I see Thomas had the same sort of problem earlier (I don't keep such a large archive at work - sad huh)so I shall try playing with smartdrive tomorrow - however if anyone has a definative answer I would be very pleased to hear it.
It seems that the problem is hardware related, because I have used exactly the same boot disk on a no-name box and it installed fine, but the Gateway machine coughs on it every time. Ideas on what else to try to trouble shoot would be welcome, I have already wasted a day trying to get this one machine to work. On a positive note though, the machines that do boot & install properly are working really well, the improvments over version 1.1.1 which I have been using are really good, being able to map machine settings to MAC address has me really excited, I can see great potential for that. Thanks Everyone Kevin Lawry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Lawry (Administrator) Sent: 27 July 2004 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Unattended] File copy fails in second stage of setup Help! I am trying the dos boot disk on a gateway machine (no network booting or CD drive) I have managed to get the first stage of installation to work, I needed to alter some of the defaults in config.sys, and it appears that all the files are copied accross the network. After the machine reboots & starts the local portion of the install I have numerous disk copy failures, a list to long to transcribe here, I have tried using my old v1.1 unattended install point & the machine installs so I think the hardware is sound. I have tried with and without replacing the MBR I have tried an unconditional format in case there was any dross from previous installs I have tried formatting with debugging turned on but there are no reported errors My altered section of config.sys looks like this - I needed to change it because the default settings crashed Any clues about where to look would be good at this stage Thanks Kevin Lawry ________________________________________________ ;; Pick exactly one of these XMS providers DEVICE=himem64.exe ;DEVICE=A:\fdxxms.sys bios ps ;DEVICE=himem.sys /testmem:off ;; UMB provider DEVICE=umbpci.sys ;DEVICE=emm386.exe NOEMS ________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
