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From: Till W. <t.w...@su...> - 2004-05-29 01:31:09
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Sean Roberts schrieb: >sources/AniInst/bootdisk.img does not work. >Many of the files are corrupt. I think this happens b/c their is not >enough room for the files. Manually creating bootdisk.img also fails, >with an out of space error. modules.bz2 has grown since your last >release (1.02) > >I copied ani-1.0.2.tar.gz/initrd.gz & ani-1.0.2.tar.gz/modules.bz2 in to >sources/AniInst/bootdisk.img and it boots fine. > > > Hi Sean There exists two versions of modules.bz2, one for the floppy (fewer network modules) and one for the cdrom image (complete). Maybe we mixed them up? Another reason could be the filesystem of initrd. The one for the floppy image was generated with 200 inodes only (mke2fs option -N), which is not enough for all modules integrated on cdrom. I'll have a look at this tomorrow (GMT). Greetings Till -- Where do you want to go today? - ANIwhere! http://ani.sourceforge.net |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-28 20:57:35
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Hi - System boots fine from floppy. Choose computername, etc. ANI tells me to remove floppy. Continue, and watch ANI populate my partitions. System reboots (floppy has been removed). 'SYSLINUX ...' comes up and nothing happens. Just sits there with 'SYSLINUX 1.63 2001-08-06 ...'. No activity on the hard disk. This is the furthest I have got with ANI. I had the same problem yesterday, but that was with ani-1.0.2.tar.gz, so I decided to try the CVS before coming to complain. This happens with ani-1.0.2.tar.gz/ADISK/bootdisk.img and my custom image (see [Ani-users] bootdisk : corrupt). Test computer does not have a CDROM so I can't test it that way. Thanks -- Sean Roberts |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-28 20:44:30
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sources/AniInst/files_bootdisk.img/config/init.rc Line 43 reads *DC=*|*dc=*) NTDOM=`getdc 1 ${NTDOM}` ;; This causes ANI to fail b/c it can't find NTDOM Replace line 43 with the similar line in ani-1.0.2.tar.gz\ADISK\bootdisk.img\config\init.rc *DC=*|*dc=*) NTDOM=`getdc ${ORGUNIT}` ;; And it works fine. -- Sean Roberts |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-28 20:43:58
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sources/AniInst/bootdisk.img does not work. Many of the files are corrupt. I think this happens b/c their is not enough room for the files. Manually creating bootdisk.img also fails, with an out of space error. modules.bz2 has grown since your last release (1.02) I copied ani-1.0.2.tar.gz/initrd.gz & ani-1.0.2.tar.gz/modules.bz2 in to sources/AniInst/bootdisk.img and it boots fine. -- Sean Roberts |
From: Till W. <t.w...@su...> - 2004-05-28 18:09:12
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Sean Roberts schrieb: | Hello - I hope I am not annoying you. Not at all - debugging is essential work and your help in this part is always welcome! | | Very minor problem here, let me know if I am wasting your time. | | in swpack.ini 001=Nothing,main\nothing.exe, 002=Nothing | 2,main\nothing.exe, But nothing.exe exists in admin\ not main\ | | What is nothing.exe? I assume it does *nothing*, but why make an | application that does nothing? =) | Well, this was intended as an example I guess.... Please replace nothing.exe with a installer EXE from a package you wish to be installed. Greets Till -- ~ Where do you want to go today? ~ - ANIwhere! ~ http://ani.sourceforge.net |
From: Till W. <t.w...@su...> - 2004-05-28 17:57:23
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Hi Sean Sean Roberts schrieb: > Hello again - I have found a few more errors. > > Started ANI with bootdisk.img. Get error: "GetDhcpData : Missing > Values for PWFLAGS" > > So me and grep have a little adventure. > > I found `PWFLAG=0` in bootdisk.img\config\ani.cf[0-2] Changed that > to `PWFLAGS=0` and it is fixed. > > It is correct in the bootdisk.img sources so I am assuming you > already found this problem, but did not produce a new image. Yes, it's exactly as you wrote... > But the documentation (CONFIGURE_EN) still uses `PWFLAG` I changed this in CVS, thanx! > > Now for another documentation problem: in ani.cf0 # 01 = no mail # > 10 = do not join2domain in CONFIGURE_EN # mail and join 0 # > nomail and join 1 # joinoff and mail 2 OK, may be this is mistakable... The value for PWFLAGS is interpreted bite-wise, therfore 01 equals 1 , 10 equals 2 and 11 equals 3. > ... > > Keep up the great work We will, thank you! Greetings Till -- Where do you want to go today? - ANIwhere! http://ani.sourceforge.net |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-28 17:30:55
