bj-kaiser

I use PXElinux to boot PE 2.0 from a OpenSuSE box. So far, the only problems I had were related to missing files. I would recommend you get a copy of WireShark if you don't already have it and watch the boot process (since the MS TFTP server lacks a decent logging, as far as I have seen and heard). If you think it could help you, I can post the log of my TFTPd, but since I am back to work on monday, it will take some time.

try using pxeboot.n12 as kernel in the PXElinux config.

doubt it will help him. SoF was designed for Firefox 1.X. The current installers have a different internal file structure. Some of the internal config files changed or simply aren't there. (for example the config.ini in the installer root, where you have been able to integrate additional XPIs) If there is not any other tool, my take on this would be to install firefox silently (with the known switches) and in a second command install the CCK.xpi. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/ (at the moment) The only thing to repackage a Firefox Installer with an XPI seems to be this http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/release-repackager/

http://www.uawiki.org/doku.php?id=silent_a...witchesdb:nod32 There is something for NOD32. Still searching for Kaspersky. edit: Kaspersky uses InstallShield. This should help you there: http://uawiki.org/doku.php?id=silent_apps:...s:installshield an alternative way would be to extract the MSI from the exe and use the well-known MSI-commands. Your choice.

probably you have to add a switch to the installer commandline to supress the reboot messagebox and the reboot. what sort of installer or what application is it?

what about adding a RunOnce/RunOnceEx entry to the default user profile? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314866/

http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/i...INE-AN-EMULATORno need to comment that. We just have one little problem about linux and needed applications: People will not use linux because their favourite application X is only available for Windows. Software vendors on the other hand can't/won't support linux because the market share is to low. Average Software is not the problem, OpenOffice.org and a lot of everyday use software is there, but for the special software ... reread the previous statement. btw, people tend to use what they are accustomed to since years. And guess what comes with every PC you buy, and what OS do you see first in school for example? There is only one answer.

I would like to second that. Experience from the people I know, most of them are would be hardly able to reinstall Windows from te standard CD. Or why do we have all this Recovery-Partitions and -CDs where the user has to do nothing (like partitioning the hdd, searching the drivers, etc.) except putting his name in some form.

wpkg doesn't need an ADS. the group and package definition and all that is done through 3 XML files. http://wpkg.org/index.php/How_WPKG_works%3F I really not had the need to setup such a system at home, since I don't have that many PCs here. (actually only my T42 and my brothers virus distribution box.)

At the latest it will brake at that point, simply because other OSes (or windows with autorun disabled) are not interested in any sort of autorun mechanisms. If it would not already break because not everyone is stupid enough to work on Windows all day using an administrative account. just my 2 cent.

maybe this file could be interesting for you: %APPDATA%\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Setup.xcu somewhere inside there is this: <node oor:name="Office"> <prop oor:name="ooSetupInstCompleted" oor:type="xs:boolean"> <value>true</value> </prop> <prop oor:name="LicenseAcceptDate" oor:type="xs:string"> <value>2006-12-13T18:10:44</value> </prop> <prop oor:name="FirstStartWizardCompleted" oor:type="xs:boolean"> <value>true</value> </prop> Quite interesting, eh? Maybe adding that file to the default user profile will help. Haven't found anything in the registy.

http://wpkg.sf.net http://ocsinventory.sf.net

well, can't help you much there. My TFTP server is aTFTPd on OpenSuSE. Didn't the Windows TFTP service have some sort of log? You could easily figure out missing files if you have the TFTP log. When i had this "TFTP download failed" errors, it was always a file missing in the TFTP folder.

do you have a log from the TFTP server? And post the relevant directory structure of your TFTP share. Probably it's just a missing file or wrong directory names.

I have luckily written down my attempts to make FF 1.5.X silent. If Mozilla still uses the same installer, it should be easy to do what you want. It just boils down to unzipping the installer, modifying some INIs, adding your XPIs and zipping that all together with a 7zip SFX header. I just realized why LaptoniC could have given up, the installers internal file/directory structure is totally different from FF 1.X. Anyone knows where to find docs about the Mozilla Installer? edit: answering myself. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/ http://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox http://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments I think the links should have all information needed.

haven't tried it yet, since it took me enough time to get the config for one boot option together. But why not just create another boot option in the BCD? Should be possible or am I wrong?

Just an idea. Because my boss insists on doing the inventory in a Works 4.5 DB, I never had the chance to test it. GLPI combined with OCS Inventory http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/

http://wix.sf.net - Windows Installer XML Toolkit http://wixedit.sf.net - GUI Editor for WIX But you need a bit of knowledge about MSIs internals. Anyway, you should be able to read everything about that at MSDN. sorry, just noticed on the second look how old that topic is.

thanks for all your help, I got it working now. It involved adding re-write rules to the tftp server but finally it works. I had to use rewriting cause I like to sort the files in my tftp-root the way I think it's right. This way I could stuff everything belonging to PE 2.0 in its own folder in the tftp path.

WireShark (fka. Ethereal) - http://www.wireshark.org/ However, can't help you with the filter settings, but simple filtering for a protocol should be easy.

my understanding was that MEMDisk is a RAMDisk driver that loads a floppy image you point it to. If I set the bootfile on the DHCP server to pxeboot.com all is working ok. But what I want is to add Windows PE 2.0 to my existing PXELinux menu. So I tried adding a entry containing only "KERNEL \Boot\pxeboot.com", which does not work for me.

hint: "bcdedit /? /addfirst" took me a lot of time til I had figured out that the last command line in the docs is wrong. At least for me that worked out too a BCD that allows to PXE boot WinPE 2.0.

Any idea if you can start the PE 2.0 loader from a PXElinux menu? All of my tests, booting PXELinux from TFTPd32 and calling \Boot\pxeboot.com (the one that was .n12 before) led to nothing. No errors, maybe a reboot if i pressed F12.