On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:11 am, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi Pat, and All other devs :)
>
> Hey, Russ. Good to see you again :-).
>
> > 1. When using the Broadcom NetXtreme 1000 Card (I Think that's it)
> > the DHCP on udhcpc is still too fast if you plug the machine into a
> > fast port (100/1000). Can we adjust the script to either try DHCP
> > after a 5 second wait, maybe in a loop? or increase that sanity
> > time before attempting dhcp. I know it's a bit already.
>
> So DHCP itself fails? Sure, we can put in in a loop. Actually, that
> would allow us to completely eliminate the initial 5-second pause for
> systems which do not need it.
>
> I really wish I knew exactly what we were waiting for, exactly. I
> hate random delays.
Your waiting for the driver to initialize an get it's head together. It takes
this amount of time for the Broadcom card to get the Link up and running
properly. the Driver RX/TX lines come up after the DHCP requests. At least
that's what I'm waiting for. (I'll be testing again in about 60 minutes.)
>
> > 2. The linux portion of the windows install seems very slow, is
> > there a reason for that?
>
> Installing which OS? And how slow, exactly (do you have numbers)?
I'll time, but something like 30 minutes to do the linux based dos copy.
10Mbit Switched Network. Could be the NetCard, I hate Broadcom already.
Win2k is the OS, slip streamed SP4.
>
> For Win2k, it is extremely fast for me. For XP, there is a long delay
> at the beginning, but after that it is not too bad... Less than 10
> minutes total.
>
> I will just do it and see if we get any complaints. If we do, I will
> switch the default back to RO and add a z_... option. Sound good?
Sound fine. Just saves me having to be around to stop a machine continually
attempting to rebuild :)
>
> > 4. Using parted has a few issues with installation. Even though you
> > mklabel msdos, when you create a partition it has the type of ntfs.
> > Which in my case was the last filesystem on that drive. I haven't
> > found a clean way around this, but making a mkpartfs with the
> > filesystem type fixes the problem. Any ideas?
>
> I am not seeing this problem... Could you provide details? Are you
> using the latest version of Z:\dosbin\install.pl? Are you setting
> [_meta]/fdisk_cmds in Z:\site\unattend.txt or config.pl?
install.pl is the one from the 4.1 Release. using fdisk_cmds from
site\unattend.txt
[_meta]
; Contents of doit.bat script
edit_files=0
netinst="c:\netinst"
; Accounts added to local Administrators group
local_admins=""
; Command to disable (or modify) logon setting when installation finishes
autolog="autolog.pl --logon=0 --domain=DVCNET"
replace_mbr=1
fdisk_cmds="fdisk /clear 1;fdisk /prio:2000;fdisk /activate:1"
OS_dir="z:\"
; NTP servers, separated by commas or spaces
ntp_servers=""
format_cmd="format /y /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c:"
; Use extended INT13 BIOS calls for fdisk?
fdisk_lba=1
fdisk_confirm=0
That's my _meta section from the unattend.txt file. And yes, I know that it's
bad form to have Z:\ as the OS dir.
- Russ
PS More throughout the day as I test these things.
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