hi, im working on some scripts to do unattended installations with WinPE2 (and WinPE3-beta so it also supports Win7), only downside is the need of a windows machine to execute some of the steps...
Current steps/progress: * download windows waik dvd for Windows 2008 or the beta for Windows 7 * extract some files (3*cab + 1*msi) from it --from here its a .bat file-- * msiextract the msi file * copy files from extracted folder to pxe boot structure * create BCD file (the new boot.ini) * mount the .wim file and replace a boot file allowing for more cmds to be executed. --end-- * incorporate the new config in your PXE setup So far, it seems the BCD only needs to be build just 1 time and can then be used on different hardware configurations. Thus, the file could be used as 'pre-compiled' in the unattended project. As you can see, all steps can easily be done from a Linux env... Except msiextract and mounting the .wim file, i'm going to try that with wine (perhaps bcdedit also works in wine)... Mind you, this only starts the WinPE shell and from there on you can mount a network share and start setup.exe with the unattended switch to use a unattended.xml file. By replacing a file in the .wim file even this can be (and already is) automated :) regards - Harm On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:34 -0700, Travis Zadikem wrote: > > I am wondering if unattended and/or unattended-gui is ready yet for > prime time deployment. We will be needing in the next couple of weeks > to deploy 81 brand new laptops with Vista and I was thinking about > using unattended and even got the latest unattended-gui from Mario > (thanks) but it still doesn't look promising. Anyone? > > > > Thanks! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
