Re: [Unattended] VMWare network driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: | For the DOS boot disk, the pcntnd driver should work. For the Linux | boot disk, the driver should be selected and loaded automatically. Only true if using the vlance mode in the ethernet settings. When using the vmxnet mode it will not find the driver. (which is why i asked :-)) | Read the Partitioning and Formatting section of | http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.html. If you still have | questions, ask again :-). Maybe i asked the question wrong. I want to use the following of my existing unattend file and not the [_meta] sections: [Data] AutoPartition=1 [Unattended] Repartition=Yes ExtendOEMPartition=Yes This makes the ntsetup create one disk-spanning ntfs partition which is all i need. This would of course conflict with copying of the files to the workstation first. Can't i call the setup just like as if booting from a CD (without copying the setup files)? | There is no other place to store it. If you want to remove it after | installation, put something like this in your Z:\site\unattend.txt: | | [_meta] | bottom=Z:\site\cleanup.bat | | ...and then create Z:\site\cleanup.bat like so: | | del %SystemDrive%\netinst\unattend.txt Sounds good :-) Thanks a bunch! Martin Adler -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAe4LfUiABwy80YugRAg8uAJ44zBGX//QTA8tYOVMDOyIeahhbRACdEkrM WwmsLBlehWPDPNWhzKCZCoM= =aIAT -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] VMWare network driver
Martin Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: | For the DOS boot disk, the pcntnd driver should work. For the Linux | boot disk, the driver should be selected and loaded automatically. Only true if using the vlance mode in the ethernet settings. When using the vmxnet mode it will not find the driver. (which is why i asked :-)) Ah. Well, I have never used VMware. But according to http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx25/doc/network_adv_vmxnet_gsx.html: Other guest operating systems use the vlance driver only. In context, other means anything other than Windows. Since the guest operating system here is DOS or Linux, I suggest you use the vlance driver :-). Digging deeper, it looks like VMware does have a vmxnet driver for Linux. But the driver is not part of the stock kernel, and apparently it requires third-party patches to work under the 2.6 kernel at all. So, in theory, we could support vmxnet on the Linux-based boot disk. But it would take some work. Also, the vmxnet.c license could be an issue; I have not read it yet. Is there a problem with using vlance? It is only needed during installation, after all. Maybe i asked the question wrong. I want to use the following of my existing unattend file and not the [_meta] sections: [Data] AutoPartition=1 [Unattended] Repartition=Yes ExtendOEMPartition=Yes This makes the ntsetup create one disk-spanning ntfs partition which is all i need. This would of course conflict with copying of the files to the workstation first. Can't i call the setup just like as if booting from a CD (without copying the setup files)? Sorry, but no. When you boot from CD, the Windows Setup you see is a 32-bit application running in some stripped-down version of Windows itself (similar to WinPE). So it can format, read, and write NTFS directly. Our network install runs on DOS or Linux, neither of which can handle (especially write) NTFS. (Yes, NTFS for Linux is coming. But since we run winnt.exe under dosemu, this might not help us.) Repartition=Yes simply not mix with DOS-based network installs; you use FileSystem=ConvertNTFS instead. The only way around this for network-based installation is to use WinPE, which we do not (and will not) support because it isn't free. Why do you not want to use the [_meta] section? The example in our docs does exactly what you ask... - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] VMWare network driver
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Is there a problem with using vlance? It is only needed during installation, after all. No, no problem with the vlance. I just forgot to switch it in the settings before posting to the list in very beginning. :-) Why do you not want to use the [_meta] section? The example in our docs does exactly what you ask... Thank you for clearing that up for me. I will give the [_meta] section a try so bare with me... :-) Thanks again. And keep up the great work! Martin -- Martin Adler Azubi Informatikkaufmann SR Bildungszentrum Wismar Wallstr. 2c 23966 Wismar --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
