> What are people doing to get 64-bit XP installed? > > As far as I have been able to see there has been nothing done in regards > to unattended to take care of this. > Not sure about XP, but with the HP SmartStart x64 2003 Server installs, I have used the SmartStart CD to put the install image on the hard drive, then PXE boot to Unattended and have it generate the unattended.txt as usual. Modify Unattended so it copies the generated file over c:\unattended.txt and c: \winnt.~bt\winnt.sif (or something similar?). Then reboot from the SmartStart installed hard drive. It works fine but the initial CD boot is annoying. You also have to modify the Media library so it looks for an amd64 directory as well as i386. And I added a flag that told Unattended not to bother copying the Windows source files for 64-bit installs.
For XP you'd probably have to let the standard Windows installer copy it's files, then boot into PXE/Unattended when it reboots to get into graphics mode? For the 64 bit installs, the OS directory only needs to hold the three text files that the Media library looks for. You don't have to copy the CD in there. You can still copy drivers etc in as usual. I let SmartStart generate and initialise the C: drive, and create any other partitions with scripts run by todo.pl after boot. I did try to generate a windows bootable partition using parted etc, but didn't have much luck. If I could have done that I could have tar'd up the SmartStart generated C: drive once, and just dumped it on to the disk myself during the install. I tried a few variations. The stoppers were that I couldn't get my generated partitions to boot the Windows x64 installer, and the version of tar in unattended seemed to choke on filenames with '$' in them. > I would hate to see xp64 and then Vista be the death of Unattended. > People will always find a solution. I'd like to see Windows include a proper package manager. RedHat kickstart installs take about 5 minutes, but an equivalent unattended Windows install takes 3/4 of an hour on the same hardware. The hardware's the same. The software's equivalent. The difference can only be the (lack of) package manager? Not really a problem for actual installs, but it makes the testing and development process painful. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
