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Re: [Ani-users] Some general Questions

[Till W. <t.w...@su...>]

Hi Martin

Martin Schulte wrote:
> Hello,
> i want to setup up an network with double boot - windowsXP and Linux - . 
> I want to install windows with ANI, and after that i make a pxe boot 
> with a custom debian netboot.img. It will fetch automatically the 
> biggest free space on disk to install.
>
> So my question:
> 1. Does ANI create or can ANI create an partitions small than the full 
> disksize of the target PC?
>   
Yes, but not "out of the box".

There's an option ExtendOemPartition=1 in unattended.tpl. If you set 
this to 0, then the system partition keeps is initial size after 
installation.
The initial size is itself (2 Gbytes) is hardcoded in Ani.pm lines 349, 
366 
(http://ani.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ani/W2K/sources/AniInst/files_manix.bz2/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Ani.pm) 
which is part of manix.bz2.

If you want to change this, you have to rebuild, which requires a lot of 
knowledge.
> 2. Is it possible to boot the ANI floppy disk via PXE? I've some Clients 
> without floppy disk and CDrom
>   
Yes. Read the file readme.txt in the TFTPROOT directory.
> 3. Is there something like multicasting  possible?
>   
Could you please elaborate?
> 4. Is it possible to make the installation fully automated? If i 
> understand right, ani will create an hidden partition on the target pc, 
> with a file contains the the answers from the first installation? And, 
> if i run ANI again, it runs fully automatic --> in 'update' and in 'new' 
> mode?
>   
It runs fully unattended for the first time, too. Check it out.

> 5. Is there an possibility to install software (e. g. using AutoIT 
> scripts or sth. else) I cant find sth. like this in the section 
> 'Configure Post-Windows Installation',
>   
The ability to install software was one of the main goals of ANI - 
please read CONTENT.txt and swpack.ini in the APACK directory.
Please see here: 
http://ani.sourceforge.net/configuration.php?lang=en#softwareInstallation.

> 6. Can i use an windows XP Image created by 'nlite' or 'Windows 
> Unattended CD Creator' to install with any?
>   
This is not supported which means: We never had a reason to try this.

Till Wimmer



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[Ani-users] Some general Questions

[Martin S. <sch...@we...>]

Hello,
i want to setup up an network with double boot - windowsXP and Linux - . 
I want to install windows with ANI, and after that i make a pxe boot 
with a custom debian netboot.img. It will fetch automatically the 
biggest free space on disk to install.

So my question:
1. Does ANI create or can ANI create an partitions small than the full 
disksize of the target PC?
2. Is it possible to boot the ANI floppy disk via PXE? I've some Clients 
without floppy disk and CDrom
3. Is there something like multicasting  possible?
4. Is it possible to make the installation fully automated? If i 
understand right, ani will create an hidden partition on the target pc, 
with a file contains the the answers from the first installation? And, 
if i run ANI again, it runs fully automatic --> in 'update' and in 'new' 
mode?
5. Is there an possibility to install software (e. g. using AutoIT 
scripts or sth. else) I cant find sth. like this in the section 
'Configure Post-Windows Installation',
6. Can i use an windows XP Image created by 'nlite' or 'Windows 
Unattended CD Creator' to install with any?

Thanks, Martin

Re: [Ani-users] ani fails connecting to ai386 share

[Phil S. <li...@dr...>]

sleek mountain cat wrote:
> hi phil,
> 
> thanks for the help. i changed the ani-install-share to point at
> \\x.x.x.x\ai386 instead of the computer name and it worked. however,
> the install is INCREDIBLY slow, even after it copied all install files
> to local partition. any thoughts?
> 

Sorry for the blank reply...fingers are quicker than the mind today. It
could be the age old problem with windows installations - the
environment needs smartdrv running or something like that to get any
sort of decent speed. I can't remember specifically, but the place to
change it is in ai386\ani\autoexec.tpl. One of my installations looks
like this:

LOADHIGH C:\install\LBACACHE.COM 4096 tuna
c:\install\sys.com c: BOOTONLY
c:\install\anisys.com c: BOOTONLY
c:\install\smartdrv.exe
c:\install\fdisk.exe /MBR
del fdconfig.sys
del kernel.sys
$WINNT_EXE$

Check and see if that helps
Fil

Re: [Ani-users] ani fails connecting to ai386 share

[Phil S. <li...@dr...>]

sleek mountain cat wrote:
> hello,
> 
> iam having trouble testing out ani. it fails whenever i boot off the
> cd when it tries to connect to the ai386 share. i have double checked
> the username and password, verified connecting to the share from
> another computer, tried with no password, all to no avail. there is
> absolutley no diagnostic info from the ani boot disk as to what it is
> failing. it is reading the share name correctly, so the dhcp
> parameters must be set up correctly, but when i check the security log
> on the fileserver, it shows no failed login audits.
> 
> please help!
> 
It is probably the network card - the network card needs to be one whose
driver is loaded on the CD. Alternatively you will need to create your
own boot image with the correct network card driver on it so the cd
image can initiate the network under linux.

