[Unattended] Anybody had success with VMware?

Hi all, has anybody ever have successfully used unattended to install within VMware and would share his or her experiences? Particularly I would like to know: - VMware version - configuration of VM (.vmx file would be great) - unattended version - which boot disk? DOS or Linux based? Original or

[Unattended] Help on install.pl

Hi, I want do do the following in install.pl: - first asking for computername - then execute wget like this: wget http://somewhere/unattended?computername=$u-{'UserData'}-{'ComputerName'} -O /tmp/unattend.txt - then read the unattended.txt like $u-read(/tmp/unattend.txt); - then let the script

[Unattended] Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on a ProLiant server that has an embedded virtual install disk

Wondering if anyone has a workaround for this unattend.txt bug? http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?t hreadId=43315 **SNIPPED** The problem occurs because the Windows Server 2003 Installer interacts with the embedded virtual install disk when the OEMPreinstall

[Unattended] Problems with HostRaid (IBM, adaptec, etc...)

Hi there. I'm trying to use the HostRaid functions in the latest IBM 306 and 336 servers. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec. There is no problem when installing with HostRaid disabled, and the 2.6 kernel used by unattended works just fine. It seems there is no support in the 2.6 (or 2.4)

Re: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up?

Matthew J. Harmon wrote: Alright, so making some great headway on the Unattended install, thank you to everyone[0] who responded with my questions about the Windows post install. The issue I was running into was the the 8.3 filenames, I decided to try and make directories descriptive. Also,

RE: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up?

I only asked about Bart's pe because I use it as a recovery/install medium. I have an issue and that is my SP2'ed Bart's PE (slipstreamed os and the merged into bart's fork files) cdrom; iso is about 689MiB anyways the older machines do *not know how to boot from cdrom* take like my old machine

RE: [Unattended] problem with autologon

matt, thank you for advice ! i tested that before without success using: todo.pl autolog.pl --logon=1 --user=Administrator --password=not4u2know in the same script. basically all those script are installing hotfixes for xp, ie, mplayer in unattended mode with norestart switch but i have to

[Unattended] F.Y.I Domain Admin Password Problem

I sent my unattended distribution to an Admin at another location, but when he used it, the script failed right after he finished filling in the options. It turns out that his domain admin password had special characters in it. In this case a period ( full stop in England ) and a comma. Once he

[Unattended] copy the i386 directory to harddisk.

Hello group, I would like to have a copy of the i386 directory to my c:\ drive. I already had a try with a symlink and a copy of the files to i386/$oem$/$1/i386 but then windows bails out with no space available or a cannot copy GDIPLUS. Anyone has a better idea for me? Thnx, imdos

RE: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up?

The 6 boot floppies are nothing special. It's just the same program that starts up when you boot from the CD, but all the files are spread out onto floppies. I have an old machine at home that I installed XP on from the boot floppies because it didn't boot from CD-ROM. One thing that might