards.
You may find some
Scott Parrill schrieb:
I am trying to get Unattended to install the network drivers for a new
DELL M70 laptop during the initial setup and seem to be failing miserably.
I have created the $oem$/$1 directory under the i386 and placed the
drivers in it. The Linux boot for Unattended finds the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Hello,
I`m just asking because i think its not really a good thing to leave this
folder on the computer. the folder is just viewable for everybody ?
(for example, the unattend.txt with the serial-nummer is present in there,
also the user can start postinst.bat ?)
Hi,
Where I work we have a Windows server that supports RIS, works flawlessly.
We tried to make an Unattended PXE, it works, but it's far inferior when
we compare it to MS RIS.
At least when it comes to the initial PXE booting.
With RIS PXE image, when the workstation is set to boot from
Erik Yeats schrieb:
Hello,
I am currently working with your software and am trying to get a network
install working. I know for a fact that my computer can PXE boot, and I
am positive I have set that correctly but I guess i need a more detailed
explanation of what files belong in the tftpboot
Roland Gruber schrieb:
Hi Tomasz,
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
I didn't fill the mail field in Personal, and that's why the mailbox
wasn't created (among other reasons).
thanks for the hint, I will change the module to force an email address.
Maybe I should write some HOWTO?
If someone
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
(...)
Anything I forgot?
shame on me - wrong group again :(
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Andrew Weaver wrote:
I am using unattended on a Windows 2000 server (on a Win2K3-based
network). The default security for the boot CD (guest/guest) will not
work with the security policy on my network. Is there a straightforward
way (i.e. script file) to change the default security used on
Filip Nespor wrote:
I need to create MSI package. I found a program on Windows 2000 Server which
called WinInstall Discover (from company Veritas). But it doesnt work under
Windows XP. Does anybody have some problem? Can anybody help me?
WinInstall works here on Windows XP.
You must have done
I was wondering what other people are doing to join a
computer to a samba controlled domain. In particular
I'm referring to XP which needs special tweaks to get
it to join a samba domain. It is my observation that
the computers are joined to the domain early in the
installation when networking
Why Unattended boot cd and tftp ask for a password twice?
If a wrong password will be supplied, user will be unable to get the
files anyway, so why the hassle of specifying the password twice?
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Christian Skalic schrieb:
Not sure why but you can simply edit install.pl and remove it.
yeah I know that, I was just wondering if there is any special reason
for it - it was in Unattended 4.4, and now it's in 4.6, so perhaps,
someone made it on purpose and not accidentally.
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Moritz Engel schrieb:
Hi,
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 9:28 PM
To: Mark McRitchie
Cc: 'Unattended List'
Subject: Re: [Unattended] problem starting Outlook form Office 2000
Mark
With my XP SP2 Unattended installs, when a user logs in, he gets a
Notepad windows with such content right in the middle of the screen:
[.ShellClassInfo]
[EMAIL PROTECTED],-21787
This is because there is a desktop.ini file in the startup folder of
each new user.
Is there any remedy for
I made an Unattended install, together with Office 2000:
msiexec /qb %Z_PATH%\packages\office2k\data1.msi ADDLOCAL=ALL
REMOVE=WinFax ALLUSERS=1
I have a problem running Outlook.
Users can't start it - they see a window contact your administrator
If I start Outlook on that machine as an
Brad Erdman schrieb:
With Office 2003 you can cache the install files and this is not a
problem.
maybe, but I have Office 2000, not 2003.
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Mark McRitchie schrieb:
Hi,
Outlook has to be started by an administrator to set the Workgroup or
Internet mode.
I wrote an AutoIT script to accomplish that (attatched) that's run as part
of the unattended install.
You can probably take out the check for Citrix PNAgent login box.
actually,
No One schrieb:
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 19:58 -0700, Peter Banka wrote:
Any feedback on the public website, the documentation, coding, or
features would be greatly appreciated.
Unless I missed it somewhere, it would be nice if you gave a link to
that website... Anyway this sounds
I noticed that Unattended Wiki is broken.
The site http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/FrontPage can't be entered.
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Christian Skalic schrieb:
Hi,
it works without www.
http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/FrontPage
so either the Wiki link on unattended.sf.net is broken, or something else.
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Christian Skalic schrieb:
Hi,
i wanted to know if anyone here has experience with adding drivers to
the linuxboot.iso. Im not sure if theres any way, but if anyone tells me
how then it would help me alot, because i have problems with some
onboard nic's.
I guess it's the matter of building
Gregory Orange schrieb:
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
actually, I was trying to replace srvany with something easier to
start WPKG - so I think I'll use hints by Shenan Stanley.
Hi Tomasz,
Can you tell me what you mean by something easier [than srvany]? Also
why you want to replace
Stefan Kell schrieb:
Hi,
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
[...snip...]
