Hi, <rant> First I would like to say that I think this project is excellent. It is significantly better than many expensive products that are out there. I have worked with a number of "Enterprise" auto installation solutions which did not deliver what they promise. Most of these solutions end up using some kind of template or imaging/ghosting. This is fine if you are XYZ corp and you just bought 500 identical machines. However, when it comes to wildly different hardware setups these solutions end up chocking. </rant>
As indicated above we install machines with varying hardware setups, many of which use SCSI drives. All my initial testing focused on machines that use IDE discs and it has worked beautifully. However, I am now attempting to install a Dell Precession 650 that has an embedded U320 SCSI controller. I have made the necessary changes to the unattended.txt file and modified the $OEM$ directory to include a TEXTMODE directory as specified in: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q288344&; I added the following lines to site\unattended.txt file: [MassStorageDrivers] "LSI Logic Ultra320 1020/1030 Driver" = "OEM" Which causes install.pl to return an error: Unrecognized line" "LSI Logic Ultra320 1020/1030 Driver" = "OEM" This then got me thinking of how DOS will access the SCSI drive to partition and format it (fortunately this machine only has an IDE disk). Has anyone ever used this project to install machines with SCSI adapters in them? It appears that DOS does not load any SCSI drivers when it boots from the RAM disk. Adding the SCSI drivers would probably be easy and only limited to the size limitations of the RAM disk (1.44MB). Is there anything preventing the image size from being any bigger to accommodate additions of future SCSI drivers? Brad ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
