Hi Jeff, Thank you for doing this, I think it was needed, as setting up Unattended is not very easy when you don't know where to start... Here are a few things you might want to add : * In the overview, add something to explain that you can also do a network boot and load the files directly on the network using PXE, then you don't need a boot disk * When you give download links for unattended, don't give direct links because they will change with every version. For example instead of "Download Unattended main from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.0a.tar.gz?download"; you might want to say something like "Go to the project download page at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62053 and grab the unattended-x.x.tar.gz file, where x.x is the current version number" * Maybe move to the "3. Setup Unattended: Boot Disk" section the thing you said at the end about burning the CD image. Also explain that, if you don't have a CD drive on the target machine, you can use the floppy images that are in the bootdisk\images folder. * Sections 5 and 6 : if people want to do download all the packages and updates automatically from the internet, they might want to use the "prepare" script. On a linux server, it should work as long as they have perl installed. On a windows server, all you have to do is install cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/ (be sure to add the perl package in the "interpreters" section of the cygwin install), then start up cygwin, go to the unattended/install folder and run "./prepare". If you don't have an English version of Windows, add the language code as an argument. For example for a French version, run "./prepare FRA". * You might want to add a last step saying "Configure the settings for your site according to the instructions from http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.html"; * In the "2. Setup Unattended" section, maybe you could inform people that they don't *have* to enable guest access to the share if they don't want to. They can configure the settings they use to access the share when the bootdisk asks "do you want to override bootdisk defaults ?" (or something like this, I don't remember exactly). Hmm, maybe this is too much information for a "quick install guide", I don't know. Just let me know what you think about it. And thanks again for you work.
Sylvain. > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la > part de Jeff Black > Envoyé : jeudi 18 mars 2004 02:31 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : [Unattended] Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide > > > This is a work in progress...... comments encouraged > > > Step-By-Step Quick Install Guide > -------------------------------- > > > Documentation: > ---------------- > 1. Unattended OS Setup > http://unattended.sourceforge.com/os.html > 2. Unattended Application Setup > http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html > 3. Customize Unattended for your site > http://unattended.sourceforge.com/advanced.html > > > Assumptions: > -------------- > 1. DHCP server on your network > 2. Server capable of sharing files > > > 1. Overview - What does unattended do? > ----------------------------------- > > a. Boot 'clean' and get on the network > I. Boot using an Unattended Boot disk > II. Load a network card driver > III. Obtain an IP via DHCP > IV. Map a drive (z:) to \\servername\sharename > > b. Install Windows > I. Prepare the disk (optional) > II. Run z:\dosbin\install.pl via Perl for DOS > > c. Install Applications (note: this section needs work) > I. Install Perl for Windows - Run > z:\scripts\perl.bat (?!?!) > II. Install Applications - Run > z:\bin\todo.pl --go > > > 2. Setup Unattended > ------------------- > > a. Download Unattended main > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.0a. > tar.gz?download > > b. Create an SMB file share for unattended. You may > need to create the directory first. > net share > install=c:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install > > c. If authenticating with the server using the guest > account then make sure it is enabled. > net user guest /ACTIVE:YES /DOMAIN > > d. Change the permissions on the files to allow the > appropriate user to access it. > cacls c:\unattended\unattended-4.0a /T /E > /G:guest > > e. Unzip the Unattended-4.0a.tar.gz file to > c:\unattended (WinZip should handle the task) > Make sure you have > C:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\readme.txt > > 3. Setup Unattended: Boot Disk > ------------------------------ > > a. DOS Boot Disk > I. Download Unattended DOS boot disk > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.0a- > dosboot.tar.gz?download > > II. Unzip unattended-4.0a-dosboot.tar.gz to > c:\unattended\ > Be careful of subdirectories, you > should end up with... > C:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\bootdisk\ > > III. Download djgpp and djgpp components for > DOS and extract them to > c:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install\djgpp > > ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/djdev203.zip > > ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi5b.zip > > ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/perl561b.zip > > ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/pico396b.zip > > > b. Linux Boot Disk (Experimental) > I. Download Unattended Linux boot disk > > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.0a- linuxboot.tar.gz?download II. Unzip unattended-4.0a-linuxboot.tar.gz to c:\unattended\ Be careful of subdirectories, you should end up with... C:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\linuxboot\ C:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install\linuxaux\ 4. Setup OS Distribution Point ------------------------------ a. Copy OS's to the network share. I. Copy Operating Systems to an appropriately named directory ex1. xcopy d:\ c:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install\os\win2ksp4 ex2. xcopy d:\ c:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install\os\winxp ex3. xcopy d:\ c:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install\os\winxpsp1 note: install.pl knows what os is in the folder based on folder content not on the folder name 5. Download ActivePerl (Perl for windows) ---------------------- a) Download http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.3.809-MSWin32-x86.msi b) put it in C:\unattended\unattended-4.0a\install\packages\ 6. Setup Windows updates (hotfixes) -------------------------------- a. Download all hotfixes by hand and place them in the appropriate folder b. modify unattended to run the update script for your OS?! Server side setup is working you will want/need to tweak Unattended from here. In order to boot to DOS and try Unattended you will want to burn Bootdisk.iso to CD. if you followed the examples above it is located in c:\unattended\bootdisk\bootdisk.iso ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