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Hello - I hope I am not annoying you. Very minor problem here, let me know if I am wasting your time. in swpack.ini 001=Nothing,main\nothing.exe, 002=Nothing 2,main\nothing.exe, But nothing.exe exists in admin\ not main\ What is nothing.exe? I assume it does *nothing*, but why make an application that does nothing? =) -- Sean Roberts |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-28 17:17:56
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Hello again - I have found a few more errors. Started ANI with bootdisk.img. Get error: "GetDhcpData : Missing Values for PWFLAGS" So me and grep have a little adventure. I found `PWFLAG=0` in bootdisk.img\config\ani.cf[0-2] Changed that to `PWFLAGS=0` and it is fixed. It is correct in the bootdisk.img sources so I am assuming you already found this problem, but did not produce a new image. But the documentation (CONFIGURE_EN) still uses `PWFLAG` Now for another documentation problem: in ani.cf0 # 01 = no mail # 10 = do not join2domain in CONFIGURE_EN # mail and join 0 # nomail and join 1 # joinoff and mail 2 ... Keep up the great work -- Sean Roberts |
From: Till W. <t.w...@su...> - 2004-05-28 00:16:08
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Sean Roberts schrieb: >Hello - encrypt, encrypt.static & encrypt.exe produce different hashes. > >Is this a problem? > >Thanks > > Hi Sean, No, it's no problem! It will always be the same when encrypted. Background: Hashes are always generated from 16 bytes, so if your password is shorter the remaining bytes are random. The decrypted password string is delimited by a '\0' and the remaining bytes don't bother. In W2K/sources/crypt/rijndael/WIN32/encrypt.cpp you can change this behaviour by un-commenting the line /// memset(pwd, 0, 17);/ Greetings Till -- Where do you want to go today? - ANIwhere! http://ani.sourceforge.net |
From: Till W. <t.w...@su...> - 2004-05-27 23:54:08
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Alexander Schuppisser schrieb: > Hi Sean, > I'm the only one not beeing on holiday and I just checked CVS on sf: > You're right, only a DUMMY-hide32.exe has been checked in. Obviously > with a reason I'm not aware off, e.g. you've got to wait for an answer > till next week from Till or Hagen. > Bye the way: thank you for pointing out these errors in the > documentation, I will sort them out next week. > Greetings Xa Hi Sean, hi Xa Yes, this was a mistake when we checked all into cvs.... Hide32 is selfmade, so it's open source :) I'm still looking for it's code. You can get a copy from cvs with: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ani co W2K/sources/Ai386/system/install/hide32.exe We will change this with the next release. Greetings Till -- Where do you want to go today? - ANIwhere! http://ani.sourceforge.net |
From: Alexander S. <a.s...@su...> - 2004-05-27 22:51:02
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Hi Sean, I'm the only one not beeing on holiday and I just checked CVS on sf: You're right, only a DUMMY-hide32.exe has been checked in. Obviously with a reason I'm not aware off, e.g. you've got to wait for an answer till next week from Till or Hagen. Bye the way: thank you for pointing out these errors in the documentation, I will sort them out next week. Greetings Xa -- ------------------------- Substring GmbH Tscharnerstrasse 39a CH-3007 Bern Tel. ++41 (0)31 382 51 12 Fax. ++41 (0)31 382 51 87 http://www.substring.ch SMS via http://www.substring.ch/sms.php?sendto=aschuppisser |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-27 22:46:08