Fil

[Ani-users] ani fails connecting to ai386 share

[sleek m. c. <sle...@gm...>]

hello,

iam having trouble testing out ani. it fails whenever i boot off the
cd when it tries to connect to the ai386 share. i have double checked
the username and password, verified connecting to the share from
another computer, tried with no password, all to no avail. there is
absolutley no diagnostic info from the ani boot disk as to what it is
failing. it is reading the share name correctly, so the dhcp
parameters must be set up correctly, but when i check the security log
on the fileserver, it shows no failed login audits.

please help!

thanks for your time,

chris

Re: [Ani-users] ANI

[Alexander S. <a.s...@su...>]

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Hi Carsten,

ANI does also work with Microsoft Servers.

I never tried Microsoft Server 2008, but I guess it should work. But who knows... maybe Microsoft changed the way you join a computer to a
domain with AD or has made other subtile changes. I would say: give it a try.

Attention: You can install only Win2K and WinXP-Clients with ANI (no Vista-Clients), because Microsoft changed their unattended rollout
mechanism and nobody of the developers had until now had the need to rollout such clients (and would therefore have looked at it closer).

Cheers Alexander

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|
| At the moment me and my team are working on a project, which contains
| ANI as a subject. Our question is: Is ANI compatible to Windows Server
| 2008, or does it only work with Linux Serversystems? (because there is
| only a tar.gz file)
| Sorry for my bad English ;)
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Re: [Ani-users] ANI

[Ch. P. <ko...@po...>]

zne...@ao... schrieb:
> Hi,
hi
>  
> At the moment me and my team are working on a project, which contains 
> ANI as a subject. Our question is: Is ANI compatible to Windows Server 
> 2008, or does it only work with Linux Serversystems? (because there is 
> only a tar.gz file)
afaik, you can use W2K8
you only need dhcp and a smb share for ani
> Sorry for my bad English ;)

greets

[Ani-users] ANI

[<zne...@ao...>]

Hi,

?

At the moment me and my team are working on a project, which contains ANI as a subject. Our question is: Is ANI compatible to Windows Server 2008, or does it only work with Linux Serversystems? (because there is only a tar.gz file)

Sorry for my bad English ;)

Please respond to this email address.

?

Greetings


Carsten and the team 
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[Ani-users] New Startup CD/DVD/PXE for ANI

[Daniel S. <ds...@hs...>]

Hello

We have Programmed a new startup CD/DVD for the ANI Project.
It supports only new installation (no Update feature) and use only 1
Partition (no longer 3). It is based on Knoppix and works well over the
network too. It is not importand to use knoppix. It works with more or less
every Live GNU/Linux CD/DVD.
Bevor I make the work for a big Documentation, so I want first know, how
many people need it.

Bye
D. Schwab

[Ani-users] Could someone help me

[<ca...@ce...>]

Need newer version of kernel on CD ...

Re: [Ani-users] postwin.pl argument 18, cleanup.bat

[Simon S. <sc...@st...>]

hi there,

I've just seen that with other clients ani still works perfectly. now i 
relized the client i'm talking about has a diffeent architecture...

maybe an unsupported sata controller? strange thing is that the cd boots 
well though and begins with a ani instalation also. the installation 
fails at the point described below, where cleanup.bat makes some delete 
operations on local drive C: of the client...

Simon

Simon Schwab wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> since a few days i get the following error:
> 
> .postwin.pl Argument 18
> resgister script [cleanup.bat]
> to delete intsall folders:
> 
> unknown exit code from postwin.pl
> 
> any idea?
> 
> simon
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[Ani-users] postwin.pl argument 18, cleanup.bat

[Simon S. <sc...@st...>]

Hello,

since a few days i get the following error:

.postwin.pl Argument 18
resgister script [cleanup.bat]
to delete intsall folders:

unknown exit code from postwin.pl

any idea?

simon

[Ani-users] Ani and multiple OS Resources

[<Mat...@Cl...>]

Hi to everyone out there,

I consider using ANI but I have some considerations:

1) We need to have clients in different AD Groups to let our Software
Deployment assign specific software alternatively the clients have to be in
different OUs dependign on the client type or the computers name. Can this
be added to the pwinst.ini?

