Re: [Unattended] IE cumulative Patch

2003-08-09 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
(freshly installed with unattended) this one is not an issue, but two other is.. (dont get me started on these..) The real questin is what do we trust: Windowsupdate ?? Microsofts hotfixes?? Microsofts Srevicepacks?? -- Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune Tlf Direkte: 72403024

Re: [Unattended] IE cumulative Patch

2003-08-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
anyone have any clue?? I'm building an XP image. I have the same problem on win2ksp4, not shure about sp3 at the moment.. Different packages on different PCs.. ..fresh install. Mybe Windowsupdate aint acurate.. Im testing sp4 before rollout, soh any meat on this would be great :-) -- Nils Olav

Re: [Unattended] IE cumulative Patch

2003-08-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
for the MS-articeID, in my case it was MS02-008 hope this helps you.. -- Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune Tlf Direkte: 72403024 --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E

[Unattended] Scanning for driver updates?

2003-08-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Hi, Im planning to install unattended on some existing w2k-machines.. Is it possible to force windows to rescan its DevicePath(registry) for updated drivers? I have done some searches for this, but not found anything.. ..so by asking I hope to be a litlebit wiser :-) -- Nils Olav Fossum

Install script. was: Re: [Unattended] SATA Drive Problem

2004-07-01 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
if time and perl coding skills I have not started yet :-) -- Mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret MidtreGauldal Kommune Direkte Tlf 72403024   Sentr.Bord 72403000   Fax 72403001 Mob 90946262 --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
. The linux NTFS tools is also making progress these days, so disk imaging would be a great extension to the unattended project! Im just asuming theres more people like me that get a pile with similar hardware in for configuration. :-) -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune

Re: [Unattended] Fwd: Re: NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-08-07 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 28 juli 2006 19:59, skrev Tobias 'tri' Richter: echo -e -n \xf0 |dd of=/mnt/drive/\$win_nt\$.~bt/bootsect.dat bs=1 seek=26 conv=notrunc ah, Im stupid (ref my other reply). This should be on one line of course. It fixes my install on a Thinkpad R52. -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret

Re: [Unattended] Fwd: Re: NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-08-09 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
in master, so it should be doable. If we could get what parted believe the head count should be and throw that into the tests, it would be even better. -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune postinst.sh Description: application/shellscript

Re: [Unattended] Dell Optiplex GX620 problems

2006-08-23 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
this option in the BIOS.. The solution is to use a newer kernel than unattended 4.6 provides. There is a download at http://www.smi-softmark.de/unattendedcvs/unattended-cvs-2.6.17.tar.bz2 precompiled Unattended ISO with kernel 2.6.17 and parted 1.6.22, hosted by Falko Trojahn -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum

Re: [Unattended] Unattended on USB Thumbdrive

2006-10-20 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
thumb drive! Again from my fuzzy memory: This is beacause it sees the thumb drive first and belive this is the right drive to do work on. -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune - Using Tomcat but need

[Unattended] Unattended and the gui thing

2007-02-19 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
like it.. So what can I do to be helpful? -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance

Re: [Unattended] Problem with IBM T60 install

2007-03-01 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
not be the whole story.. Sorry, no real answer, the nc6320 also have 240 heads. I dont have a IBM thinkpad to work on right now, so I dont know how similar youre problem is.. -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune

Re: [Unattended] Dell 745

2007-03-01 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
the Makefile (see attached patch) Have you moved the linuxaux to the right place ? -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune --- Makefile-orginal 2007-02-20 14:35:52.0 +0100 +++ Makefile 2007-02-20 14:42:35.0 +0100 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ kbd=kbd-1.12 linux=linux

[Unattended] Downloading and building linuxboot from CVS

2007-03-02 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Hello, This morning i noticed Shad has uploaded some interesting updates, and since its always passes a couple of months between I do these updates I made some notes. Just quick one-liners, nothing advanced. So, Im posting them here in lack of better places to put them. -- mvh Nils Olav

