"Stephen Briney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found that it is the partition info on the hard disk that is > causing the boot disk to hang. This was because the hard disks I > was using had Linux on previously. The simple fix was to write over > the partition table on the disk and then use the dos boot disk. The > free Dos disk must have fixed this bug as it can boot the machine > first time with out changing the partition table.
This is good to know; thank you. It also provides another reason to move away from MS-DOS 6. I actually got a FreeDOS boot disk working yesterday. I am unsure how well it will support all the hardware out there, so the next release of Unattended will almost certainly be a "test" release. > This may sound like an oblivious question, but is there a way of > preventing the windows boot manager asking if I want windows xp or > the previous operating system (on every boot) when I do an > unattended install on it. The default base.bat takes care of this automatically by invoking bootini.pl. See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html#bootini - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info