Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Nice! Applied. > 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 agree, this is simpler. I'm not sure that \dosbin\install.pl is the ideal choice for a "tag" file, but we can always change it later if it ever causes a problem. > 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. In theory, you can just mount the CD (or DVD) as Z: under DOS or as /z under Linux, and pretty much everything should "just work". We just need to skip mapping the network share if \dosbin\install.pl already exists. That is the easy part. The hard part is mounting the CD/DVD at all. Under DOS, it requires loading the generic CD driver (MSCDEX or whatever), which is easy enough. But it also may require a SCSI driver if your CD-ROM drive is SCSI. Under Linux, it requires loading a mass-storage driver. Right now, we keep the mass storage drivers on the network because we do not need them until after the network is running. I can move them to the boot disk easily enough, at the cost of bloating the boot image even further. But maybe it is worth it to support installing from DVD. Out of curiosity, how large is your complete install? I ask because I recently got the Linux boot disk loading from a USB memory key... - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