Re: [Unattended] Building linuxboot from CVS

2007-03-02 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Again, attached the notes as a text document. Comments are welcome. -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune Building Unattended linuxboot: First, read NOTES.txt in the linuxboot directory. see The whole shebang at the end, and take another look at the Makefile. Basically

Re: [Unattended] Dell 745

2007-03-22 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
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Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-25 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
old PATA machines. (rename Z:\linuxaux\lib\modules\2.6.20.7\kernel\drivers\ata\ata_piix.ko) Does someone have a place I can upload an ISO + a tarball? -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 25 april 2007 15:51, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: I have the current cvs + Steffens patches compiled here. Some quirks: - minimal SATA (only Intel modules.) - You must move ata_piix.ko out of the way when installing old PATA machines. (rename Z:\linuxaux\lib\modules\2.6.20.7\kernel

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 26 april 2007 12:27, skrev Maurice Libes: Nils Olav Fossum a écrit : The linuxboot cvs is in a sorry state right now... yes but after correcting some errors, a student of mine succeeded to make it work and to build a functionnal kernel which works with sata PC. Maybe if I mail our

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 26 april 2007 16:17, skrev Knoll, Bernd: Sorry, this one does not work for me on a HP DC5700 with C2D E6300 So, do you get errors or where does it stop? -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
/install.pl line 33. Seems like you are missing /lib/Unattend/Hotkey.pm on youre server share.. Is it there ? (And there should be several *.pm files in Z:\lib\Unattend) Did you start with a existing (previously working) install or did you start from scratch? -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
that the file is there and readable.. ..you could check from the console (ls /z/lib/Unattend) mh, Im really wondering what Im missed here.. -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune - This SF.net email

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
/kernel/lib/zlib_inflate/zlib_inflate.ko and recompile :) -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express

Re: [Unattended] Linux boot CD problems

2007-06-05 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
to youre DHCP server.. ..or edit misc/isolinux.cfg and compile the source tree. :) -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum IT-Kontoret Midtre Gauldal Kommune - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR problems redux

2007-09-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 13 september 2007 18:18, skrev David Nalley: Hi guys, I have a new batch of Lenovo T61s that I am attempting to install to. What I have done thus far: 4.6 livecd doesn't work due to NIC/SATA/potentially other hardware being missing. I tried unattended-gui livecd but had a nic issue

Re: [Unattended] DOSEMU over and over

2007-09-19 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 19 september 2007 02:08, skrev Gergo Szakal: OK, thanks to the instructions I have successfully compiled the latest CVS code from unattended into a linux bootiso and I like it much, but there is an annoyance: when winnt.exe finishes copying the files, the whole thing reboots into DOSEMU

Re: [Unattended] Web site down..

2007-11-02 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 02 november 2007 11:59, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: Whats up? hehe, Im stupid :-) Ther is no project called www.unattended.sourceforge.net of course.. Firefox added the www. ...:-/ - This SF.net email is sponsored

[Unattended] Web site down..

2007-11-02 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
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Re: [Unattended] Format

2007-11-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
. So to sum it up, we have two problems: 1. Disks with 240 heads 2. In need of good ideas to fix 'fdisk_cmds' (and friends) in install.pl hehe, this is the unattended world as I see it right now :-) Any suggestions, more insight or ideas are welcome! -- mvh Nils Olav Fossum

Re: [Unattended] Change Keyboard in Master-Script

2007-11-19 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Lørdag 17 november 2007 18:42, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi How should I change this code to use German-Keyboard layout!? Master-File # Configure the keyboard, if requested. kbd=$(get_cmdline_param kbd) [ -n $kbd ] \ loadkeys ${kbd#*=} You dont have too :-) You can use parameter

Re: [Unattended] How to get a list of current updates?

