Okay, I've been poking through and I have down making a CD for an unattended installation of Windows itself. I'm unclear on how to "trigger the unattended application deployment", however. Anyone have any guidance? Is there anything written up on this in the wiki? I can't find anything if there is... I'd be happy to try to write something up once I get this figured out.
Thanks! _______________ Allison Roth IT Support Computer Modelling Group Ltd. From: Conrad Lawes [mailto:pxeb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:17 PM To: Allison Roth Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs A WDS server is not necessary for a WinPE-based deployment. In fact, you can burn a WinPE iso and use it to deploy Win7/Win2008. Another option is using a Linux DHCP/TFTP server as your PXE server - see examples below http://sysadminman.net/blog/2007/pxe-boot-winpe-2-vista-using-linux-as-t he-pxe-server-8 http://xlshadow.livejournal.com/158711.html http://doomclaw.de/index.php/2009/08/18/installing-windows-7-with-a-pxe- boot-server/ You will have to tweak the unattended.xml file to trigger the Unattended application deployment after the OS is installed. http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90191/apa.html On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Allison Roth <allison.r...@cmgl.ca> wrote: I've used WAIK for installs extensively from a Windows Deployment Server. However, I was really hoping to move away from the Windows Deployment Server, so I'm trying to figure out what my other options are. _______________ Allison Roth IT Support Computer Modelling Group Ltd. From: Conrad Lawes [mailto:pxeb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:02 PM To: Allison Roth Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs I recommend that you do some research on using the Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for better understanding of installing Vista/Win7/Win2008 using WinPE. After that, you will have a better understanding of installing Win7 32-bit and 64-bit. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Allison Roth <allison.r...@cmgl.ca> wrote: Whoops...think I might've sent the last reply to Gary only. Anyway, to summarise - XP x64 isn't being recognized by install.pl, since it doesn't have the txtsetup.sif and other files that it looks for. Gary asked me to detail the directory layout on the CD. The root of the CD has AMD64, Docs, I386, and Support. It does actually look like all three of the relevant files (txtsetup, prodspec and setupp) are in the AMD64 directory, now that I go through it more closely... _______________ Allison Roth IT Support Computer Modelling Group Ltd. From: Gary Greene [mailto:ggre...@minervanetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:46 PM To: Allison Roth Subject: Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs On 4/27/10 1:43 PM, "Allison Roth" <allison.r...@cmgl.ca> wrote: Well, the problem I'm seeing with XP x64 is that it's just not recognizing the OS being in the directory at all. From what I've found via searches, the script is looking for three files (txtsetup.sif and so on), and those files don't seem to exist in the XP x64 disc... _______________ Allison Roth IT Support Computer Modelling Group Ltd. From: Gary Greene [mailto:ggre...@minervanetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:41 PM To: Allison Roth; unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs Unfortunately, these are two different beasts... Windows Vista and above use an entirely re-written installer running on WinPE 2.x which is largely the problem that is being faced. From what I understand, WinPE 1.x was far more stripped back than WinPE 2.x which Vista/7 uses for the OS loader for the installer. The reason 64-bit likely isn't working is you'd need a 64-bit build of the tools used for unattended (FreeDOS and friends). Unfortunately, far as I know, there is no build of those tools for 64-bit mode. Fun.... Sounds like they might have done early changes to the 64-bit version that are similar to the others.... Can you detail the directory layout on the CD? This will give some idea of what the environment is for this. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info -- Regards, Conrad Lawes -- Regards, Conrad Lawes
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