2) We would need to host Windows 2000 and Windows XP installs and choose for
the one or the other. Is that possible with ANI?

I should also say that I have no clue of Perl ;-)) So if we choose ANI I
would have to buy a good book....

Cheers
Matthias


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Re: [Ani-users] PWFLAG when booting via PXE?

[<h.m...@su...>]

hi,

it's easier not to use the PWFLAGS key.
in the file runinst.tpl you can find a comandline, which executes
pwframe.pl. i guess the second argument is $PWFLAGS$. replace this
argument with a plain 2.
--
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>
> hello to all
>
> When booting with a floppy disk, we can say that we dont want  the PC t=
o
> join the domain (PWFLAGS=3D2 in ani.cf0 floppy file).
>
> I would want to know, how and where we can set the same parameter (not
> to join the domain) when booting via PXE?
>
> thanks for help
>
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Re: [Ani-users] ANI considerations?

[Maurice L. <Mau...@co...>]

Alexander Goller a =E9crit :
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:45:49PM +0200, Maurice Libes wrote:
>> I would want to know if the vmlinuz kernel embedded in the tftpboot=20
>> directory supports SATA disks?
>> is there any people in the list who succeed to  boot ANI via PXE from =
a=20
>> PC with SATA disks?
>=20
> I have done this with an altered 2.4 kernel configuration and a later
> version. I don't know about ANI's progress, the project seems to be
> pretty dead.

bad news! it is a pity really , it was really useful
i invested times to make it works with nlite, slipstreamed hotfixes...

what is your advise? to continue to use ANI or to change for another=20
"unattended" solution?

any chance to make it live again by another team?

according to you, how much people is there in the ani-user list which=20
really use it?

ML

>=20
> I don't have sources for that change anymore since i changed jobs and
> didn't take much of my work with me.
>=20
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Re: [Ani-users] ANI Boots on SATA?

[Till W. <t.w...@su...>]

Hi Maurice,

S-ATA is still not embedded in ANI because of some inconsistencies in 
the 2.4 kernel. Nevertheless it should be no problem to add the S-AATA 
modules by yourself.
A workaround is to enable IDE-compatibility in the BIOS settings.

bg
Till

Maurice Libes wrote:

>
> hi to all
>
> i use ANI-1.1.1 .
>
> I recently had  a problem at PXE bootime, with PCs having SATA disks.
> The PC begin to boot then stops and can not continue
>
> I would want to know if the vmlinuz kernel embedded in the tftpboot 
> directory supports SATA disks?
>
> is there any people in the list who succeed to  boot ANI via PXE from 
> a PC with SATA disks?
>
>
> thanks for your informations or solutions
>

[Ani-users] PWFLAG when booting via PXE?

[Maurice L. <Mau...@co...>]

hello to all

When booting with a floppy disk, we can say that we dont want  the PC to 
join the domain (PWFLAGS=2 in ani.cf0 floppy file).

I would want to know, how and where we can set the same parameter (not 
to join the domain) when booting via PXE?

thanks for help

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[Ani-users] ANI Boots on SATA?

[Maurice L. <Mau...@co...>]

hi to all

i use ANI-1.1.1 .

I recently had  a problem at PXE bootime, with PCs having SATA disks.
The PC begin to boot then stops and can not continue

I would want to know if the vmlinuz kernel embedded in the tftpboot 
directory supports SATA disks?

is there any people in the list who succeed to  boot ANI via PXE from a 
PC with SATA disks?


thanks for your informations or solutions

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[Ani-users] Recent Active-State-Perl-Packages seems to need an update to the msi-installer

[Alexander S. <a.s...@su...>]

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Hi there,

just wanted to let you know, that someone using ANI told me, that he
could install Windows 2000 with it just fine, but that was it: no
error-popup, no software installation and no joining to domain. He was
left with a freshly installed Windows without modifications...

Browsing through the log, he found out, that the version of
active-states perl he used to install perl needed an msi-installer which
had to be newer than the one shipped with win2K. After having
slipstreamed to a Service Pack, everything was OK then.

see http://ani.sourceforge.net/installation.php for information about
perl, if you stick to the recommended version 5.6.1.638 there, you won't
have these kind of troubles :-)

I don't know about the original XP (no SPs) and the newest versions of
active-states perl-packages, just be warned.

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[Ani-users] A few unclear things

[Gregor J. <gr...@dp...>]

Hi there,
the W2k installation vis Samba using ANI runs fine, including joining a 
domain. The same applies to MS Office, which installs fine using an 
unattended installation.

