Martin Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > | For the DOS boot disk, the pcntnd driver should work. For the Linux > | boot disk, the driver should be selected and loaded automatically. > > Only true if using the vlance mode in the ethernet settings. When using > the vmxnet mode it will not find the driver. (which is why i asked :-))
Ah. Well, I have never used VMware. But according to <http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx25/doc/network_adv_vmxnet_gsx.html>: "Other guest operating systems use the vlance driver only." In context, "other" means anything other than Windows. Since the guest operating system here is DOS or Linux, I suggest you use the vlance driver :-). Digging deeper, it looks like VMware does have a vmxnet driver for Linux. But the driver is not part of the stock kernel, and apparently it requires third-party patches to work under the 2.6 kernel at all. So, in theory, we could support vmxnet on the Linux-based boot disk. But it would take some work. Also, the vmxnet.c license could be an issue; I have not read it yet. Is there a problem with using vlance? It is only needed during installation, after all. > Maybe i asked the question wrong. I want to use the following of my > existing unattend file and not the [_meta] sections: > > [Data] > AutoPartition=1 > > [Unattended] > Repartition=Yes > ExtendOEMPartition=Yes > > This makes the ntsetup create one disk-spanning ntfs partition which is > all i need. This would of course conflict with copying of the files to > the workstation first. Can't i call the setup just like as if booting > from a CD (without copying the setup files)? Sorry, but no. When you boot from CD, the Windows Setup you see is a 32-bit application running in some stripped-down version of Windows itself (similar to WinPE). So it can format, read, and write NTFS directly. Our network install runs on DOS or Linux, neither of which can handle (especially write) NTFS. (Yes, NTFS for Linux is coming. But since we run winnt.exe under dosemu, this might not help us.) Repartition=Yes simply not mix with DOS-based network installs; you use "FileSystem=ConvertNTFS" instead. The only way around this for network-based installation is to use WinPE, which we do not (and will not) support because it isn't free. Why do you not want to use the [_meta] section? The example in our docs does exactly what you ask... - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- 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