Or perhaps there is an other way to add a start script with specified
credentials each time the machine is booted?
depending on what your goal is you could use srvany.exe and create a
service which
Moritz Engel schrieb:
Hi,
i've tried a long time, but could not get it work. Could you post your iss
file?
Here it is.
I replaced names and keys with X
Tomek
[InstallShield Silent]
Version=v7.00
File=Response File
[File Transfer]
OverwrittenReadOnly=NoToAll
Shohn Trojacek schrieb:
It'd be really cool if it were using PXE...
First, it would be really cool if it existed :))
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Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
Does anyone know how to install Photoshop silently?
If so, I'd be glad to know :)
It seems that it just installs silently with an -s flag (provided you
have a valid setup.iss file) :)
And I spent soo much time trying to repackage it into an MSI package
Steffen Hornung schrieb:
DISAGREE!
If I am writing a (hopefully it is one) solution for someones problem, he
gets it direct via email.
But the list has to get it too (the thought of common knowledge, you know).
I get the mails on the list in a daily digest. If you wrote only to the
list, I would
I think it's impossible.
Since Unattended is designed for installing Windows, producing
such a live CD would be a piracy, as it would contain Windows OS...
However, nothing prevents creating such a CD for a personal use - as
long as your Windows licence allows that.
Some instructions on
Is it possible that someone fixes the Reply to: address of this
mailing list?
Now it doesn't have any Reply to: address, and when someone presses
the Reply button in a mail client, only the original sender gets the
mail; you have to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] address manually if you want
the mail
Paul Baumgardner schrieb:
Kaari Jakobi wrote:
Anyone know how to solve this with Thunderbird? In The Bat! this was
no problem, but with this freeware... *sigh*
Thunderbird has a 'Reply All' button that will solve this.
and will introduce yet another problem: doubled mails in someone's inbox.
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Tomaso Minelli schrieb:
I'm interested to http backend.
If you can send me, I think to make a module
for group-office (www.group-office.com).
WPKG is the simpliest thing that I've be seen,
but some people use things only whith web-based
interface.
OK, you can
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
OK, you can download it from the download section now...
It's still very alpha... Soon it should be updated, though.
sorry for this mail, I had to resend many posts due to sourceforge.net
troubles (it seemed to deny all posts) and confused the groups... :(
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Tom Crane wrote:
I've just come across the Unattended project. Perhaps this is lazy... but has
anybody produced a live Linux CD (eg. one based on Knoppix) with the Unattended
server and requisites already installed? It would be really useful to be able
to put such a CD in a PC and use it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a little dismayed at the lack of documentation for WPKG. Their
website just has about 4 pages of info, and it's very high level. It's
nowhere near the amount of documentation for Unattended.
try asking at the WPKG mailing list, I'll try to help.
The web frontend
Paul Baumgardner wrote:
Hello all,
I believe this has been discussed/asked before. How are others managing
upgrading applications once they are deployed? For example, I am
currently upgrading Firefox to v.1.0.3 across some clusters. Instead of
building an MSI and deploying via Group
I searched for this using Google and found a recommendation to use the
Linux boot disk, instead. So I burned that and went forward...
good choice!
Using the Linux boot disk, it quickly copies the first group of files
(ending with os/WinXPsp2/I386/NTLDR) and then hangs. The screen says
Please
you can prepare your own CD with your own server, path, username and
password.
I tried that, but make started looking for kernel source and I didn't
want to spend the time working it out just yet.
try
make download
make iso (and change the master file before that to get the right
settings).
Andreas Stowasser wrote:
Thank you for answering me.
Ntp-server helps
But which parameter do you use für the OemPnPDriversPath in the unattend.txt.
If i put in the unattend.csv
000C29ADADAD,DriverPath,driver\a;Driver\b;driver\c for example, your
script lists all of the drivers-subdirectories
Chee Meng Gui wrote:
Hi Everybody
How to install the applications independently of the OS?
That is, can I install applications unattended on a PC already installed
with OS?
Don't think so.
Use WPKG for that.
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Hugo Monteiro wrote:
Hi,
Not trying begin a flame war (that sometimes come up when bringing up
IRC), is there any IRC channel attended by unattended users?
If not, i'd like to sugest to the unattended crew the creation of
#unattended in the freenode IRC network.
For those not
Hugo Monteiro wrote:
Hello all,
I was wondering if there's an easy way to check (through the command
line) if a certain software is installed.
I believe that it's possible to change the installer script in such a
way that it could query the machine for installed software so that it
could add or
try maybe WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net ?
Eeek .. my bad .. i did saw some references to wpkg, but thougth it'd
be some windows tool/set_of_tools that could help out in the job.
