Re: [Unattended] ofc2003.bat refers to site/keys.bat file which I don't appear to have

The installer script for office 2003 refers to a site/keys.bat file that is supposed to return the product id. Does anybody have a working site/keys.bat file and wouldn't mind posting the skeleton of one with a bit of an explanation, if that is necessary, please. Thanks in advance. Here

[unattended] Problems with Office 2000/XP

Hi, I've been trying to solve these problems on my own but I'm kind of stuck. I've got two problems with Office 2000. The first one is that the setup asks me for the Windows CD which of course I do not want to put into the CD drive. Not really unattended if I did. I read

Re: [unattended] Problems with Office 2000/XP

I am using the stock Office 2K install script from the unattended package without any issues. It installs Office 2K or XP and it install the updates. Are you using the stock Office 2K install script? I am using the standard script provided from the CVS, yes. And I'm keeping it up2date too. I

Re: [unattended] Problems with Office 2000/XP

I don't have Win2K in my unattended os directory so I can't test the setup you have. That's too bad. I was already wondering ... is NOONE using Windows 2000 anymore? Did they just switch over to Windows XP when they encountered all the problems with Windows 2000? Or is Win2k just outdated?

[unattended] Splash Screen

Hi, is it possible to run something like a fullscreen on-top splash screen? It should be started around the time ActivePerl is being installed so that normal users won't be able to see all the installation windows popping up in the background and especially won't be able to intefere with the

Re: [unattended] Problems with Office 2000/XP

I am using only Win2K, but with Office XP Professional. I don't encounter the problem you are facing. Here is the unattend.txt I am using all the time, maybe you remove some components during inital OS setup needed for Office? I install Office XP by using the official batch file, no funky

[Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

Hi, I'm working with unattended for some time now but now I'm running into problems I cannot solve by myself. We recently got new computers and I need to install them using unattended. But I have problems even booting them with the CD. I tried the various linux boot cds with 2.6.19 and 2.6.20

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

I tried the various linux boot cds with 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 kernel from http://www.smi-softmark.de/unattendedcvs/ but without much success. The Machines start loading the initrd and then just reboot themselves, repeating this circle over and over. The motherboard in these machines is an ASUS

Re: [Unattended] Network Re-build script - automagic overnight rebuilds!

I have written a network rebuild vbs script that allows for machines to be rebuilt by script (using psexec or similar) I actually apply the script from the customactions of a dummy msi, so i can deploy the 'rebuild application' to machines and have them automagically rebuild overnight, but

Re: [Unattended] unattended-gui boot-cd 0.5.1

Hi have you try the force options? http://unattended.technikz.de/index.php/Bootcd:options#force Ah, wonderful, thanks. This did the trick. :) Now it finally finds the harddrive. Now I'm facing the next bunch of problems though. -.- Will post to the list if I can't fix them myself. ;) - jens

Re: [Unattended] unattended-gui boot-cd 0.5.1

Is it having problems finding the SATA device during the linux portion of unattended setup, or during the Windows portion? During the Linux portion... if it was during the Windows portion I'd know what to do... The message I get is: Unable to determine boot device at /usr/bin/find-boot-device

[Unattended] Various problems

Hi, after I managed to fix the HDD detection problems with the help of Mario I ran into a few more problems on the way. 1. I have the following line in my isolinux.cfg on the boot-cd: LABEL local MENU LABEL ^Next boot device in line MENU DEFAULT LOCALBOOT -1 After selecting this

Re: [Unattended] Various problems

Hi, (i should really send this to the whole list ;) after I managed to fix the HDD detection problems with the help of Mario I ran into a few more problems on the way. 1. I have the following line in my isolinux.cfg on the boot-cd: LABEL local MENU LABEL ^Next boot device in line

Re: [Unattended] Various problems

Hi, 1. I have the following line in my isolinux.cfg on the boot-cd: LABEL local MENU LABEL ^Next boot device in line MENU DEFAULT LOCALBOOT -1 After selecting this entry in the boot menu I get PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT instead of the pc booting from the next boot device. This

[Unattended] outdated update scripts

Hi, just ran ./script-update and ./prepare and noticed that there are two dead links. The link http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/a/a/4aa524c6-239d-47ff-860b-5b397199cbf8/Windows-KB890830-V1.30.exe in both win2ksp4-updates.bat and winxpsp1-updates.bat returns a 404. Could someone with

Re: [Unattended] Various problems

and what is the size of a) your driver dir + I386 dir? server:/path/to/os# du -h --max-depth=1 419M./drivers 214M./win2ksp4 409M./winxpsp2 b) the partition you are trying to copy to (i guess 4GB since you are using plain unattended, which uses a max of 4GB for the partition in

Re: [Unattended] Various problems

hm, maybe the build and extensions Im using can help. I hope so. :) I have adapted Marios installer scripts to use in place of dosemu into plain unattended. Its not in CVS, and could use a bit more testing, but so far we have lumped out 3-4 machines a day with it. If it can fix all my

