* Paul Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-09 14:49]: > I think the DOS boot disk is dead and the Linux boot disk > will be limited to Win2K and WinXP. The best solution is WinPE or > BartPE bootdisk. The winnt32.exe commandline installer offer some > nice options that the winnt.exe installer doesn't have. I agree that installing from Windows is probably the future (too bad since WinPE/BartPE is a lot worse than DOS/Linux in terms of bandwidth, size and speed), and winnt.exe is EOL. Unless someone gets winnt32.exe to work under Wine, BartPE seems the only free option (assuming everyone that installs Windows already has a Windows license, which seems likely).
> For now my goal is to see how hard it would we to replace fdisk with > diskpart. Doesn't seem too hard. Unattended currently uses fdisk command line switches set in unattend.txt. This is converted to parted commands for the Linux bootdisk by convert_fdisk_parted. I don't know the diskpart scripting language, but assuming that it supports all necessary commands, it doesn't seem hard to write a convert_fdisk_diskpart function similar to the parted one. This function would write the script to a temporary file and execute it using diskpart /s. From a quick look at the documentation (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/diskpart.mspx?mfr=true) create partition, active, clean, and delete partition seem to support all the required functions, along with the correct select and list commands. Not sure how you switch between NTFS and FAT, I guess via format. Unless third-party tools offer useful extra functionality, I would prefer standard Windows tools for compatibility, support and availability reasons. Alson ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
