[syslinux] Help for setting up windows unattended installation

[Kenneth Vandbæk]

Hi,

I'm not sure what you call it, but I do not use EFI, so I guess it is BIOS/legacy system.

My idea was to have the option to install windows 7 on my computer and it should install drivers that's not recognized in the install progress.

My default file is this:

DEFAULT menu.c32
 PROMPT 0
 
 MENU TITLE PXE Special Boot Menu
 MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/graphics.conf
 MENU AUTOBOOT Starting Local System in # seconds
 
 LABEL bootlocal
   MENU LABEL ^Boot Point of Sale
   MENU DEFAULT
   LOCALBOOT 0
 TIMEOUT 80
 TOTALTIMEOUT 9000
 
 LABEL SetupMenu
   MENU LABEL ^Setup Menu
   KERNEL menu.c32
   APPEND pxelinux.cfg/graphics.conf pxelinux.cfg/setup.menu

and my setup.menu file is this:

 MENU TITLE Setup Menu
 
 LABEL MainMenu
   MENU LABEL ^Return to Main Menu
   KERNEL menu.c32
   APPEND pxelinux.cfg/default
 
 LABEL E6320
   MENU LABEL ^Latitude E6320
   KERNEL   "<---- Don't know what to choose here"
   APPEND   "<---- Don't know what to choose here"

Nr
Kenneth

> Den 25. nov. 2017 kl. 16.23 skrev Kenneth Vandbæk <valnurat at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure what you call it, but I do not use EFI, so I guess it is BIOS/legacy system.
> 
> My idea was to have the option to install windows 7 on my computer and it should install drivers that's not recognized in the install progress.
> 
> My default file is this:
> 
> DEFAULT menu.c32
>  PROMPT 0
>  
>  MENU TITLE PXE Special Boot Menu
>  MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/graphics.conf
>  MENU AUTOBOOT Starting Local System in # seconds
>  
>  LABEL bootlocal
>    MENU LABEL ^Boot Point of Sale
>    MENU DEFAULT
>    LOCALBOOT 0
>  TIMEOUT 80
>  TOTALTIMEOUT 9000
>  
>  LABEL SetupMenu
>    MENU LABEL ^Setup Menu
>    KERNEL menu.c32
>    APPEND pxelinux.cfg/graphics.conf pxelinux.cfg/setup.menu
> 
> and my setup.menu file is this:
> 
>  MENU TITLE Setup Menu
>  
>  LABEL MainMenu
>    MENU LABEL ^Return to Main Menu
>    KERNEL menu.c32
>    APPEND pxelinux.cfg/default
>  
>  LABEL E6320
>    MENU LABEL ^Latitude E6320
>    KERNEL   "<---- Don't know what to choose here"
>    APPEND   "<---- Don't know what to choose here"
> 
> Br Kenneth
> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gene Cumm [mailto:gene.cumm at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 24. november 2017 15:07
>> To: Kenneth Vandbæk <kenneth.vandbek at alfalaval.com>
>> Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
>> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Help for setting up windows unattended installation
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Kenneth Vandbæk via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > I have looked at PXElinux<http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX> to understand all this, but I'm very sorry I don't.
>> >
>> > I have managed to setup to boot from PXELinux, but I'm not an expert on how to setup a menu file for making a windows unattended installation.
>> 
>> So you're at the point where PXELINUX successfully loads and you have a config loading of some sort?  What's your config currently look like?  Is this a BIOS/legacy system?
>> 
>> Regarding an unattended install of Windows, how do you plan to do this?  Do you want to chain-load to a WDS system?  Restore an image with a tool like Clonezilla??  There's lots of options here without knowing the details.
>> 
>> > Could someone help me with that?
>> >
>> > Is there some kind of a forum for this or is it just by email?
>> 
>> Web forum?  No.  IRC?  Yes, but unless you find someone active at the time, you might have to wait for any sort of answer.
>> 
>> > Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
>> > Kenneth Vandbæk
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> -Gene
>