Re: [Unattended] Re: re: startup scripts base/developer et all

[Jose Diaz]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Well, that was fixed in 2.8 and should still be fixed in 3.0. If not, I would like to hear about it... Yes, I know the connection problem was fixed in 2.8 (I'm a frequent visitor to your page). It's just that I did not find the time to upgrade yet and that's probably a good thing because we will have a better framework when we do. Also, what about using BIOS/WMI machine information for automatically installing drivers? Or detecting if a machine is Desktop or Laptop to decide if an action should be performed? This is tricky to do from DOS. WMI is out. But scanning for PCI devices and/or SMBIOS data is possible in principle. It basically amounts to porting the Linux "lspci" and/or "dmidecode" utilities to the DJGPP environment. That would be a neat contribution if anybody feels like some serious hacking. As an alternative, I have read that Bart's boot disk does automatic network card detection. However that works, it could presumably be generalized beyond network hardware to let Unattended include all the right drivers automatically. I tested Bart's network boot disk In fact, I tweaked it to work with unattended, but there is a major issue I have been unable to correct: the documented problem where the XP installer stalls after starting copying files. Yes, I read the MS KB Article, and as far as I see, smartdrv is started with no parameters (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296814). I 'll take a look again when I get a chance. Bart's disk uses his pciscan utility (see http://www.nu2.nu/utils/ and http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=pciscan110.zip). Other source of PCI information and utilities for DOS is Craig Hart's PCI Programs web page ( http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm ). Also, I would not rule out WMI completely. What if in the main script we just start a Drivers.bat that will use WMI to install the drivers in protected mode?        Rgds, Jose - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info