RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

At 12:44 PM 9/16/2005, Chris wrote: Yes, I know I'm "doing it wrong"; my point is that "doing it right" requires picking apart the source code and reverse-engineering the build process for the sake of adding a few dozen characters to a single file, all so I can override defaults that make no sens

RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

Chris, That last comment from Moritz is how I did it --> "Under Windows you can use WinIso or similar... it works! regards, Moritz" I just opened the linux boot iso with WinIso, extracted the cfg file, edited the parameters, and put it back. Relatively painless. I have a local install accou

RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

> You're missing my point. > You don't need to reverse engineering or rebuild anything to > change the account/hostname info. Edit the config files in > the ISO using the _RIGHT_ tools and burn it to a CD. Yes, Ryan, thank you, I do understand what mkisofs -quiet -o linuxboot.iso -b isolinux/iso

RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Doherty, Chris - Elmira, ON wrote: You're doing it wrong. Use ISO9660 (e.g. Linux mkisofs) tools to modify this. Yes, I know I'm "doing it wrong"; my point is that "doing it right" requires picking apart the source code and reverse-engineering the build process for the sak

RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

> You're doing it wrong. Use ISO9660 (e.g. Linux mkisofs) tools > to modify this. Yes, I know I'm "doing it wrong"; my point is that "doing it right" requires picking apart the source code and reverse-engineering the build process for the sake of adding a few dozen characters to a single file, al

RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Doherty, Chris - Elmira, ON wrote: [snip..] 1.3) To change either 1.1 or 1.2, you have to either netboot (so you can change the pxelinux cfg) which involves changing the DHCP server (branch office, not gonna happen) or rebuild the boot CD from scratch, which requires massiv

RE: [Unattended] Never mind; continue about your daily business ( was biosinfo.txt not found when using unattended with XPSP2 integrated M V LS)

> 2 unattended.sourceforge.net Overview > > It took me about two weeks of working with the system to > really wrap my head around how things worked. Hopefully I can > explain it a little better than the documentation did. What I find I need to know most is exactly how to control all the various