Re: [Unattended] Test iso CVS 2007-12-10 with some patches

Hi, http://www.source-exchange.de/unattended/nils/ Oh, guess you don't need the FTP account I created for you anymore then. ;) Im using this build on production now, and it seems stable. I really want feedback on this! If everything works out I'll give you some feedback later today. - jens

[Unattended] Question about partitioning with 4.7

Hi, so far I've been happy with having just one partition on my drive but now customers are bugging me if it is somewho possible to create two partions of the same size on one drive. For example on a 120GB drive there should be C: with 60GB and D: with 60GB. Of course I could just use fixed

Re: [Unattended] 4.7 Release Candidate3

So a new rc is on its way: Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.7. Aside from the special character issue during the windows copy process its working for me so far with Windows XP. Will test Windows 2000 tomorrow. - jens

[Unattended] Newest perl version

Hi, could the perl.bat script in CVS be updated to use the latest version of ActivePerl? http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.10/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1001-MSWin32-x86-283495.msi Thanks in advance. - jens -

Re: [Unattended] igmedcompkrn.dll

I just added new drivers to my unattended installation for a Intel 946GZ Express Chipset. Unfortunattely my installation aborts with the error that it could not find the igmedcomkrn.dll file, which is part of the driver. I think it`s because the file name is not 8.3 conform. It is. I've had

Re: [Unattended] igmedcompkrn.dll

Hi, I just added new drivers to my unattended installation for a Intel 946GZ Express Chipset. Unfortunattely my installation aborts with the error that it could not find the igmedcomkrn.dll file, which is part of the driver. I think it`s because the file name is not 8.3 conform.

[Unattended] unattended linux boot

Hi, I've got a little problem here... I've been using the unattended-gui bootcd and the kernel provided by them until i upgraded to unattended 4.7. I wrote a little script that enables me to add machines not yet know to the dhcp server to the dhcp config but it uses the commandline tool

Re: [Unattended] unattended linux boot

Hi, if you are using the unattended-gui bootcd and have questions related to this, you are on the wrong mailing list. I'm not using the unattended-gui bootcd since the update to unattended 4.7. Also I'm kinda tired of having to manually create the init.sh file and everything related to the

[Unattended] Defrag

Hi, I was just wondering... Why does the default base.bat from the cvs run defrag _before_ it installs a shitload of Windows Updates? Is there any special reason? If there isn't any special reason, could we change the default base.bat in the cvs repository so that defrag runs _after_ the

[Unattended] Windows Updates 0802

Hi, I just tried installing a new Windows XP SP2 (German) machine and the installation hang on the installation of the following two updates: windowsxp-kb942830-x86-deu.exe windowsxp-kb942831-x86-deu.exe I'm not sure why they failed though. The updates were on the server where they were

Re: [Unattended] Windows Updates 0802

Hi, I just tried installing a new Windows XP SP2 (German) machine and the installation hang on the installation of the following two updates: windowsxp-kb942830-x86-deu.exe windowsxp-kb942831-x86-deu.exe I'm not sure why they failed though. The updates were on the server where they

[Unattended] winxpsp2-up0802.bat ie6.bat

Hi, I'm a little annoyed as not even a single person has bothered to at least answer my messages. I can understand that the problems won't be fixed immediately but a short answer that the problems will be investigated/looked into would be nice... winxpsp2-up0802.bat:

Re: [Unattended] winxpsp2-up0802.bat ie6.bat

Hi, I'm a little annoyed as not even a single person has bothered to at least answer my messages. I can understand that the problems won't be fixed immediately but a short answer that the problems will be investigated/looked into would be nice... While installing a new Windows 2000 SP4

Re: [Unattended] winxpsp2-up0802.bat ie6.bat

It seems the old link for the ie6setup.exe file is outdated. The new downloads can be found @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1E1550CB-5E5D-48F5-B02B-20B602228DE6displaylang=de humm... I am looking on the ie6.bat and the download link for the german version

Re: [Unattended] winxpsp2-up0802.bat ie6.bat

Hi, While installing a new Windows XP SP2 (German) machine the installation hangs on the installation of the following two updates: windowsxp-kb942830-x86-deu.exe windowsxp-kb942831-x86-deu.exe If I remember correctly, they fail with a status 67 if IIS is not installed. ok. if

[Unattended] High Definition Audio Codecs

Hi, I've got a little problem here and maybe someone can help me. I've got quite a few clients (couple hundred actually) (Windows XP) with a MSI K9VGM-V motherboard and a Realtek ALC883 soundchip onboard. My problem here is that I cannot get either unattended or WPKG to install the driver for

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

Hi, The first problem was that cifs.mount didn't want to find my server using \\server but that was easily solved through a 'option domain-name foo.whatever.de;' entry in my dhcpd.conf. ok, but that option should be there in the first place. It did not show up before when using smbfs.

