At the moment, the bootdisk uses net start basic
...to start the basic networking functions. This prompts for a user name and password, and then asks that annoying question about creating a password list file. Based on a suggestion by Pablo Manzanera, I tried changing this to: net logon /yes /savepw:no Without the /yes flag, this command first asks if it is OK to start the "workstation" service. The /yes flag just skips that question as if you had said yes. This gets rid of the annoying password list question, so I was going to include this change in today's release. The problem is, the "workstation" service consumes more conventional memory than the "basic" service. (I spent all afternoon figuring this out; I foolishly assumed that some other change I had made was responsible.) The decreased conventional memory means that Perl cannot invoke "net diag /status", so it cannot learn the MAC address. No big deal. But it also means that winnt.exe exits with "Windows Setup is out of memory and cannot continue". Which is very bad. I spent the afternoon messing around with umbpci.sys and emm386.exe and scattering "lh" invocations here and there, but I really have no idea what I am doing. I never learned about dealing with memory in DOS, and I am not sure I want to... Anyway, if anybody has this working, I would like to see it in some detail. Note that I am using a network (PXE) boot, which could very well matter since the undis3c driver is relatively large. - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
