On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:20:26AM +0000, Steven Blackery wrote:
> From: Pierre Bourgin [mailto:pierre.bour...@arteris.com]
>
> > Still strange: my site/unattend.txt contains a [_meta] section (defining
> > NTP server) and the fact to use "$u->{'_meta'}->{'ntinstall_cmd'} =
> > '/z/site/nt5x-install' " in site/config.pl implies no ask for choose
> > between DOSEMU or nt5x-install .
> >
> > This might be related to the use of CSV entries perhaps.
>
> No, no you misunderstand, or maybe I'm not clear enough. I'm wishing I
> hadn't mentioned this in the first place - everything is working
> correctly. I had hard-coded ntinstall_cmd into my unattend.txt files to
> avoid the prompt that otherwise occurred, this prevented your
> "$u->{'_meta'}->{'ntinstall_cmd'} = '/z/site/nt5x-install' " from working.
> I chose to change my hard-coded entry to the new path, I could have
> removed it entirely and then your code would have worked.
OK. Sorry for the misunderstand.
> > It's normal: this is my fault !
> >
> > How stupid I am: I send the wrong instructions related to content of
> > site/config.pl !!!!!!!
> >
> > The right hints for site/config.pl are:
> >
> > ## Windows drivers scanning: uncomment to DISABLE its usage
> > #$u->{'_temp'}->{'scan_windrivers'} = '';
>
> Alas, this was one of the things I tried yesterday. I just double-checked
> and commented that line out and run it again, and once again
> search-win-drivers.pl appeared not to run, and I ended up with
> scan_windrivers_dest_map = "" and no drivers being copied.
>
> Running search-win-drivers.pl manually (even without the -d) matches all
> the devices to drivers.
>
> One thing I am curious about is:
>
> ## Windows drivers scanning: drivers collection root path:
> $u->{'_temp'}->{'scan_windrivers_path'} = "z:\site\win_drivers" ;
>
> ## Windows drivers scanning: use updated version of ntx5-install
> $u->{'_meta'}->{'ntinstall_cmd'} = '/z/site/nt5x-install' ;
>
> Why is one path in unix format and the other in windows format?
Again a nice mistake from me !
I've done a typo on the example, since I did not try it for a while.
Of course, the correct ways to write it is either:
/z/site/win_drivers
z:\\site\\win_drivers
> I see that when you read scan_windrivers_path in install.pl that you use
> dos_to_host to convert it, but why?
Because this is the way to store default values in dosbin/install.pl by the
use of File::Spec::Win32 (variable $spec_file). When I began to discover the
content of dosbin/install.pl, I tried to mimic as much as I can its coding
style. Default value is here in dosbin/config.pl, "encoded" as other default
values of dosbin/install.pl :
1443 $u->comments ('_temp', 'scan_windrivers_path') =
1444 ['Directory holding Windows drivers collection'];
1445 $u->{'_temp'}->{'scan_windrivers_path'} =
1446 sub { return $file_spec->catdir ( $u->{'_meta'}->{'dos_zdrv'},
"site", "win_drivers"); };
One thing is really weird in my documentation is that all site/config.pl
entries are not mandatory, since I've putted default values in
dosbin/install.pl .
I'm gonna deliver another version of my crappy documentation quickly
(currently, I'm check everything).
Many thanks to you for the debugging process around my broken documentation.
Pierre Bourgin
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