I'm using the following in my setup. I only want to get the updates for xpsp2, so that's why I created the cquest-update script (a rehash of script-update, pulling only wanted files, instead of 'all but excepted').
The other script (get_new_xp_updates.sh) will retrieve an updated copy of winxpsp2-updates.bat and then use the prepare script to grab/download all of the new updates. The last step is to automatically flip the reboot-on's to ignore-err's. Hope these help. -Ben On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:35 -0600, Adam Findley wrote: > Patrik Kullman wrote: > > >Hello and thanks for a wonderful package of ease for system > >administration! > > > >I'm at a new client to which I want to show the magic of unattended > >installations compared to ghosting, and it's working pretty well. > >However, the "apply patches and updates" procedure takes a fair amount > >of time, 1+ hour because of all the reboots. > > > >But as far as I can recall, the WindowsUpdate tool doesn't require that > >many reboots (or even that many patches?). > > > >I'm going to check how WindowsUpdate performs the updates and mimic that > >way (probably use .ignore-err on some updates) to minimize the time > >needed for re-install but I would love to see this go upstream as well > >in cvs. > > > >Would that be a possible change? > > > > > > > I have set *all* of our hotfixes to .ignore-err. Everything installs > smoothly, and in about 20 minutes. There was a perl script someone > wrote that was floating around here somewhere that'll can set that for > you after each update. > > Adam > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > unattended-info mailing list > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer Office of Planning & IT Faculty of Arts & Science University of Toronto Cell: 416.407.5610 PGP Key Id: 8E89F6D2
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