In my experience if you pull out the floppy before the OS starts installing Unattended won't work properly. But once the OS starts installing you can pull out the floppy and re-use it in another system without trouble. I recently did about half a dozen systems with a single floppy and didn't have any trouble.
So is this a problem with the Unattended boot disk or the way it is being used? -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. Atom Powers Systems Administrator Pyramid Breweries Inc. 206.682.8322 x251 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dag Nummedal Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:53 PM To: Unattended List Subject: [Unattended] Longstanding bug in Unattended boot floppy. This will only manifes when booting from floppies or another persistent media. To manifest the bug, start an install with a floppy, remove the floppy and start an install with the same floppy on another computer. During the boot process Microsoft's TCP-stack will create a hidden file \net\dhcp.prm, with the parameters from the DHCP-server. If the file already exists, the client will try to extend the old lease. Since the address is already leased to the first computer, the second computer gets a DHCPNAK. Since the lease isn't expired, the second computer will ignore the DHCPNAK, and use the same IP-address. This is NOT a good thing :-> Solution: Add attrib.com (7k) to the floppy. Add the following to autoexec.bat (possibly with som errorchecking around it): attrib -r -s -h \net\dhcp.prm del \net\dhcp.prm Attrib is needed, since dhcp.prm is a hidden system file. -- Dag Nummedal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
