this is obsolete doc -- see http://doc.nethence.com/ instead
unattended@sf usage and configuration on RHEL5
Update: this guide is considered obsolete, we're now using WinPE (http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/sysutils_windows/install_sys.html)
Introduction
We don't like unattended@sf, we prefer to use our own scripts (http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/sysutils_nhii/index.html) to install Windows XP automaticly. But here's the guide for using it with RHEL5 anyway.
Applications only
If you only want to install applications on an existing Windows sytem, follow only tose parts:
- Installation
- Scripts
- Samba configuration
then map Z: to \\server\install, add z:\bin to your path, define winlang and run the batch scripts from z:\scripts.
Specifications
Here's a few hints:
- best is to configure two network interfaces, one on your local network and one for serving PXE separately.
- normally we should configure a dns record so that 'ntinstall' points to the samba share. But you can also skip this step, here we simply force the samba server IP in the PXE configuration (z_path).
- you'll need quite a large mount point store the third-parity install packages (~7GB if you want all of them).
- be careful, depending on your level of automation (see below) you have to be careful to what subnet of yours you'll plug this PXE monster in.
Dependencies
Make sure you've got those available,
rpm -q \
xinetd \
tftp-server \
syslinux \
dhcp \
samba \
samba-client \
perl \
unzip
Note. no need for 'named', as mentioned in the introduction here.
Installation
Note. we're assuming quite a large moint point at /srv/ (see specifications above).
Fetch Unattended (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/) and extract the archives,
cd /srv/
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/unattended/files/unattended/49rc4/unattended-4.9.zip/download
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/unattended/files/unattended/49rc4/unattended-4.9-linuxboot.zip/download
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/unattended/files/unattended/49rc4/unattended-4.9-dosboot.zip/download
unzip unattended-4.9.zip
unzip unattended-4.9-dosboot.zip
unzip unattended-4.9-linuxboot.zip
ln -sf unattended-4.9 unattended
Make a symlink to easyness,
cd ~/
ln -s /srv/unattended/install
Preparing the i386 folder
Copy the i386 directory from the Windows XP Pro SP2 or SP3 CDrom or ISO to the install/os share,
cd /srv/
cp path/to/share/winxp_pro_fr_sp2.iso .
mkdir -p winxp/
mount -o loop winxp_pro_fr_sp2.iso winxp/
mkdir -p ~/install/os/winxp/
cp -R winxp/i386/ ~/install/os/winxp/
umount winxp/
Scripts
Unattended provides way to much application scripts (and you feel it when you download the packages) so get rid of everything but Perl,
cd ~/install/
mv scripts/ scripts.dist/
mkdir -p scripts/
cd scripts/
cp ../scripts.dist/perl.bat .
and define precisely the applications you want e.g.,
cp ../scripts.dist/firefox.bat .
cp ../scripts.dist/putty.bat .
cp ../scripts.dist/spybot.bat .
cp ../scripts.dist/thunderbird.bat .
wget -O - http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/filezilla?format=txt \
| sed '/^{{{/d; /^}}}/d; /^==/d' > filezilla.bat
wget -O - http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/WinRar?format=txt \
| sed '/^{{{/d; /^}}}/d; /^==/d' > WinRar.bat
Ref. the last ones come from http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/Scripts
Update the scripts you selected (otherwise you might have lots of 404's while fetching them),
cd ~/install/tools/
./script-update
Now download the language specific (here French) packages for the choosed applications,
cd ~/install/tools/
./prepare FRA
Note. ENU (English) is the default
See if some packages are missing (they shouldn't, since we updated the scripts),
cd ~/install/tools/
./check FRA
Note. ENU (English) is the default
Samba configuration
Configure Samba to share the install folder with login and password 'guest' e.g.,
cd /etc/samba/
mv smb.conf smb.conf.dist
#sed '/^[[:space:]]*#/d; /^[[:space:]]*;/d; /^[[:space:]]*$/d' smb.conf.dist > smb.conf
like (Samba 3.0.33 on RHEL),
[global]
server string = Samba Server Version %v
security = SHARE
passdb backend = tdbsam
load printers = No
cups options = raw
[install]
comment = unattended
path = /srv/unattended/install
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes
Note. 'public = yes' is the same as 'guest ok = yes'
Note. 'security = yes' plus 'guest only = yes' skips authentication (see the smb.conf manual)
Create and setup a password for the guest account,
groupadd guest
useradd -s /sbin/nologin -g guest guest
smbpasswd -a guest
smbpasswd -n guest
Note. we're not using 'username map' (/etc/samba/smbusers)
Start and enable the daemon at boot,
testparm -s
tail -F /var/log/samba/*
service smb restart
service smb status
chkconfig smb on
Check you're able to connect with as guest user,
smbclient -U guest -L 127.0.0.1
also check from a windows XP host,
start > execute
\\server\install
PXE configuration
Proceed with a usual PXE configuration (http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/net/pxe.html),
cd /etc
vi dhcpd.conf
like,
allow bootp;
ddns-update-style none;
allow unknown-clients;
subnet 10.1.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.1.1.51 10.1.1.99;
next-server 10.1.1.1;
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
Serve the Unattended kernel and initrd. Copy the templates,
cp -R /srv/unattended/linuxboot/tftpboot/* /tftpboot
cd /tftpboot
wget http://mp-gif.ac-versailles.fr/ftp/unattend/fichiers/fr.kbd
change the boot options to point directly to your windows share w/o DNS and define your keyboard,
cd /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
vi default
like,
default menu.c32
prompt 0
menu title PXE
kbdmap fr.kbd
label unattended
menu label unattended
kernel bzImage
append initrd=initrd z_user=guest z_pass=guest z_path=//10.1.1.1/install
#kbd=fr-latin1
Enable TFTP,
cd /etc/xinetd.d
vi tftp
add/change,
server_args = -s /tftpboot
disable = no
Unattended configuration
For a fully automated installation, we will simply use untattend.txt for most of the settings, then config.pl just for a few other ones.
