"Scott Card" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Has anybody considered a way to randomize the "computername" in
> system.ini on the boot disk?

The stock Unattended boot disk already does this :-).

I used a bad hack...  The last line of system.ini is
"COMPUTERNAME=INSTALL-" but *without* a CRLF at the end.  Then
autoexec.bat does "random.exe 65535 >> net\system.ini" before starting
the network.  The result is that the NetBIOS name is set to
INSTALL-XXXXX for some random value of XXXXX.

This should work for installing up to a couple hundred machines at
once; beyond that, the birthday paradox will start to bite.

This is yet another problem which a Linux boot disk would avoid...

 - Pat


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