Re: [Unattended] Linux kickstart?

[Jordan Share]

Conrad Lawes wrote:
If you're using the PXELinux loader, then you should be able to deploy 
both Window$ and Linux OSs be simply modify the pxelinux.cfg/default (or 
IPHEX) file.
Indeed, we both kickstart and use Unattended from the same 
dhcp/tftp/pxelinux setup.

The pxelinux stuff is just a bootloader.  You can load any kernel/initrd 
you want with it.  It is not specific to Unattended.

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[Unattended] FastTrak TX4000/S150 TX Series "RAID" controller install workaround

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So, I was having problems getting the new linux-based unattended to work 
with these systems.

I had the txtsetup.oem stuff all sussed out for the dos-based boot disk 
(which I first did about a year ago).  Since then, I moved to the 
linux-based unattended setup.

As we only have about 3 machines with this controller, I'd not had to 
reinstall any of them in the time since migrating to the linux-based 
installer.

Alas, I recently *did* need to reinstall some, and there seem to be some 
gotchas.  Luckily, I found a workaround.

Initially, I would do an unattended install, just like I normally would, 
and select the proper mass storage controller from the menu.

But, when I would try to boot the system after the initial setup, I would get:
Invalid BOOT.INI file
Boot from C:\winnt\
NTDETECT failed
A subsequent reboot would cause the system to start, but then die when it 
tried to go to native mass storage drivers (instead of using BIOS).  These 
symptoms are much like what one would see if the mass storage driver setup 
was screwy, which threw me for a while.

Turns out, though, that the linux driver for the FastTrak doesn't actually 
use the "RAID" features at all.  It just sees "sda, sdb, sdc" (or however 
many disks you have, presumably).

So all of Unattended's setup work was happening only on /dev/sda1, and not 
on the "mirror".  I think this then caused Windows to freak out when it 
tried to go to the native RAID drivers, and the data on the two disks was 
different.

I had started with a mirrored array of two disks.  What I did was unplug 
all but one of the disks (breaking the array), and install via unattended 
onto that disk.  The initial and subsequent few reboots all went well (did 
the conversion to ntfs, did the initial install, etc.).

At this point, I put all the disks back in, and rebuilt (repaired) the 
mirror (copying the data from the single disk I started with to the second 
disk).

Everything continued to work, ActivePerl installed itself, defrag 
commenced, etc.

So, I figured I'd send this mail to the list, in case anybody had been 
using one of these controllers with a mirroring setup, and wanted to be 
able to use unattended to install them.

It's kind of a kludge, and I think it'd only work for mirroring setups, 
but it's better than nothing. :)

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Re: [Unattended] serial console settings?

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John Heim wrote:
At 08:01 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
John G. Heim wrote:
If I want to do a serial console install, what should I set the 
terminal settings to? I have my terminal emulator set to 9600,8n1 but 
I am not getting anything.

I append:
console=ttyS0,9600
to the "append" line on in the pxelinux.cfg/default file.

According to the FAQ, there already is a serial console enabled. But you 
may be right in saying that you have to configure it by adding  it as a 
boot parameter because I am not getting a serial console.

I tried the following procedure but the CD I ended up with wasn't bootable:
1 Mount  linux boot CD & copy to temp dir on HD
2) edit isolinux.cfg
# isolinux/pxelinux configuration file
serial 0 115200
default unattended
label unattended
kernel bzImage
# Add options (z_user=..., z_path=..., etc.) to this line.
append initrd=initrd console=ttyS0,115200n8
3) Here is where I think I went wrong (could be at step 4 though)
  $ mkisofs -o linuxboot.iso ./temp
4) cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 linuxboot.iso
What am I missing?
Well, I don't know about the CD (I use PXE), but if it gives you a "boot:" 
prompt, then you can try:

   unattended console=ttyS0,115200n8
at that prompt.
Then you can at least troubleshoot it.
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Re: [Unattended] serial console settings?

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John G. Heim wrote:
If I want to do a serial console install, what should I set the 
terminal settings to? I have my terminal emulator set to 9600,8n1 but I 
am not getting anything.
I append:
console=ttyS0,9600
to the "append" line on in the pxelinux.cfg/default file.
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Re: [Unattended] Trouble with WindowsServer2003-KB886903-x86-enu.exe

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Jordan Share wrote:
I'm trying to install this update:
:: ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 
1 on Windows Server 2003
:: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-004

But it seems that the update itself kicks off a reboot, while install.pl 
is trying to kick off a reboot.  The system refuses to shutdown the cmd 
window automatically, and thus the install hangs.

Is anybody able to install this update ok?
Actually, I got this sussed.  I needed a /norestart argument in addition 
to the "/q /i" that were already there.

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[Unattended] Trouble with WindowsServer2003-KB886903-x86-enu.exe

[Jordan Share]

I'm trying to install this update:
:: ASP.NET Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 
on Windows Server 2003
:: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-004

But it seems that the update itself kicks off a reboot, while install.pl 
is trying to kick off a reboot.  The system refuses to shutdown the cmd 
window automatically, and thus the install hangs.

Is anybody able to install this update ok?
Thanks,
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Re: [Unattended] Multiple OSes

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Allan Stones wrote:
Hey there, whats the possibility that we could install grub or lilo onto 
the system and windows onto another drive or something to finalyl allow 
windows to support multiple OSes from installation?

We use grub to multiboot 2 windows and 1 linux.
General steps that we use:
Unattended based:
   * partition up the system, creating 2 30% partitions for windows, and 
the various (boot/swap/root) partitions for linux
   * delete the first windows partition, and create a FAT partition for 
installation, marked as active
   * install windows on first partition
   * after install, blow away second partition, create a FAT partition, 
mark it as active
   * install windows on second partition

At this point, you have 2 windows on there, but can only boot to the 
second one (the active partition).

Linux step:
   * kickstart the box with a standard install
   * set up grub to boot among the 3 partitions, hiding/unhiding and 
marking the windows partitions as appropriate

Then we can use grub to multiboot amongst the 2 windows, and also the 
linux.  Presumably you could have 3 windows, and a boot partition, if you 
prefered.

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Re: [Unattended] AD authentication & Linux installs....

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Jeffrey C Albro wrote:
Ahh, that's good for linux installs (gonna add that to my bag of tricks!),
but that doesn't allow you to pick Windows OR Linux during the Unattended
interactive phase, right?
Right, instead you pick which one you want by which pxe boot option you
select.  Thus, you don't even have to go into Unattended if you just
want to kickstart linux.
E.g., at the "boot:" pxelinux prompt, I type "un" to pxeboot unattended,
and do a windows install, or "ksf3" to pxeboot and kickstart linux.
I see no reason to involve Unattended in the installation of linux.
It's just as easy (easier, in my opinion) to simply boot kickstart
directly from the pxe prompt.
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Re: [Unattended] AD authentication & Linux installs....

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Jeffrey C Albro wrote:
Also, I'd like the option of installing Linux (fedora 3 based) by way of  
unattended.  It looks like I could add that option in /etc/master.  Just 
copy the install initrd and isolinux directories, add a grub call, and 
reboot.  Does anyone see anything wrong with that plan?
I'm not sure I understand what you are planning to do here.
If you want to install a FC3 based system, why not just use kickstart?  We 
use unattended (twice) and kickstart (once) to build our triple-boot lab 
systems.  Then we use grub to pick which of the three to boot.

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Re: [Unattended] AD authentication & Linux installs....

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Jeffrey C Albro wrote:
If you want to install a FC3 based system, why not just use kickstart?  We 

We want the "nothing but net" pxe install on a blank machine.  The grub
config we drop onthe hard drive would have the ks=nfs:server:/ks.cfg line
in it.
I'm still not clear on what your assumptions are re: kickstart.  We use a 
"nothing but net pxe install on a blank machine".  We boot the linux 
kernel and initrd via pxelinux, and pull our ks.cfg off a webserver.

Here's a sample pxelinux.cfg/default stanza:
label ksf3
kernel vmlinuz-fedora-3.ks
append ks=http://10.0.0.2/kickstarting/fedora-3/ks-desktop.cfg 
initrd=ksinit-fedora-3.rd

There's no need to boot off the HD and/or use grub just to kick off the 
install.

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Re: [Unattended] How do i create a BOOT.MSG?

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Stefan Schlesinger wrote:
Hello again,
i wanted to change the boot.msg that comes with unattended,
googled the whole www and found...nothing, explored the syslinux
sources a bit ... nothing, searched mailing lists ...nothing, so 
who in the hell knows how to create a boot.msg? ;-)
http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#format
Is that what you are looking for?
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Re: [Unattended] PXE Install Solution?

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Tony Worrall wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to make an unattended installer that takes a file with
something like:
macaddress|osversion|ipaddress|admin username|password
It should be able to install an OS (based on osversion - say redhat,
debian,freebsd or Windows) based on the MAC address that it uses to get
an OS with.
for RedHat, its easy. I can just make a mapping between macaddress and
ipaddress in dhcpd.conf, and have it load a PXELinux.cfg file that has
something like:
LABEL linux
 KERNEL pxeboot.linux/vmlinuz
 APPEND initrd=pxeboot.linux/initrd.img ks=http:192.168.167.254/pxe.php
ksdevice=eth0
and I can write a PHP page that'll parse the above file, and generate a
kickstart config with the appropriate ip and password.
However, I've no idea how to approach this with windows. Can someone
recommend how I change the unattended installer to use a different IP or
username, based on it's mac address ?
First, let me suggest that you start new threads when posting to the list, 
rather than replying to an old message and changing the subject.  When you 
do that, the threading gets screwed up, because your new (unrelated) mail 
still has an "In-Reply-To" header in it, with the old messageid.

