[Unattended] Installation without Administrator rights ?

2004-09-02 Thread Fuchs, Philipp
Hello there, does anybody have an idea of how to install applications Unattended under Windows 2000/XP without having administrator rights ? Thank you very much in advance. - philipp --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic

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

2004-09-02 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, how can I customize the Linux-based boot disk in order to have German keyboard layout? TIA Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA

[Unattended] Automatically activate classic Win-2000-Look-and-Feel on Win-XP-Box?

2004-09-02 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, we prefer to have the classic Look-and-Feel (start menu, desktop top, windows control panel) of Win 2000 on our XP boxes. Is there any predefined script to automically do this with unattended? Or any parameter in unattend.txt? TIA Gerhard

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

2004-09-02 Thread Mario Gzuk
Just do this under linux as root: mount -o loop theunnattendedlinux.iso /mnt/myunattended then copy the contents to /anywhere edit the /anywhere/isolinux/isolinux.cfg and add the kbd=de-latin1 to the append line (also the z_user z_pass and so on) then cd /anywhere and do this: mkisofs -V

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

2004-09-02 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Mario Gzuk wrote: Just do this under linux as root: mount -o loop theunnattendedlinux.iso /mnt/myunattended then copy the contents to /anywhere edit the /anywhere/isolinux/isolinux.cfg and add the kbd=de-latin1 to the append line (also the z_user z_pass and so on) then cd /anywhere and do this:

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

2004-09-02 Thread Mario Gzuk
Just delete the , between the entries in the append line. Am Do, den 02.09.2004 schrieb Gerhard Hofmann um 14:27: Mario Gzuk wrote: Just do this under linux as root: mount -o loop theunnattendedlinux.iso /mnt/myunattended then copy the contents to /anywhere edit the

[Unattended] Auto eject linux based boot CD?

2004-09-02 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi, when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like ... if running from CD you can eject it now ... which is gone some seconds later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message please remove cd and press a key to continue? In case boot sequence of PC is

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

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like ... if running from CD you can eject it now ... which is gone some seconds later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message please remove cd

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

2004-09-02 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: when booting from the linux based CD, you get some message like ... if running from CD you can eject it now ... which is gone some seconds later. Wouldn't it better to stop at this point and print a message

Re: [Unattended] Automatically activate classic Win-2000-Look-and-Feel on Win-XP-Box?

2004-09-02 Thread Mario Gzuk
Yes there is. Please look at unattended.sourceforge.net. The better way is to create a account make all settings you want and copy the files under ntuser.dat, ntuser.dat.LOG and ntuser.ini during the install in the Default user profile, so all new users get this settings. A detailed explain is

[Unattended] shortcut.pl

2004-09-02 Thread Matt_Fries
With profuse apologies to anyone who knows and loves perl, I have modified the shortcut.pl script to allow you to choose which icon the shortcut should have. I am happy this worked, because it's my first time working with perl (I'm more windows oriented - I told you I'm sorry). I can mail

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

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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

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

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
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.

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

2004-09-02 Thread Dag Nummedal
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: 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

[Unattended] shortcut.pl

2004-09-02 Thread Matt_Fries
It looks like mine is just a tad different. I think this is a Diff against the same version as yours. --- shortcut.pl.orig2004-09-02 15:38:12.836566400 -0500 +++ shortcut.pl2004-09-02 13:48:43.835068800 -0500 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ # Your usual option-processing sludge. my %opts;

[Unattended] Microsoft SQL2000 Tools

2004-09-02 Thread Ty Moffett
I am trying to add the SQL2000 Tools (Query Analyzer, Enterprise Manager, etc.) to the unattended installation and I'm having difficulty. The CD has a predefined ISS file (what I assume is a transform) and instructions on how to use it. If I run it manually on the machine after Windows is

[Unattended] Laptop locking up during install

2004-09-02 Thread steve
I am using the linux boot cd and trying to setup XP. The answer file is created ok and the script runs, copies files for the XP install but then the laptop locks up. When I power off and back on the install picks up where it left off and finishes normally. Any clue as how to trouble