That's a clever idea.
However, if Thomas is using the DOS boot disks, then he would need to boot twice. Once to fdisk, and once to install.
Do you suppose it would be possible to make some sort of server side boot counter that would delete the hex file after 2 boots instead of just one?
(Just curious. I have limited knowledge of server side stuff, but it's interesting.)
| Ryan Go <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/2005 04:36 PM
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To: Thomas Seeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] question about freedos bootdisk image |
> A related question: if the primary boot option is PXE boot,
> how do I prevent an infinite loop? Currently linuxboot-4.6
> gets booted by PXE, WXP setup.exe configures the disk,
> but even on the 2nd run it does not recognize that
> the disk is already formatted and WXP waits to get booted
> to continue the windows configuration.
> Can I rename the tftpboot config file (the 32bit hex-IP filename)
> somehow during or after the first run, so that the "default" file
> can have localboot as 1st option?
> Can PXE boot "look" at the hard disk and decide it's worth booting?
> While playing with unattended I created a file C0A86420 manually
> (for 192.168.100.32, my test machine) with localboot option
> (and this works), but I'd like to have even this one automated ;).
Here we set our default boot option to be localboot. We then create hex
files for the clients that need to be installed.
We also have a script in our TFTP server that deletes/moves the client hex
config file after it finishes handing out the TFTP image.
HTH,
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