Re: Re: [Unattended] Files not copied during setup/install

2006-04-07 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi Ken, the problem is the dos-boot and smartdrv. In the dos-boot image there is a call to smartdrv without parameters. This is correct for an installation of windows XP but leads to corrupted files with windows 2000. Just add parameter /x to this line and it works. Regards Stefan Kell On Fri

Re: [Unattended] Unable to read from windows 2000 cd

2006-01-11 Thread Stefan Kell
and everything was ok. I was not able to use the linuxboot disk so I didn't check this disk for the same problem. Symptoms are that after the first boot a chkdsk runs and some fileerrors are reported. And you can see a folder name found on the target disk. Regards Stefan Kell --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht

problem with dosbootdisk, was Re: [Unattended] Help with Windows 2003 Nothing But Net Install

2006-01-03 Thread Stefan Kell
the laptop with unattended without problems. Regards Stefan Kell On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Mailinglists Address wrote: I am having difficulty installing Windows 2003 Server (standard) using a Nothing But Net install method. Let me start off by saying that I am not doing a standard install

Re: [Unattended] basic Imaging

2005-04-07 Thread Stefan Kell
:) this scenario can lead to problems with HAL, the hardware abstration layer, especially with laptops. The first phase decides which HAL will be installed. I think your scenario is practically equal to using sysprep, which is faster. Regards Stefan Kell

Re: [Unattended] basic Imaging

2005-04-07 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi, On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: Stefan Kell schrieb: this scenario can lead to problems with HAL, the hardware abstration layer, especially with laptops. The first phase decides which HAL will be installed. I think your scenario is practically equal to using sysprep

RE: [Unattended] burning bootable disk

2005-02-28 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi, don't have Nero right at hand but you have to burn the iso image directly without converting to somethin else. Nero has an option for this but not in the wizard. Regards Stefan Kell On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Ido Dvir wrote: Hi Nero I've converted the ISO file to NRG file And then burned

Re: [Unattended] Auto updating of files from CVS?

2005-02-18 Thread Stefan Kell
how about google? should lead you to: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/; regards Stefan Kell On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Tony Worrall wrote: Ah, very nice, thank you! Does anyone have/know of a perl version so I can avoid installing cygwin? Tony Worrall www.hosting365.ie

Re: [Unattended] howto trash xp

2005-02-15 Thread Stefan Kell
antivirus programms should disable these writes to the MBR. Regards Stefan Kell On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Maurice Massar wrote: hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:13:05PM +, Hugo Monteiro wrote: I'd like to know if there's a simple way of trashing a prefectly good installation of XP

Re: [Unattended] A few windows tweaking questions...

2005-02-07 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello Tony, On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Tony Worrall wrote: Stefan Kell wrote: Hi Tony, First: you didn't specify operating system (Windows 2000, 2003, XP?) You didn't mention IIS or ftp server and you did not say local user or domain user. This makes answering a little bit difficult. My

Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?

2005-02-04 Thread Stefan Kell
Manager has its own module (edd30.asm) for booting off a CD-ROM. Regards Stefan Kell On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jordan Share wrote: Stefan Kell wrote: Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from CD? To be honest, no. :) The docs explicitly talk about

Re: [Unattended] A few windows tweaking questions...

2005-02-04 Thread Stefan Kell
://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/scriptguide/en-us/sas_usr_aznz.mspx; regards Stefan Kell --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag

Re: [Unattended] A few windows tweaking questions...

2005-02-04 Thread Stefan Kell
it anytime. And you are using a firewall anyway, don't you? Regards Stefan Kell On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Tony Worrall wrote: Hey Stefan, thanks for replying. I did check technet and found little info pertaining to automating these tasks. The services are installed by default with TCP-IP

Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?

2005-02-03 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi, yes your right, same thought occured to me after I sent my mail, sorry! Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from CD? Regards Stefan Kell On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jordan Share wrote: Those links both discuss setting the BIOS to boot from CD after the HD

Re: [Unattended] absolute file name not to exceed 64 characters - a case for another perl tool script

2004-10-18 Thread Stefan Kell
Hello, under UNIX, or Linux it is a one-liner like the following: find . -type f | perl -e 'my $s; my $l; while (){ chomp(); $s = $_; $l = length($s); print $s length: $l\n if $l 63; }' note the single quote after perl -e regards Stefan Kell On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Urs Rau wrote

RE: [Unattended] Bochs

2004-09-22 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi, according to the bochs-documentation the io-address is specified in the bochsrc file. The parameters should match the linux configuration. Rebuild: I don't know for unattended but normally change kernel configuration so that ne is included as module and recompile the kernel. Regards Stefan

Re: [Unattended] win2ksp4-updates.bat fails (windowsmedia99-kb837272-deu.exe)

2004-09-22 Thread Stefan Kell
Hi, take a look at http://mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/SP2/common.php#crypt; this is a longer text with suggestions what you can do. regards Stefan Kell On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mathias Berger wrote: Hi, my installation always hangs when installing this hotfix. It quits with error number 67

Re: [Unattended] article in German c't magazine

2004-08-10 Thread Stefan Kell
maybe if you ask the editors, they might publish it in english. Regards Stefan Kell --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail