Hi! Im currently also looking into a completly unattended installation for our local schools.
The idea is that a teacher or student should be able to reboot the computer and reinstall it by choosing INSTALL instead of LOCAL from the pxelinux prompt. My idea for a solution is to have a pxelinux.cfg/default which has "local" as defaultboot within 10 seconds and "install" which is a undis3c.img which you could type. This using a displayfile presenting the choices to the user. When the undis3c.img boots it should have write rights to the pxelinux.cfg directory so that it could create a new pxelinux.cfg file using the hex variant of the ip address which tells the system to boot from the network again. This would allow me to boot, create new pxeconfig, fdisk, boot, remove pxeconfig, start xp install, boot locally and finish. This method should also let me create the pxeconf file and either a reboot (samba-tools?`) when the machine is online or using wake-on-lan and let the machines reinstall. This way I could also remove the locally initiated install and create a cgi/php script which would let me control who has the rights to reinstall a machine. A problem could be the pxelinux.cfg directory which would be open to anyone that gets access to the install account and password. However the only thing they could do would be to mess up the install without access to critical data. The next step would be to have linux bootdisk instead of the dos disk which would remove the fdisk reboot. However how much this would add I don't know, but having access to perl with DBD/DBI for database access for keeping state/configs would be nice or for authenticating user to MS AD using LDAP before letting them reinstall would also be nice. ===================================================== Janåke Rönnblom SKERIA Utveckling AB (Teknous) Assistentgatan 23 931 77 Skelleftea (Sweden) ----------------------------------------------------- Phone : +46-910-58 54 24 Mobile : 070-397 07 43 Fax : +46-910-58 54 99 URL : http://skeria.skelleftea.se ----------------------------------------------------- "Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit" ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
