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OK - We have success.
I did not have smartdrv as part of the download,
and my DOS version refused to work - I guess some MS version checking - So I
downloaded lbacache-24jul2004.zip from the freedos site, extracted lbacach.com
& tried that instaead, which worked with no additional switches
required.
I then renamed it to smartdrv.com so that the
autoexec file could be used unmodified (and so I don't forget to make the change
at the next update) tested again & it still works.
I have modified the autoexec to remove the search
for the install media, this was stopping my machines proceeding because of 4 USB
card readers installed.
I have one machine type left to figure out now, it
has a faulty PXE stack that crashes the network boots (and always did before as
well) and the boot disk reboots everytime it calls tcptsr so I shall have to
hand build a boot disk I think :-(
Thanks for your help
Kevin Lawry
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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:04
PM
Subject: AW: [Unattended] File copy fails
in second stage of setup
Hi,
test this please:
smartdrv.exe /x /u in
autoexec.bat
This worked for me. (and Atom Powers)
Greets
Thomas
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[Unattended] File copy fails in second stage of setup
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
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Sent: 27 July 2004 13:22
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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
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;; 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
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