[Slightly off-topic] Unattended install
Rich Marsh
rmarsh "at" shipco.com
Thu Apr 28 21:47:00 2005
I took a shot at the unattended mailing list and came up empty so I
thought I'd try my chances here. I have a test box running Debian
woody, kernel 2.4.27-2-686, it is successfully booting using the
unattend (ver. 4.6) http://unattended.sourceforge.net/index.php with a
linux boot disk. I am about 90-95% where we would like this machine to
be (with successful apps installed) but have hit a snag with real VNC.
It installs the app. and it functions but when I attempt to control the
client remotely, I receive the following error, "server license key is
missing, invalid or has expired do you wish..." I have a vaild key for
it, but it is not entered during the install, since we are running
silent. When I ran the app locally there is a prompt for a registration
code, so I know that I need to somehow incorporate the key into the
realvnc.bat. I searched google and mail-archive.com and only found this
link
http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02000.html
which mentions an approach we do not want.
Our box will be in a remote location, and their are no techies
(whatsoever) on hand. I want a branch manager (or equivalent) to stick
a disc in the machine and in an hour or so, have a fully functioning
machine, which loads all the programs we need it to. I checked real
VNC's documentation and also came up empty. The current configuration
of the real VNC script is posted below:
For anyone familiar with the unattended approach, below is a snippet of
the bat file that is called by the perl script that controls the entire
install.
:: OPTIONAL: Install RealVNC
todo.pl "%Z%\packages\realvnc\vnc-E4_0-x86_win32.exe /sp- /verysilent"
Again sorry for the off topic post, but I didn't know where else to
turn. Thanks.