In HTML this time.
I'll try to pretty these up as time goes on.
Title: Step-By-Step Unattended Preperation Guide
This document is part of Unattended, a Windows deployment system.
Step-By-Step Unattended Preparation Guide
Documentation:
Requirements:
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DHCP server on your network |
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Server capable of sharing files |
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Cygwin is installed [ http://www.cygwin.com ] |
How to read this document:
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$ is a command typed into the cygwin bash prompt |
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c:\> is a command typed into the CMD prompt |
Overview - What can unattended do after it is setup?
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a. Install an OS from scratch, automated |
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I. Boot ‘clean’ and get on the network |
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a. Boot using an Unattended Boot disk |
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b. Load a network card driver< |
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c. Obtain an IP via DHCP |
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d. Map a drive z: to \\servername\sharename |
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a. Create a partition (optional) |
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b. Format (optional) |
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a. Run z:\dosbin\install.pl via Perl |
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b. Install Updates and Applications, automated |
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I. Map drive z: to \\servername\sharename |
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a. authenticate using information written by the OS Setup portion> |
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c:\netinst\ fillthisinformationin |
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II. Make a list of OS Updates and applications to install using todo.pl |
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c:\netinst\ fillthisinformationin2 |
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III. Install OS Updates and Applications |
1. Prepare the Unattended Server
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I. Download Unattended main distribution |
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b. Unzip the Unattended-x.xx.tar.gz file to c:\unattended |
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*** WARNING - If you dont yet have cygwin installed you cannot use cygwin to extract the archive *** |
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$ tar -xfz unattended-x.xx.tar.gz /cygdrive/c/unattended/ |
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c. Setup the Unattended File Share |
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I. Create the SMB file share for unattended |
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c:\> net share install=c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx\install |
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II. Decide what windows user will authenticate with the server when accessing the share. |
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Keep in mind, you can authenticate with any username / password that has access |
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a. Change the permissions on the files to allow the appropriate user to access it. |
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c:\> set unattendeduser=guest |
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c:\> cacls c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx /T /E /G:%unattendeduser% |
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b. (optional) If you will be using the guest account then make sure it is enabled |
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c:\> net user guest /ACTIVE:YES /DOMAIN |
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c:\> cacls c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx /T /E /G:%unattendeduser% |
2. Prepare the Unattended Boot Disk
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I. Download Unattended DOS boot disk |
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II. Unzip unattended-x.xx-dosboot.tar.gz to c:\unattended\ |
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*** WARNING - If you dont yet have cygwin installed you cannot use cygwin to extract the archive *** |
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$ tar -xfz unattended-x.xx-dosboot.tar.gz /cygdrive/c/unattended/ |
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III. Download djgpp and apps for DOS and extract them to c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx\install\djgpp |
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IV. Creating the boot media |
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Unattended's dos boot disk can be booted from CDROM, Floppy or PXE |
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the cd image can be found under: \bootdisk\bootdisk.iso |
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the floppy image can be found under: \bootdisk\images\*.imz |
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c. PXE - "nothing but net" |
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b. Linux Boot Disk (Experimental) |
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I. Download Unattended Linux boot disk |
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II. Unzip unattended-x.xx-linuxboot.tar.gz to c:\unattended\ |
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*** WARNING - If you dont yet have cygwin installed you cannot use cygwin to extract the archive *** |
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$ tar -xfz unattended-x.xx-linuxboot.tar.gz /cygdrive/c/unattended/ |
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III. Creating the boot media |
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Unattended's linux boot disk can be booted from CDROM or PXE |
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the cd image can be found under: \linuxboot\linuxboot.iso |
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c. PXE - "nothing but net" |
3. Prepare the Unattended OS Distribution Point
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a. Copy OS's to the network share. |
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I. Copy Operating Systems to an appropriately named directory |
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ex1. xcopy d:\ c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx\install\os\win2ksp4 |
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ex2. xcopy d:\ c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx\install\os\winxp |
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ex3. xcopy d:\ c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx\install\os\winxpsp1 |
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note: install.pl knows what os is in the folder based on folder content not on the folder name |
4. Unattended Updates and application dependencies
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a. Download Updates and applications that can be grabbed automatically |
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I. Parse all the scripts located in /scripts for necessary files and download them |
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**************************************************************** |
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*** !!Warning ./prepare will by default download ~1000 MB from the Internet!! *** |
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**************************************************************** |
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$ cd /cygdrive/c/unattended/unattended-x.xx/install |
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$ ./prepare |
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b. Determine what needs to be grabbed off of the original installation media |
