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Quick Install Guide ----------------------------
Prerequisites: -------------------- Required: DHCP server on your network Required: SAMBA or Windows machine capable of sharing the “install” share (read: this is the unattended machine)
Overview ----------------------------
1) Prepare the machine to access the network and run Unattended a) Boot a kernel (DOS or Linux) b) load a network driver, initialize the network via DHCP c) attempt to map a drive (z:) to \\servername\sharename 2) read the install files from the network and install a) run install.pl via perl
Setup Unattended: (boot workstations using the DOS Boot disk) -------------------------- 1) Download Unattended boot disk (DOS or linux) http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.0a-dosboot.tar.gz?download 2) Download Unattended main http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.0a.tar.gz?download 3) Create a file share for unattended. I suggest a share Net share install=c:\unattended\install named “install” on a machine. You will need to create the directories as they do not yet exist. 4) Decide what user will access the install share net user guest /ACTIVE:YES /DOMAIN (via the boot disk) if you will use the default (guest) then you need to enable the guest account. 5) If necessary, change the permissions on the share to allow cacls c:\unattended /T /E /G:guest the user chosen in step 4 to access it. 6) Unzip the Unattended boot disk and main .tar.gz files to c:\unattended (WinZip should handle the task) Be careful of subdirectories, you should end up with C:\unattended\readme.txt 7) Download djgpp and djgpp components for DOS http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/djdev203.zip and extract them to c:\unattended\install\djgpp http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi5b.zip http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/perl561b.zip http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/pico396b.zip
8) Populate c:\unattended\install\os with the operating systems you with to install Ex1. c:\unattended\install\os\win2ksp4 Ex2. c:\unattended\install\os\winxpsp1 Keep in mind that unattended knows what os is in the folder based on folder content not on the folder name
Server side setup is done, you will want/need to tweak Unattended from here. In order to boot to DOS and try Unattended you will want to burn Bootdisk.iso to CD. (if you followed the examples above it is located in c:\unattended\bootdisk\bootdisk.iso)
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