hi, On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:13:51PM -0000, Mark McRitchie wrote: > ...or use boot.ini to start on OS on a separate partition - it need only be > small because it would probably only need dos - but that OS would have no > qualms about zapping the XP partition.
hm, I must have been sleeping or something.. if the problem at hand is just to but kick of unattended from network you could use my solution (which I currently still use to boot ghost) I use grub on all machines with two menu items: ################## title HSG dhcp configfile (nd)/grub/menu.lst title Win2K chainloader (hd0,2)+1 ################## the second entry is just there in the case of a network failure, or other problems.. then I can change the menu.lst file on the server as needed, for example to default to do a unattended installation. For example: ################## title unattended kernel (nd)/unatt/vmlinuz noapic z_user=XXX z_pass=XXX z_path=//192.0.2.8/install initrd (nd)/unatt/initrd ################## Note: * grub needs to be compiled with all nececssary network drivers for this to work * worth trying would be "bootp --with-configfile" instead of just "dhcp" * pxegrub exists also, so even blank machines could use this * there is a "password" option in the config file, using which, you can get a different menu after entering a password (so that users can not see options which they should not) I do not yet know a good solution to tell exactly one machine to boot something different exactly one time. Possible attack vectors would be scriptable dhcp daemon, tftp-daemon with support to send a client the output of an executable (cgi-bin like) or hacking grub to do special things. cu maurice ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
