insrc a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Pierre Bourgin
> <pierre.bour...@arteris.com>wrote:
> 
>> Allan Lyons a écrit :
>>> In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still
>> have dosemu.
>>> What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install
>>> method does not?  I know it was there historically, but what features
>>> does it have that are missing in the newer method? >
>>> I couldn't find anything in the archives that gave a good reason.
>> The windows NT4/2000/XP installer support both DOS and text/NT based OS
>> to work.
>> dosemu provides a compatible DOS OS, enough to launch Windows setup.
>>
>> nt5x-install is a quirck to create a text/NT bootable OS on the hard
>> drive. As such, it's working fine and greatly speed up the installation
>> process, but it remains a (wonderful) hack.
>>
>> dosemu could be removed from Unattended, but people may feel less
>> confident in nt5x-install than dosemu method as bootable OS ...
>>
>> In the other hand, in case of trouble with nt5x-install, dosemu provides
>> an alternate bootable solution, at least to check if problem comes from
>> nt5x-install or not.
>>
> Yep, i'm glad that dosemu is still there as i can't do unattended
> installation with nt5x-install method. I don't know why yet but the
> unattend.sif created by nt5x-install is full of perl code which for some
> reason wasn't interpreted :-/

?? strange. Can you send us a copy of this file ?

> Dosemu is may be slower but more reliable it seems.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
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