[Unattended] Change \\NTINSTALL\INSTALL

[Daniel Mühlbachler]

Hello,

is it possible to change the server which gets searched after booting
from e.g. \\ntinstall to \\linux?
I perform PXE network boot! :-)

Thx, regards,
Daniel Mühlbachler

[FwdTmp]

Hello Daniel,

you can use the z_path directive to change the source.

[Daniel Mühlbachler]

[Daniel Mühlbachler]

As I didn't know where I must set this directive, I found another solution.
Just decompress the initrd, add in the etc folder a hosts file which
resolves the hostname ntinstall to the ip address, then compress the
initrd again.

Post by FwdTmp
Hello Daniel,
you can use the z_path directive to change the source.

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OK, where should I set this z_path to have it available after booting via
pxe when it tries to mount \\ntinstall\install?
thx.

Post by FwdTmp
Hello Daniel,
you can use the z_path directive to change the source.
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OK, where should I set this z_path to have it available after booting via pxe when it tries to mount \\ntinstall\install?<br>thx.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/17 FwdTmp <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:***@freemail.hu">***@freemail.hu</a>&gt;</span><br>
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you can use the z_path directive to change the source.<br>
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[Pierre Bourgin]

Post by Daniel Mühlbachler
Hello,
is it possible to change the server which gets searched after booting
from e.g. \\ntinstall to \\linux?
I perform PXE network boot! :-)

Yes: something like this in the pxelinux.cfg/default configuration file:

LABEL unattended.sf.net
MENU LABEL ^Windows XP/2003 installation (via Unattended SF project)
#MENU PASSWD
KERNEL kernels/unattended/bzImage
APPEND initrd=kernels/unattended/initrd z_path=//myserver/winstall
z_user=samba_user z_pass=the_password

do not forget to share the root of Unattended.
If using samba, smb.conf should contain something like this:

....
[winstall]
path = /path/to/unattended/install
...

Pierre