In response to your question, you can use the unattend.csv file to have 
unattended do different things, based on an inheriting hiearchy.  You can 
probably extend this to meet your needs.

I use netsh to set the IP addresses statically for my lab machines (they 
can dhcp on the mgmt NIC, but the test NIC needs to have its IP set 
statically).

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Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?

[Jordan Share]

Stefan Kell wrote:
Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from
CD?
To be honest, no. :)  The docs explicitly talk about this functionality, 
but I have never had cause to use it.

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Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?

[Jordan Share]

Those links both discuss setting the BIOS to boot from CD after the HD, 
and then using lilo to "trick" the BIOS into thinking that the HD boot 
failed (thus causing it to boot to the next device, the CD).

The original poster was looking for a way to boot to a CD *when the BIOS 
does not support booting to CD*.  Thus, you need some alternate 
bootloader, such as smart boot manager, which you then boot from floppy 
(and it boots to CD).

Jordan
Stefan Kell wrote:
Hi,
take a look at
"http://www.hochstrasser.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Linux.LiloCDBoot";
or
"http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.security/2002-12/0483.html";
Regards
Stefan Kell

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the 
distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, 
and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what 
DEVICE to boot from.

With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into your 
non bootstrapping CD-ROM, and the disk would start reading and booting 
from the cd-rom.

It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for 
installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I
just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be 
found.
Well, there is this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
That will let you boot floppy->CD.
I don't know if it is what was included with Debian 3.0, though.
Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the 
distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, 
and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what 
DEVICE to boot from.

With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into your 
non bootstrapping CD-ROM, and the disk would start reading and booting 
from the cd-rom.

It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for 
installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I 
just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be 
found.
Well, there is this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
That will let you boot floppy->CD.
I don't know if it is what was included with Debian 3.0, though.
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Re: [Unattended] Boot on Lan - Variables (z_user...Etc)

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Ziad O'Hanlon wrote:
Another trivial question:
I would like to set personnal variables for boot on lan:
z_user, z_pass et z_path.
I don't know how to change option 233 on "tftp32" as dhcp server, so I would
like to modify this parameters using another way:
Do I need to modify the /pxelinux.cfg/default?
Because I tried with these settings:
# isolinux/pxelinux configuration file
default unattended
label unattended
kernel bzImage z_user=myuser z_pass=mypass
z_path=//myserver/myinstallfolder
   append initrd=initrd
#end of default configuration file
but it seems not working...
What am I doing wrong??
You need to put the stuff to be appended to the kernel's command line in 
the "append" section, thusly:
 label unattended
 kernel bzImage
append initrd=initrd z_user=myuser z_pass=mypass 
z_path=//myserver/myinstallfolder

See:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#config
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Re: [Unattended] Dual Boot Linux/Windows

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How are you using pxelinux to boot to different partitions on the drive?
We triple boot our lab machines, by:
1) install winos1
2) install winos2 (via some partition futzing)
3) install linux, which installs grub, which has a menu to pick which of 
the 3 to boot to.

Jordan
Paul Griffith wrote:
Hello,
I found a solution that works. I am using pxelinux from Syslinux.
Thanks
Paul

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:54:28PM -0500, Paul Griffith wrote:
Greetings,
Just a couple questions to see how users are doing automated dual
booting.
1 - Anyone using GRUB and do auto generate your own grub.conf file or
put one in place my hand?
2 - Anyone using a PXE boot loader to present a menu to boot either
Windows or Linux from the hard drive?
I was looking at bpbatch, but it seems to have dropped off the face of
the earth. What would be nice is some form of PXE boot loader with a
menu to boot either Linux or Windows XP. I really don't want to keep
any Linux kernels on the tftp/pxe server.
Anyone have any links or suggestions.
Many Thanks
Paul 

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Re: [Unattended] NTFS cluster size

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions
are still using 512byte clusters?  I had the impression that the move
to the linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable
4k clusters.
Or was I just thinking that for no reason?

Well, it does not depend on the Linux boot disk.  It depends on which
OS you are installing (winxp/ws2k3 good, win2k bad) and which version
of format.exe you have in Z:\dosbin.
Aha.  I moved from 3.5 (.6?) to the linux bootdisk.  I think it was 
about that time that I read the thing about the updated freedos format 
command, and the two blurred in my mind.

See "Is FAT -> NTFS conversion a bad idea?" in
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#ntfs>, then ask again if
you still have trouble.
Yeah, I'm primarily using win2k, so 512byte clusters it is then! :)
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[Unattended] NTFS cluster size

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Will someone tell me where to look to find out why my NTFS partitions are 
still using 512byte clusters?  I had the impression that the move to the 
linux boot disk (and its 4gig initial partitions) would enable 4k clusters.

Or was I just thinking that for no reason?
Thanks,
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Re: [Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended

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Jordan Share wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell
it to "Use Whole Disk" ?
It already does, or tries to.  By default, our first partitioning
command is "fdisk /clear 1" which translates into the Parted command
"parted mklabel msdos".
Have you made any changes to Z:\dosbin\install.pl, Z:\site\config.pl,
or Z:\site\unattend.txt related to partitioning?
Unless the mklabel command also preserves some state, which I suppose
is possible.  Wow, that would be broken...

I *have* fiddled with the site\config.pl for partitioning, but I just 
double-checked what happens when you select "Whole Disk C", and it still 
does the $pre_cmds;$ret;$post_cmds.  $pre_cmds is just 'fdisk /clear 1'.

I will double check whether manually invoking "parted mklabel msdos" 
after an FC2 install fixes the broken stuff.
Ok, here's the whole deal.  Please let me know if you see any flaws in the 
methodology:

   * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we 
kickstart).
   * Reboot
   * Attempt a standard "Whole Disk C:" install via unattended
  * fails to boot after copying files

   * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we 
kickstart).
   * Reboot
   * Attempt a standard "Whole Disk C:" install via unattended
  * fails to boot after copying files
   * Reboot
   * Attempt a standard "Whole Disk C:" install via unattended
  * fails to boot after copying files

   * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we 
kickstart).
   * Reboot
   * Attempt a standard "Whole Disk C:" install via unattended
  * fails to boot after copying files
   * dd /dev/zero over the beginning of the drive
   * Attempt a standard "Whole Disk C:" install via unattended
  * succeeds

   * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we 
kickstart).
   * Reboot
   * Run parted manually
  * mklabel msdos
  * (forget the exact commands, but make a 4 gig fat32 partition)
  * set 1 boot on
   * Continue install as normal
  * fails to boot after copying files

   * Install FC2 to the point where it starts its partitioning (we 
kickstart).
   * Reboot
   * Run parted manually
  * mklabel msdos
   * Reboot  <-- *critical step*
   * Attempt a standard "Whole Disk C:" install via unattended
  * succeeds

So, something is broken if I don't reboot after doing the mklabel.  I 
suppose it could be the BIOS, but I got this behaviour on 2 different 
motherboards: a SuperMicro P4SCE, and a Tyan Tomcat i7210 (S5112).

Since we typically multiboot 2 windows and 1 linux, with the linux 
installed last, I just use sfdisk to fix the partition table as part of 
the linux install.  Still, it is vexing that a "Whole Disk C:" install 
doesn't "just work".

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Re: [Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended

[Jordan Share]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell
it to "Use Whole Disk" ?

It already does, or tries to.  By default, our first partitioning
command is "fdisk /clear 1" which translates into the Parted command
"parted mklabel msdos".
Have you made any changes to Z:\dosbin\install.pl, Z:\site\config.pl,
or Z:\site\unattend.txt related to partitioning?
Unless the mklabel command also preserves some state, which I suppose
is possible.  Wow, that would be broken...
I *have* fiddled with the site\config.pl for partitioning, but I just 
double-checked what happens when you select "Whole Disk C", and it still 
does the $pre_cmds;$ret;$post_cmds.  $pre_cmds is just 'fdisk /clear 1'.

I will double check whether manually invoking "parted mklabel msdos" 
after an FC2 install fixes the broken stuff.

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[Unattended] FYI: Problems with FC2 and unattended

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So, I have a lot of lab machines.  Some of them had Fedora Core 2 
installed on them, and I wanted to instead install Windows (2000 and XP) 
on them instead.

Naturally, I used our unattended setup to kick off the install. 
Everything went fine until the first reboot (when you start booting into 
windows for the first time, so that it can install).

Windows would never boot.  I couldn't get it to boot no matter what I did. 
 I reinstall FC2, and that booted fine.  This was on 2 different 
motherboards, and 5 machines total, all with this problem.

Finally, I decided to just dd /dev/zero over the first 8megs of the disk, 
and try reinstalling.   Boom, everything works just as you'd expect it to.

I talked to some friends, and they said there was a known bug with parted 
and FC2.  A little web research found me this:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html

So, I think that even when parted is told to fully wipe and repartition 
the drive, it does not update the geometry in the partition table, which 
causes Windows to freak out, and not boot.  If there just is no partition 
table (say, if it is all zeros :), then parted creates one, and all is well.

