[Unattended] UNATTENDED PROJECT

[Fernandes, Arnaldo]

Hi, team.

I am trying to add x64 OS to the unattended server. The installation
script is not recognizing X64 installations (Windows media copies) I've
stored into the OS folder. Could anyone advise?


Regards

Arnaldo Fernandes



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Re: [Unattended] Unattended project

[Paul Klapperich]

I'd pretty much agree with Brad. I don't really like AD-deployment because most software, especially smaller packages, don't come in an easily deployable form and I really hate re-packaging.Most of our computers are lab machines of identical hardware, so we image those but build 
most of the image with Unattended. Invidual workstations we do using Unattended with minor cleanup afterwards. I haven't tried it yet, but I've always figured that if we needed to install software after the fact, we could always just push a script with GPO that has something like
net use z: \\ntinstall\installtodo.pl appnametodo.pl --goand I suppose create a local log file that can be checked to avoid installing multiple times. Like I said, I haven't tried this, but it does work great for manually installing apps after everything's done.
--Paul KlapperichNDSU CEA Technical SupportECE Student
On 4/25/06, Brad Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Original Message-> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:unattended-info-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrik Kullman> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:52 AM> To: 
unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Unattended] Unattended project> On another note, I'm having problems figuring out the best way for> system administration/maintenance here and would love to hear your
> thoughts:>> * Application installation> Would the best way to go be to install as many packages as possibleupon> installation and then migrate them to AD-deployment after time?
I looked into this and it is a fairly complicated problem.  The mainproblem is with the packages themselves.  Not all developers make iteasy (or even possible) to check to see if a previous version of thepackage exists.  You then have to remove the old version (or upgrade)
and install the new version.  Finally, there is versioning to contendwith.  Some packages may only detect some older versions and not all ofthem.  I think your best bet is to stick with one system for package
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RE: [Unattended] Unattended project

[Brad Erdman]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:unattended-info-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrik Kullman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:52 AM
> To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Unattended] Unattended project
> On another note, I'm having problems figuring out the best way for
> system administration/maintenance here and would love to hear your
> thoughts:
> 
> * Application installation
> Would the best way to go be to install as many packages as possible
upon
> installation and then migrate them to AD-deployment after time?

I looked into this and it is a fairly complicated problem.  The main
problem is with the packages themselves.  Not all developers make it
easy (or even possible) to check to see if a previous version of the
package exists.  You then have to remove the old version (or upgrade)
and install the new version.  Finally, there is versioning to contend
with.  Some packages may only detect some older versions and not all of
them.  I think your best bet is to stick with one system for package
deployment and maintenance.

Those being said, if you find a solution to this problem, please share
it!

Brad Erdman
University of Maryland



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Re: [Unattended] Unattended project

[Ben Walton]

I'm using the following in my setup.  I only want to get the updates for
xpsp2, so that's why I created the cquest-update script (a rehash of
script-update, pulling only wanted files, instead of 'all but
excepted').

The other script (get_new_xp_updates.sh) will retrieve an updated copy
of winxpsp2-updates.bat and then use the prepare script to grab/download
all of the new updates.

The last step is to automatically flip the reboot-on's to ignore-err's.

Hope these help.
-Ben

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:35 -0600, Adam Findley wrote:
> Patrik Kullman wrote:
> 
> >Hello and thanks for a wonderful package of ease for system
> >administration!
> >
> >I'm at a new client to which I want to show the magic of unattended
> >installations compared to ghosting, and it's working pretty well.
> >However, the "apply patches and updates" procedure takes a fair amount
> >of time, 1+ hour because of all the reboots.
> >
> >But as far as I can recall, the WindowsUpdate tool doesn't require that
> >many reboots (or even that many patches?).
> >
> >I'm going to check how WindowsUpdate performs the updates and mimic that
> >way (probably use .ignore-err on some updates) to minimize the time
> >needed for re-install but I would love to see this go upstream as well
> >in cvs.
> >
> >Would that be a possible change?
> >
> >  
> >
> I have set  *all* of our hotfixes to .ignore-err.  Everything installs 
> smoothly, and in about 20 minutes.  There was a perl script someone 
> wrote that was floating around here somewhere that'll can set that for 
> you after each update.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
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Re: [Unattended] Unattended project

[Alson van der Meulen]

* Patrik Kullman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-25 21:33]:
> Moreover, I can't seem to get the bootmenu from boot.ini to disappear
> using Unattended - is there some fix for this?
> I get a second option "Previous operating system" and a 30 second
> timeout...

Try bin\bootini.pl. My script contains todo.pl "bootini.pl %WINLANG%"
right after hidepw.pl.

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Re: [Unattended] Unattended project

[Adam Findley]

Patrik Kullman wrote:


Hello and thanks for a wonderful package of ease for system
administration!

I'm at a new client to which I want to show the magic of unattended
installations compared to ghosting, and it's working pretty well.
However, the "apply patches and updates" procedure takes a fair amount
of time, 1+ hour because of all the reboots.

But as far as I can recall, the WindowsUpdate tool doesn't require that
many reboots (or even that many patches?).

I'm going to check how WindowsUpdate performs the updates and mimic that
way (probably use .ignore-err on some updates) to minimize the time
needed for re-install but I would love to see this go upstream as well
in cvs.

Would that be a possible change?

 

I have set  *all* of our hotfixes to .ignore-err.  Everything installs 
smoothly, and in about 20 minutes.  There was a perl script someone 
wrote that was floating around here somewhere that'll can set that for 
you after each update.


Adam



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[Unattended] Unattended project

[Patrik Kullman]

Hello and thanks for a wonderful package of ease for system
administration!

I'm at a new client to which I want to show the magic of unattended
installations compared to ghosting, and it's working pretty well.
However, the "apply patches and updates" procedure takes a fair amount
of time, 1+ hour because of all the reboots.

But as far as I can recall, the WindowsUpdate tool doesn't require that
many reboots (or even that many patches?).

I'm going to check how WindowsUpdate performs the updates and mimic that
way (probably use .ignore-err on some updates) to minimize the time
needed for re-install but I would love to see this go upstream as well
in cvs.

Would that be a possible change?

On another note, I'm having problems figuring out the best way for
system administration/maintenance here and would love to hear your
thoughts:

* Application installation
Would the best way to go be to install as many packages as possible upon
installation and then migrate them to AD-deployment after time?

* Hotfixes
Should I install WSUS and just use Unattended for OS-installation or
should WSUS handle updates released after OS-installation only?

Moreover, I can't seem to get the bootmenu from boot.ini to disappear
using Unattended - is there some fix for this?
I get a second option "Previous operating system" and a 30 second
timeout...

Also, here are some updates that have been released after the latest
cvs-version of winxpsp2-updates.bat:

:: Malicious Software Removal Tool - Apr. 2006 (KB890830)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\common
\Windows-KB890830-V1.15.exe /q"

:: Security update for Windows XP (KB911562)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB911562-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: Security update for Windows XP (KB908531)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB908531-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: WMP 10 Update (KB911565)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\mediaplayer10
\WindowsMedia10-KB911565-v2-x86-%WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: OE Cumulative (KB911567)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB911567-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: IE Cumulative (KB912812)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB912812-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: Windows Installer 3.1
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\common\%WINLANG%
\WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe /passive /n /norestart"


Thanks again for a wonderful project!

/Patrik


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