A few things are not quite clear to me by now, and testing around with some 
values didn't work yet. Maybe someone of you had the same problem and is 
willing to help...

1. OpenOffice unattended installation - Where can I find a link how to 
generate or create an answer file and how to initiate the unattended 
installation? I am talking about OpenOffice 2.x, in case there are 
differences between 1.x and 2.x

2. Let my domain name be EARTH and let user BOSS be a domain administrator. 
How can I tell the freshly installed system that EARTH\BOSS has administrator 
access to the machine?

3. Users' home directories are located on the server. Now, the freshly 
installed W2k has on the desktop the "Own documents" folder (if it's called 
so in English - I am German) which links to a lokal directory somewhere on C:
I want that folder to link to the network drive H: which is mounted 
as /home/$USER (The users already can access it, but the link from the 
desktop folder is still unset there)

Maybe someone is able to just give me some clues to get these thingies set up 
and run properly. Thanks in advance for your help!

Gregor Jacobs

AW: [Ani-users] Installations halts at ANI Guiwizard/dummy

[Elmar B. <elm...@ju...>]

Hi Alexander,
(& thanks for your quick answer!)

> What is in your SWPACK.INI? see in
> http://ani.sourceforge.net/configuration.php?lang=en#softwareI
> nstallation
> if you don't know what it is used for.

I already took pretty much everything out of swpack.ini, so what's left is
this:


; Syntax: <Clienttyp>=<section1>[,<section2>][,...
[CLTYPE]
ATYPE=base

; Syntax: <consecutive no>=<package name>,<rel. path to the software
package>,[<command parameters>] 
[base]
;nothing...


Still, the error is the same... (Possibly the word "dummy" is not from
swpack.ini, but from line 145 in postwin.pl??? At least there is something
there about a window popup...)


> By default, the following content is in the file:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ani/W2K/APACK/swpack.ini
> ?rev=1.1.1.1&view=markup
> 
> that means, unmodified, your system tries to install 
> dummy.exe first, which is just an example and not really in 
> the tree and that's why it stops there.


Ah, but there is a "dummy.exe" in APACK\base, so this should work even with
the default swpack.ini, shouldn't it?


CU,
Elmar.

Re: [Ani-users] Installations halts at ANI Guiwizard/dummy

[Alexander S. <a.s...@su...>]

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Hi Elmar,

What is in your SWPACK.INI? see in
http://ani.sourceforge.net/configuration.php?lang=en#softwareInstallation
if you don't know what it is used for.

By default, the following content is in the file:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ani/W2K/APACK/swpack.ini?rev=1.1.1.1&view=markup

that means, unmodified, your system tries to install dummy.exe first,
which is just an example and not really in the tree and that's why it
stops there.

Configure it with the software you like to install and everything will
work out OK.

Cheers Xa

Elmar Bihler wrote:
> I'm trying to install a pretty much naked Win2k over ANI. Everything works
> as expected, until the "ANI Guiwizard" window opens (already running under
> Win2k). It displays the word "dummy", then nothing more happens. Any hints? 
> 
> CU,
> Elmar.
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[Ani-users] Installations halts at ANI Guiwizard/dummy (additional info)

[Elmar B. <elm...@ju...>]

> I'm trying to install a pretty much naked Win2k over ANI. 
> Everything works as expected, until the "ANI Guiwizard" 
> window opens (already running under Win2k). It displays the 
> word "dummy", then nothing more happens. Any hints? 
> [...]


Perhaps the following information can help - I just had a look into
postwin.log on the unfinished machine, it says:

"Odd number of elements in hash assignment at C:\install\postwin.pl line
484.
Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at C:\install\postwin.pl line
484."

CU,
Elmar.

[Ani-users] Installations halts at ANI Guiwizard/dummy

[Elmar B. <elm...@ju...>]

I'm trying to install a pretty much naked Win2k over ANI. Everything works
as expected, until the "ANI Guiwizard" window opens (already running under
Win2k). It displays the word "dummy", then nothing more happens. Any hints? 

CU,
Elmar.

Re: [Ani-users] Nlite an ANI

[Pascal G. <go...@co...>]

Hi all,

I am trying to join a computer in a domain but I have a problem with my 
password. In fact I have this character " (quotation marks) for the 
admin password of my domain and it is not accepted for the unattend 
file. I have an error at the begining of the installation when ani 
copies the file unattend.txt.
Somebody has an idea for this. I already tried this :
DomainAdminPassword=xxx"xxx
DomainAdminPassword=xxx\"xxx
DomainAdminPassword="xxx\"xxx"

Of course I do not change my password,

Thanks for any help.

Pascal Gora