-=-=-
Woops.  Ok, so in the process of writing the above, I decided to do a bit 
more research.  And found this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg1.html

So, looks like you all already knew. :)  Anyway, I didn't remember seeing 
anything on the list, so I guess I'll go ahead and send it.

Perhaps Unattended can wipe the partition table, at least if you tell it 
to "Use Whole Disk" ?

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Re: [Unattended] OK, better but not fixed yet.

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Scott Adams wrote:
Now for the dos boot disk.  I have gone in and gotten new files for the templates directory and remade the images.  When I do a dhcp and tftp boot up with this memdisk comes up fine and the disk image read fine, but it stops when it is supposed to read the autoexec.bat.  I have looked at unattended and at freedos with no luck.
I have had problems trying to use memdisk on machines where no floppy 
drive was configured in the bios (because they did not have a real floppy 
drive).  After telling the BIOS that it did have a floppy, memdisk would 
work, and dos would load.

In that case, though, I was getting "Non-system disk or disk error", 
instead of just nothing.  Still, it may be worth a check.

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[Unattended] DOS boot disk

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I wasn't able to get the dos boot disk to work with my e100b adapter.  The 
ifshlp.sys never loads (apparently).  I think other people are using a new 
e100b disk, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

The old 3.5 disk does work fine.
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Re: [Unattended] unattend.csv and product keys

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Shad L. Lords wrote:
1) Windows 2000 Advanced Server
2) Windows 2000 Professional
3) Windows 2000 Server
4) Windows NT Server (not sure if this gonna work at all)
5) Windows Server 2003, Enterprise
6) Windows XP Home Edition
7) Windows XP Professional
8) Windows XP Professional
I know that 2,5,6,7 are all correct as those are the ones that I have 
tested.  Just take the name above and append ProductKey or ProductID 
(depending on which your OS needs) and see if that works (ex. for #2 use 
"Windows 2000 Professional ProductID").  If not please post back and 
I'll try to help you.
I changed them to this format and they all work properly (well, not NT, 
but I've never had that work at all).

I did run across a problem in that the csv lib file is named 
"config-csv.pl", which doesn't work under dos.  I changed the config.pl to 
look for "conf-csv.pl" and made a symlink with that name back to 
config-csv.pl, so now it works under both.

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Re: [Unattended] Alternate partitioning schemes?

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Jordan Share wrote:
The parted that is in the release doesn't seem to accept "logical" as a 
partition type, although the docs indicate that it should:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html#SEC18

Does anyone know why this would be?
Ok, never mind.  It is only an option if you actually sucessfully create 
an extended partition.

Now I need to figure out how to adapt find_free_space to work with logical 
partitions

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Re: [Unattended] Alternate partitioning schemes?

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Jordan Share wrote:
I would like to use this partitioning scheme (I think :):
'fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk 
/ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk 
/log:100,100 /spec:131',

The idea is that it will create:
   * 2 partitions for use with windows, each 30% of the disk size
   * 300meg (perhaps excessive) partition which I will use for a linux 
/boot partition.
   * extended partition for the rest of the disk
  * 6 gig partition within the extended partition (linux /)
  * 2 gig swap partition
  * rest of disk into "extra" partition

But, the install.pl doesn't seem to care for the 130 and 131 partition 
types. :)  I think it would be possible to just translate them to 
"linux-swap" and "ext2" respectively (as it does for translating 7 to 
"ntfs").

I am attempting to bend install.pl to my will, but my perl is perhaps 
not as mighty as it should be.
The parted that is in the release doesn't seem to accept "logical" as a 
partition type, although the docs indicate that it should:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html#SEC18

Does anyone know why this would be?
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[Unattended] Alternate partitioning schemes?

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I would like to use this partitioning scheme (I think :):
'fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:30,100;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk 
/ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk 
/log:100,100 /spec:131',

The idea is that it will create:
   * 2 partitions for use with windows, each 30% of the disk size
   * 300meg (perhaps excessive) partition which I will use for a linux 
/boot partition.
   * extended partition for the rest of the disk
  * 6 gig partition within the extended partition (linux /)
  * 2 gig swap partition
  * rest of disk into "extra" partition

But, the install.pl doesn't seem to care for the 130 and 131 partition 
types. :)  I think it would be possible to just translate them to 
"linux-swap" and "ext2" respectively (as it does for translating 7 to "ntfs").

I am attempting to bend install.pl to my will, but my perl is perhaps not 
as mighty as it should be.

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[Unattended] unattend.csv and product keys

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I'm trying to figure out how to use a Default product key/id with the 
unattend.csv system.  The sample config says (all one line):
#  ProductKey 
Default

The second part I understand, but what is the value for os_name ?  I am 
currently installing (well, NT server doesn't work. :):
-=-=-=-
Scanning for OS directories under Z:\os...
Please choose the OS to install:

1) Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 (Retail, English) (Z:\os\win2kadv)
2) Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (Retail, English) (Z:\os\win2ksp4)
3) Windows 2000 Server SP4 (Retail, English) (Z:\os\win2ksvr)
4) Windows NT Server (UNKNOWN PID 50370, English) (Z:\os\nt4)
5) Windows Server 2003, Enterprise (Retail, English) (Z:\os\2k3ent)
6) Windows XP Home Edition (Retail??, English) (Z:\os\xphome)
7) Windows XP Professional SP1 (Retail, English) (Z:\os\winxpsp1)
8) Windows XP Professional SP2 (Retail, English) (Z:\os\winxpsp2)
-=-=-=-
Is it just everything before the (Retail, English) parts?  Or everything 
before "(Z:\os...)" ?

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Re: [Unattended] absolute file name not to exceed 64 characters - a case for another perl tool script

[Jordan Share]

Urs Rau wrote:
Thanks Jordan,
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:35:48 -0700, Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It didn't happen with Unattended 3.5 because they were using MSDOS, and
this is a Freedos problem.

But this tells me about loads of files that are over the 64 absolute
filename + path limit, but all of these appear to make it to the HD
intact.
Perhaps it is just a limit on the path, and not the filename&path together?
But the files I do get error messages about are the ones that are 4
levels of directories down relative to $OEM". Maybe the problem is not
the 64 character filename limit at all or maybe there are two
problems?
Problem 1 being the 64 characters filename length issue. 
And problem2 being the case of subdirs more than 4 levels down from
$OEM$ (meaning more than 8 levels down in total).


I ran into the same problem when I converted to the latest version.
Except I forgot what it was.  So I googled for it.  Surprisingly, I
found someone with the exact same problem that I had.  Oh.  It was *me*,
in a thread that started from when I tested 4.0, months ago.  Heh. :)

FMI what was the subject of the thread?
Here is the link to the archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00090.html
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Re: [Unattended] absolute file name not to exceed 64 characters - a case for another perl tool script

[Jordan Share]

Urs Rau wrote:
The documentation @ http://unattended.sourceforge.net/os.html
says:
NOTE: The total absolute length of any file name, including the leading 
\os\...\$oem$ portion, must not exceed 64 characters or winnt.exe will 
get an error when it tries to copy the file.

I know from bitter experience that this is true. ;-) But why does the 
error only "bite" when using the linux boot disk and _not_ when using 
the dos boot disks? (I am relatively sure that the error did not come up 
under DOS but under the linux boot disks it now does tell me about files 
that can't be copied.)
It didn't happen with Unattended 3.5 because they were using MSDOS, and 
this is a Freedos problem.

I ran into the same problem when I converted to the latest version. 
Except I forgot what it was.  So I googled for it.  Surprisingly, I 
found someone with the exact same problem that I had.  Oh.  It was *me*, 
in a thread that started from when I tested 4.0, months ago.  Heh. :)

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Re: [Unattended] Setting up unattended to allow for windows/linux boots

[Jordan Share]

Has this been fixed?  I would like to install multiboot machines onto 
separate partitions.

Thanks
Jordan
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Nicholas Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

We currently have a partitioning schemeon our machines that looks like:
/dev/hda1   /boot   100MB
/dev/hda2   Windows 10GB
/dev/hda3   /   10GB
/dev/hda5   swap~512MB

We currently hard-wire the dosemu C: drive to /dev/hda1.  (Well,
actually /dev/dsk1, but same basic idea.)  So this is not going to
work out of the box.

When using the linux boot disk I manually recreate hda2 so that it contains
an empty FAT32 partition:
rm 2
mkpartfs 2 FAT32 100-9460
set 2 boot yes

The last command marks the Windows partition "active", which is
correct.  The problem is our bad assumption when configuring dosemu.
The DOS-based boot disk would probably be fine with this, by the way.

From the command prompt given I cannot access C:, When running FDISK
on the drive it reports that there is only one partition, the /boot
and it is a linux partition.

Right, dosemu does not actually provide access to the entire disk,
only to the partition which we configure as the C: drive.  When fdisk
tries to access the whole disk, dosemu invents a partition table
containing just that partition.
The band-aid workaround is to edit dosemu.conf (under
Z:\install\linuxaux\etc\dosemu) to replace this line:
  $_hdimage = "/dev/dsk1"
...with this:
  $_hdimage = "/dev/dsk2"
Then dosemu will use the second partition instead of the first for the
C: drive.  Of course, this will break if the Windows partition is
supposed to be any other drive.
The "correct" fix is for us to locate the active partition and
configure dosemu to use it.  Please submit a bug report on the
SourceForge pages and we will get to it eventually.