2007-11-21 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 20 november 2007 17:09, skrev Dan Mahoney, System Admin: Hey all, I'm wondering what the best way is to build a list of all available hotfixes required. Is there some easy, programmatic way? Unnattended lives in CVS, .. you can get CVS commit logs if you subscribe to the

Re: [Unattended] Some more functions for UNATTEND.TXT

2007-11-21 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
I forgot to send this mail to the list, so here goes.. Torsdag 15 november 2007 12:01, skrev Steffen Kaiser: What about a new meta function, say partition_cmd, that is either a script or something like layout:pri:10GB,boot;ext:all;log:10GB,fat32. I'm not certain, how to support DOS and Linux

Re: [Unattended] How to get a list of current updates?

2007-11-22 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 22 november 2007 14:51, skrev Frank Van Damme: Something that troubles me more: I have just cvs-updated my scripts (and ran the prepare script), tried an unattended Window installation and now it tries to run z:\updates\common\scriptenu.exe. But... that rogram has been removed from CVS

[Unattended] Driver install fuzz

2007-11-23 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Im sitting here trying to get SATA drivers onto a HP laptop. Some things are clear to me, others not at all For installing drivers we have this in unattend.txt: [Unattended] OemPnPDriversPath = The windows installer copies every directory in z:\os\winxpsp2\i386\$oem$\$1 to c:\

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-23 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 14 november 2007 17:08, skrev Maurice Libes: i make this copy in the UNATTEND.TXT file here: doit_cmds = Z:;cd Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386;xcopy OEM c:\OEM /Y /E /I; winnt /rx: lang /s:Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386 /u:C:\netinst\unattend.txt hm, I wonder if this is just a documentation problem, and

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Søndag 25 november 2007 23:03, skrev Brian May: On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 11:27 +0100, Nils Olav Fossum wrote: Onsdag 14 november 2007 17:08, skrev Maurice Libes: i make this copy in the UNATTEND.TXT file here: doit_cmds = Z:;cd Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386;xcopy OEM c:\OEM /Y /E /I; so if I get

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 26 november 2007 12:17, skrev Frank Van Damme: On Nov 26, 2007 11:42 AM, Nils Olav Fossum so if I get this right: Drivers are copied to c:\oem and Windows pick them up and uses them? Yes. Interesting, I wonder if its the installer (running under dosemu) that picks it up or if its

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 26 november 2007 12:54, skrev Mario Gzuk: Hi, as I wrote months before there is all ready a way: http://unattended-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/unattended-gui/z/etc/init/ profiles/unattended-nodosemu/01install?view=markup You should also read:

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 26 november 2007 12:22, skrev Brian May: My assumption (correct me if I am wrong) was that by default the user would get prompted to add these directories to OemPnPDriverPath. Yes, correct So if you have same copies of winxpsp2 that use driverspack and some which do not, this might be

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 27 november 2007 23:41, skrev Brian May: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:18:39PM +0100, Nils Olav Fossum wrote: Mandag 26 november 2007 12:22, skrev Brian May: My assumption (correct me if I am wrong) was that by default the user would get prompted to add these directories

Re: [Unattended] Dells Unattended

2007-11-29 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 29 november 2007 20:52, skrev Nils Østbjerg: Otherwise most problems are related to new chipset drivers, so that linux reconice SATA drives. Yes, it seems like most of the troubles are related to chipsets and drivers And disk geometry.. Parted often get disk geometry wrong..

Re: [Unattended] current status of project

2007-12-05 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 05 desember 2007 21:55, skrev Samuel Saunders: I noticed that the news items and release dates were all some time ago, so I wondered about the current status of the project. The project being dormant would not be a show-stopper for us, since it is open souce, but it would be good to

Re: [Unattended] Thanks for the great product!

