Hi, I am running into the exact same problem now, with the Inspiron 8500. However, I am a little confused about the "No large Disk support". I think this will not affect me as I just create 1 large partition anyway.
What is the status of this issue with regards to the latest release? Have changes been implemented? Also, has anyone tried adding a USB floppy and seeing if that fixes things? I think I will order one and try it out. Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 12:44 PM > To: Soeren Kuklau > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Unattended] Booting the unattended CD on a > diskless laptop > > > I decided to take a crack at this today. I have good news and bad > news. > > The good news is that I can now boot from a virtual hard drive instead > of a virtual floppy. I have made most of the necessary changes to > autoexec.bat, net/system.in_, and install.pl to make them "boot drive > agnostic". And I can confirm that I can now boot my laptop without a > floppy drive installed and begin running install.pl. > > The bad news is that fdisk is failing. I have written up a report and > sent it to the syslinux and fd-dev mailing lists: > > http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2003-July/002257.html > > So, I could make the system work as long as you choose "No large disk > support" at the first prompt. This is good enough if you only want > one large partition, but it is insufficient for more complex > partitioning schemes on large drives so I cannot make it the default. > With any luck, either the fdisk or memdisk folks will figure something > out. > > Assuming you don't care about complicated partitioning, I believe I > could get you an ISO image to test sometime this weekend. Interested? > > - Pat > > P.S. Anybody have the tools handy to compile Free FDISK? (I think it > needs Borland Turbo C++ 3.1). I have looked at the source and I > believe it would be pretty easy to fix. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_06 > 1203_01/01 > _______________________________________________ > unattended-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