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[Unattended] Some (apparently harmless?) error messages happen right before/as dosemu starts

[Jordan Share]

I am getting these error messages:
---
Creating c:\netinst\unattend.txt...done.
1) Edit c:\netinst\unattend.txt
2) Edit C:\netinst\postinst.bat (will run after OS install is done)
3) Edit c:\netinst\doit.bat (will run when you select Continue)
4) Continue
X) Exit this program
Select:  [1234X] 4
ERROR: Unable to open console to evaluate the keyboard map.
Please specify your keyboard map explicitly via the $_layout option
sh: line 1: awk: command not found
sh: line 1: tr: command not found
sh: line 1: awk: command not found
sh: line 1: tr: command not found
ERROR: unknown window sizes li=0  co=0, setting to 80x25
Linux DOS emulator 1.3.1.0 $Date: 2004-07-11$
Last configured at Mon Aug  2 15:56:18 EDT 2004 on linux
This is work in progress.
Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems.
-
I am installing via serial, which is probably related to some of them, but 
I am wondering about the missing awk and tr.

Everything seems to go ahead and work properly, but I figured I'd ask 
about them

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[Unattended] How to keep a current Unattended setup?

[Jordan Share]

I'd like to leverage the CVS repository to keep my unattended scripts 
directory current, but I don't want to build my own binaries.

Can someone lay out a general overview of how this would be accomplished?
I am migrating from 3.5 to the linux boot disk.  I am already PXE booting, 
etc., and I am very comfortable with how 3.5 works.

Thanks,
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Re: [Unattended] Install windows by unattended using an usb stick

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
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Is there anybody who uses unattended with a usb-stick or anybody who
can tell me where to start at ??

Yes.  See .
There is also this page on the wiki:
http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/KeychainBooting
It has relatively specific instructions for windows.
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Re: [Unattended] Installing WinXP two times into different partitions

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Oliver Kuhl wrote:
Hi all,
this weekend I got my first unattended network installation of Windows 
XP including drivers and some basic applications to work. Really a good 
piece of software - so a big "thank you!" to the developers! :-)

But now I have a question. Is it possible, to use unattended for the 
following scenario:

Partition 1: 20 GB, Windows XP (Office)
Partition 2: 20 GB, Windows XP (Developing)
Partition 3: 80 GB, Data
I would like to install XP into partition 1 first (which works without 
problems) and then install another instance of XP into Partition 2, so 
that I can select which OS to boot.

Is this possible? If yes, which partitions do I have to create and how 
do I tell XP to install into the second partition?
I don't think you can do the split you describe.  We've got a couple dozen 
machines in the lab that we multiboot, but we have 6/10/rest partitions.

We use the dos boot disks from Unattended 3.5, so this may well not be a 
limitation anymore.  (although, I think part of the limitation may be the 
windows boot loader)

What we are doing is creating (at least) 3 primary partitions.  We set the 
first one to be the Active partition, and then install unattendedly as 
normal.  This grows the partition from the initial 2gigs, up to the 6gig 
limit imposed by the 2nd partition.

Then, we mark the 2nd partition active, and do another normal install (the 
"fdisk command" for unattended just marks the partition active, and 
doesn't do any repartitioning).  This grows the 2nd partition up to the 
3rd partition (we chose 10gigs total for the 2nd partition, but this could 
probably be anything).

I was definitely not able to do a normal install (for the second OS) if 
the first partition was larger than about the 6gigs that we ended up at. 
I seem to recall there being some kind of boot sector distance limitation, 
but I don't have any links for you.

I've installed 2k/xp/2k3 on many machines this way, with each OS in either 
position (i.e. first or second).  We subsequently install linux within the 
3rd partition, and use grub to boot among the 3 installed OSes.

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Re: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control

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Michael Styne wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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Steven.
On Aug 2, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Steven Piercy wrote:
What are the rest of ya's using for bootup control on systems.

Serial console is where it's at, for our purposes, anyway.
Mike
Us too.  We default to pxe boot (which itself defaults to exiting, and 
subsequently booting to the next bios choice, which is hard disk).

If we want to do an install, we just enter that pxelinux boot choice at 
the prompt.

If anyone knows how to reliably determine (under dos) whether the serial 
 port can be written to, I'd love to hear it.  Apparently, the 
RJ45->DB9 adapters that we use do not pass the carrier detect signal, so 
that doesn't work.  I'm trying to use the same boot "disk" for both 
serial based and normal installs.

I suppose I may end up just using separate boot disks.
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Re: [Unattended] Setting up unattended to allow for windows/linux boots

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Nicholas Young wrote:
If I use the whole C: option it works correctly so the problem should not be
hardware related.
Has anyone had success in a similiar situation. I believe the problem is
that the C: is not been created correctly so the format fails and the
windows swap cannot be created. My next test is to manually setup the system
and then attempt to do no partitioning and just format the C:, this is
currently been setup, and I will post results of this when it is done.
We use the Unattended system to install our lab machines, so we have 2 
windows partions (for different flavors) and 1 linux partition.  I bet 
your problem is that you are not making the windows partion the first 
"active" partition on the disk before you try to install Windows.

We install both window's first, then install the linux.  The procedure is:
   * fdisk the disk into the partitions we want to use (6gig win, 10gig 
win, 6gig linux, 2gig linux swap, rest of drive for a second linux 
partition.  I think there is also a boot partition in there.)
  * We use this "fdisk command" (all one string, no linebreaks):
'fdisk /pri:6000;fdisk /pri:1;fdisk /pri:300 /spec:131;fdisk 
/ext:100,100;fdisk /log:6000 /spec:131;fdisk /
log:2000 /spec:130;fdisk /log:100,100 /spec:131'
   * the $post_cmds string is:
'fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /prio:2000;fdisk /activate:1'
   * Then we install windows via unattended (we are still using 3.5)
   * To install the 2nd windows partition we use this fdisk command:
'fdisk /delete /pri:2;fdisk /prio:2000;fdisk /activate:2'
   * That activates the second partition, and so windows thinks that 
"c:" is the second (10gig) partition.
   * At this point, you can only boot to the 2nd windows install, so we 
install linux (and grub).
   * Our menu.lst looks like this:
title Windows partition 1
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
savedefault
title Windows partition 2
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
savedefault
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-30.9rbt)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9rbt2 ro root=LABEL=/ 
console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9rbt2.img
savedefault
   * As you can see, grub does "makeactive" and hides/unhides the 
appropriate partitions to make windows see the C: drive properly.

This system works pretty well.  If you need to reinstall one of the 
windows, you can just recreate the proper partition, and make it active. 
   Then install windows (blowing away grub from the MBR of the disk). 
Then, you boot to a grub floppy (although we just netboot a memdisk 
image of a grub floppy), and reinstall grub to let you boot any of the 3 
operating systems.

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Re: [Unattended] How to run my own scripts

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jed wrote:
Ease up i've read that page and it doesn't explain it in enough detail 
and i'm having trouble getting things to work probaly.
I've set this in my unattended
[_meta]
   top = base.bat
   middle = middle.bat
Middle.bat is one i've written, but because my script performs a reboot 
as well as other stuff it is interfering with the other unattended scripts.
I want to know how to get my script to run absolutly last after all 
unattended scripts?
My apologies, that page does in fact not mention the "bottom" key, which is 
analogous to top and middle, but runs last.

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Re: [Unattended] How to run my own scripts

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jed wrote:
I've got my own bat file i need to run at the end of unattended scripts 
how do i do that?
This page tells you how:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.html
You are asking questions that pretty much indicate that you are not even 
trying to find the answer yourself.  I recommend reading all the pages on 
website.  You may find answers to questions you didn't even know you had.

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Re: [Unattended] Configuring Windows XP Pro and Home ProductKey's in config.pl

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jed wrote:
if the code below is for windows xp in general

use warnings;
use strict;
$u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductKey'} =
   sub {
   my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new 
($u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'});
   my $os_name = $media_obj->name ();
   if ($os_name =~ /Windows XP/) {
   return 'MY-WINDOWS-XP-KEY';
   }
   elsif ($os_name =~ /Windows Server 2003/) {
   return 'MY-SERVER-2003-KEY';
   }
   return undef;
   };

$u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductID'} =
   sub {
   my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new 
($u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'});
   my $os_name = $media_obj->name ();
   if ($os_name =~ /Windows 2000/) {
   return 'MY-WINDOWS-2000-KEY';
   }
   elsif (defined $u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductKey'}) {
   # It is OK for us to return undef as long as there is a
   # ProductKey.
   return undef;
   }
   die "No ProductKey nor ProductID!";
   };

1;

How do i tell config.pl to use 1 key for xp pro and another for xp home?
Just use different regexes.  I'm using:
$u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductKey'} =
sub {
my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new 
($u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'});
my $os_name = $media_obj->name ();
if ($os_name =~ /Windows XP Professional/) {
return 'asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf';
}
elsif ($os_name =~ /Windows XP Home/) {
return 'asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf';
}
elsif ($os_name =~ /Windows Server 2003/) {
return 'asdfasdfasdfasdfsadfasdfasdfasdf';
}
return undef;
};

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Re: [Unattended] Questions about "check" and "prepare" bash scripts

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Tyler Hepworth wrote:
Is it possible to pass the results of the "check" script to the "prepare"
script so that only the missing items are downloaded instead of the entire
~1 GB?  I ran check and have about 50 items missing, but I do not want to
download each of them by hand.
Doesn't the prepare script check for the existence of the target file before 
downloading?