2007-12-06 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 06 desember 2007 00:23, skrev Elliott Barrere: The one thing I'm having problems with is getting drivers for 3rd party SATA/RAID controllers to install during the installation process (so that I can install onto these devices). When I select the drivers during the initial install

Re: [Unattended] Booting ETH adapters on Latitude D630

2007-12-11 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 11 desember 2007 23:36, skrev Michael De Groote: for broadcom nics you typically need the tg3 module... maybe the flavor of the broadcom nic in the d630 isnt supported yet by the not-very-recent kernels? might be worth checking out on e.g. ubuntu fora, a lot of dell laptop users on

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-11 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Hi, Im one of the other Nils :-) I dont know why its rejected, but this has worked for me. What happens if you delete the busybox-1.6.1 directory, do a make download, and a make again? - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-12 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 12 desember 2007 20:10, skrev Nagilum: Hi :) I get the same error again. But when I downloaded the stuff, I saw, that I have to be root, otherwise it says: mv: cannot move `/var/tmp/dl.d26547' to `/var/tmp/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2': Operation not permitted make: ***

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-13 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 13 desember 2007 13:38, skrev Nagilum: Hi, On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:49:03AM +0100, Nagilum wrote: OS is an up to date Debian 4.0/etch. I had serious problems compiling on up to date ubuntu 7.10, a downgrade to 6.06 with gcc 3.3 worked. Nils I tried to downgrade to

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-13 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 01:54, skrev Nagilum: I've lost a lot of hair... Tonight I tried the build-process on another machine, also a Debian 4.0r1 (etch) System. I got the SAME error again. There _must_ be a break at debian or busybox! I have seen the same error, but that was when I used a

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

2007-12-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 09:05, skrev Jens Geile: Hi, http://www.source-exchange.de/unattended/nils/ Oh, guess you don't need the FTP account I created for you anymore then. ;) hehe, not right now, Im hoping to get a web server going soon. Im using this build on production now, and it

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

2007-12-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 10:04, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: eh, this will not work alone as windows is not looking at /c/netinst/unattend.txt : write_ini_entry /c/netinst/unattend.txt _meta OemPnPDriversPath $oemdrvpath you have to overwrite /c/$win_nt$.~bt/winnt.sif with /c/netinst

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 12:44, skrev Frank Van Damme: On Dec 12, 2007 8:31 AM, Nils Olav Fossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Im one of the other Nils :-) I dont know why its rejected, but this has worked for me. What happens if you delete the busybox-1.6.1 directory, do a make

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 13:50, skrev Michael De Groote: i have a hunch it (the looping of the winnt installer copying the files) has something to do with the winnt itself trying to reboot the pc, which (in this case) is the dosemu the reasons i think it does this are That was exactly what was

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-14 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 18:03, skrev Michael De Groote: i just noticed... my install.pl doesnt have such a part about writing xxx.tmp file, and the exitemu file was something i copied from some install.gz found somewhere on the ML here so that is probably the key, and i will update my

Re: [Unattended] Error compiling unattended linuxboot

2007-12-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 14 desember 2007 14:59, skrev Frank Van Damme: So most likely dosemu has had a feature implemented somewhere between the versions used in 4.6 and what's now in cvs so it reacts properly (but undesirable for Unattended) to reboot events. I think I'll dig up the patch provided in the

Re: [Unattended] 4.7 Release??

2007-12-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 26 desember 2007 17:51, skrev Juan Jose Pablos: Hi, Only a couple of scripts seem to affect RC4. So I think that we can release 4.7 I am a commiter on the ASF, and they have rules about how to do a release. see: http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html So I

Re: [Unattended] 4.7 Release

2008-01-02 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 27 desember 2007 16:12, skrev Nagilum: Also there's something I just noticed today: Some (all?) computers always have an entry for the last System in the Bootmanager. I think it's from re-install if there already was a Win before. Am I the only one with this problem? Would be nice if

Re: [Unattended] problems with presetup of xp (longfile names problem?)

