Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Brian May
Juan Jose Pablos wrote: possibly you only problem is to add a Sata driver: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/SCSI/SATA-Drivers Like I said, I added the drivers SATA drivers (using a different method), and the CD by itself works fine now. However, unattended it does not work under

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Regis Gras
Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Regis Gras escribió: I tried to use linux-2.6.25-rc8, but it fails and complains: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc8/modules.dep: No such file or dirctory modify misc/nail-floppy.txt change 2.6.24.4 to 2.6.25-rc8 remove the stage1 and stage2 directories. and

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Nyström Anders
hello could someone good at linux make a workaround patch (sorry for my terminology) for /etc/master and /etc/udhcpc-script that it would exit the firts udhcpc round by force and then run the second after a sleep 1 or is this a stupid idea Anders -Original Message- From: Regis Gras

Re: [Unattended] Password on vm machine

2008-04-15 Thread Ori Gamo
Hi, I would like to know if the VMWare machine is still availible for download? Thx O On 2/29/08, Ori Gamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I downloaded the vmware machine... both the zip and the rar file and compared it to the check sum which was provided by someone on the forum as being

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Nyström Anders escribió: hello could someone good at linux make a workaround patch (sorry for my terminology) for /etc/master and /etc/udhcpc-script that it would exit the firts udhcpc round by force and then run the second after a sleep 1 or is this a stupid idea Well, that is

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Regis Gras
Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Well, that is already in place on the master file: # Try this interface once, and retry for 10 seconds. Works around # problems we have had with drivers taking a while to initialize. In /etc/master, we have: # Try this interface once, and retry

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 02:27, skrev Brian May: If I use unattended, I get to the first reboot, and the the computer crashes with a black screen and flashing cursor. I have seen this, I had to zero out the mbr and partition table: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk count=1024 (not tested, Im not sure

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 11:29, skrev Regis Gras: Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Well, that is already in place on the master file: # Try this interface once, and retry for 10 seconds. Works around # problems we have had with drivers taking a while to initialize. In /etc/master, we

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Mario Gzuk
Hi, black screen means in the most cases that the boot code in the active partition has errors or can not be accessed. greetz mario Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2008, 13:05 +0200 schrieb Nils Olav Fossum: Tirsdag 15 april 2008 02:27, skrev Brian May: If I use unattended, I get to the first reboot,

[Unattended] 4.8-rc2 and partitioning/formatting the hdd

2008-04-15 Thread Jens Geile
Hi, at the moment I'm still using the following lines to partition and format the local harddisk of the client I want to install (didn't change them since pre-4.7)... [_meta] fdisk_cmds = fdisk /clear 1;fdisk 1 /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1 format_cmd = format /y /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c:

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 14:04, skrev Mario Gzuk: Hi, black screen means in the most cases that the boot code in the active partition has errors or can not be accessed. Yes, I did try to restart the installation several times (4.8rc1). I do not have the replace mbr function switched on

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 14:38, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: Tirsdag 15 april 2008 14:04, skrev Mario Gzuk: Hi, black screen means in the most cases that the boot code in the active partition has errors or can not be accessed. Yes, I did try to restart the installation several times (4.8rc1). I

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nyström Anders
hello Nils if you got a T61 working i would like to know what configuration you are using? unattend 4.7 / 4.8(2) standard or new e1000 becouse my 4.8.2 with standard e1000 and kernel 2.6.25-rc9 needs ctrl+c and /etc/master restart Anders -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 15:26, skrev Nyström Anders: hello Nils if you got a T61 working i would like to know what configuration you are using? unattend 4.7 / 4.8(2) Unattended 4.8 rc1 with dhcp option patch. I will upgrade to rc2 tomorrow. The reason I did not upgrade was not change too much

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nyström Anders
just to make sure I havent missed something. dhcp option patch could you explain that more specifically, not just the option 233 I assume Anders -Original Message- From: Nils Olav Fossum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15. huhtikuuta 2008 16:46 To: Nyström Anders Cc:

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 16:08, skrev Nyström Anders: just to make sure I havent missed something. dhcp option patch could you explain that more specifically, not just the option 233 I assume Just the 233 option, It was not in rc1, but is back in rc2.

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Nils Olav Fossum escribió: hm, can you can try to add the -t,--retries=N Send up to N request packets parameter and play around to see if that makes udhcpc return.. maybe start with --retries=5 .. ok, I commit a change on the Repository could you update and test it?

Re: [Unattended] 4.8-rc2 and partitioning/formatting the hdd

2008-04-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 april 2008 14:10, skrev Jens Geile: Hi, at the moment I'm still using the following lines to partition and format the local harddisk of the client I want to install (didn't change them since pre-4.7)... [_meta] fdisk_cmds = fdisk /clear 1;fdisk 1 /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1

Re: [Unattended] 4.8-rc2 and partitioning/formatting the hdd

2008-04-15 Thread Jens Geile
Hi, at the moment I'm still using the following lines to partition and format the local harddisk of the client I want to install (didn't change themsince pre-4.7)... [_meta] fdisk_cmds = fdisk /clear 1;fdisk 1 /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1 Just use what fits youre needs, if you find a

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Regis Gras
Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Nils Olav Fossum escribió: hm, can you can try to add the -t,--retries=N Send up to N request packets parameter and play around to see if that makes udhcpc return.. maybe start with --retries=5 .. ok, I commit a change on the Repository could you

Re: [Unattended] Network driver for Dell Optiplex 755 does'nt work.

2008-04-15 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Regis Gras escribió: Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Nils Olav Fossum escribió: hm, can you can try to add the -t,--retries=N Send up to N request packets parameter and play around to see if that makes udhcpc return.. maybe start with --retries=5 .. ok, I commit a change on the

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate2

2008-04-15 Thread Brian May
Juan Jose Pablos wrote: when thay are on the cvs we need to run a command to restore the file permission. Do you know by change the command? I think it basically is chmod, run on the server of the appropriate CVS file. This is just one of CVS well known limitations... Brian May

Re: [Unattended] 4.8-rc2 and partitioning/formatting the hdd

2008-04-15 Thread Brian May
Jens Geile wrote: I'm currently experiencing some really weird bugs where the bootsector of the local harddisk gets screwed up and the machine refuses to boot. Only way to solve this is to run unattended again. :/ What happens when you try to boot? Black screen? Sounds almost like my

Re: [Unattended] HP Compaq NW8440 Windows XP

2008-04-15 Thread Brian May
Mario Gzuk wrote: black screen means in the most cases that the boot code in the active partition has errors or can not be accessed. Sounds about right... Still, I don't know what could be wrong. I have seen this, I had to zero out the mbr and partition table: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk