[Unattended] Re: fixing mailing list Reply to: address?

2005-05-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:47:59AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Is it possible that someone fixes the Reply to: address of this mailing list? It doesn't appear broken to me. Now it doesn't have any Reply to: address, and when someone presses the Reply button in a mail client, only the

[Unattended] Re: Re: Unattended without DHCP

2005-01-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:37:16AM +0100, Oliver Kuhl wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:33:44PM +0100, Jose Buzon Zarzuela wrote: I read about this projekt. It is pretty cool and makes the life of admins easier. But i have the following problem: We have a domain

[Unattended] Re: Unattended without DHCP

2005-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:33:44PM +0100, Jose Buzon Zarzuela wrote: I read about this projekt. It is pretty cool and makes the life of admins easier. But i have the following problem: We have a domain without a dhcp. As far as i read to make the installation you need a dhcp. Is there any

[Unattended] Re: Unattended- IRC channel?

2004-11-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:53:12AM -0800, Jimmy R. wrote: Is there an IRC channel for this mailing list? I was thinking it would perhaps give us a good method to help one another out and exchange configuration ideas and concepts. In what way does a mailing list not give us a good method to

[Unattended] Re: unattended software testing methodology

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:57:51PM +, stephen mc murray wrote: I'm a student in my final year of my computer networking honers degree. I have decided to do my thesis on unattended installations. The initall research stage was simple enough (hence how I came across this forum) however

[Unattended] Re: Unattend problem

2004-10-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:25:49AM -0500, Wolfe, John wrote: We are working on getting an unattended installation set up by using a floppy disk to install from the network. Our problem is, we have multiple locations and servers from which an unattend can pull the install from. 2 things

Re: [Unattended] office2k: remove some components

2004-09-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:28:49AM +0200, Julien TOUCHE wrote: i'm looking for a way to install office2k without some part like, for example, access, outlook (or maybe force some extra part o install). it seems an administrative install setup take all and i've not managed to use Remove env

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] Machine Dependent Productkeys

2004-09-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:59:37PM +0200, Tft Tco wrote: I want to have an unattended install with retail products where each of them needs / should have a separate product key. does anybody know how I can get an individual product key that is based on the machine name? Yup, although I

Re: [Unattended] possible bug in linux bootdisk, master script?

2004-08-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Tft Tco wrote: I just tried the linux bootdisk with unattended 4.4b. it worked until the script wanted to mount the install share. that was the point when it said: *** Trying smbmount \\myserver.local\install /z -o ttl=60,username=geust,ro ***

Re: [Unattended] Updating Machines Built w/ Unattended...

2004-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: What if, instead of querying a few text files under NETINST on the built machine for software to install and settings, we instead wrote this information, as well as extra information about packages already installed into the

Re: [Unattended] Message Pervious Operating system on c:

2004-05-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:47:28PM +1000, jed wrote: Blank hard disk drive starting an unattended install why does it end up with Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Pervious Operating system on c: i have to manualy editing the boot.ini to get rid of it. Should unattended no do this or get

Re: [Unattended] get rid of the first questions

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:47:04PM +0200, Vincent Malguy wrote: I am using the dos bootdisk. I have a question, how to get rid of the first 2 questions before the file download ? The first question is not so much a problem because it has a timeout but the second must be answered and if i

Re: [Unattended] Problem using Linux boot disk 4.2

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:10:04PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: At least this should teach me not to make changes between -rc* and final in the future... It's a lesson we all have to learn, unfortunately. My lesson would make you wince like you'd been kicked in the nuts -- might make you

Re: [Unattended] Server Space

2004-05-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:53:26PM +1000, Mangano, Aron wrote: 1. Is it possible that we can set up server space somewhere for users to contribute files such as scripts they have written, etc etc. I'm sure I'm not the only person who could do this, but I'm willing to offer up some HDD space /

Re: [Unattended] problems with unatteded-info?

2004-05-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:24:13PM +0300, Anders Nystr?m wrote: 1, I can not get any new updates on the unattended-info page? Can you rephrase that as an actual question? 2, When can we change the default server, user and password for the linuxboot It is possible to set the UNC name of the

Re: [Unattended] Perl DBI woes

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:22:19AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Of all the third-party modules we might consider shipping by default, DBI is clearly #1 on the list. I will look into adding it in the next release as well. How soon do you need this? I've hacked around it for now by

[Unattended] DHCP Z driving

2004-04-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
For people who are planning on using this, a word of warning: if you have your z: share set up for guest access, make sure you set your z_pass to empty. By default, the system tries to use 'guest' as the password, which will hopefully fail on everyone's systems. g Set an empty z_pass like this:

[Unattended] Bad quotes! Naughty quotes!

2004-04-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
For Patrick and anyone who's hit this: I think that the credentials placed in c:\netinst\tempcred.bat shouldn't be quoted. It causes (Win2K at least) to think that the previously empty string is, in fact, a pair of double quotes (). It annoys the crap out of net use, because you set your Z_USER

RE: [Unattended] Some ideas from the new guy

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package Management *** I was reading through the mail list archives and saw that package management is something that is needed/wanted. I agree wholeheartedly. [...] good fit. Having a central registry of all these packages that we can sync to would be ideal. Letting

Re: [Unattended] Internet Explorer plugins

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
I'd like to be able to install some plug-ins required by some sites. One in particular is installed only after logging onto the site. How can I retrieve the installation file and install it on other computers without having to log into the site, preferably by a mechanism that doesn't need