Hi folks,
I have read some posts on this mailing list regaring a combination of
BartPE (PeBuilder) and unanttended.
I did manage to build a BartPE CD which leaverages all the really good
stuff of unattended.
What I did:
- Build a perl plug-in for BartPE (based on activestate perl)
- Modified the PE netcfg ini to automatically mount the z:\drive and
launching my simple wrapper script
Copied the z:\dosbin\install.pl to z:\winbin\winstall.pl and adapted it
to run under the booted BartPE CD.
In detail:
Removed some of the Linux and DOS stuff (not all, i havn't got
further to get all that stuff off)
Used the tools to create the partitions in a Windows environment
(diskpart)
Using the choice.exe out of an W2K3 box
Using the tool fixmbr.exe to write the masterboot record.
- Created a simple batch to start the perl winstall.pl and lauch the
doit.bat.
- Added two new variables into site\unattend.txt to support the diskpart
and format commands in a Windows environment without breaking the LINUX
and
Dos support.
This took me a lot of time, because I'm absolutly not a Perl expert....
But I managed it (a lot of try and error).
Right now, when booting the CD I'll get the familiar looking choice
which OS to install and the same tasks will be processed to do an
unattended installation using an Windows environment instead of a DOS or
LINUX boot disk.
Why I did this?
- Maintaining a Linux boot disk ...
I'm not that crack to handle this
- Maintaining a DOS boot disk ...
Same thing ...
- Most drivers for new hardware (SATA HostRaid, DIE Controllers... ) are
available for XP and W2K and WinPE (the MS preboot env.) which can be
easiely
added to the bootdisk by figuring out the correct drivers and copy
them to the right directories. Building a new ISO image ... That's all.
I really do not critiziese the people maintaining the boot disks. I had
the pain to install a new IBM machine with an Adaptec HostRAID
controller (fake raid). I couldn manage to use the Linux nor the DOS
boot disk. I googled, and googled and googled. The other way was to get
access to the disk installed in the machine as well get the network card
running and use the great work the developers have done in developing
unattended.
I hope that I have build a base which can be developted to support
installations of the upcomming releases of Windows Vista. MS change a
lot of the stuff (unattended.xml), setup.exe instead of winnt.exe (this
means no longer DOS support).
I can publish it, if the people want to have it. What do you all think?
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / with kind regards
Thomas Landgraf
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