Download from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ (as usual).
Changes:
- Fixed numerous bugs in the Makefile. "make download" followed by
"make iso" might even work for you now, although I still have not
tested it from scratch... If you do, let me know how it goes.
- New script tools/mknod-cpio.pl. See, you have to be root to use
the "mknod" command, you need the mknod command to create device
files, and you need device files to populate the Linux initial
ramdisk (initrd). This bothered me, so I wrote a script to
generate a cpio archive ab initio containing device files. In
short, you no longer need root privilges to do "make iso". Ah,
much better.
- Added "grep" to BusyBox install.
- Configured linuxrc to invoke /etc/master automatically because I
got tired of typing it.
- Modified /etc/master to try DHCP on each of eth0, eth1, and eth2.
This may help on systems with multiple Ethernet ports. Thanks to
Tim Evans for the bug reports.
- Modified /etc/master to try to smbmount //ntinstall/install on /z
automatically, using username "guest" and password "guest". If
this does not work in your environment, don't panic; just
re-invoke the smbmount command by hand with the right arguments.
(Eventually we will prompt for these or fetch them from DHCP
options or whatever.)
- Added dosemu!
- Configured dosemu to use lredir to make the Linux /z directory
visible as Z: under DOS.
So, once you have your install share mounted on "/z", try running
"dosemu.bin" and looking around.
I have now initiated an unattended install of Windows XP under dosemu
under diskless Linux. I had to use a hand-crafted unattend.txt on the
network (OK, I just used Z:\lib\unattend.txt), and I had to partition
and format the C: drive ahead of time, and it is hard-coded to use
/dev/hda1 (IDE only)... But winnt.exe actually ran to completion and
"rebooted" the machine, dropping me back at the Bash prompt. So I am
in a pretty good mood.
Performance is not bad. It was horrible until I enabled oplocks on my
Samba server and added "ttl=2400000" to the smbmount options. But now
it is actually pretty good. And thanks to the fine caching performed
by Linux, I did not even need smartdrv.
- Pat
P.S. For the rest of this week, I really need to do some work for my
employer. And I am busy this weekend. So it may be a little while
before the next "release". Please do keep testing and sending me
reports, though. Thanks!
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