Re: [Unattended] no serial console after making bootdisk

Hi John, Serial console support is built in to linux, all you need to do is turn it on. It's not very involved, just a few changes to config files in /etc. Here are links to a few pages explaining the process: http://www.znark.com/tech/serialconsole.html http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Se

Re: [Unattended] Firefox and thunderbird?

Jonathan Pauli wrote: Has anyone been able to get firefox or thunderbird silent installs working with unattended? Thanks in advance! You can find msi packages for both in the nightly builds area for both FF and TB. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ http://ftp.mo

Re: [Unattended] creating a backup server using cp command??

new machine and use the cp command to copy the files update any new or updated files from a crontab regularly daily at 3am or so. Sounds like a job for rsync. rsync will only copy things that have changed, so it will save you a lot of time and bandwidth. http://rsync.samba.org/ -- Brian Mathis

Re: [Unattended] Unattended firefox install not possible?

ded to install any software? -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http:/

Re: [Unattended] unattended software testing methodology

y - Standardized installations - Leverage previous work -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for

Re: [Unattended] Re: Package download

the process would check each time to keep our patches up-to-date.) I should do some checking around, theres got to be a nice bash to perl translator out there (cause im too lazy to do it meself) um... incase yall have thought of, or done this already - just consider me slow! thx

Re: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control

OS, configure RAID cards, etc... -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to an

Re: [Unattended] CVS from behind a firewall

evere, and that combined with their proxy means I am having problems Can anybody point me at a resource that will help me get through this from a Linux box at my end? TIA Kevin Lawry -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email is s

Re: [Unattended] Installation problem with 40gb disks

problem... Any suggestions ? -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- 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

Re: [Unattended] speaking of wish lists

If not... Then it's harder. Are you booting these systems from floppy, CD, or network? - Pat Yes, this can be a BIOS option, but DOS can also do something like this.  Take a look here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=3314A642.5FA6%40deltaelectronics.com -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/

Re: [Unattended] Linux and samba issues.

t dragging and dropping them onto to server. That worked fine. Why does pscp corrupt the files? Are there any switches that will fix this? If anyone has experience with this let me know. -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- SF.Net is sp

Re: [Unattended] How to pass Office Key into %pidkey%

, but I don't call office from one of the master bat files.  I have it set as an optional install.  How would I set it when it is being called optionally?   Thanks,   Tyler Hepworth Computer Specialist Nature's Sunshine Products -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/

Re: [Unattended] Disk/Partition imaging tools to run alongside Unattended

f you image a 10Gb partition containing only 2Gb of data, you can end up with a compressed file of around 1Gb, rather than a bit-for-bit copy of the whole 10Gb. Anyone got any ideas? JMB -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.N

Re: [Unattended] Disk/Partition imaging tools to run alongside Unattended

is that if you image a 10Gb partition containing only 2Gb of data, you can end up with a compressed file of around 1Gb, rather than a bit-for-bit copy of the whole 10Gb. Anyone got any ideas? JMB -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- Th

Re: [Unattended] mozilla quickstart

nd I was wondering if there was an installation switch to activate that. I have tried the "~/mozilla.exe -turbo" in a batch file, but once that command is invoked the program hangs until the quickstart icon in the task bar is disabled. Any suggestions? Thanks, Justi

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

t; purposes. What should bother you more is that psexec can be run by any user, and only requires them to have logon rights to the remote machine. A poor NT group/security scheme is a much bigger problem in this case than unencrypted traffic. lloyd wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: > You don'

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

You don't need to buy rsh to do this. There is a freeware tool from sysinternals.com called "psexec" that allows you to remotely run a command on any machine without first installing a service on it. You only need rights to log in to that machine. It can be found here: http://www.sysinternal