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] RealVNC silent install with server settings and password?

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Layne, Courtney wrote:
I am trying to install realvnc silently.  I think the install options 
would be "/SP- /VERYSILENT /NORESTART".  Anyone know how to create the 
service and password that can be setup at the end of the gui install?  
Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks.
 
Courtney
I import a .reg file with the appropriate settings.  Here's the 
batchfile I use:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]$ cat realvnc.bat
:: OPTIONAL: Install RealVNC
todo.pl "%Z%\packages\RealVnc-3.3.7-x86_win32.exe /sp- /verysilent" 
"\"C:\Program Files\RealVNC\WinVNC\WinVNC.exe\" -install" "regedit /s 
%Z%\packages\realvnc.reg"

And here is my reg file:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] packages]$ cat realvnc.reg
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default]
"SocketConnect"=dword:0001
"HTTPConnect"=dword:0001
"AutoPortSelect"=dword:0001
"InputsEnabled"=dword:0001
"LocalInputsDisabled"=dword:
"IdleTimeout"=dword:
"QuerySetting"=dword:0002
"QueryTimeout"=dword:000a
"LockSetting"=dword:
"RemoveWallpaper"=dword:0001
"Password"=hex:Series of comma separated bytes in hex
"PollUnderCursor"=dword:
"PollForeground"=dword:0001
"PollFullScreen"=dword:
"OnlyPollConsole"=dword:0001
"OnlyPollOnEvent"=dword:
I think I just set an initial machine up the way I wanted, and then 
exported HKLM\Software\ORL in nt4 format.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] ip address help

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I use this batch file:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]$ cat ipset.bat
@echo off
netsh -f z:\scripts\machines\%COMPUTERNAME%.txt
Jordan

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(invoked as "netsh -f FILENAME")


Does anyone know of a way to make this "FILENAME" the windows "computer 
name" and be then be called from todo.pl

I can then create files with the IP info for each windows computer on my 
network and assign the ip based on the COMPUTER NAME

Thanks



-=-=-=-=-=-=-
pushd interface ip
# Interface IP Configuration for "mgmt"

set address name = "mgmt" source = static addr = 10.0.25.40 mask = 255.255.0.0
set address name = "mgmt" gateway = 10.0.0.1 gwmetric = 1
set dns name = "mgmt" source = static addr = 10.0.0.2
set wins name = "mgmt" source = static addr = none
# Interface IP Configuration for "test"

set address name = "test" source = static addr = 10.11.25.40 mask = 255.255.0.0
set dns name = "test" source = static addr = none
set wins name = "test" source = static addr = none
popd
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Re: [Unattended] ip address help

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Stephen Briney wrote:

Can someone help!! I have a system where I want to be able to install 
several machines completely unattended, headless and keyboard less. In 
each of our systems we have 4 pc’s that must have the following ip 
addresses.

192.168.100.111
192.168.100.112
192.168.100.113
192.168.100.114
I want the unattended boot disk to install windows using dhcp, but I 
need the network settings to be changed to one of the static addresses 
during post install. I want to create one boot disk per ip address 
set-up, so that if I want to install a 192.168.100.111 system, I just 
have to select the correct bootdisk. Dose anyone know of an elegant way 
of doing this? Are there any scripts I can use to change the network 
setting during post install? Any ideas/help would be much appreachated!!

Thanks for all the great work you are doing, I have found the system to 
be very flexible and successful!!

steve
What OS are you using?  You might be able to make use of the "netsh" command.

I have systems with two adapters (that I'm still manually naming to mgmt and 
test), I use [a variant of] this netsh script to give them the proper IP:

(invoked as "netsh -f FILENAME")
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
pushd interface ip
# Interface IP Configuration for "mgmt"

set address name = "mgmt" source = static addr = 10.0.25.40 mask = 255.255.0.0
set address name = "mgmt" gateway = 10.0.0.1 gwmetric = 1
set dns name = "mgmt" source = static addr = 10.0.0.2
set wins name = "mgmt" source = static addr = none
# Interface IP Configuration for "test"

set address name = "test" source = static addr = 10.11.25.40 mask = 255.255.0.0
set dns name = "test" source = static addr = none
set wins name = "test" source = static addr = none
popd
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


No go.  If the order is "console=tty console=ttyS0,9600", I get:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
WELCOME!!!
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console


Sigh.  Think first, patch second.

The problem is that we are trying to launch bash shells on virtual
consoles 2 and 3, and then /etc/master on virtual console 1.  None of
this makes any sense if you are using a serial console.
I have taken a crack at working around this and uploaded a new
prerelease to <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/>.  It may
not work, but at least it should fail differently...
Ok, now when I have the order at "console=tty console=ttyS0,9600", it 
all works as expected (master script to the serial, kernel messages to 
both serial and tty).

It is beyond weird to see the winnt.exe running in teraterm pro. :)

However, I still get the errors I described in an earlier mail ("Bugs in 
4.1", to the dev list).

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Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


No go.  If the order is "console=tty console=ttyS0,9600", I get:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
WELCOME!!!
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console


Sigh.  Think first, patch second.

The problem is that we are trying to launch bash shells on virtual
consoles 2 and 3, and then /etc/master on virtual console 1.  None of
this makes any sense if you are using a serial console.
I have taken a crack at working around this and uploaded a new
prerelease to <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/>.  It may
not work, but at least it should fail differently...
 - Pat
Is there any way to get just the initrd (and possibly the bzImage, if 
needed) without having to download all 15megs?

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Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I will roll a new pre-release of Unattended tonight and get back to
you.


OK, I have uploaded 4.1-pre2 to
.  It has device nodes for
/dev/ttyS0 through ttyS3.
Give it a whirl and let me know what happens.  Thanks again!

No go.  If the order is "console=tty console=ttyS0,9600", I get:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
WELCOME!!!
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
 Master script exited!
bash-2.05b# cd /dev
bash-2.05b# ls
console  kmem port random   tty2 tty5 ttyS1urandom
core mem  pts  tty  tty3 tty6 ttyS2zero
full null ram1 tty1 tty4 ttyS0ttyS3
and if the order is the other way around, I again only get kernel 
messages on the serial port (no script output).

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Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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Jordan Share wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk?  I have
tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the
serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway).


Add something like this to the "append" line of pxelinux.cfg/default:

console=ttyS0,9600

Ok, I get this:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
WELCOME!!!
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
 Master script exited!
bash-2.05b#
I tried it with just "console=ttyS0,9600" and with "console=tty0 
console=ttyS0,9600".  Both times I got the same error.  Both times only 
over the serial, not on the physical console.

When I didn't have the "console=tty0" entry, I get no output after "Ok, 
booting the kernel" on the screen (which is expected).

With it, I don't get any output after "Freeing unused kernel memory: 
112k freed".

Changing the appends to "console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty" causes it to 
progress as usual, but with only kernel messages going to the serial 
console (not the input of the script).

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Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk?  I have
tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the
serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway).


Add something like this to the "append" line of pxelinux.cfg/default:

console=ttyS0,9600

Ok, I get this:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
WELCOME!!!
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
 Master script exited!
bash-2.05b#
I tried it with just "console=ttyS0,9600" and with "console=tty0 
console=ttyS0,9600".  Both times I got the same error.  Both times only 
over the serial, not on the physical console.

When I didn't have the "console=tty0" entry, I get no output after "Ok, 
booting the kernel" on the screen (which is expected).

With it, I don't get any output after "Freeing unused kernel memory: 
112k freed".

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Does anyone know a way to determine which adapter has link?


If these machines are running Windows XP, you can use the
"NetConnectionStatus" property of the Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_networkadapter.asp

We ship a generic WMI enumeration script (instances.pl).  Try running
"instances.pl Win32_NetworkAdapter" with the cable connected and
disconnected to see the difference.  But since the NetConnectionStatus
property was first introduced in Windows XP, this will not show any
difference on Windows 2000.
For Win2k, the best idea I have is to run "ipconfig" and parse the
output...
I need to do both, so it looks like I'll just have to parse ipconfig.

I'm trying to get a 100% unattended install together.  I did finally
try the CTTY COM1 trick (for DOS serial console), and it works.  I
am going to add in a timeout that asks whether you want to install
over serial (and defaults to no) to all the bootdisks today.  Then I
can at least start the reinstall remotely.


Glad to hear that worked.  If you have time to try it with the Linux
boot disk, I would be interested to hear the results of that, too.
What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk?  I have 
tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the serial 
port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway).

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[Unattended] Detecting the active NIC

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I primarily use the Unattending infrastructure to rebuild lab machines.

These machines have a variety of network cards, which come up in varying 
orders.  They all have 1 mgmt interface, and 1 test interface.

I'd like to be able to rename the network connections in Windows 
according to their purpose (e.g. mgmt and test).  Then I can use netsh 
to give them their IP addresses, etc.  (Being able to give them IP info 
without renaming would also be acceptable).

