Hello everyone!
First of all, thank you for this great project!
I stumbled over what I believe is a bug in the Linux boot image: /dev/null is
not created as
a device, and so everything that is put into it is returned when reading it.
As I see it, /dev/null is first written to in /etc/master, in the function
check_z(), which
cats /z/dosbin/install.pl to /dev/null to check its existence. But this creates
a file
named /dev/null with the contents of install.pl.
It is then read by the function write_ini_entry() in usr/lib/unatt-functions.sh
on line 44,
but unintentionally, as it is meant to truncate the temporary file: cat
/dev/null > $tmp.
It then appends the original file, which usually is the unattend.txt.
This creates a very interesting unattend.txt, because this function is called
five times
in usr/bin/nt5x-install (lines 184++), that means the contents of unattend.txt
are the
alternating contents of five times install.pl and unattended.txt. :)
Then on line 208 in nt5xinstall, "parse_ini_file" returns a wrong string of the
value of
"scan_windrivers_dest_map" and the copying of the drivers fails.
Strangely, this does not seem to create any problems for "normal" use, only
when using
the autodetecting drivers.
A quick fix would be changing the "cat /dev/null > $tmp" in unatt-functions.sh
line 44
to "echo "" > $tmp", but I think this really should be corrected by creating a
working
/dev/null.
Could someone please cross-check this?
I am not entirely sure it is a general problem and could be just be an issue
with my setup.
I use PXE booting, the Linux boot image and the nt5install script.
Sincerely,
Johannes Singer
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