Newbie unattended user here. I just got it installed a week ago.
I too have tried it on a Dell GX150, and had similar errors about copying files.
I think it has something to do with FreeDos and their Format command that was causing trouble. I just wanted to see if the perl script would do what
This isn't really an unattended problem, but I have been getting a Bad Gateway error when trying to browse CVS from the sourceforge website. Even all the links on http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ give me the same error.
This has been happening for about a week now. Anyone else see this?
I am
With profuse apologies to anyone who knows and loves perl, I have modified the shortcut.pl script to allow you to choose which icon the shortcut should have.
I am happy this worked, because it's my first time working with perl (I'm more windows oriented - I told you I'm sorry). I can mail
It looks like mine is just a tad different. I think this is a Diff against the same version as yours.
--- shortcut.pl.orig2004-09-02 15:38:12.836566400 -0500
+++ shortcut.pl2004-09-02 13:48:43.835068800 -0500
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
# Your usual option-processing sludge.
my %opts;
I have used a couple of different versions of it. It's good for removing viruses and spyware, and maybe some other maintenance, but I have a different method loading ghost images. In fact, I recently setup a PXE server to help with that (and unattended). It works really slick.
Adam
The 6 boot floppies are nothing special. It's just the same program that starts up when you boot from the CD, but all the files are spread out onto floppies.
I have an old machine at home that I installed XP on from the boot floppies because it didn't boot from CD-ROM.
One thing that might
Lately, when using unattended to install W2K SP4, the installation is halted during the installation of IE 6 SP1. It displays a dialog asking if I really want to install the service pack, and also offers me a checkbox to Always trust content from Microsoft.com. It's a typical certificate dialog,
You COULD use a third-party application to uninstall outlook express and windows messengerBut there is a solution that will cost you $0, because it's part of windows 2000 and XP.You could go to the control panel, and choose add/remove programs. Then select add/remove windows components. This
Not really an unattended question, more of a Windows Update question:
I have installed the Microsoft Malicious software removal tool on a few machines, each via Automatic Updates, but I cannot seem to find out WHERE it is installed. I don't see a shortcut for it (even though I AM in the local
I see the problem now
The web page that has the button where I can start the scan must be using an activeX control or something. I have Firefox 1.0 on this machine, so the button isn't even active.
The web page says that the tool runs immediately on download, scans for problems, then
I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what DEVICE to boot from.
With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into
That may work for you NOW, but if you have a VERY diverse assortment of hardware, and keep adding drivers, you might run into the character limit for the driver path.
Then your drivers might not get installed at all!
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Tomasz
I have a Novell client install script that I use. Here is the contents of the batch file. I think I pretty much borrowed it from someone else, so don't be impressed.
:: OPTIONAL: Install Novell Client32 2.90 SP2
@ECHO OFF
todo.pl .reboot
todo.pl .ignore-err 1 %Z%\packages\novell\acu.exe /U
Might I ask what speed network connection you are using?
Our building is wired with cat 5, and the switches are capable of 10/100, and are set to autodetect the speed.
The dell machines with 3com integrated 10/100 ethernet (3c920) get shipped from the factory with the NIC hardware set to auto
I'm a little dismayed at the lack of documentation for WPKG. Their website just has about 4 pages of info, and it's very high level. It's nowhere near the amount of documentation for Unattended.
The web frontend looks very interesting, but the website just says Coming soon.
There are
It would be nice to associate the os_name property in the CSV file, rather than having to associate both os_media and UnattendedFile for each machine.
Is there a more elegant way to do this? I couldn't quite tell from config-pl.
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That's a clever idea.
However, if Thomas is using the DOS boot disks, then he would need to boot twice. Once to fdisk, and once to install.
Do you suppose it would be possible to make some sort of server side boot counter that would delete the hex file after 2 boots instead of just one?
(Just
Can anyone explain to me what this line in the adobe-reader.bat file is trying to do? I can't find any reference to what %m or %%m referrs to, and that script will randomly fail on me.
todo.pl for %%m in (\%TEMP%\adberdr\Adobe Reader 7.0*.msi\) do msiexec /qb /l*
I think I understand
In the for %%M in (WHATEVER) do SOMETHING command, when WHATEVER contains a wildcard, then %%M = the filespec for every file that matches the wildcard, and it also executes the do command for each file?
Does that sound right?
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If you install the drivers from a substituted drive, then the install
location gets set to that drive letter in the registry. Then in the future,
if windows needs to install drivers or other components, it will look for
that X: drive (which may be mapped to a server by now).