First unattend.txt,
cd ~/install/site
wget http://pbraun.nethence.com/code/net/unattend.txt
vi unattend.txt
note. unattend.txt in DOS text format (dos2unix...)
note. it installs various applications : firefox, putty, ... (unattended scripts called with middle=)
note. w/o winamp.bat, it has troubbles removing eMusic
note. w/o winzip.bat, it also has troubbles, using 7-zip instead
note. this examples needs that custom script (called with top=),
cd ~/install/scripts
wget http://pbraun.nethence.com/code/net/0custom.bat
note. 0custom.bat in DOS text format (dos2unix...)
Manually download missing packages. As for 0.49 with our untattend.txt, PuTTY is missing,
cd ~/install/packages/putty
wget http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.60-installer.exe
Then config.pl (worgroup doesn't work into untattend.txt, donno why),
cd ~/install/site
cp config.pl config.pl.dist
mv unattend.csv unattend.csv.dist
vi config.pl
add,
$u->{'Identification'}->{'JoinWorkgroup'} = 'WORKGROUP';
$u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductKey'} =
sub {
my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new ($u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'});
my $os_name = $media_obj->name ();
if ($os_name =~ /Windows XP/) {
return 'XP KEY';
}
elsif ($os_name =~ /Windows Server 2003/) {
return '2K3 KEY';
}
return undef;
};
$u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductID'} =
sub {
my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new ($u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'});
my $os_name = $media_obj->name ();
if ($os_name =~ /Windows 2000/) {
return '2K KEY';
}
elsif (defined $u->{'UserData'}->{'ProductKey'}) {
# It is OK for us to return undef as long as there is a
# ProductKey.
return undef;
}
die "No ProductKey nor ProductID!";
};
Note. change XX KEY accordingly
Additional drivers
Add third-parity drivers to your windows installation,
#cd ~/install/tools
#chmod +x lower-caseily.pl
#./lower-caseify.pl /srv/unattended/install/os/winxp
cd ~/install/os/winxp/I386
mkdir -p \$oem\$/\$1/drivers
cd ..
ln -s I386/\$oem\$/\$1/drivers
mkdir -p drivers/nic
mv ~/nic/Netrtle.inf drivers/nic
mv ~/nic/Rtenic.sys drivers/nic
mv ~/nic/Rtenic64.sys drivers/nic
mv ~/nic/Rtenicxp.sys drivers/nic
mv ~/nic/netrtle.cat drivers/nic
Also edit unattend.txt,
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
OemPreinstall = Yes
OemFilesPath = "..\$OEM$"
OemPnPDriversPath = Drivers\NIC
Ready to go
Start and enable the daemons,
service dhcpd restart
service smb restart
service xinetd restart
#service named restart
chkconfig dhcpd on
chkconfig smb on
chkconfig xinetd on
#chkconfig named on
Boot the workstation(s) with PXE -- be careful -- it will automaticly erase everything and install Windows without even asking. Once the installations are finished, don't forget to unplug the PXE server from your network.
Update procedure
Just like for installation but overwrite the symlink,
cd /srv
wget...
unzip...,
ln -sf unttended-new unattended
move the install/os share AND FREE SOME SPACE,
mv unattended-old/install/os/* unattended/install/os
rm -rf unattended-old
and proceed with the script updates.
Update the linuxboot kernel, initrd and syslinux,
cd /tftpboot
rm -f bzImage initrd menu.c32 pxelinux.0
#wget http://mp-gif.ac-versailles.fr/ftp/unattend/fichiers/fr.kbd
cd /srv/unattended/linuxboot/tftpboot
cp -f bzImage initrd menu.c32 pxelinux.0 /tftpboot
No further changes are required.
References
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/step-by-step.php
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/pxe-win2k.html
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.php
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/meta.php
References (application only)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/Scripts
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/appsonly
References (other)
http://www.diderot.org/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=103
http://www.productionmonkeys.net/category/technology/unattended
http://www.corax.at/wiki/index.php/Unattended_Setup
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Customizing-Unattended-Setup.html
http://herve.rozec.free.fr/wordpress/?tag=unattend
References (mail archive)
http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03136.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06135.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09021.html
References (M$)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/155197
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196288