For the moment it is completely unattended.
We have recent Dell Optiplex machines, (GX240, GX260, GX270, and
hopefully a GX280 soon), so I just insert my boot CD (I edited the
ISOLINUX.CFG with winiso to add z_path, z_user and z_pass), press F12 to
go to a boot menu, and then select boot from CD. On the next reboot the
normal boot order kicks in so the PC boots of HDD.
I've also edited the config.pl file in Z:\site to set the computername
from the Dell asset tag information. Our asset tags are entered into the
Dell BIOS using the Dell asset.com utility, and are usually 2 letters
followed by 5 numbers. We set the workstation name to 'WS' followed by
the 5 numbers of the asset tag. The code for this was borrowed from code
to set the computername based on the service tag of Dell PCs.
$u->{'UserData'}->{'ComputerName'} =
sub {
my $serial = "unknown";
open("f","/z/linuxaux/usr/sbin/dmidecode|");
while(<f>) {
chomp;
if (/Asset Tag: [A-Z][A-Z]([0-9]*)/) {
$serial="WS$1";
return $serial;
}
$_=<f>;
return undef;
}
};
Another thing I would like to try is including drivers in the OS dir
based on the model of the PC. I store all the drivers under separate
directories (GX240, GX260, etc) and can retrieve the model info using
dmidecode, so it shouldn't be to difficult to do this through config.pl.
Theres probably no harm in including them anyway, but I'd like to see if
only the relevant files get copied to C:\.
I'll probably only leave my configuration like this while doing large
deployments, I think it's a little too dangerous to have a boot CD that
will format the entire drive just by booting from it on a networked PC.
On the other hand, I would be interested in seeing if I could have a
prompt to allow extra software to be installed, but to have it timeout
in case you just want to do the standard build.
- Murray
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:20 AM
To: Murray Fraser
Subject: RE: [Unattended] more options in the isolinux.cfg
Murry,
Does your config ask any questions? Looks like you have yours totally
unattended.
Thanks again.
-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:30 PM
To: Stephen Vance
Subject: RE: [Unattended] more options in the isolinux.cfg
NTP servers are specified in the [_meta] section of your default
unattend.txt in Z:\site\unattend.txt
Just specify them here and it will stop asking the question.
For example:
[_meta]
fdisk_lba=1
fdisk_cmds="fdisk /clear 1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1"
fdisk_confirm=0
format_cmd="format /y /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c:"
replace_mbr=1
edit_files = 0
local_admin_group = Administrators
local_admins=""
edit_files = 0
OS_media = Z:\os\WinXPSP2
; This chooses the main installation type. Remove to force the menu.
top = "base.bat"
middle = ""
bottom = ""
; No NTP servers
ntp_servers = ""
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 October 2004 12:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Unattended] more options in the isolinux.cfg
In the past 2 days we successfully extracted the Linux boot cd, appended
the isolinux.cfg file so it would map a drive to an alternate folder
during the initial Linux boot. Thanks for all the help! We used 3
methods:
1.Using a Linux system to mount the cd, extract the files modify the
isolinux.cfg and re-compile the Boot cd with mkisofs 2. Using the ported
to windows mkisofs command to recompile the iso in a windows environment
after modifying the isolinux.cfg 3. using
http://www.magiciso.com/Setup_MagicISO.exe was probably the simplest way
for us new to linux Admins.
Now on to the question: Is there any other options we can add into the
isolinux.cfg file. For example. Is this were we would input the NTP
time server so the boot process does not ask us for the time server? If
so what is the format for the NTP server append line? This is the last
remaining question our system is asking us during the linux boot
process. "real men don't click" we want totally unattended.
Thanks,
Steve and Mark
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