| 1. What is Unattended | http://unattended.sourceforge.net |
| 2. Unattended OS Setup | http://unattended.sourceforge.net/os.html |
| 3. Unattended Application Setup | http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html |
| 4. Customize Unattended for your site | http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.html |
| 5. Install XYZ using Unattended | http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html |
| Unattended does NOT require cygwin to be installed on the workstations at all. In fact the only dependancy unattended has on the workstation is ActivePerl. During the setup phase, on the unattended server machine it is highly recommended that you have cygwin installed. For the following reasons: |
| 1) to rebuild the floppy images | $ cd bootdisk |
| $ make images | |
| 2) to rebuild the dos cdrom image, bootdisk.iso | $ cd bootdisk |
| $ make iso | |
| 3) to parse the /scripts directory and download files from the internet | $ cd install/tools |
| $ ./prepare | |
| 4) to parse the /scripts directory and tell you what is missing | $ cd install/tools |
| $ ./check |
| Cygwin Defaults | http://www.cygwin.com |
| Unzip | |
| Zip | |
| Perl | |
| Mtools | not yet in the cygwin package repository (as of 3/2004) |
| Wget |
| $ is a command typed into the cygwin bash prompt |
| http://www.cygwin.com | |
| setup.exe |
| Run setup.exe | |
| Install cygwin accepting all the defaults. | |
| When selecting packages click the view button until it reads FULL and enable these additional packages |
| unzip | |
| perl | |
| wget |
| Start a cygwin bash prompt |
| Start -> Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell |
| $ wget ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/mtools-3.9.9.zip |
| optionally you can browse to ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools | |
| and download the appropriate mtools source zip by hand |
| $ unzip mtools-3.9.9.zip |
| $ cd mtools-3.9.9 |
| $ ./configure | |
| $ make |
| $ make install |
| note: be careful with the following commands. rm is unforgiving | |
| $ cd .. | |
| $ rm ./mtools-3.9.9.zip | |
| $ rm -rf ./mtools-3.9.9 |