First, I apologize to any of you who have written me and are still awaiting a reply. I also apologize for the long delay in this release. I have been too busy with other things...
This release does not have everything I would want, not by a long shot. In particular, I still have not fleshed out the advanced.html document, which I suspect many of you would find useful. But I figure it is better to release something now so that people can sync up, test, and provide feedback. I am appending the new section of NEWS.txt below. Enjoy! - Pat *** Changes in version 2.4 (2003-Feb-10) Recognize Windows XP Professional OEM (winxpoem) as a separate operating system when offering choice of OS to install. Document Microsoft's lack of slipstreaming support for this OS. Thanks to Scott Card. Add support for AMD PCNet cards, so that we can work with VMware (untested). Sync with SYSLINUX 2.01. Bundle AutoIt v2.64, because it is a good tool, because it is small, and because I seem to be writing more and more .aut scripts these days. Create and document with-env.pl script. Run it with --help for details. Bundle ipconfig.exe from MSCLIENT. Use it in install.pl to determine IP address. Create install/doslib/csv.pl module, which implements a class for parsing comma-separated-value (CSV) files. Useful for automatically looking up settings (like ComputerName, ProductKey) from a corporate inventory spreadsheet. Create and document php.bat and php.aut for installing PHP. Create officexp.bat script for installing Office XP. I guess I will document this one later. Create defrag.aut script for performing unattended disk drive defragmentation. Invoke it from base.bat before doing anything else, to help compensate for the FAT->NTFS conversion. I figure it cannot hurt to coalesce the free space before installing stuff. Create winxp-updates.bat script, which just applies Service Pack 1 and then runs winxpsp1-updates.bat. This is necessary for installing an OEM version of XP, because slipstreaming does not work. Thank you, Microsoft! Decrease timeout in isolinux.cfg from five minutes to two, and use "localboot 128" to chain-boot the hard drive instead of the floppy. Thanks to Scott Card. Fix autolog.pl, again. Run it with --help for details. Implement and document .sleep directive for todo.pl, because I thought I needed it for Mozilla. Update documentation and script for installing Mozilla to include "-ira" flag. Thanks to Marcus Greil. Add support for configuring NTP servers at installation time. Create push_value function in unattend.pl. This is like set_value, but it "remembers" the old value in case the new one is undef (or is a procedure which returns undef). Very handy for advanced configuration, which I really am going to document some day. Loosen key=value regexp, for the poor souls who have to deal with adding textmode OEM SCSI drivers. Add latest round of 2000 and XP hotfixes. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