Does anyone know a way to determine which adapter has link?  Given that, 
I can name that one mgmt, and then toggle link (via the switch) on the 
test interface to find it.  (I can't just use "the other" nic for test, 
because some of the machines have an onboard GigE that is cheezed, so 
their test NIC is a generic 100mbit card.)

I'm trying to get a 100% unattended install together.  I did finally try 
the CTTY COM1 trick (for DOS serial console), and it works.  I am going 
to add in a timeout that asks whether you want to install over serial 
(and defaults to no) to all the bootdisks today.  Then I can at least 
start the reinstall remotely.

Even if I were to set the MAC addresses in the DHCP server (a somewhat 
compelling argument), that'd only handle the mgmt interfaces, so I'd 
still need to figure out which of the other NICs is the "real" test 
interface.

Thanks,
Jordan Share


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Re: [Unattended] Various questions

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[Silly me, I forgot to reply-to-all...]

IT Helpdesk wrote:
   2. How to I install printers, all printers are currently shared off
  an NT4 domain controller
This page may be helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=189105
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Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP

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Same here.  I install in winxp (and even win2k3) via unattended (3.5, i 
think) all the time.

It definitely is using a 2 gig partition.

Jordan

Russell Smith wrote:

I have been installing win XP successfully on 2G for ages now.  Are you 
copying a lot of drivers with the installation? Other than that, I can't 
think why it would complain about not enough space.  I am using winxpoem for 
these installs though.

Regards

Russell Smith

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:26 am, DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) wrote:

We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing WXP and
got an error telling me that the partition where I was trying to install
was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial partitioning that Unattended
uses and don't know how to change that. I understand the 2000MB limit was
due to the DOS boot.
Any suggestions?

Thanks
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Re: [Unattended] No system disk or disk error

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DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) wrote:
We have been using Unattended for some time now without major problems.
Unfortunately we are now having to install "Toshiba Techra S1" laptops.
After we boot from the network and type "INST" to start the installation  we
get the followin error.
"Non system disk or disk error"

What can this be?

Virtually all the time that I get this error, it is because the BIOS 
does not have a floppy drive configured.

Even if the machine doesn't have a physical floppy, it still needs to 
have the BIOS set for a floppy.

I've always figured that this is because memdisk "hooks" the bios to 
emulate the floppy, and if the bios isn't there, then there are problems.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] Off Topic: PXE

[Jordan Share]

They also have a PXE boot disk for VMware boxes.  Which can be nice.

Jordan

Teresa Jeremy wrote:

Argon Technology  offers an updated version of RBFG that supports a few more NICs than the standard Windows version.  This product, however, is not free. They were selling RBFG for $49.99US the last time I checked.

They also sell PXE on Disk for additional NICs including Gigabit, USB and PC Cards. 

Their website is http://www.argontechnology.com

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Hello all,

I am using unattended4.x to install windows 2000 workstations and recently 
I started testing with PXE and the pxelinux version that is shipped with 
unattended. This al goes fine on systems with PXE built-in. Some systems 
don't and I use the Windows rbfg.exe utility for these. Also no problem 
here. But some systems don't have PXE built-in, and are not supported by 
rbfg.exe. So I started looking for another solution, which I thought was 
etherboot (www.etherboot.org). The puzzle seemed solved, but when starting 
a system with an etherboot floppy, the following happens: This system 
detects the network card, gets a DHCP lease and then it spits out 
"pxelinux.0 is not a valid image".

Is there someone with similar problems or even better, someone with a 
solution? I know there are some configuration settings for etherboot, and 
I've tried a few, with no luck. I also tried Rom-o-Matic from the 
etherboot site.

Thanks,

Michel


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Re: [Unattended] Re: Online docs (Was: Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide)

[Jordan Share]

I can host it too.

I like Twiki, because it's pretty flexible, had nice diffs of changes, etc.

This is a link to the original wiki, if you've not seen them before:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
Jordan

mark harburn wrote:

Got a link/requirements for  wiki? I'd be happy to offer/host it since this
project helps me out so much.
Mark Harburn

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Matt Disney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I'm not sure how much better this would be than SF docs in your
opinion, Pat, but have you considered a wiki?
I like the collaborative editing idea.  But right now, everything in
Unattended is hosted at SourceForge, and I don't think they provide
support for Wikis.
And I do not really have the resources to set one up myself.

If somebody else were to set one up, I would be happy to link to it
from the home page.  I cannot promise to do any more than that,
though...
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Re: [Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the
officially supported list, though.


We certainly aspire to support it.  It is very, very similar to Win2k.
It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do not yet install,
but otherwise it should work the same as 2k.
Just to chime in with another data point, we install w2kserver with 
Unattended all the time.  win2kpro, win2kserver, and win2kadvserver all 
install the same for me.  I even use the same $oem$ directory for all of 
them.

Jordan

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[Unattended] Unattendedly installing Windows NT ?

[Jordan Share]

Has anyone been able to unattendedly install Windows NT?

I'm plodding through it, but there's a lot of stuff that is different 
from 2k and up.

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Re: [Unattended] speaking of wish lists

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I've been meaning to experiment with this, but it'd be super-nice if
the install.pl script were able to output to the serial port instead
of/as well as the console.


For the DOS boot disk, I think this is just a property of your BIOS;
either it supports using serial as a console, or it doesn't.  DOS uses
the BIOS for I/O; I believe that is what the the "IO" in "BIOS" is all
about :-).  But I could be wrong.  Have you tried it?
There is the "BIOS redirection" feature that some BIOSes have.  We've 
got some machines that will do that (redirect the console to the serial 
port, even after the OS has booted).

But I was talking about the install.pl itself using the serial port. 
Just as a terminal program (for example) can run in DOS and communicate 
with the serial port, regardless of the BIOS, so too could install.pl do so.

The only thing that I've been meaning to try is:
a:\>MODE COM1:96,N,8,1
a:\>CTTY COM1
I've still not tried this (trivial though it is), as we've been 
super-busy at work.

For Linux, I have added support for serial hardware and serial console
to the kernel for 4.0.  So you should be able just to boot the kernel
with the option "console=ttyS0,9600" or somesuch.  If you are booting
from the network, you can do this by editing the "append" line in
tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default.  If not...  Then it's harder.
Ok, I'll have to follow up with the linux setup.  What all is needed to 
upgrade from the version I am on (3.5 or something like that) to the 
latest version?

Are you booting these systems from floppy, CD, or network?
PXE booting off the network, primarily.  Occasionally, I use syslinux to 
boot the same floppy image off a USB "pen drive".

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[Unattended] speaking of wish lists

[Jordan Share]

I've been meaning to experiment with this, but it'd be super-nice if the 
install.pl script were able to output to the serial port instead of/as 
well as the console.

We have a bunch of machines hooked up to serial concentrators, and it'd 
be nice to be able to /fully/ automatedly install them. :)

I've filed an RFE on sourceforge, but I figured I'd send it to the list, 
and see if anyone else was interested.

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Re: [Unattended] Starter Question

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raman singh wrote:

Thanks to all of you for replying. It seems I can use this package. I 
can live without have win95/98 and ME.
 
I installed the unattended package and tried. I feel the documentation 
does not explain all the steps involved, for a starter. I could not make 
it work.
I have the following setup,
 
RH9 where I have Unattened installed, with DHCP and tftp server. And 
Winows 2000 as a share for Images. Now, when I boot a system with PXE 
network card, I get the IP from DHCP server, and it loads the memdisk, 
and undis3c.img (when I type inst on the prompt). But, while loading 
boot sector, it gives me the following error
 
Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready.
 
Could someone please help in solving this problem. 
What do you mean "while loading the boot sector".  If you mean that the 
memdisk doesn't work, and you don't ever boot to the floppy, then I have 
a guess.

You need to have the floppy enabled in the BIOS, even if you don't have 
a physical floppy drive on the system.  Otherwise Memdisk doesn't work.

If you google for:
non-system disk or disk error memdisk
You get this as the 3rd hit:
http://blog.jwiz.org/archives/000713.html
The 4th hit also answers the same question.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] (no subject)

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Stephen Briney wrote:

how is progress giong on booting from a usb pen drive? I remember 
reading about it in the message list some time ago. I want to boot a 
dell inspiron 8600 with it. i am able to boot a freedos image using usb.

Thanks Steve.
If you can boot a freedos image, can't you just as easily boot any 
floppy image, including the Unattended ones?

I use syslinux on my pendrive, and can boot to several floppy images, 
linux kernal+initrd, etc.  Obviously, you have to use a floppy image 
with the appropriate driver for your NIC (since there is no PXE stack 
for the universal driver to leverage), but other than that it is exactly 
like PXE booting, virtual floppy emulated using memdisk and all.

Where are you getting hung up?

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] Similar project - merging possible?

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Between Linux, dosemu, and FreeDOS, I believe we can provide a
completely free infrastructure for installing Windows, which is a very
pleasing concept :-).
The one big question mark that I have with this approach is hardware 
RAID cards.  We have /several/ that 1) don't have linux drivers or 2) 
have really old linux drivers that only work on outdated kernels.

I've been installing windows onto these boxes with unattended just fine. 
 You do the txtsetup.oem dance, and you are good to go, since dos is 
just using BIOS to talk to the disk (as I understand it).

