I decided to bump the major version number for two reasons. First,
you need to refresh both the boot disk and the install share
(especially autoexec.bat, install.pl, and todo.pl). Second, we were
getting too close to 2.10, which bothers the little math guy in my
head.
There are enough changes that I probably broke something. Please let
me know.
The major visible change in this release is the elimination of the
requirement for the install share to allow anonymous access. The
system will use whatever user name and password you provide during the
DOS-based portion to map the Z: drive after every reboot.
To implement this, I wrote a replacement for maptodo.pl called
"mapznrun.bat". It gets invoked like so:
mapznrun.bat <command> <args>
It invokes the files c:\netinst\permcred.bat and
c:\netinst\tempcred.bat, which together are expected to set four
environment variables. "Z" is the name of the Z: drive (changing this
is not yet supported!). "Z_PATH" is the UNC path to the install
share. "Z_USER" and "Z_PASS" are the username and password for
mapping the install share.
The mapznrun.bat script uses these environment variables to map the Z:
drive, retrying a bunch of times if necessary. Then it runs the
provided <command> with its <args>. If any of the variables is empty,
it will try to do something sane, like not provide a
username/password, default to Z: for the drive letter, and so on.
todo.pl now patches the Run key with "mapznrun.bat todo.pl --go".
The "credential" files (tempcred.bat, permcred.bat) are created by
install.pl from the answers the user gives to autoexec.bat. The
tempcred.bat file holds the username and password; install.pl
schedules it for removal just before the final reboot.
Note that this design allows you to put the username and password into
permcred.bat if you want to use todo.pl later and don't care about
people seeing the username and password.
Let's see, what else... Thanks to a complete rewrite, autoexec.bat is
now fully automated (thanks, Godfrey). Read it for details. In
short, be sure to say yes to the initial "override defaults?"
question in 10 seconds, or the system will pretend you said no :-).
(That just means it will try to map \\ntinstall\install with username
GUEST and password GUEST.)
I apologize for not updating the documentation to reflect all this.
Next time.
The NEWS.txt entry is appended.
- Pat
** Changes in version 3.0 (2003-Sep-14)
NOTE: This release has many changes. You will need to refresh your
install share (Z: drive) and your boot disk.
Add support for using arbitrary username, password, and share name for
mapping Z: drive.
Make Windows 2000 work again.
Eliminate calls to get_value, set_value, etc. in favor of direct
access to $u object in install.pl. The old functions are now
deprecated and will whine (but still work) if called.
Make "--day" and "--time" options to auconfig.pl actually work. Add
"--remote" option.
Add full automation for autoexec.bat. Thanks to Godfrey in New
Zealand.
Add support for recognizing Russian Windows media. Thanks to Eugene
Kotlyarov.
Make name of "Administrators" group configurable via
[_meta]/local_admin_group. Useful for installing non-English (e.g.,
Russian) systems. Thanks to Eugene Kotlyarov.
Add latest round of 2000 and XP hotfixes.
Add latest Office XP hotfixes.
Sync with version 8.2 of Intel DOS drivers (e100b.dos, e1000.dos).
Sync with SYSLINUX 2.06.
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