On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:18:30PM +1200, Michael Hodgkinson enlightened us: > We have started purchasing Dell Optiplex 755's and found that our > Unattended install did not handle their Network cards. > So I downloaded the Unattended CVS and compiled (today), the network cards > now work, but the installation doesn't. > After going through the install options (OS, drivers,hostname) and > selecting the option to use the whole disk, it only creates a 4gig > partition on the disk and won't install WinXp. > I tried the new nt5x-install method, but after the windows setup (text > user interface) tried to load the GUI setup it Blue Screen of Deathed. > > I tried using dd to blank the partition table of the disk, then run > Unattended again, with no success. > Then tried installing via unattended into a VMware image but also just end > up with the 4gig partition? > > Any idea what the problem can be? >
In the BIOS, go to the SATA Controller submenu and set it to Legacy. See if that fixes he problem. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
