When I first tried setting up an unattended installation, I got the same problems.
I think it was due to FreeDOS, and it's format command. I made my own DOS boot disk using windows 95 DOS and also used the win95 format command for formatting the Hard drive. You can substitute your own custom format command in the _meta section of the unattend.txt file. This seemed to solve all the strange file copy problems.
You might try rebuilding your dos boot disk image based off a fresh win95 bootable DOS disk.
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| Ken Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03/31/2006 01:12 PM
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Hi Matt,
I am using the DOS boot disk (FreeDOS w/ unattended-4.6) .
As for error messages, I sometimes (only sometimes) get error messages during the setup file copy. Usually, on certain random files, the copy process slows to halt, but then moves on without error message.
During the install process, I will usually get an error message stating that the file cannot be found (the file on which the copy process slowed).
Thanks for the help & quick response!
Ken Doyle
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Ken,
Are you using the Linux boot disk, or the DOS boot disk?
Do you get any actual error messages during the copy?
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| Ken Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/31/2006 12:04 PM | To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net cc: Subject: [Unattended] Files not copied during setup/install |
Hello,
I am trying to set up an unattended windows deployment system for my school.
I get to the point where the windows installer begins to copy files from my samba network share to the local machine. During this process, it seems that some files are dropped and/or improperly copied. Which files are skipped seems random, because the machine will exhibit different behavior when it moves on to the install phase.
Sometimes the install phase will not start, other times it will crash during loading or mid-way through, or most recently the installer completed, but on first boot complained about a missing msgina.dll and could not bring up the Logon interface.
Basically, I am trying to figure out why some files not being copied by setup, and how to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
Ken
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