indeed, as Nils pointed out earlier, it's important to update the
contents of your /z/ folder, especially the new install.pl
a file that i'm currently looking for myself is the function library
that is used in the nt5x-install alternate installer
can anyone give me a hint as to where i can find that file?
Michael
On Dec 18, 2007 4:16 PM, Nils Olav Fossum
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tirsdag 18 desember 2007 15:55, skrev Richard Luney:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have just tried a clean install off 4.7rc2 and found that it seems to be
> > looping while copying windows xp's setup files on the blue dos setup bit,
> > it is sort of fake rebooting and copying the file over and over again.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this behaviour before and clues how to fix it
>
>
> Yep, you probably have a older install.pl in
> zshare/dosbin
>
> the repeating is prevented by setting a file flag in
> doit.bat.
> doit.bat is the file that dosemu runs.
>
> This is what doit.bat contains:
> ----
> IF EXIST c:\netinst\1569087.tmp EXITEMU
> format /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c: /y
> if errorlevel 1 exit 1
> xcopy /s /e /y Y:\ C:\
> Z:
> cd Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386
> winnt /rx:lang /s:Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386 /u:C:\netinst\unattend.txt
> ----
>
> the noCycling-flag file part of doit.bat is created by install.pl in this
> section:
> ----
> # Batch script to run after this script exits.
> my $doit = "$netinst\\doit.bat";
> if($is_linux) {
> # xcopy will copy a file that will prevent a cycling of DOSemu
> # this is tested as the first command
> # The filename itself
> my $noCycling = "$netinst\\" . int(rand(10000000)) . ".tmp";
> # First of all, if the checkpoint file exist, leave DOSEmu
> unshift @doit_cmds, "IF EXIST $noCycling EXITEMU";
> push @doit_cmds, 'xcopy /s /e /y Y:\\ C:\\';
> # have the XCOPY command copy over the checkpoint file
> write_file($noCycling, 'prevent cycling of DOSemu');
> }
> ----
>
> So check that this section is in zshare/dosbin/install.pl
>
> :-)
>
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