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I. Parse all the scripts located in /scripts for necessary files and determine what is missing |
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$ cd /cygdrive/c/unattended/unattended-x.xx/install |
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$ ./check |
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II. Put the appropriate files where they need to go |
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II. Repeat step 5b until all Updates / Applications you need have no missing files |
5. Test Unattended
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a. Boot a workstation using your chosen boot method (DOS or linux) |
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*** !!Warning Unattended can and will destroy data on the workstation!! *** |
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create a partition |
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format the hard drive |
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choose what OS to install |
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choose what application set to install |
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b. more documentation goes here |
6. Customize Unattended (needs more information, incomplete)
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a. Customize Unattended settings for your site according to the instructions from |
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a. Modify autoexec.bat on the DOS boot disk |
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I. change the default UNC to \\yourservername\yoursharename |
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c:\> notepad c:\unattended\unattended-x.xx\bootdisk\template\autoexec.bat |
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SET Z_PATH=\\[YourServerName]\install |
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II. change the default username and password |
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SET Z_USER=[YourGuestAccount] |
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SET Z_PASS=[YourGuestPassword] |
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b. Prepare cygwin to rebuild the images |
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I. Packages you will need to have: |
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bash, make, gzip, grep, mktemp, sed, fileutils, textutils, perl |
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run cygwin's setup.exe to install more packages. http://www.cygwin.com |
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a. Rebuild the floppy images |
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$ cd /cygdrive/c/unattended/unattended-x.xx/bootdisk |
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$ make images |
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b. Find the new floppy images |
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$ cd /cygdrive/c/unattended/unattended-x.xx/bootdisk/images |
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$ ls |
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a. Rebuild the cdrom iso image |
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$ cd /cygdrive/c/unattended/unattended-x.xx/bootdisk |
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$ make iso |
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b. Find the new cdrom iso image |
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$ cd /cygdrive/c/unattended/unattended-x.xx/bootdisk/ |
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$ ls bootdisk.iso |
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c. Burn the iso image to cdrom |
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II. Change the config.pl script to not ask so many questions |
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III. Create a site specific unattended.txt in z:\site\ |
If you have any questions about Unattended or this document feel free to ask questions by joining the mailing list.
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Changelog
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3/19/2004 Rev 0.06
Converted to HTML
Fix Typos
3/19/2004 Rev 0.05
Added ./check to section 5. Unattended Updates and application dependencies
Renamed most sections to be more clear
clarified slightly what was server side and what was workstation side
starting to flesh out section 7. Customize Unattended
Cleanup and restructure section 1. Overview - What can unattended do after it is setup?\
Added http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html to the documentation section
3/18/2004 Rev 0.04
After receiving comments from Sylvain
added section about ./prepare
added note to boot disk sections about making floppies/cdrom
added note about PXE booting
re-organize 2. Unattended Setup, made it more clear that guest was not a requirement
add cygwin as a requirement for installation, it makes life so much easier, and allows the ./prepare script to run
fix the unzip steps to use cygwin tar
3/17/2004 Rev 0.02
General Cleanup
Document restructured
3/13/2004 rev 0.01
Rough Draft - 1st revision
dos djgpp perl installation is still a work in progress
Title: Step-By-Step Unattended Preperation Guide
This document is part of
Unattended, a Windows deployment system.
Installing Cygwin for Unattended Step-By-Step
Documentation:
Why does Unattended need cygwin installed?
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Unattended does NOT require cygwin to be installed on the workstations at all. In fact the only dependancy unattended has on the workstation is ActivePerl. During the setup phase, on the unattended server machine it is highly recommended that you have cygwin installed. For the following reasons: |
| 1) to rebuild the floppy images |
$ cd bootdisk |
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$ make images |
| 2) to rebuild the dos cdrom image, bootdisk.iso |
$ cd bootdisk |
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$ make iso |
| 3) to parse the /scripts directory and download files from the internet |
$ cd install |
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$ ./prepare |
| 4) to parse the /scripts directory and tell you what is missing |
$ cd install |
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$ ./check |
Required Packages:
| Cygwin Defaults |
http://www.cygwin.com |
| Unzip |
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| Perl |
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| Mtools |
Must be compiled from source code as of (3/2004) |
| Wget |
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How to read this document:
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$ is a command typed into the cygwin bash prompt |
1. Download Cygwin:
2. Install Cygwin:
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Run setup.exe |
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Install cygwin accepting all the defaults. |
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When selecting packages click the view button until it reads FULL and enable these additional packages |
3. Compile mtools:
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Start a cygwin bash prompt |
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Start -> Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell |
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$ wget ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/mtools-3.9.9.zip |
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optionally you can browse to ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools |
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and download the appropriate mtools source zip by hand |
3. Install mtools:
4. (optional) remove mtools source code:
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note: be careful with the following commands. rm is unforgiving |
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$ cd .. |
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$ rm ./mtools-3.9.9.zip |
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$ rm -rf ./mtools-3.9.9 |
