From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:02:06 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1144 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 14 July 2005 Number 1144 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Help: Remote install problems : Andrew Hood" 2 Re: Help: Remote install problems : David Shearer" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:01:42 +1000 From: "Andrew Hood" Subject: Help: Remote install problems Just looking for some advice on a remote install I am trying to do. The scenario: I have a PII 400 desktop that is my machine with W4 fp (the last free one, 15 I think) plus various other extensions eg Dani drivers etc and an old Dell latitude XPi (P133 with no CDROM) that the kids aren't using anymore that I thought I would put W4 on. I have a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA card (with OS/2 drivers) and Xover as well as patch cables and a 4 port hub. All the stuff I should need to do a remote install. I made all the remote install disks as per the instructions and went to do the install. Error message "can't find the server", back to the net and researched the subject, adjusted all the config.sys, server.ini etc files as needed and tried the install again. ~ting~ patch cable instead of Xover, change the cable and try again (several times, but eventually it "caught") and I went for the advanced install because I wanted to format the laptop harddrive to HPFS. Trap 00005D. Power off and back on and start the install disk routine again (several times, but evetually it "caught") and went for the simple install and away we went to the first reboot. Can't find the ....ing server again. It carried on installing all the crap that IBM stuffed in there but none of the important stuff. I reboot it and it has formatted the harddrive FAT (which I didn't want) so fdisk the drive and start again. After about fifteen ....ing reboots with "Error: cant find the ....ing server" messages I drag the 4 port hub out and connect everything up with patch cables just to try something different. From here you can basically repeat the above story. After two days of research, adjustment, reboots, and loading those three ....ing install disks I have worked out that: 1) I am ready to throw the whole lot in the bin, or just reload windows onto the laptop and forget it 2) the remote install server seems to poll the network about every five seconds. If the remote install disks run the CALL=A:\SRVATTCH.EXE z: \\SHITBOX\CDROM (guess what I ended up calling the server) line at EXACTLY the same time, it will connect. I managed to fluke this about four times out of god knows how many tries. I want to know is there any way of changing the parameters in either server.ini or the SRVATTCH.EXE to extend the polling period so the bloody things will do an indian love call for long enough to connect? Or some other thing I can try to get the things to connect without having to load those ....ing install disks repeatedly? If all else fails I can loan a PCMCIA CDROM (IDE I think) so what lines will I need to modify in the config.sys and what extra drivers will I need on the install disks to try loading it this way. (ie: normal install disks with PCMCIA.SYS added or remote install disks with the CDROM stuff added?) Yours in desperation Andrew Hood ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:31:49 +1000 (KST) From: "David Shearer" Subject: Re: Help: Remote install problems I know this isn't what you were after but can you take the hard drive out of the laptop - and assuming it is a standard 2.5inch drive - connect it to a desktop machine with CDROM and install Warp on it? You can buy IDE adapters (convert 2.5in to 3.5in) for laptop drives very cheap - Dick Smith have then for $14. I did this for a cdrom-less thinkpad I had which I wanted to install Warp on - rather than do remote install which didnt work properly. Regards David On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:01:42 +1000, Andrew Hood wrote: >Just looking for some advice on a remote install I am trying to do. > >The scenario: >I have a PII 400 desktop that is my machine with W4 fp (the last free one, 15 I think) plus various other extensions eg Dani drivers etc and an old Dell latitude XPi (P133 with no CDROM) that the kids aren't using anymore that I thought I would put W4 on. I have a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA card (with OS/2 drivers) and Xover as well as patch cables and a 4 port hub. All the stuff I should need to do a remote install. > >I made all the remote install disks as per the instructions and went to do the install. