I am going to try and give this a try today as I need to see if this whole
unattended thing is going to work out or not. I really just wish Windows
could be as easy as our linux Kickstart stuff. Thanks.
On 10/21/08, Steven Blackery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I worked out how to do this a while ago and documented the process, here
> are my notes, hope they help:
>
>
>
> Note that normal methods for editing the iso DO NOT WORK as the disk fails
> to boot with a checksum error - the iso has to be re-created with the
> checksum recalculated.
>
> extract linuxboot.iso from the unattended install
>
> copy to a linux machine
>
> mount the iso using:
> mount -o loop linuxboot.iso /mnt/linuxboot
>
> (note that you will have to create /mnt/linuxboot first, and may need su
> for both operations, depending on the flavour of linux used)
>
> copy the contents of the mounted iso to somewhere else, so you can work on
> it, change to that directory, and then into the isolinux directory.
>
> all the files will be read-only (because copied off an ISO) so:
> chmod -R +w ./
>
> then you need to edit isolinux.cfg to add in custom parameters. for
> example:
>
>
> # isolinux/pxelinux configuration file
>
> default unattended
>
> label unattended
>
> kernel bzImage
>
> # Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line.
> append initrd=initrd z_path=//your/share/path z_user=username
> z_pass=password
>
>
> (note the added z_path, z_user and z_pass parameters)
>
> change up one directory
> cd ..
>
> then rebuild the iso:
> mkisofs -V "linuxboot" -o linuxboot.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c
> isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .
>
>
> Steven Blackery
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Travis Zadikem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 21 October 2008 15:38
> To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Unattended] Unattended and making a new bootdisk
>
> Hey guys,
> We have quite a large kickstart environment with over 300 images. I was
> at the Wiki site
> for modifying the bootdisk
> http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/ModifyingTheBootDisk
>
> but don't actually see anything that I can download to recreate the
> image. The Samba server
> that I have created just to test Unattend is named co-labdeploy-01 and I
> need to modify
> this in the script(s). We want to try and test this with Windows 2008 and
> Windows 2003 initially. We are
> trying at all cost to avoid using the new version of Microsoft(s) WDS
> BDD2007
>
>
> Travis
>
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