Hi, I've been working on a way to get unattended to support installation from CD/DVD.
No I haven't solved it yet, but we're getting closer. I've added a line in mapznrun.bat to check is there is a \dosbin\install.pl in the root of any existing drive. If so it sets the Z variable to that drive letter. So you install your OS from the network as usual, and have a disk inserted with a copy of the install share, and your applications are installed from CD. It works on a VMWare system. If there's anybody outthere who wants to try it out, please do. If nothing goes wrong it can be added to CVS. I wanted to make it optional, by checking for a file in c:\netinst that would be created by selecting an option in install.pl, but lack of perl skills prevented this. But I rethought it and maybe doesn't matter. How many people would have CD in their drive with \dosbin\install.pl while installing unattended? If it doesn't disrupt normal installation, who cares? Right? I had also written a patch to todo.pl, because it chocked on getting the unc from a local drive, but someone tackeled that problem already, and in a different way, so I don't have to send that patch as well. If anybody has anything on getting OS installation to work from CD, please submit items to the list... We're looking for solutions that work with the existing unattended. Custom bootdisks can be made to do the install, but usually you can't do a network install with them. Greetings, Niels de Groot
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