2008-01-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 januar 2008 15:28, skrev Christoph Kaminski: Hi! I have a problem with a xp I386 dir, there are some upgrades done for this version and there are files with 8.3 chars in filename (most of them are *.dll.mu_). The presetup part of xp setup (text part) cant copy these files... (If

Re: [Unattended] Can't understand what to do for installing in a pre-formatted partition

2008-01-15 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 15 januar 2008 17:03, skrev Mattia: I create a 4Gb partition with FAT32 file system. During installation, setup automagically resized and converted it in NTFS. But I didn't understand how setup knows which partition to use to install windows... Windows installation Is a bloody mess

Re: [Unattended] ntfs

2008-01-26 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 24 januar 2008 17:48, skrev Knoll, Bernd: Hi unattend should convert your initial FAT partition to NTFS automatically after copying over the files, so if you have FAT after the installation there is something else going wrong. greetz Its the windows installer that does this, but

Re: [Unattended] Parted does'nt work with unattended 4-7

2008-02-06 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 05 februar 2008 08:29, skrev Regis Gras: I am using unattended 4-7, patched with nt5x-install. In this version, parted does'nt work. If I want to partition a disk, parted says: Program parted is using a deprecated SCSI ioct, please convert to SG_IO You can ignore this

Re: [Unattended] Parted does'nt work with unattended 4-7

2008-02-08 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 07 februar 2008 22:38, skrev Michael De Groote: mm.. i changed the version in the makefile to 1.8.8 and i get a 404 on download... any suggestions? maybe i should download the file manually? oh, yes, you have to change the download url too :-) diff attached ---

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.7 have NTLDR is missing error while Unattended 4.6 do not

2008-03-17 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 17 mars 2008 13:57, skrev Juan Jose Pablos: just a question on thie issue. If only this problem happens on Machines that detect a 255 heads. Would it be easier to triger a command instead of running a system commmand manually? I have it integrated in the master script for dosemu, and

Re: [Unattended] iaStor.sys not found after reboot

2008-03-17 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 17 mars 2008 16:22, skrev Marc Cuypers: Hi, I'm new to unattended and having some troubles installing windows xp2 on a Fujitsu-Siemens P320 PC. The system has SATA drives. I've searched on the internet for a solution, found a lot, but nothing helped. This recipe is what helped us

Re: [Unattended] iaStor.sys not found after reboot

2008-03-17 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 17 mars 2008 16:40, skrev Xavier Nicolay: Have you run/use DriverPack ? (_with DriverPack MassStorage text mode _) No, I have not tried DriverPack yet. But it should be possible to integrate/automate both DriverPack and MassStorage directly from Unattended. I have no need for that right

Re: [Unattended] Problem while transfering files

2008-03-18 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 18 mars 2008 15:18, skrev Regis Gras: After a lot of problems with samba (finaly, I compiled samba-3.0.20 instead of 3.0.27) I used security = share to get my samba share working with the newer unattended linuxboot. I dont know if that will help, but is worth mentioning. As you said,

Re: [Unattended] unattended virtual Appliance

2008-03-19 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 19 mars 2008 08:04, skrev kerravon: I don't need to get a grip mate, you're the idiots complaining, all I have done is corrected a few untruths. Who need to get a grip here certainly not us. Strange isn't it that 4.7 was no where in sight until after I publish the first unattended VM.

Re: [Unattended] Problem while transfering files

2008-03-23 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 19 mars 2008 18:26, skrev Regis Gras: I an not familiar with the use of CVS. How to do to Pick a good directory ... you just create a directory with a name that fits you. the name does not mather. Its just a place to hold the files from CVS. - login to CVS (in one line): cvs

Re: [Unattended] Problem while transfering files

2008-03-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 27 mars 2008 17:29, skrev Regis Gras: 2 questions. - Is this version using nt5-install ? Yes, if you applied the patches and the tar.gz archive i sent you in a previous mail. Sometimes attachments get eaten in the mail antivirus/antispam filters.. ..if thats the case let me know

Re: [Unattended] just wipe first partition and leave the rest untouched - how?

2008-03-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 27 mars 2008 16:34, skrev Sven Geipel: Hi! We have our pcs installed with both windows and linux. z:\site\unattend.txt contains following line for partitioning: fdisk_cmds=fdisk /clear 1;fdisk /pri:20480;fdisk /pri:100,100;fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1

Re: [Unattended] just wipe first partition and leave the rest untouched - how?

