Re: [Unattended] How to get a list of current updates?

2007-11-22 Thread Chris
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm wondering what the best way is to build a list of all available > "hotfixes" required. Is there some easy, programmatic way? > There are a few options. If you want a list of current updates complete with the download urls, you can use the l

Re: [Unattended] Activation

2007-11-22 Thread Brian May
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 16:59 +1100, Brian May wrote: > This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log > on. Do you want to Activate Windows now? It would appear that not all Windows XP SP2 CDs are the same. I did the same thing, but with the image from the SP2 CD that came

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Nov 22, 2007 10:09 PM, Michael De Groote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, just some following up on this trail: > > at the moment, i dont think it's stable enough to be useful, at least not in > an environment where you need to install more than one machine. Why? > A) because depending on the si

Re: [Unattended] Trying out unattended. First impressions and wishlist

2007-11-22 Thread Michael De Groote
ok, just some following up on this trail: at the moment, i dont think it's stable enough to be useful, at least not in an environment where you need to install more than one machine. Why? A) because depending on the situation, it throws errors (on eg win2k, it complains about some weird "COM error

Re: [Unattended] How to get a list of current updates?

2007-11-22 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Torsdag 22 november 2007 14:51, skrev Frank Van Damme: > Something that troubles me more: I have just cvs-updated my scripts > (and ran the prepare script), tried an unattended Window installation > and now it tries to run z:\updates\common\scriptenu.exe. But... that > rogram has been removed from

Re: [Unattended] How to get a list of current updates?

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Nov 21, 2007 10:58 PM, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seems to be a number of updates to XPSP2 that haven't made it into > unattended CVS yet. That's not really a problem, at least not to me. You're supposed to have some kind of system to deploy updates anyway . Something that tr