I did however install the unattended-ui and at least graphically and
the content looked like
Chee Meng Gui wrote:
hi Guys
Thank you for the good work! Although I've not tried unattended, I've
tried other software at sourceforge and they were great.
My question is -
Is a DNS server absolutely necessary? Can't I use a /etc/hosts file ?
There are many organisations which do not have an
I think it's better if software is installed in a background
(like WPKG does) - if something fails, user doesn't see it and
can work normally - it's crucial if you manage a bunch of servers
and clients remotely and have no physical access to them.
I agree. Please - does anyone out there have an
a) installable silently when doing unattended install (preferably
in windows_installer.bat file to hide username and password when
doing unattended install):
windows_installer --silent --server 192.168.1.1 --user john
--pass password
Currently I'm storing the values in the registry and changing
I've been playing with Unattended for about the same time. Have never
made a good sell to the service desk folks here. Ghost always wins for
the initial install.
quite the reverse here :)
b) Are there any suggestions or ideas about good ways to go about it?
We have been using a combination of
Dr. F. Lee wrote:
Some questions for starters:
a) Is this something which other people would find useful if it were
part of Unattended?
b) Are there any suggestions or ideas about good ways to go about it?
My dream software upgrader/installer/remover for Windows:
a) installable silently when
Jonathan Pauli wrote:
Has anyone been able to get firefox or thunderbird
silent installs working with unattended?
yeah I did.
First I tried creating an MSI package with Wininstall LE, but for some
reasons it dodn't work properly.
If you're looking for an English version, there may be MSI
Jordan Share wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for
installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD.
I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could
be found.
Well, there is this:
Hello,
I have several workstations that don't support CD-ROM booting - and
therefore, can only be booted from a floppy.
Is it possible to start Unattended linuxboot from a floppy, and then
continue it from a CD-ROM? (as it's possible with installing Linux
distributions - they have a special
Felipe Navarrete wrote:
Since the linux boot disk is superior to the dos disk, I suggest
editing the main
website so that that it explains the need to copy linuxaux for the linux
bootdisk!!
yeah you could make some poll on the website to see what poeple are
using mainly: linux disk or a dos
Sebastian Zolg wrote:
Hi
My name is Sebastian from Germany.
We use the unattended project to install our customers PCs
It works greatly !
But now I want more ! I want to do it with the linux boot disk instead
of the dos disk !
But where can I change the path for mounting the samba
Hello,
I tried to build my own Unattended 4.6 linux iso CD, which would support
a German keyboard layout.
So I checked the mailing lists, did the following change to
misc/isolinux.cfg:
append initrd=initrd kbd=de-latin1
made new iso, but I still have US keyboard.
Anyone could help me with
Sebastian Zolg wrote:
Oh great
Yes it helps !!
But I got some other problem now.
Make download works greatly but at one package it stops ! its the glic
package.
Csv. Command not found
What is it ?
you mean cvs?
you have to install the cvs package on your system.
i edit de
Sebastian Zolg wrote:
ohh ok
you are right ! ok i finally do the make download now and it works without
an error
but when i do make iso it stops with following:
linux:/home/unattended/unattended/unattended-4.6/linuxboot # make iso
cd module-init-tools-3.1 make
Moritz Engel wrote:
hi,
does anyone use WPKG http://wpkg.sourceforge.net and Unattended together to
install and deploy software, would you then share your experience?
yep, I do.
what do you need to know?
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Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello there,
I'm quite new to unattended, so I would like to ask you a question. ;-)
Is it posible to install software without logging on as administrator on
every machine? If yes, how does it work? Via a Windows service? Via a
script that is being run as admin even
Sebastian Mellmann wrote:
Hi!
Is there any possibility to change the default share (\\ntinstall\install)
from the linux-bootdisk ISO, without rebuidling the whole ISO?
I tried, but in the end, had to rebuild the whole ISO (I had to change
username and password, too).
Another way is to to give
Sebastian Mellmann wrote:
Sebastian Mellmann wrote:
Hi!
Is there any possibility to change the default share
(\\ntinstall\install) from the linux-bootdisk ISO, without
rebuidling the whole ISO?
I tried, but in the end, had to rebuild the whole ISO (I had
to change username and password, too).
Hello,
I just wanted to ask what are the ways to install multiple Linux systems
in an unattended way (different hardware etc.)?
unattended.sf.net seems to only support Windows, what are the choices
for Linux?
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Tomek,
It depends on your distribution. What distro are you using?
I had hope there is some uniform way of doing that for all distros.
If not, I use Mandrake and SuSE.
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Mark McRitchie wrote:
Are there any alternatives? No reboot required, works on Win
2000 / XP?