Then I tried kickstarting RH9 onto these boxes (we are using them in a 
multiboot setup, with 2 windows partitions, and one linux partition).  I 
did finally get the driver module wedged into the kickstart boot disks, 
but I am stuck running an older kernel, because these (binary-only) 
drivers are only provided for that one.

So, if you do decide to go to an "only Linux" setup, one thing to keep 
in mind are these RAID drivers, and how you will be able to add them to 
the linux boot disk.

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Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM

[Jordan Share]

Dag Nummedal wrote:
Jordan Share writes:
I'd like to find out if anyone has a pointer to the breakdown of what 
each numeric code means.


The destination is defined by the [DestinationDirs] section in the inf file.
You can find the information you're looking for here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/install/hh/install/create-inf_3aav.asp

Fantastic.  That is exactly what I was looking for.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
He asked a question about dealing with .dll files; I have tried the
method documented in KB275334 and it seems to work:
  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=275334

It should be possible to automate these steps, but not at install time
because the share is read-only.  Maybe if I get bored one day I will
take a crack at it...  Meanwhile, your best bet is trial and error, as
you surmised.
Yes, I have read that KB article.  It says, "The correct OEMDIR 
destination can be found by searching the INF file used to install the 
device or driver."

But, when you search the INF file, it only has numeric codes for the 
destinations.  I have empirically determined that (for one of these 
files, anyway) "12" corresponds to "$oem$\$$\system32".  (It may also 
"just work" to have that file in there, due to it being on the path, or 
some such thing).

I'd like to find out if anyone has a pointer to the breakdown of what 
each numeric code means.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] Fully unattended, changing pxelinux boot files

[Jordan Share]

Max Lovius wrote:

I am working on fully unattended installations ideas.
Anyone done any work on changing pxelinux boot files? The last step!
Or some other way to complete the task of automation? Might I have missed
something?
The only thing I can think of is a perl or dos tftp client!
But thought I should ask, before I do something that I am seems like it
should have been done.  
It's not clear (to me anyway) what it is you are trying to accomplish.

Why do you need to change the pxelinux boot files?

A couple of things you might consider:

Rather than change the config files (if that is indeed what you need to 
do), you might consider changing the IP addresses handed out to the 
various MAC addresses.  pxelinux.0 will get its config file based on 
what IP address it was given.  So you could dynamically reconfigure your 
dhcp server to give out addresses from different pools.

We have every machine PXE boot all the time, and default to "localboot" 
in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file.  Thus, we manually tell it 
to boot to the unattended install (for the first boot) and then just let 
it reboot.  It subsequently PXE boots, times out, then boots from HD.

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Re: [Unattended] re: oem drivers et al

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's great that the system autoscans for a mass storage driver and puts
them in the appropriate places, however i can only seem to get one mass
storage driver in at a time.  Is it a case of altering textsetup.oem to
include mutiple d(n) with each of the relavent info and then a diffrent
folder for the actual storage of the files.  If someone wanted to be
really smart i guess they could make a txtsetup.oem parser and slipstream
the relavent files straight into the xp portions of os folder into i386.
It might be an idea to make this more clear on the website, as it is
proberbly one of the more complex ones to install by guessing, the website
would make you belive you had to follow your earlier post to do it
manually, which i supose you have to do to an extent.
I'm proberbly making myself sound stupid here, but a reply would be
apreciated.
mark harburn
After an initial false start with this (due to having the wrong mass 
storage driver for the machine I was trying to install on), I think I 
have this sussed.

I'm basically taking the drivers/files off the floppy that they come on, 
and rewriting the txtsetup.oem that each manufacturer provides, splicing 
the relevant sections into the "master" txtsetup.eom, and putting the 
files all into the $oem$\textmode directory.

Here's the beginning of my current txtsetup.oem file:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
[Disks]
d1 = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows 
2000/XP/2003", disk1, ""
d2 = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for Windows 
2000/XP/2003", hraidsk1, ""
d3 = "Promise FastTrak TX4000/S150TX Series Driver Diskette", fasttx2k, ""
d4 = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Driver Installation 
Disk",Si3112r.sys,""
d5 = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Driver Installation 
Disk",si3112.sys,""

[Defaults]
scsi = ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K
[scsi]
3ware = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller"
ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For 
Windows 2000/XP/2003"
FastTrak_TX2K_w2k = "Windows 2000: Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller 
(FastTrak S150 TX4)", fasttx2k
Si3112r_NT = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 
4.0 and 2000"
Si3112_NT = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Controller for Windows NT 
4.0 and 2000"

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

after that I have the relevant [Files] [Config.] 
[HardwareIds] sections from the original txtsetup.oem files.  One 
thing you have to be careful not to forget is to change each [Files] 
section to use the correct "disk id" as specified in the [Disks] section 
above.  I forgot to change it once (and left it as the original value, 
which wasn't in the [Disks] section).  This cause all kinds of weird, 
non-google-able errors.

Another problem is if the driver tries to use a .dll or other weird file 
in its [Files] section.  Then you have to 1) remove those lines from the 
 [Files] section, and put them into 
$oem$\$$\path\under\winnt\directory.  You should be able to tell where 
they go from the [DestinationDirs] portion of the original .inf file for 
those drivers.  As far as I can tell "12" is "$oem$\$$\system32".  If 
anyone else knows a reference for this info, it'd be appreciated.

For completeness, here are all the files in my $oem$\textmode directory:
3WDRV100.SYS
3waregsm.cat
txtsetup.oem
Si3112r.inf
oemsetup.inf
disk1
3WFLTDRV.SYS
aarich.cat
aarich.sys
adhraid.cat
adhraid.inf
adaptec.inf
hraidsk1
Fasttx2k.cat
fasttx2k.inf
fasttx2k.sys
fasttx2k
Si3112r.mpd
Si3112r.sys
SIISUPP.VXD
SIWinAcc.sys
si3112.cat
SI3112.inf
Si3112.mpd
Si3112.sys
Hope this helps,
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Re: [Unattended] re: oem drivers et al

[Jordan Share]

[I'm sending this again, since it didn't come through to the list the 
first time. (Or hasn't yet, anyway) ]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's great that the system autoscans for a mass storage driver and puts
them in the appropriate places, however i can only seem to get one mass
storage driver in at a time.  Is it a case of altering textsetup.oem to
include mutiple d(n) with each of the relavent info and then a diffrent
folder for the actual storage of the files.  If someone wanted to be
really smart i guess they could make a txtsetup.oem parser and slipstream
the relavent files straight into the xp portions of os folder into i386.
It might be an idea to make this more clear on the website, as it is
proberbly one of the more complex ones to install by guessing, the website
would make you belive you had to follow your earlier post to do it
manually, which i supose you have to do to an extent.
I'm proberbly making myself sound stupid here, but a reply would be
apreciated.
mark harburn
After an initial false start with this (due to having the wrong mass
storage driver for the machine I was trying to install on), I think I
have this sussed.
I'm basically taking the drivers/files off the floppy that they come on,
and rewriting the txtsetup.oem that each manufacturer provides, splicing
the relevant sections into the "master" txtsetup.eom, and putting the
files all into the $oem$\textmode directory.
Here's the beginning of my current txtsetup.oem file:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
[Disks]
d1 = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows
2000/XP/2003", disk1, ""
d2 = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for Windows
2000/XP/2003", hraidsk1, ""
d3 = "Promise FastTrak TX4000/S150TX Series Driver Diskette", fasttx2k, ""
d4 = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Driver Installation
Disk",Si3112r.sys,""
d5 = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Driver Installation
Disk",si3112.sys,""
[Defaults]
scsi = ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K
[scsi]
3ware = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller"
ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For
Windows 2000/XP/2003"
FastTrak_TX2K_w2k = "Windows 2000: Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller
(FastTrak S150 TX4)", fasttx2k
Si3112r_NT = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT
4.0 and 2000"
Si3112_NT = "Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Controller for Windows NT
4.0 and 2000"
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

after that I have the relevant [Files] [Config.]
[HardwareIds] sections from the original txtsetup.oem files.  One
thing you have to be careful not to forget is to change each [Files]
section to use the correct "disk id" as specified in the [Disks] section
above.  I forgot to change it once (and left it as the original value,
which wasn't in the [Disks] section).  This cause all kinds of weird,
non-google-able errors.
Another problem is if the driver tries to use a .dll or other weird file
in its [Files] section.  Then you have to 1) remove those lines from the
 [Files] section, and put them into
$oem$\$$\path\under\winnt\directory.  You should be able to tell where
they go from the [DestinationDirs] portion of the original .inf file for
those drivers.  As far as I can tell "12" is "$oem$\$$\system32".  If
anyone else knows a reference for this info, it'd be appreciated.
For completeness, here are all the files in my $oem$\textmode directory:
3WDRV100.SYS
3waregsm.cat
txtsetup.oem
Si3112r.inf
oemsetup.inf
disk1
3WFLTDRV.SYS
aarich.cat
aarich.sys
adhraid.cat
adhraid.inf
adaptec.inf
hraidsk1
Fasttx2k.cat
fasttx2k.inf
fasttx2k.sys
fasttx2k
Si3112r.mpd
Si3112r.sys
SIISUPP.VXD
SIWinAcc.sys
si3112.cat
SI3112.inf
Si3112.mpd
Si3112.sys
Hope this helps,
Jordan


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Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers

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Jordan Share wrote:
Wolf wrote:
IMHO you are trying the wrong drivers here.

