Re: My plans for a Unattended modification.

2004-08-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:47:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Add replication to multiple servers, or distribute certain > packages to different servers (No one server can handle the load of 30 > computers installing itself over a gigabit lan) You're better off doing this on the

Re: Using C programs to get Database Information?

2004-06-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:46:48AM +1000, Russell Smith wrote: > I wrote to the list recently about using a couple of C programs instead of DBI > to connect to a database. Is this a feasible option, or do we want to go > down the DBI path, which seems to have been discussed for months, but we >

Re: implementing wireless support

2004-06-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:28:44AM -0500, Christian Betz wrote: > What else? Firmware. A lot of newer WiFi cards need firmware loading, and we need a way to get that into the system. Even stock-kernel drivers often need a separate firmware file, because it's specific to the card model and/or is

Re: [Unattended] Standard distro for linuxboot image?

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:00:27AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > Most distributions I looked at are not designed for what we want to > do. We need to keep some stuff on the boot disk (like network > drivers) but other stuff on the network (like mass storage drivers). > And we want to be able

Re: [Unattended] More info on Perl DBD issues

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:36:34AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Apparently Perl_Gthr_key_ptr is a threading thing, so it looks like > > the perl in Unattended hasn't been built with thread support. Was >

Re: DHCP for Z_PATH

2004-04-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:03:46PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hm. If we are going to steal a local DHCP option anyway, maybe we > > should only take one but give it this syntax: > > > > z_user=... z_pass=... z_path=... > > OK,

DHCP for Z_PATH

2004-04-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
I've just been trying out the new Linux bootdisk with Unattended 4.0b, and it rocks longer and harder than ever. My one problem at the moment is trying to make it even more unattended. I know I can put the relevant options on the kernel boot command line, but I'd *love* it if unattended could get