Hi Kerravon, I'm not sure from your post what you're specifically having trouble with, but it sounds like unattended isn't able to lookup the netbios name for your install machine.
By default the name is ntinstall. For the linux portion of the unattended process, this should be directly resolvable in the domain that your machine is a member of. Eg: if your domain is somecharity.org and your dhcp hands this out with a dns server ip of 192.168.0.10, then unattended needs to be able to find an ip for ntinstall.somecharity.org by querying 192.168.0.10. If unattended doesn't find ntinstall then it won't get very far. You can override this in the boot parameters (see the docs and wiki and list archives for specifics)...I chose not to. If you're still having problems, be a little more specific about how your setup is (hopefully) working...eg: are you using dhcp? are you booting unattended via cd? pxe? usb stick? Do you have local dns servers that you can manage or request changes to? What sort of samba config are you running? Hope that helps. Feel free to take this offlist if this reply doesn't help. Thanks -Ben On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 06:29:07PM +0100, kerravon wrote: +> Hi Every one, (hopefully Ben too) +> +> +> +> I found your posting above and read with interest that you are using rhas4. +> +> I am a bit stuck setting up unattended on rhas4 I wondered if you could help +> me set it up. +> +> +> +> I am trying to build an unattended windows deployment server for a charity +> organisation that recycles od IT equipment back into the community. I need +> to set it up to install windows XP and the windows 2000 operating systems. +> +> +> +> I did at one point manage to get it to boot then I kept getting error 53 +> machine cannot be found. +> +> Whilst writing this I am re-intalling everything including OS for the 7th +> time. +> +> +> +> Hope you can help, feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] +> machine is on 24/7 +> +> +> +> Thanks in advance +> +> +> +> kerravon +> +> +> +> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- +> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express +> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take +> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. +> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ +> _______________________________________________ +> unattended-info mailing list +> [email protected] +> 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 GPG Key Id: 8E89F6D2; Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Contact me to arrange for a CAcert assurance meeting. Please Note: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any dissemination, disclosure, printing, publishing or use of this email or the information contained herein without written authorization of the sender is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete. Thank you.
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