Hi, I came across this problem (actually, I just don't need to add local admins). I just edited install.pl to skip that question. Works very well.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 6:32 PM > To: 'Norstr�m, Daniel' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions > > > I wasn't requesting help, just trying to report a bug. > However, how did you > fix it? Did you edit install.pl? or did you find an entry that works? > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Norstr�m, Daniel > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:41 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions > > Have you got some help with this yet? I have been througt the > same thing, I > think I can help you easily > > /D > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2. huhtikuuta 2003 22:28 > To: 'Patrick J. LoPresti' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions > > > Patrick, > > I was trying to use the unattend.txt in the site directory to skip the > question about local_admins by adding local_admins="" to the > meta section. > Install.pl accepts this just fine, but it writes > local_admins= , without the > empty string, to the final unattend.txt. Winnt.exe complains > that this is a > bad format. If you manually add the empty string back, it > works. Might want > to get this fixed. > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick > J. LoPresti > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 2:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Unattended] Unattended 2.5 released > > The big new feature in this release is the automatic construction of > [Unattended]/OemPnPDriversPath. The install.pl script now recursively > grovels the directories under winXXXX/i386/$oem$/$1 looking > for anything > which looks like a driver directory, and offers to add it to > OemPnPDriversPath. I decided to implement this because I have been > switching between Win2k and WinXP installs a lot lately. To see this > feature in action, simply remove OemPnPDriversPath entirely from your > site/unattend.txt file. > > I wrote the new code using Perl's File::Spec module, which means it is > pretty much portable between DJGPP and Unix Perl. This is > just in case I > ever get sufficiently tired of banging my head against DOS > that I try to > port this thing to a Linux boot disk. (Just today, I lost most of the > afternoon futzing around with DOS memory issues... More on > that in another > message.) > > This release also adds the oft-requested support for the > RealTek RTL8139 > chipset. I do not have one of these gadgets, so if you do, > please test it > out and let me know how it goes. > > Finally, I switched from FreeDOS edit.exe to DJGPP Pico as the default > editor. That means you will need to download Pico along with > the other > DJGPP packages; see the DJGPP section in os.html for the > relevant link. > > Perhaps the most interesting part of this release is the > stuff which it does > NOT have, including some bugs which I promised to fix. Sorry > about that; > they will have to wait for next time. > > - Pat > > *** Changes in version 2.5 (2003-Mar-09) > > Use DJGPP Pico instead of FreeDOS edit.exe to edit files. > Document this new > requirement. > > Automatically scan i386/$oem$/$1 looking for driver > directories. Offer to > add any such directories to OemPnPDriversPath. > > Always use upper-case for driver name in system.ini, since > PCNet driver > requires it. > > Add support for RealTek RTL8139 cards (untested). Thanks to Eugene > Kotlyarov for the pointer. > > Deal with annoying ipconfig.exe behavior, where it exits with various > statuses from 10 to 16. > > When fdisk is run by hand, do not clobber partition table > first and do not > replace first partition with 2G FAT partition afterwards. In > other words, > assume anybody running fdisk manually knows exactly what they > are doing. > > Do not create postinst.bat unless it has something to do, and > do not set > AutoLogon nor [GuiRunOnce]/Command0 unless we create postinst.bat. > > Clean up various documentation. > > Sync with SYSLINUX 2.02. > > Sync with FreeDOS fdisk 1.1.4 beta. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of > TotalView, The debugger > for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you > feeling lost and > disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available > on major UNIX > and Linux platforms. 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