1. if you could give some more info about the part that fails?
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.php#netboot should cover all of
the things you need to know about setting up a dhcp-server + tftp-daemon in
order for it to work with unattended. (the new pxelinux even has graphical
menu's i think, which is a great improvement so non-techies can use it too)
2. no sme here.. i know it exists, but i've never run it
3. these netvista's, do they hang on trying to boot from network? or after
the first reboot? or sometime else?
I agree with you that setting up the 'unattended server'-part can be
overwhelming because of
* the number of components possibly involved (dhcpd, tftpd, samba, dns,
pxelinux, postgresql/mysql)
* correctly populating the i368 and drivers folders
* modifying the unattended.txt
* using site/ - config files
The (unattended) docs about setting up most (if not all) of these components
is pretty good tho. And google can be a very good friend too :)
if someone here would be good at creating .deb or .rpm files, that would
help substantially for new users, but i guess it would have been done
already if someone here was good at it.
Unfortunately, setting up the related components from scripts instead of via
some system-provided config mechanism (like e.g. debconf) would be a lot
more difficult and even more error-prone, so for the time being, you're
"stuck" with figuring it all out yourself. (Which is not necesseraly a bad
thing... it just *can* be time-consuming)
Michael De Groote
ICT-coordinator Sint-Pietersschool Korbeek-Lo
ICT-support Sancta Maria Basisschool Leuven
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Isra S.O. <the_v...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> i've being working with Unattended scripts for about 2 weeks now and so far
> i was able to install 6 operating systems on the 2 computers i have for
> testing, everything works, both pc's are Dell's. I have 3 problems right now
> which i hope someone will be able to help me with. I have been using 2 other
> pc's i have from which one is running centos linux and the other windows xp.
> the centos pc is running the unattended scripts, the windows xp is running
> all the tftpboot scripts because i was not able to make tftpboot run in
> centos, all xp tftpboot files dont work on centos pc when i transfer them
> over to linux, i dont want to use 2 pc's all the time for this to work. I
> dont know which linux files i need to upload to boot tftpboot directory from
> linux. I have yet to find a way to change the default
> \\ntinstall\installshares to something like a directory on the same linux
> system.
>
> I have being finding solutions from the mailing archive and also the faq
> and wiki sections of the site. I have yet to find a script to update windows
> xp SP2 to windows xp3.
>
> I have a problem now with an IBM computer which supports booting from
> network with PXE. it's my problem # 3 below.
>
>
> 1) how to use only 1 pc for everything, pxe booting and o/s file shares and
> to edit default path.
> 2) i will use the database to populate different settings for different
> computer setups using \lib\conf-mysql.pl, anyone using SME server and
> Unattended ?
> 3) booting from the IBM computer i get this error:
>
> *FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.12 [Sep 11 2005] (c) 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2005 tom
> ehlert*
> *HIMEM - BIOS A20 method used*
> *UMB's unavailable*
> **
> *Kernel: allocated 40 Diskbuffers = 21280 Bytes in HMA*
>
> this is the point where the computer hangs...
>
>
> Thanks,
> I. S. O.
>
>
> *Suggestion for next releases:*
> A user interface to setup unattended, like shares path, admin panel for
> computers setups, admin panel for contrab jobs to keep scripts up-to-date,
> easy to edit .bat files and important files withing the admin area...i guess
> there's plenty more ideas to add here.
>
>
>
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