Re: [Unattended-gui-users] Unattended-Gui Setup Problem - Faster Install Questions

[Mario G. <mar...@te...>]

Hi Zack,
please use the Mailing List to ask questions about unattended-gui.

Am 28.09.2010 23:51, schrieb Zack Villasana:
> Hi Mario,
> 
> I'm trying to get your unattended-gui setup working, but I am having a
> little difficulty. We couldn't get Windows to stop asking for the CD.
> (We were using the Dell Windows Xp with SP3 installed).
> 
> Edit: We switched our installation folder to a gateway's WinXp install,
> and it seems to work now.
> 
> I had a few questions.
> 
> 1.) Do you know off the top of your head why when we copied the Dell
> Windows Xp w/ SP3 cd, it didn't work (asked for a cd), but Gateway's
> did? Can we modify Dell's to work?

Installing XP (unattended) from an OEM source doesnt work in 90%....

> 2.) During the unattended-boot install, it stops at 'UnMount /c - [OK]".
> It works, but we have to manually restart the pc at that point.  Is
> there a way have it auto-restart the pc after unmounting?

Do you get an shell? Or the machine is stopping without any other
messages? Which verison of the boot cd you are using? whats the version
of your unattended-gui installation?

> 3.) During the unattended-boot install, we have to override the install
> location every time, is there anyway to modify the unattended-boot cd to
> automatically use "//storage/install" and input our username and
> password, so that we don't have to manually enter it every time?

You can modify the iso in this way:
1.) extract contents from the iso to a folder
2.) edit isolinux.cfg and add the options you need, all available
options are described here:
http://unattended-gui.sourceforge.net/www/index.php?loadsub=quwiki&func=wiki&type=index&show=4#1.
3.) generate a new iso with your prefferd program and burn it back

It might be better to use PXE boot, there you can add the options
directly without burning the cd every time a new release is out. If you
need an iso I can build it for you to, but you have to send me the
z_VARS (directly - not to the ML ;) ).

> 4.) And last question (A harder one), is there any way to specify a
> Windows Xp cd-key in the unattended-gui's web-menu (So I dont have to
> enter it in the installation. Each hostname has its own cdkey)? Maybe
> under "Product-ID" of the gui's 'Windows Xp' menu, I can put
> %GUI-HOSTNAME%/Inventory/%SERIALNUMBER%, so that way it will grab the
> cdkey entered under Inventory of the hostname, and then use that? Or
> maybe point it to a .txt file that has the serial number? %HOSTNAME%.txt

Sure you can do this by adding you own script in z/etc/init/stop for
example. But you can also specify it directly in the GUI. After you hav
add an pre-configured os to an machine you can edit the contentents of
the os assigned to the computer and add the key there.

> 
> Thanks a lot. We hope to hear back from you soon. We want to streamline
> all of our new employee computers and your software seems like the
> perfect way to do it.
> 
> -Zack of Texas Digital

Cheers.