RE: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions

[Brad E. <ch...@um...>]

Hi,
I came across this problem (actually, I just don't need to add local
admins).  I just edited install.pl to skip that question.  Works very =
well.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Brady [mailto:ja...@ri...]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 6:32 PM
> To: 'Norstr=F6m, Daniel'
> Cc: una...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions
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> I wasn't requesting help, just trying to report a bug.=20
> However, how did you
> fix it? Did you edit install.pl? or did you find an entry that works?
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> Jason
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Norstr=F6m, Daniel=20
> [mailto:dan...@or...]
> Sent:	Friday, April 11, 2003 12:41 AM
> To:	'ja...@ri...'
> Subject:	RE: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions
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> Have you got some help with this yet? I have been througt the=20
> same thing, I
> think I can help you easily
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> /D
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Brady [mailto:ja...@ri...]
> Sent: 2. huhtikuuta 2003 22:28
> To: 'Patrick J. LoPresti'
> Cc: una...@li...
> Subject: [Unattended] Trying to skip questions
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> Patrick,
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> I was trying to use the unattend.txt in the site directory to skip =
the
> question about local_admins by adding local_admins=3D"" to the=20
> meta section.
> Install.pl accepts this just fine, but it writes=20
> local_admins=3D , without the
> empty string, to the final unattend.txt. Winnt.exe complains=20
> that this is a
> bad format. If you manually add the empty string back, it=20
> works. Might want
> to get this fixed.
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> Jason
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	una...@li...
> [mailto:una...@li...]  On=20
> Behalf Of Patrick
> J. LoPresti
> Sent:	Sunday, March 09, 2003 2:33 PM
> To:	una...@li...
> Subject:	[Unattended] Unattended 2.5 released
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> The big new feature in this release is the automatic construction of
> [Unattended]/OemPnPDriversPath.  The install.pl script now =
recursively
> grovels the directories under winXXXX/i386/$oem$/$1 looking=20
> for anything
> which looks like a driver directory, and offers to add it to
> OemPnPDriversPath.  I decided to implement this because I have been
> switching between Win2k and WinXP installs a lot lately.  To see this
> feature in action, simply remove OemPnPDriversPath entirely from your
> site/unattend.txt file.
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> I wrote the new code using Perl's File::Spec module, which means it =
is
> pretty much portable between DJGPP and Unix Perl.  This is=20
> just in case I
> ever get sufficiently tired of banging my head against DOS=20
> that I try to
> port this thing to a Linux boot disk.  (Just today, I lost most of =
the
> afternoon futzing around with DOS memory issues...  More on=20
> that in another
> message.)
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> This release also adds the oft-requested support for the=20
> RealTek RTL8139
> chipset.  I do not have one of these gadgets, so if you do,=20
> please test it
> out and let me know how it goes.
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> Finally, I switched from FreeDOS edit.exe to DJGPP Pico as the =
default
> editor.  That means you will need to download Pico along with=20
> the other
> DJGPP packages; see the DJGPP section in os.html for the=20
> relevant link.
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> Perhaps the most interesting part of this release is the=20
> stuff which it does
> NOT have, including some bugs which I promised to fix.  Sorry=20
> about that;
> they will have to wait for next time.
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>  - Pat
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> *** Changes in version 2.5 (2003-Mar-09)
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> Use DJGPP Pico instead of FreeDOS edit.exe to edit files. =20
> Document this new
> requirement.
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> Automatically scan i386/$oem$/$1 looking for driver=20
> directories. Offer to
> add any such directories to OemPnPDriversPath.
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> Always use upper-case for driver name in system.ini, since=20
> PCNet driver
> requires it.
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> Add support for RealTek RTL8139 cards (untested).  Thanks to Eugene
> Kotlyarov for the pointer.
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> Deal with annoying ipconfig.exe behavior, where it exits with various
> statuses from 10 to 16.
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> When fdisk is run by hand, do not clobber partition table=20
> first and do not
> replace first partition with 2G FAT partition afterwards.  In=20
> other words,
> assume anybody running fdisk manually knows exactly what they=20
> are doing.
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> Do not create postinst.bat unless it has something to do, and=20
> do not set
> AutoLogon nor [GuiRunOnce]/Command0 unless we create postinst.bat.
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> Clean up various documentation.
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> Sync with SYSLINUX 2.02.
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> Sync with FreeDOS fdisk 1.1.4 beta.
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