I am pleased to announce the availability of Unattended version 4.0. This is a major release to reflect the complete overhaul of the boot disk. The DOS boot disk now uses FreeDOS, which at long last is capable of running winnt.exe.
In addition, the new Linux boot disk should provide something fun to play with. (And really, isn't having fun the main point?) There is much yet to be done, but it does work, at least on most hardware. Many thanks to everyone who helped test the -pre and -rc releases. As always, feedback of all sorts is welcome. The NEWS.txt entry is appended. - Pat ** Changes in version 4.0 (2004-Mar-07) Major changes to the boot disk in this release. You will need to refresh pretty much everything. On the DOS side, we have switched to using FreeDOS for the boot disk. We also have a new experimental boot disk based on Linux. We expect to support both indefinitely. Many changes to install.pl to support running under Linux. Use a 4000M FAT32 partition instead of a 2000M FAT16 partition for initial installation partition. Use FreeDOS himem64.exe instead of himem.sys as XMS provider. Loads of fun. Update to FreeDOS FORMAT 0.91m. Use its new "/a" switch, modelled after the same switch in Microsoft's OFORMAT tool (see <http://google.com/search?q=oformat+site%3Amicrosoft.com>). This aligns the FAT clusters to a 4k boundary, so after NTFS conversion the cluster size will be 4k instead of 512 bytes. Changes to free up more conventional memory. Bundle umbpci.sys and load it in config.sys. Load ifshlp.sys into high memory. Invoke umb.com in autoexec.bat. Rearrange bootdisk/tftpboot to make more sense. (DOS) Add support for 3com 3c94x/3c2000 family of gigabit adapters. Avoid hard links in distribution because DOS extractors cannot handle them (creating zero-length files). Add "--remote" switch to shutdown.pl. Use %SystemDrive% instead of C: in todo.pl. Thanks to Andrew Clark. Add usual round of Windows updates. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
