Sorry, it wasn't so much that these are the only boot methods, but that the good old boot disks will no longer be made. 2000 had a utility and XP had them for download, but Longhorn will not have any.
> "David Ehrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm just wondering, why are PXE implementations generally poor? > > Because engineers are generally incompetent? :-) > > Honestly, I have no idea. But they really do seem to be pretty sad. > > > The only installation methods for Longhorn will be PXE and bootable > > CDs. It seems putting some effort in would help. > > Then I suspect PXE stacks will ultimately be good enough to boot > Windows PE and useless for anything else. BIOSes in general seem to > be headed in a similar direction. > > Are you saying Longhorn will no longer have the 16-bit winnt.exe or > the 32-bit winnt32.exe installers? (Do you have a reference handy?) > If so, that is bad news for Unattended. > > We could switch to Windows PE, that costs money (?), which is contrary > to the spirit of the project. > > We could use the bootable CD, but then it is hard to create > unattend.txt on the fly. Once the CD boots, we will not get control > again until after the OS installation is done, which is too late. > > We could invoke the bootable CD from some sort of emulated environment > under Linux (Bochs? dosemu? Wine?). This would let us customize > unattend.txt before booting the CD on the virtual machine. But the > virtual hardware might be different from the physical hardware, > possibly causing the wrong device drivers to be installed, the wrong > HAL to be selected, and so on... > > This does not bode well for the future. > > - Pat > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dial Broadband has arrived in California! Up to 5 times faster than traditional dialup connections from $13.33/month! See the demo for yourself at http://www.BigValley.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