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

Hi, I have upload the first test candidate for the next release: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/48_rc1/ Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.8. I just set up a test server with Unattended 4.8-rc1 and ran into two problems so far. The

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

Hi, Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.8. The system is still installing. Will report any other bugs as soon as I encounter them. As promised, more bugs: When Windows XP installs (blue screen with progress bar) it randomly fails on random

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

When Windows XP installs (blue screen with progress bar) it randomly fails on random files telling me Die Datei shell32.dll konnte nicht kopiert werden. (The file shell32.dll could not be copied.) The filename is different each time and sometimes it also works just fine. Another

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

When Windows XP installs (blue screen with progress bar) it randomly fails on random files telling me Die Datei shell32.dll konnte nicht kopiert werden. (The file shell32.dll could not be copied.) The filename is different each time and sometimes it also works just fine. Another

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

When Windows XP installs (blue screen with progress bar) it randomly fails on random files telling me Die Datei shell32.dll konnte nicht kopiert werden. (The file shell32.dll could not be copied.) The filename is different each time and sometimes it also works just fine.

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate2

Hi, I have upload the second test candidate for the next release: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/48_rc2/ Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.8. While messing with 4.8-RC2 I found some files that have executable flag set even though they

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

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] 4.8-rc2 and partitioning/formatting the hdd

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] 4.8-rc2 and partitioning/formatting the hdd

Hi, 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? PXE boot starts, waits for the

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate2

Hi, While messing with 4.8-RC2 I found some files that have executable flag set even though they shouldn't have that flag. I'm pretty sure I've missed quite a few (as I haven't checked all files) but here are a few of the messed up files. when thay are on the cvs we need to run a

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

Hi, Also the mysterious bluescreen I reported sometime last week happened on two other machines after that. The first really had a majorly fucked RAM module, on the second one memtest only found one error but on the third machine no errors where found in the ram module. I somehow really

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate3

Hi, I have upload another test candidate for the next release: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/48_rc3/ Test on your systems. Please report back if you were having problems with NTLDRNotFound and with this release it is solved. I've just tested 4.8-rc3 on two of my systems which

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate3

Hi, ok, but it looks that we should skip the parted upgrade for now. Sounds like a good idea indeed. ;) As soon as the SP3 is out, I will release a 4.8_rc4 SP3! \o/ Any idea when its gonna be out after MS delayed it again? I'd really like to shorten the time an unattended install of XP takes.

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate4

Hi, I have upload another test candidate for the next release: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/48_rc4/ Testing it right now. So far I've only encountered that unattended fails to disable AutoAdminLogon bug. This update includes the windows XP SP3. Dotnet stuff has been move out

Re: [Unattended] Looking for a good reference to exten d winxpsp2-notips.pl

Hi, Better yet, if there is such a thing out there as a call sniffing tool (imagine changing an option in a program and having a debug screen tell you that a registry change happened and what it was) then I would love to learn about it. RegMon:

[Unattended] Windows 2000 SP4 gone?

Hi, I just got a notice that the SP4 for Windows 2000 has gone missing on the Microsoft Servers. /var/lib/iserv/ci/updates/win2k/deu/w2ksp4.exe: does not exist --12:41:03-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/3/5/c35591e3-52b6-4be0-95d3-ec82fa01ce12/W2KSP4_DE.EXE =

Re: [Unattended] Windows 2000 SP4 gone?

Hi, I just got a notice that the SP4 for Windows 2000 has gone missing on the Microsoft Servers. /var/lib/iserv/ci/updates/win2k/deu/w2ksp4.exe: does not exist --12:41:03-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/3/5/c35591e3-52b6-4be0-95d3-ec82fa01ce12/W2KSP4_DE.EXE

Re: [Unattended] 4.9 Release Candidate4

Hi, I think that this is going to be the latest Release candidate. I have upload the first test candidate for the next release: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unattended/files/ Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.9. Ok, so far I've only tested

Re: [Unattended] 4.9 Release Candidate4

Hi, - Update the updates scripts for Windows 2000 and 2003. I am not able to update those as I do not use those systems. Plus, you have not a clue how much time take to update the security patch. I need a volunter (you?) for that. If you guide me through the process or can tell me what and

Re: [Unattended] 4.9 Release Candidate4

Hi, Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.9. I've just completed my first test with Windows 2000. The CD was a german Windows 2000 without service pack and in addition to the errors from my other mail I got the following errors during the

Re: [Unattended] 4.9 Release Candidate4

Hi, I think that this is going to be the latest Release candidate. I have upload the first test candidate for the next release: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unattended/files/ Test on your systems. If not mayor bugs are found it. This file will became 4.9. Ok, this will be the last

Re: [Unattended] 4.9 Release Candidate4

Hi, ok, I created a page on the wiki: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/SecurityUpdates Ok, I'm currently reworking the whole logic behind the Windows 2000 Update scripts and will most likely do the same with the Windows XP ones at a later point. (This is damn exhausting)