2008-03-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 27 mars 2008 18:35, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: What if you take out fdisk_cmds=x of unattend.txt and run parted in interactive mode: Delete the fist partition and create a formatted 4GB fat32 partition with the boot flag set. oh, sorry, this is a terrible advice :-/ Looking

Re: [Unattended] just wipe first partition and leave the rest untouched - how?

2008-03-27 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 27 mars 2008 21:22, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: sanity check with: parted -s /dev/dsk Im bad at multitasking and context switching :-) To print out the partition table: parted -s /dev/dsk print - Check out the new

Re: [Unattended] just wipe first partition and lea ve the rest untouched - how?

2008-03-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 28 mars 2008 09:02, skrev Sven Geipel: My existing partition table shows like this (suse fdisk layout): /dev/sda11 2433 20GB7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 2434 2GB 82 Linux Swap /dev/sda3 * 2678 12GB 83 Linux _meta section in unattend.txt

Re: [Unattended] Problem while transfering files

2008-03-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 28 mars 2008 13:24, skrev Regis Gras: Regis Gras wrote: $(call download_rule, $(glibc-linuxthreads), tar.bz2, \ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/, $(glibc)) Then make download works, but the compilation failed. Good, you will be an excellent Makefile expert soon :-D cc -o

Re: [Unattended] Problem while transfering files

2008-03-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 28 mars 2008 16:15, skrev Regis Gras: I don't find anything Nor ntdlr binaries, nor nt5x-install scrip nor altdosemu-xxx.patch Could you tell me how to find these 3 parts ? No problem, I will post a link later tonight Probably some mail servers eating attachments..

[Unattended] nt5x-install patches, was: Problem while transfering files

2008-03-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 28 mars 2008 16:45, skrev Regis Gras: Nils Olav Fossum wrote: I got this exact error when compiling with a too new glibc :-) Try changing the glibc version: glibc=glibc-2.3.6 In the Makefile What distribution and version are you using? My computer works with Fedora Core 4 kernel

Re: [Unattended] just wipe first partition and leave the rest untouched - how?

2008-03-31 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 31 mars 2008 11:19, skrev Sven Geipel: Minor Start EndType Filesystem Flag 2 19085.xxx 20999.xxx primarylinux-swap 3 20999.xxx 32451.xxx primaryext3 1 32451.xxx 36452.xxx primary boot If I read install.pl right;

Re: [Unattended] Compiling unattended with nt5x-install patches

2008-04-01 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 01 april 2008 09:26, skrev Regis Gras: I want to use nt5x-install to accept filename 8.3.3 I want to use the new network e1000 driver (Dell Optiplex 755) So, I compiled the official unattended-4.7 version. (not CVS) I had a lot of problems with samba and finaly, I used samba-3.0.20

Re: [Unattended] no custom options

2008-04-01 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 01 april 2008 00:18, skrev Darren Jackson: I've been wanting to take the time to get unattended running for months now and finally completed my network boot of unattended. I was wondering if there's an easy way to make it so the user isn't prompted for any custom options for the

Re: [Unattended] cvs and compile new linux pxe iso file

2008-04-01 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 01 april 2008 14:39, skrev Nyström Anders: hello I can not find easy instructions for making a new pxe start file, can somebody tell me the commands/requirements. 1, do I need the unattended-4.7 files or can I get everything from CVS You can choose :-) full 4.7 release with source

Re: [Unattended] Compiling unattended with nt5x-install patches

2008-04-02 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 02 april 2008 10:50, skrev Regis Gras: Busibox V1.6.1 (2008-03-31 ...) Muli call binary Usage dd [if=file] [of =file] [bs=n] . [seek=N] unrecognized parameters.. Your patch works fine. Good. You said (These dd option(s) are now in CVS) I tried to compile CVS, but I have

Re: [Unattended] High Definition Audio Codecs

2008-04-03 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 03 april 2008 15:38, skrev Paul Griffith: On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:11:19 -0400, Jens Geile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Unattended] Compiling CVS unattended with nt5x- install patchesand driver e1000