I've just checked their website and downloaded the (FastTrack 
100-)Drivers and there ist an txtsetup.oem that lists the drivers.

Maybe it helps. Sorry if this is way off. I'm not sure I should have 
written it myself... ;-)


Well, it's possible, but I downloaded these drivers from Intel's 
website, so I expect they'd be correct.  I haven't actually tried 
installing with the floppy version though.

I tried installing from CD with the floppy.  Doesn't find any hard disks.

Woops.  Yep, there are indeed some Promise drivers on Intel's page.

I'll give it a go with the other disks, and try to get the unattended 
thinger to work /after/ getting the normal floppy to work.

*sigh*

Thanks, Wolf. :)

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Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers

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Wolf wrote:

Hi,

maybe I got this all wrong, so please bear with me!!
I just read the above mail in the daily digest. I once had a 
FastTrack-Controller.

just as a thought: I have had a Promise FastTrack 100-Controller and it 
would not work with the standard Windows-Drivers. When installing 
manually, you had to press "F6" during the boot process and add the 
drivers disk in order to have access to the disks. I don't remember 
Promise being bought by someone (like Adaptec), so I assume the drivers 
are still from fasttrack and are still called "FASTTRAK.xyz".
IMHO you are trying the wrong drivers here.

I've just checked their website and downloaded the (FastTrack 
100-)Drivers and there ist an txtsetup.oem that lists the drivers.

Maybe it helps. Sorry if this is way off. I'm not sure I should have 
written it myself... ;-)
Well, it's possible, but I downloaded these drivers from Intel's 
website, so I expect they'd be correct.  I haven't actually tried 
installing with the floppy version though.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] Not enough memory (ENOMEM)

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Claus-Dieter Jahreis wrote:

Hallo,

trying to use unattended on an IBM IntelliStation ZPro with 3 GB RAM,
following error occurs executing install.pl:
Can't spawn "fdisk /info /tech > \tmp.txt": Not enough memory (ENOMEM)
at z:\dosbin\install.pl line 268
fdisk /info /tech > \tmp.txt failed, unexpected status 16777215 at
z:\dosbin\install.pl line 270
Has anybody an idea?
Some of the intel Gigabit Ethernet adapters have a very large PXE boot 
rom, so I have to use the driver specifically for those NICs, instead of 
the "universal" one.

You could try using the boot disk specifically for your NIC, if you are 
using the universal one now.

Jordan

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Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers

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Jordan Share wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I am now trying to get another machine to work.  It has a Promise
RAID chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E).  I am
able to get the inital file copy to work.  But, when it tries to go
into native win32 mode I get the "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DISK" error.
Anyone have pointers on this?


I have never tried this, although I believe it should work in theory.
But I do not know of anybody else who has tried it.
First, lets make sure Unattended is doing its job.  I assume
install.pl correctly offers you the two OEM drivers?
It does offer them both.

Could you send along the [MassStorageDrivers] and [OEMBootFiles]
sections of the generated unattend.txt?
Ok here they are:
[MassStorageDrivers]
"Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For Windows 
2000/XP/2003" = OEM

; See comments for [MassStorageDrivers]
[OEMBootFiles]
txtsetup.oem
aarich.cat
aarich.sys
adhraid.inf
readme.txt
3waregsm.cat
adhraid.cat
oemsetup.inf
disk1
3wdrv100.sys
hraidsk1
3wfltdrv.sys
adaptec.inf
Or, as an alternative, you could eliminate the d2 declaration from
[Disks] entirely and use d1 instead of d2 in
[Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K].  This is arguably a better plan,
since what you are really doing is creating a single "disk" with
multiple drivers on it...


I will give this a shot too.
No good.

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Re: [Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers

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Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I am now trying to get another machine to work.  It has a Promise
RAID chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E).  I am
able to get the inital file copy to work.  But, when it tries to go
into native win32 mode I get the "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DISK" error.
Anyone have pointers on this?


I have never tried this, although I believe it should work in theory.
But I do not know of anybody else who has tried it.
First, lets make sure Unattended is doing its job.  I assume
install.pl correctly offers you the two OEM drivers?
Could you send along the [MassStorageDrivers] and [OEMBootFiles]
sections of the generated unattend.txt?
I manually added a [MassStorageDrivers] and [OEMBootFiles] section to 
the unattend.txt that is in my site directory.

I hadn't realized that install.pl would scan them and create those 
sections.  Let me try removing them and get back to you.

[Disks]
d1 = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows
2000/XP/2003", \disk1, ""
d2   = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for
Windows 2000/XP/2003", \disk1, ""


I am not sure it is a good idea to use the same tag file (\disk1) for
both of these "disks".  You might try changing the second one to
\disk2.
Although since neither of those files really exist (do they?), I am
not sure this will help.
Yes, that file exists (it's the one from the 3ware disk, actually) and 
just has some human-readable info about the disk.

I have also tried it with two entries, using \disk1 and \hraidsk1 (which 
came on the Adaptec disk).  No dice.

[Files.scsi.3ware]
driver  = d1, 3wDrv100.sys, 3wDrv100
driver  = d1, 3wFltDrv.sys, 3wFltDrv
inf = d1, oemsetup.inf
catalog = d1, 3waregsm.cat


[snip]


[Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K]
driver  = d2,aarich.sys, aarich
inf = d2,adaptec.inf
inf = d2,adhraid.inf
catalog = d2,aarich.cat


Or, as an alternative, you could eliminate the d2 declaration from
[Disks] entirely and use d1 instead of d2 in
[Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K].  This is arguably a better plan,
since what you are really doing is creating a single "disk" with
multiple drivers on it...
I will give this a shot too.

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[Unattended] TXTSETUP.OEM and multiple SCSI drivers

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We have a wide variety of machines at my work, and I'd like to be able 
to install them all with the unattended system.

I was able to get the 3ware RAID drivers to work.  That is, I can do an 
unattended install onto machines which have a 3ware RAID card as their 
only harddisk.

I am now trying to get another machine to work.  It has a Promise RAID 
chipset built into the motherboard (an Intel S875WP-1E).  I am able to 
get the inital file copy to work.  But, when it tries to go into native 
win32 mode I get the "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DISK" error.

Anyone have pointers on this?

Thanks,
Jordan
What follows are the contents of my txtsetup.oem file (some lines may wrap):
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
[Disks]
d1 = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller for Windows 
2000/XP/2003", \disk1, ""
d2   = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver Ver 2.00 for Windows 
2000/XP/2003", \disk1, ""

[Defaults]
scsi = ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K
[scsi]
3ware = "3ware Escalade 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller"
ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K = "Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Driver For 
Windows 2000/XP/2003"

[Files.scsi.3ware]
driver  = d1, 3wDrv100.sys, 3wDrv100
driver  = d1, 3wFltDrv.sys, 3wFltDrv
inf = d1, oemsetup.inf
catalog = d1, 3waregsm.cat
[Config.3wDrv100]
value = "", Group, REG_SZ, "SCSI Miniport"
value = "", Start, REG_DWORD, 0
value = "", Tag,   REG_DWORD, 1
value = "", Type,  REG_DWORD, 1
[Config.3wFltDrv]
value = "", Start, REG_DWORD, 0
value = "", Tag,   REG_DWORD, 1
value = "", Type,  REG_DWORD, 1
[Files.scsi.ADAPTEC_SATARAID_W2K]
driver  = d2,aarich.sys, aarich
inf = d2,adaptec.inf
inf = d2,adhraid.inf
catalog = d2,aarich.cat
[Config.aarich]
value = "", Group, REG_SZ,"SCSI Miniport"
value = "", Start, REG_DWORD, 0
value = "", Tag,   REG_DWORD, 1
value = "", Type,  REG_DWORD, 1
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Re: [Unattended] Office is not accepting PIDKEY

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Tyler Hepworth wrote:

I have a volume license of office and have hardcoded the pidkey into the 
office.bat file.
 
todo.pl "%Z%\packages\officexp\setuppls.exe /qb /l* 
c:\netinst\logs\officexp.txt ADDLOCAL=ALL NOUSERNAME=1 
PIDKEY=X-X-X-X-X"
 
When I run office for the first time, it says that it is registered to 
"Unknown User" and is the "Uninstalled Version".  It then asks for a 
username and the product key.  This occurs with both Office 2000 Premium 
and Office XP Professional.  Any idea why the PIDKEY is being passed to 
the installer via the bat file?
For OfficeXP, you must remove the hyphens from the PIDKEY.

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Re: [Unattended] Specifying Printers during Initial Dialog

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Tyler Hepworth wrote:
The printers must be setup on the print server such that they can be 
installed by just calling the full unc path to the printer from a 
command line or run dialog.
FYI, this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=189105
has info on how to add printers w/o user interaction.
For example, I use this command (all one line):

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Phaser 4400N" /f 
\\townsend\download\Xerox_Phaser_4400_Drivers\English\x4400_2k.inf /r 
"http://phaser/"; /m "Xerox Phaser 4400N"

to automatically add an "http"-based printer to desktops.

This is useful in my situation, because that printer is not shared by 
any actual computers (other than itself) for me to load drivers on.

Jordan

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