Re: [Unattended] Unattended install woes -- first rebootgivesblinking cursor, hangs

be in order too. Regards, Mark. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael De Groote Sent: 22 May 2008 10:29 To: Mark McRitchie Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] Unattended install woes -- first

Re: [Unattended] Unattended install woes -- first reboot givesblinking cursor, hangs

Hiya, I found that adding the following to my [_meta] section worked (on 4.8RC4): fix_disk_geo_heads = fix_disk_geo_sectors = The fix for NTLDR Not Found seems to have its own issues. Regards, Mark. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[Unattended] USB Key

Title: USB Key Hiya, Has anybody had any joy booting (and installing) unattended from a USB key? I've got it booting using the -pre release and it appears to copy the files ok, but when it reboots it gives the old NTLDR not found. Cheers! Mark. This e-mail message may contain

Re: [Unattended] 4.6 linux iso won't boot dell D620

Thanks! That did help, to a point. The 4.7 iso successfully finds and installs the network driver, but then I get a failure further up the chain. It connects to the share, but then I suddenly get errors along the lines of: FATAL: could not open

RE: [Unattended] Broadcom driver and Dell D620

Hiya, Hi, I've been trying to integrate the lan drivers (Broadcom b57 NetExtreme) for the new Dell D620 laptops for three days, but to no avail. Hmm. I'm writing this from my unattended D620... What we usually do when we get in a new Dell model in is boot it off the network then take the

RE: [Unattended] Moving computers in the AD at the end of install

Title: Moving computers in the AD at the end of install Something like the attatched _vbscript_ I would imagine. Supplied As Is and untested - plagerised from http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.scripting.wsh/browse_thread/thread/5858b762b0309a6d/b8f200f39a45bbb1 Will need to

RE: [Unattended] How to create shares with perl

Heya, Hi, does anybody know, how to create a share with specific permissions during installation? How (also with perl) can this share accessed from remote? (e.g. to copy a file to it). NET SHARE sharename=c:\path\to\folder /UNLIMITED That creates a share with the Everyone having Full

RE: [Unattended] Windows updates

Hi, Hello, I'm using unattended and cant tell you how much i love it. The installastion install some updates, I know i can manual edit the script for each update, but is there any script how will download all updates for windows xp, and edit the scripts i allready have so it will be

RE: [Unattended] todo.pl and commands mit arguments

Hi, i wrote a script to partition the hard disks after installation. I' using it like this in my config.pl $u-{'_meta'}-{'bottom'} = %Z%\\bin\\partition.pl --disk 0 --partition 2 delete;%Z%\\bin\\partition.pl --disk 1 --type primary --size 40960 --letter d create; Has anybody an idea how

RE: [Unattended] PXE boot floppy / CD?

Hi Is there any floppy / CD, which would allow PXE booting for older machines, which don't support PXE booting (via BIOS), or have the network cards which don't support PXE booting? I have a MS RIS floppy, but unfortunately, it doesn't support many network cards. You may find some help

RE: [Unattended] keys.bat + csv

Title: Message Hi Rafal, -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 September 2005 13:55To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Unattended] keys.bat + csv Hello Everybody, i have a Idea for a better

RE: [Unattended] keys.bat + csv

Title: Message Hi Rafal, (Sorry for the double msg, accidentally sentthe last one*sigh*) How are you calling this script? Given that the environment variables set only scope to the current DOS promt... Cheers, Mark. Hello Everybody, i have a Idea for a better

RE: [unattended] Splash Screen

-Original Message- From: Shenan Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2005 20:35 To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jens Geile Subject: RE: [unattended] Splash Screen Just lock the workstation after each boot/logon.. rundll32.exe

RE: [Unattended] problem starting Outlook form Office 2000

Hi, Outlook has to be started by an administrator to set the Workgroup or Internet mode. I wrote an AutoIT script to accomplish that (attatched) that's run as part of the unattended install. You can probably take out the check for Citrix PNAgent login box. Regards, Mark. -Original

RE: [Unattended] RE: Drivers

That 64 char limit if a real problem. Here's my path: \\daloalabsrv.americas.ad.pegs.com\install\os\xpsp1\I386\$oem$\$1\BroadCom44 0 I hit 64 at $1!!! I can't do anything about this server name, as the FQDN is not under my control and Linux would not do a lookup on daloalabsrv. What the heck

