"Moritz Engel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Pat, > > First, thanks for the great work and especially for new release > yesterday!
Don't just thank me! We have a whole crew of developers without whom many of our best features would not exist. > unattended installation from a CD/DVD if no server is available. But without > breaking the normal server-based installation process! > The basic idea: > i) changing isolinux.cfg that a prompt will be displayed and default boot > option is localboot Yup. Arguably, we could make this the default for our regular CD boot as well, since people sometimes forget to eject the CD-ROM. > ii) changing the master script: > - When it asks for the servershare you can also type something like > /dev/hdd where hdd is your cd-drive. > - If a device is given it will be mounted to z instead of the servershare I like this. Eventually we should be able to auto-detect the CD-ROM (usually), but for an initial pass this sounds fine. > iii) changing mapznrun.bat that it will use the cd-drive Tricky to get right in general, since it is hard to be certain what drive letter the CD-ROM device will have (especially if the user is doing a customized partitioning scheme). But, again, an initial version to handle the common case (CD-ROM drive is on D:) should be pretty easy. A while ago we had a loop in mapznrun.bat to scan the available drive letters for the installation media. Unfortunately, that broke on some systems with flash-card readers... If the flash drive is (say) E:, then as soon as you access E: Windows halts with a dialog box asking the user to insert media. I mention this just in case you think of the same "clever" idea :-). > What I need to test the changes is an isofs.ko module to mount the > cd. I would be happy if you can send me one, so I dont have to get > all the sources and recompile the whole linuxboot. The needed (for > ide, scsi comes later) ide-cd module is at the share, so I can copy > it manually for testing purposes. OK, I have uploaded an isofs.ko to <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/>. Do you not also need udf.ko? > Besides only some small changes are needed, for example that teh > master-script dies if no dhcp-lease is found. Perhaps a command-line argument (like "dvd") could notify the master script that it is being booted from DVD and should not attempt to start the network. Feel free to start sending patches (in small self-contained pieces, if possible) to unattended-devel so we can look them over. I can only review them for "obvious" things because I do not have a DVD burner. But Shad does... > If I dont run into severe problems it would be sufficient to provide > a script that unpacks the linuxboot.iso, changes isolinux.cfg and > the master script (if the changes are not already included) and > creates a new isoimage with the install directory included. I would rather ship a template (unattended-X.X-dvdboot) which people can download, tweak, then run "make" on. The requirements for this would be pretty minor; all it should need is basic Unix utilities (make etc.) plus mkisofs, right? Or is some other tool needed for creating a DVD image? - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
