In cases like this, where the target computer has trouble booting to the network, I like to use a different approach.
I use unattended to install the very first pass (unattended copies files, and then reboots) on a different machine, then make a ghost image of that first pass install, and then install that ghost image on the target machine.
This works for me because I have more than one way of getting a ghost image on a machine... I have a couple of ways to get connected to our novell network, where the ghost image is stored, or I could burn the ghost image to a CD, and install it that way.
The CD method may work for you (if you have a machine with a CD-ROM burner, and enough storage for the ghost image). Once you get the first pass, the rest of the install should work as expected.
| Angus Claydon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/30/2006 06:13 AM
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I'm trying to install xp on a laptop that will only boot from the hard
disk or the proprietary external usb-floppy which I don't have. It just
won't boot from any other device - usb cdrom , usb pen drive, nor PXE.
This means I need to boot from a small partition on the beginning of the
hard drive. Its not beyond my capabilities to build a dos network disk
and copy that to the first partition but will it work for accessing the
z_drive? I've seen lots of posts where people need to install to a
partition other than the c:
I have a server set up and running ok with version 4.6 and have already
used it to install both home and pro editions of xp on systems that do
have cdrom successfully.
The cdrom (linux) (the dos one boots isolinux too!) is so slick i'd love
to find a way to copy it to the first partition. Is it possible to use
create a booting linux system on the hard disk and mount the images and
scripts that the cd uses?
Many thanks for any thoughts on this.
angusC
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