RE: [Unattended] How to install Borland Database Engine?

how can I deploy BDE silently? TIA Gerhard I don't install it as part of unattended, but it uses the installshield std. Switches. I've got a separate script which runs: start /wait setup.exe -s -f1 setup.iss -sms I used whatever switch it is to record the .iss file in the same dir as the

RE: [Unattended] howto trash xp

-Original Message- From: Brad Erdman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2005 04:48 To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Unattended] howto trash xp What if you just delete boot.ini and ntldr and possibly ntdetect.com? Brad You machine would still

RE: [Unattended] Citrix ICA Client 7.100 for WinXP

Heya, Does sombody know how to install Citrix ICA Client 7.100 under WinXP without any useraction. :: Install Citrix @Echo Off todo.pl msiexec /i %Z%\packages\citrix\ica32pkg.msi /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\citrix.txt ENABLE_SSON=Yes ALLOW_REBOOT=No SERVER_LOCATION=http://nfuseserver;

[Unattended] winxp updates.bat

Title: Message Hiya, I'm currently puzzling over the 3 winxp updates batch files. winxp-updates.bat installs SP2, then calls winxpsp2-updates.bat winxpsp1-updates.bat installs many many patches. winxpsp2-updates.bat installs some patches. My winxp OS directory contains a version of

RE: [Unattended] Problem joining domain groups to local administr ator group

Is anyone familiar with how to use the _meta section so I can add one of my domain groups to the local admin group? Put something like the following in a .bat file: net localgroup Administrators /ADD DOMAIN\User Group HTH Mark. -- This e-mail message may contain confidential or

RE: [Unattended] AutoIt driven scripts - how to disable mouse and keyboard?

Are there any alternatives? No reboot required, works on Win 2000 / XP? From the AutoIt help file: BlockInput, on | off This command with disable both mouse and keyboard input. This only works on various operating system configurations as indicated below: Operating System BlockInput

RE: [Unattended] tightvnc - setting password + starting as a serv ice - how?

I would like to install TightVNC using Unattended, so that after it is installed, I can log on to the machine remotely using password I specified (with Unattended). I hacked the the scripts from http://www.darkage.co.uk/vnc/ to install ultravnc on the local box - as it uses domain auth to

RE: [Unattended] Bochs

Hi Mark, may I ask you to send me a copy of your Bochs configuration file(s)? See attatched (cc'd list for posterity and it's a small file). Think I need to get the ne.ko driver onto the unattended CD though. I'm not sure how to go about rebuilding the ISO. @Pat - any chance of getting

RE: [Unattended] Bochs

Hi Pat, -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is consistent with the boot disk's behavior when used on an i586 (instead of i686) system. This should be fixed in the next release. Could you please try the 4.4c-pre2 test release at:

[Unattended] Bochs

Heya, I'm trying to get the Unattended Linux boot running under Bochs (http://bochs.sf.net), and I'm having limited success... I can get it to boot, but then I get: Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed WELCOME!!! Illegal instruction Hm, maybe we are on a serial console. Running /etc/master

RE: [Unattended] office2k: remove some components

-Original Message- From: Julien TOUCHE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2004 10:29 To: Unattended List Subject: [Unattended] office2k: remove some components i'm looking for a way to install office2k without some part like, for example, access, outlook (or maybe

RE: [Unattended] volume control

Heyas, -Original Message- From: Adam Peart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] volume parameter parameter = off or 0 - turns the volume to 0, but doesn't actually mute it Yeah, I got our developer to hack up a small .exe in vb6 which is now the first thing run as part of our build

[Unattended] Locales

Title: Message Heyas, I've managed to get the correct locale for us (UK) setup as part of the install by editing our site\unattend.txt file. However, that doesn't remove the US locale that gets installed by default. When installing by hand, I'd usually remove it when setting the Regional

RE: [Unattended] Server Space

DeLisle, Seth (GE Infrastructure) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a couple of people poked around way back when, there has been no activity on the wiki I set up. I was thinking it might still be useful if we don't make it a copy of the unattended site. Instead it might be nice to

RE: [Unattended] Problem with linux tftpboot

Heya, -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you set the disk size to exactly 9253440 sectors (4737761280 bytes)? Put another way, what units does VMware let you use to specify the disk size, and what did you specify there to get a sector count