On Dec 14, 2007 1:50 PM, Michael De Groote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a hunch it (the looping of the winnt installer copying the files) has
> something to do with the winnt itself trying to reboot the pc, which (in
> this case) is the dosemu
> the reasons i think it does this are
>
> 1. when looking at the screen there is a short moment were you see the
> doit.bat commands flashing over the screen, up to the winnt.exe blablabla
> 2. when putting either a pause or a exitemu command after the winnt.exe
> stuff, these are ignored...
>
> so the question is: can we stop the winnt installer from automatically
> rebooting the system? if not, is there no switch to the dosemu.bin that
> prohibits rebooting the emulator? If both are impossible, we could
> a) switch to nt5x-install permanently, which should solve these problems
> anyway since it doesnt call winnt but copies the files itself and installs
> the correct mbr and other files to start the install process
> b) customize ('hack') dosemu so a reboot of the emulator exits the emulator
> process...
So most likely dosemu has had a feature implemented somewhere between
the versions used in 4.6 and what's now in cvs so it reacts "properly"
(but undesirable for Unattended) to reboot events. I think I'll dig up
the patch provided in the link Nils posted (as soon as my new cvs
bootdisk is compiled).
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