This might work if,
I have noticed that too. Automatic update DOES seem to indicate that the Windows Installer 3.1 should be installed, but it only lists it AFTER you have already installed all the previous updates.
On Windows 2000, there is also a bunch of other windows updates that are only available AFTER the
You're right. I was thinking of MSI files, not drivers. DUH!
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Maybe you could use the os_media line that is stored in the unattended.txt. During package installation, that path should be accurate. Now you just need to figure out how to access that infomation and put it into a variable (sorry, I'm no help with perl).
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Is anyone using symbolic links to their Drivers folder in the OS folders?
I just tried it myself, but I'm concerned that some hardware may have separate drivers for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I came across an INF file that said Windows 2000 only.
Do you think that generally Windows 2000
When I first tried setting up an unattended installation, I got the same problems.
I think it was due to FreeDOS, and it's format command. I made my own DOS boot disk using windows 95 DOS and also used the win95 format command for formatting the Hard drive. You can substitute your own custom
You need to match the type of media with the type of product key that you are using to install Windows XP.
If you use a Volume Licensed edition of Windows XP Professional, then you need to use a Volume License Product key. The Volume Licensed edition will not ask you to Activate windows ever.
Sometimes I run into a problem using unattended on a machine that is
formatted with FAT32, but I have found a solution that may work for you.
The symptoms I see are that when the script gets to the point where the
newly created partition is formatted, I get a screen full of error writing
sector
PXElinux has a really nice text based menu that I use. There is an option to password protect the menu item so a user would need to enter the correct password before it would load the OS. The other entries I have are for diagnostics and utilities. I haven't had a problem with users running it on
This question isn't specifically about unattended, but I figure the people
on this list have similar knowledge, so I'll ask:
I am happily using unattended 4.3 with the linux boot via PXE. My DHCP
server is Windows. My TFTP server is Windows. My File server (where
unattended is located) is
Thanks for the tip. I eventually got it working, even though the image was
not useful.
I found a website (in French, no less) that details what you are supposed
to do. The .SYS file was really a disk image file in some crazy format.
Open it with winimage and convert it to a 2.88mb disk image,
I have been using Unattended 4.3 for several years, and it has been
working fine for my needs. But, as my csv file grows, I decided that I
want to try to store the info in a mysql database instead.
On a completely separate server (windows 2000), I did a fresh install of
unattended 4.7, setup
I, for one, am genuinely disappointed to hear that, but I can't say that I
blame you. I don't think that I would appreciate the accusations either. I
*DO* appreciate your effort, and I think it is a worthy effort. Am I alone
here?
Although I have not yet had the time and experience to look
When I experience problems like this, I usually wipe the first 2-3% of the
disk using DBAN, which REALLY erases the MBR, and the partition table.
Then the unattended install works fine. This might be what you are seeing.
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Matt Fries
Senior Desktop
This isn't strictly an unattended question, but many people on the list
work with this so I thought I would ask:
I have a nice brand new Dell Vostro 220s. It normally ships with Windows
Vista, but we purchased the downgrade to Windows XP. We are going to be
purchasing a lot of these, and with
The Windows XP with dell ships with their PCs already has an
unattended.txt file with a Product key already entered. The media
essentially requires an OEM license key. There are different kinds of
license keys for use with windows:
Volume License
OEM
Retail
and I think maybe System Builder
I ran into the same problem myself. I believe that it's because the TYPE
of license key you are entering isn't the same type as the media requires.
If you have a retail copy of windows, and try to use a volume license key,
it just says invalid key.
Also, to make things more confusing, I
Well, there is a problem with that
1. These are not OEM drivers. These are drivers that are built into
windows.
2. I don't have any driver files for these. Dell doesn't even provide
drivers for their USB mice and keyboards They just are supposed to use
the built-in drivers and just
Recently I have been seeing some unusual behavior when I use unattended to
install Windows XP SP3 on a Dell Optiplex 330 (or 360). This is regarding
the color depth setting for the display hardware.
After the graphical portion of windows setup is complete, the video is set
to 1024x768x32. I
It's kinda old, but this web page has some details about how to do that. I
haven't needed to edit the initrd in several years myself.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/ModifyingTheBootDisk
Brandon Aho brandon@northerntool.com
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I think you should at least give it a try. Ubuntu is based on debian, so I
would guess that the kernel modules would be the same.
Brandon Aho brandon@northerntool.com
06/22/2012 02:58 PM
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It's kinda old, but this web page has some details about how to do that. I
haven't needed to edit the initrd in several years myself.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/ModifyingTheBootDisk
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