Let me start by saying, Unattended is an incredible project that has already
saved me
countless hours; Kudos to the unattended community.
I want to use (misuse?) unattended to apply service packs, security updates
and the like to
machines that were not installed using unattended and/or do not have a c:\netinst\
directory
anymore. To make this even more difficult, ideally I want to be able to quickly (one
click easy?!)
setup Unattended on the server side so that I can apply these updates.
I am a consultant, and have *a lot* of geographically separated places I'd
like to use
unattended....
I plan on attempting to automate some (all?) of this myself, just looking for
ideas...
Ideally...
Server Side
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1) Download 'Unattended Server Install Script'
The script would....
a) Check for and install Cygwin if necessary
b) Run a bash script
I. Copy the Unattended Scripts to
/var/unattended/
a. Fix the file permissions after
copying if
need be.
II. Share (SMB) /var/unattended/install as
"install"
III. Run the prepare script, specifying
which scripts to
Pull the binaries for. (ex. Download
winxp updates,
but not office2003 updates; of course
this is
customizable)
At this point the "server" would be ready to serve
updates/applications to
any
Workstation that asked....
It would still need more configuration for use installing OS's
but in my
particular scenario I don't need unattended to be able to do that at every site.
I do however want to have unattended available at every site
for other
reasons.
Workstation Side
----------------
1) Map a drive z: to \\ntinstall\install
Problem: How do we determine the server name?
I'd LOVE to re-use DHCP option 233 from
Within windows to determine the
unattended
Servers name. I've not yet been able
to
Find docs on how to do that just yet.
2) Run z:\scripts\Apps_Only_Install.bat
I would love to find a better name for
that script
btw.
If I could get the server name from DHCP option 233 within windows I'd be ecstatic...
Are their any major logic flaws in the above?
-Jeff
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