I'm sure many other manufacturers do have their quirks while being installed by unattended. I merely mentioned Dells because in my company, we exclusively buy Dells, and I'm sure the situation is the same in many other companies. This collection of hints and tips should by no means be limited to Dells, but I would expect Dells to be the most popular.
Your comment about the 745s sort of proves how useful this could be - I now know what I need to do if I get a 745 which hangs on a reboot in the linux portion of unattended. I personally have found the 755s to be a real pain - much more so than any previous Dell. If the work I have done to get the 755s working can benefit other people by cutting out duplication of this troubleshooting process, then surely that's a good thing? Pau -----Original Message----- From: Nils Østbjerg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 November 2007 19:52 To: Paul Lewis Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] Dells & Unattended Hi. On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:29:05PM -0000, Paul Lewis wrote: > Does anyone else Unattended while installing Dell PCs? Do you think it > would be a good idea to try and share the problems (and hopefully > fixes!) that we encounter while installing Dell PCs. Maybe we could > document the models that are known to work, and any fixes/hacks that > need to be applied to particular versions of unattended to get other > models working. How is Dell computers diffrent then others in regards to unattended? Sure I have had trouble with the DELL PC's we got, but some Fujitsu-Siemens have been causing me a bit of trouble as well, and Im sure that IBM PC's have their querks as well. The only major trouble I have had that was DELL specific was that DELL OptiPlex 745 with some mainboards hangs on reboot in Linux, so you had to powercycle them to get the installation going. Two minutes of googling, a minute to comment out a line reboot.c and 90 minutes recompling unattended. Problem fixed. Otherwise most problems are related to new chipset drivers, so that linux reconice SATA drives. Nils -- Nils Østbjerg SAMF-IT, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