2008-04-04 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 04 april 2008 10:15, skrev Regis Gras: I will try to test with glibc-2.3.6 instead glibc-2.5 It seems to me that a glibc with the same version as the build host is the way to go.. - Check out the new

Re: [Unattended] cvs and compile new linux pxe iso file

2008-04-04 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 04 april 2008 11:14, skrev Nyström Anders: Thanks Nils At last I know (I hope) what you all have been talking about for many years (compile new kernel) Now it´s just to learn how to add features like new net card or parted or... One thing thou, on your site the

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

2008-04-04 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Fredag 04 april 2008 19:53, skrev Matt Hyclak: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 05:48:02PM +0200, Juan Jose Pablos enlightened us: I put a Release Note on the wiki for updating information related to this release, feel free to update it: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/ReleaseNotes480 Can

Re: [Unattended] OrphanedPages on the wiki

2008-04-06 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Søndag 06 april 2008 22:12, skrev Juan Jose Pablos: Hi, I found this page on our wiki: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/OrphanedPages Maybe we should think about how to structure in a better way. thoughts are welcome First, a wiki is a great thing. There are some things I like to know;

Re: [Unattended] 4.8 Release Candidate1

2008-04-07 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Mandag 07 april 2008 12:36, skrev Juan Jose Pablos: Nyström Anders escribió: hello I am trying to build a new kernel (make download, make tftpboot) but make tftpboot stops at QUOTE checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found make:

[Unattended] is mysql working? was: 4.8 Release Candidate1

2008-04-08 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 08 april 2008 10:01, skrev Juan Jose Pablos: Nils Olav Fossum escribió: fakeinclude/curses.h should probably be added as a build dependency for mysql in the Makefile: It is not enough. but a indication that it depends on ncurses should be there I have tried but it did not work

Re: [Unattended] getting startet

2008-04-09 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 09 april 2008 12:46, skrev Fabian Scharnhusen: yes I designed an interface in php. But I am now standing in front of the problem to tell my computers what they should do and how. I don't really know how I send my generated unattend.txt to the computers. Another Problem might be that

Re: [Unattended] getting startet

2008-04-09 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 09 april 2008 13:06, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: Onsdag 09 april 2008 12:46, skrev Fabian Scharnhusen: yes I designed an interface in php. But I am now standing in front of the problem to tell my computers what they should do and how. I don't really know how I send my generated

Re: [Unattended] Always lot of problems with unattended-4.8 and CVS ...

2008-04-09 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 08 april 2008 16:32, skrev Regis Gras: I have two machines to test cvs and unattended-4.8 - An old PC - An Dell Optiplex 755. (I tried two Dell, with bios release A04 and A04 and the problems are the same) I try to compile cvs and unattended with two computers: -

Re: [Unattended] Always lot of problems with unattended-4.8 and CVS ...

2008-04-10 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 10 april 2008 12:10, skrev Regis Gras: I think I remember the MSI error from a while ago when I was using PXE-boot on a VIA ITX board. That was a bug in the PXE code on the chip. You can test that by booting from CD using the same build. Yes, but I do'nt know how to do. 4-8 use now

Re: [Unattended] Always lot of problems with unattended-4.8 and CVS ...

2008-04-10 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 09 april 2008 17:11, skrev Nils Olav Fossum: Now I changed to 4.8rc1 and the first T61 is not able to boot windows. Just a black screen with the cursor blinking in upper left corner. Ok, revert to the old tested 4.7-like patched unattended and its not able to pick up the dhcp boot

Re: [Unattended] unattended-4.8 with debian .... fails

2008-04-10 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 10 april 2008 13:46, skrev Regis Gras: I tried to compile unattended-4.8 on a debian The compile was OK, but nothing works On Dell OPtiplex 755, the internet driver does'nt work Always: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO and the Dell freezes On an older computer:

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 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 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 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] 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

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