Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thankfully they are only commented out at this point in time. The > mac address is one of the most helpful peices of information > available when doing network installs. It allows automation of > everything :)
Well, that was the idea, but I did not realize anybody was actually using it :-). > I'm not sure I understand the exact problem it causes. I see that > it would be a problem with cd boot images when a: may not exist. The A: drive always exists, either as a real floppy or as a virtual one (courtesy of memdisk). > So just wondering what about having the mac address is "create more > problems than they solve". :) Different PXE stacks appear to consume different amounts of conventional memory. While Perl/DJGPP is running, even less conventional memory is available... So when we shell out from Perl, ipconfig.exe and/or net.exe can bomb out completely. Any of the DOS programs, including fdisk.exe or choice.exe, could have this problem in theory; thankfully, nobody has reported such issues so far. Since the method for obtaining the MAC and IP addresses does not work for everybody, and I was not aware of anybody using it :-), I decided to comment it out. > What sort of solution are we looking for to get this write? Am I > writing a little dos app the get the mac address that doesn't break? No need. Now that I know somebody relies on this, I will fix it. There should be no problem running net.exe and ipconfig.exe from autoexec.bat; we can just dump the results to two files and parse them from Perl. On the other hand, if you are super motivated to figure out how to extract just the data we want from the MSCLIENT stack, that would be faster, especially for people using real floppies. Improving the documentation is probably more important, though :-). - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- 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_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