From the AutoIt help file:
BlockInput, on | off
This command with disable both mouse and keyboard input. This only works on
various operating system configurations as indicated below:
Operating System
Niels S. Richthof wrote:
Hi Gerhard!
I have some setups that only can be automated with AutoIt. I would
like to disable /shutdown keyboard and mouse before running those
scripts. How can I achieve this?
There is a registry hack possible. Have a look at
http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/tip0571.htm
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Hello,
How can I add WINS servers automatically when Unattended install is
being performed?
I would like to add two addresses of WINS servers, but I'm not sure how
to do it?
OK, I found a solution - it can be done like that:
netsh interface ip set wins LAN-Verbindung
Hello,
I use the following auconfig.pl to set Windows Updates to download and
install automatically.
I use this setting:
todo.pl auconfig.pl 4 --noautoreboot --policy --wait 30 --day 5 --time 8
Which means that on Thursday, 8 am, it should download updates (if any)
and install them
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Hello,
I use the following auconfig.pl to set Windows Updates to download and
install automatically.
I use this setting:
todo.pl auconfig.pl 4 --noautoreboot --policy --wait 30 --day 5 --time 8
Which means that on Thursday, 8 am, it should download updates (if any
Niels S. Richthof wrote:
Hi Tomasz!
However, There is a GPL project called WPKG -
http://wpkg.sourceforge.net - which aims to install/upgrade/remove
software/packages after the machine was installed.
I know wpkg since it was a first idea on our mailinglist and long
before it became a
Mario Gzuk wrote:
Hi,
now its done. A demo is available at: http://www.technikz.de:8080/
features:
- Scripts in database (also for using without perl installed -- for the
post installation)
- The scripts get a priority which can be used to control the corect
order of the installation
- the scripts
Niels S. Richthof wrote:
Hi Tomasz!
A service, added to each machine created with the help of Unattended,
which will check if software installed on each of these machines
matches a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine /
machine profiles etc.
That is not that easy as it
Hello,
I would like to install TightVNC using Unattended, so that after it is
installed, I can log on to the machine remotely using password I
specified (with Unattended).
Is it possible?
So far it was possible for me to only install TightVNC, then I have to
configure everything (set password,
Niels S. Richthof wrote:
Hi Tomasz!
I would like to install TightVNC using Unattended, so that after it is
installed, I can log on to the machine remotely using password I
specified (with Unattended).
Is it possible?
Yes, with a registry hack.
After TightVNC is installed, you apply an
Hello,
Currently I am testing Unattended + Samba 3 to deploy OS (win2k)
installation on many machines.
I was curious, if any of you guys have a solution for adding / upgrading
software *after* OS was already installed?
For example, a month after I installed 30 OSes (piece of cake with
Mario Gzuk wrote:
Hi,
here is a first look at the gui for unattended installation. This is
only a preview. Please dont ask if something is not clear.
Be aware, this is a mpeg4 decoded video with a size of 1400x1050.
Please use a video player which support this codec (e.g. xine or
mplayer) I dont
Dag Nummedal wrote:
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Hello,
To automatically install printer, I use this in my install.bat file:
:: Install printer
todo.pl net use X: \\server\unattended /user:magisa\unattended
password rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /q /y /ga /in /n
\\server\printer
However, after
Mario Gzuk wrote:
Please take a look at the howto of rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry.
There is a option ( i think /if) to give it a inf file.
Yes, I tried different switches for like 4 hours :( without a success -
always have this prompt window.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong - would be glad
Niels de Groot wrote:
Hi Tom,
You might try adding the following option: /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf
This tells the command which inf-file to use. In this case the local one.
If the printer you're installing is listed in there, it should help.
If not, try searching the inf files for your printers
Hello,
To automatically install printer, I use this in my install.bat file:
:: Install printer
todo.pl net use X: \\server\unattended /user:magisa\unattended
password rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /q /y /ga /in /n
\\server\printer
However, after that is executed I get a window which says
Sven Esbjerg wrote:
I frequently patch windows (when they publish updates) and I would like a
better way to do it. I cannot install a SUS server due to limited ressources
- thus I would like to use unattended for this task.
However I'm in doubt about which strategi to choose.
You don't have to use
Hello,
I just tried to install Windows2000 Professional SP4 using Unattended,
and to my surprise, I was asked to enter Product ID key and confirm
Computer name and Administrator password.
Product ID and Administrator password were already in
/install/lib/unattend.txt:
[UserData]
Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=mypassword
Of course the Product Key was a correct value.
What am I doing wrong that I have to type ProductID manually, and
confirm AdminPassword with enter / mouse click?
Here is what unattended web site says:
[UserData]
Hello,
I have some programs with MSI installers (.msi).
How can I install them using unattended - what should I put to a .bat file?
Tomek
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