Interesting. But I was talking about unattended's DOS Boot disk. Not dos boot disks in general
Patrick -----Original Message----- From: tovis [mailto:mailer.to...@freemail.hu] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:51 AM To: Patrick Benton Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8 Hi Patrick! DOS boot method some times take a very good job. I'm succeed integrate Hiren's boot disk (exclude mini XP) on my Debian deployment "system". Unfortunately, I suspect, that the Hiren's boot disk is an illegal collection, but highly power full tool for windows repair. Sincerely Tovis > oh. Didn't catch that. Guess I could have looked at the .imz file more > closely. > > > > I guess the real question is - why is he using a dos boot disk and not > the linux boot? I'm just curious. Maybe he has some good reason to go > the dos boot rout? > > > > > > Patrick Benton > > IT Specialist > > Commnet Wireless LLC > > IT support: > > 720-733-7688 > > itsupp...@commnetwireless.com > > Direct: > > 720-733-5373 > > pben...@commnetwireless.com <mailto:supp...@commnetwireless.com> > > P Before printing this document, please think about the environment > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Radu - Eosif Mihailescu [mailto:radu.mihaile...@linux360.ro] > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:03 PM > To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8 > > > > Patrick, > > He's using memdisk because he's using the DOS boot disk to start the > installation. > > "undis3c.imz" is a 1.44MB floppy (80 cylinders x 2 heads x 18 sectors x > 512 bytes each) image that is perfectly bootable with memdisk (albeit > using 'keeppxe' on the command line to actually have it work once booted > :-) ) > > The solution you are suggesting below pertains to the Linux boot disk > (also the recommended method by Unattended's authors), not the DOS one. > > ________________________________ > > > So, r...@krautmann.net, please try to switch to the Linux boot disk and > see if it solves your problem. > > > Have a nice evening everyone, > @Dexter > > On 08/02/2009 10:34 PM, Patrick Benton wrote: > > Why are you using memdisk? Its ok at booding dos boot disks. But doesn't > seem to do well on CD images. This is my relevant pxelinux.cfg. > > label unattended > MENU LABEL ^Unattended Windows install > kernel unattended/bzImage > # Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line. > append initrd=unattended/initrd z_path=\\ntinstall\install > > > in otherwords, extract out the netboot stuff. Boot the kernel and append > the initrd. Works great. > > Patrick Benton > IT Specialist > Commnet Wireless LLC > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > support: > 720-733-7688 > supp...@commnetwireless.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > Direct: > 720-733-5373 > pben...@commnetwireless.com > P Before printing this document, please think about the environment > > -----Original Message----- > From: r...@krautmann.net [mailto:r...@krautmann.net] > Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 AM > To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8 > > Hi friends, > > I have a serious problem with unattended-4.8. > > I installed everything on my eisfair server. DHCP, DNS and TFTP are > running. > > When I start one of my clients it gets successfully an IP address, and > then the message appears > > "Loading unattended/memdisk......OK" > "Loading unattended/undis3c.imz..OK" > Ready.................. > > And from this point nothing happens anymore. > > When I try take different memdisk version I have either the same > result or it reboots after the message "Ready". > > I hope somebody could help me, because I had already running a very > stabil unattended-4.7 version...and now I thought I make it better > (F*** Never change a running system :) > > (But I tried 4.7 also with the same result) > > Thanks for you help > > > > > > > -- > @Dexter <radu.mihaile...@linux360.ro> > <mailto:radu.mihaile...@linux360.ro> GSM: +40 (721) 294400 > JID: csdex...@jabber.linux360.ro ICQ: 27762040 Y!: csdexter > MSN: rmihaile...@hotmail.com AIM: csdexter Skype: csdexter > Blog: http://www.linux360.ro/~csdexter/blog/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. 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