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Hello - encrypt, encrypt.static & encrypt.exe produce different hashes. Is this a problem? Thanks -- Sean Roberts |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-27 22:41:57
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Hello - Just pointing out some technical errors in the documentation. ******** Install_EN & <http://ani.sourceforge.net/installation.php?lang=en> * ani-1.0.2.tar.gz has folder `Ai386` instead of `AI386` which the documentation uses. * under "Sample Windows 2kx DHCP Server" #ani-installer-account string 204 Installer Account #ani-installer-password string 205 Installer password should be #ani-installer-account string 205 Installer Account #ani-installer-password string 204 Installer password * under "Sample Windows 2kx DHCP Server" #205 MlEhFkH1JMsrhIzUAxieMg== (encrypted password) Though obvious to me the comment might confuse some users. * ani-packages-share or ani-pakages-share ? * need to change more than <ProductId> in unattend.tpl + e.g. TimeZone, Language, etc. * under Sample smb.conf + [APAK] should be [APACK] ******** I should have made a 'diff' of INSTALL_EN. I will do that once you answer a few of the questions. Thanks -- Sean Roberts |
From: Sean R. <mr...@se...> - 2004-05-27 22:31:19
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Hello - I can not find hide32.exe anywhere. Any hints? Thanks -- Sean Roberts |
From: Alexander S. <a.s...@su...> - 2004-05-27 21:35:25
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Hi Mauricio, thank you for posting as the first person to this list :-), I hope you find ANI usefull... I hope you sent Carsten your netboot-stuff. one question, help me out, i googled around, but still I'm not so shure: what's the difference between projects like the one you used - netboot - or http://www.etherboot.org/ and PXELinux. Is this correct: the former two require to burn an ePROM and to plug it onto your network card, PXELinux instead requires newer NICs which support the so called "Pre-Execution Environment", but no manual tampering is required? If so, why did you choose netboot? Is it, because older hardware can be supported that way or are there other reasons? Greetings Xa |
From: Mauricio S. <ms...@lu...> - 2004-05-24 11:06:40
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On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 16:49, Carsten Lehmann wrote: > Mauricio Santecchia wrote: >=20 > >I modified ANI to be able to boot diskless. If somebody is interested = I > >can send him the changes that I made. > > > > =20 > > > Under ANI/W2K/sources/pxeboot you can find all you need for booting fro= m=20 > net. But I would be still interested in your solution... > Regards, Carsten Yes, it's true. But I'm using netboot for booting my diskless workstation, therefore I modified ANI for work with it.=20 --=20 Mauricio Santecchia - Dpto. Sistemas Casa Humberto Lucaioli S.A. Patricios 861 - Bah=EDa Blanca (8000) Tel. +54 291 4563636 (int. 248) |
From: Hagen M. <h.m...@su...> - 2004-05-24 07:25:24
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>Mauricio Santecchia wrote: > > >>I modified ANI to be able to boot diskless. If somebody is interested I >>can send him the changes that I made. >> >> >> >Under ANI/W2K/sources/pxeboot you can find all you need for booting from >net. But I would be still interested in your solution... >Regards, Carsten > > > sry, for my meddling: you can find it in the cvs. it isn't integrated in the tarball yet... bye, hagen |
From: Carsten L. <cal...@us...> - 2004-05-23 19:49:56
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Mauricio Santecchia wrote: >I modified ANI to be able to boot diskless. If somebody is interested I >can send him the changes that I made. > > > Under ANI/W2K/sources/pxeboot you can find all you need for booting from net. But I would be still interested in your solution... Regards, Carsten |
From: Mauricio S. <ms...@lu...> - 2004-05-21 21:17:17
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I modified ANI to be able to boot diskless. If somebody is interested I can send him the changes that I made. --=20 Mauricio Santecchia - Dpto. Sistemas Casa Humberto Lucaioli S.A. Patricios 861 - Bah=EDa Blanca (8000) Tel. +54 291 4563636 (int. 248) |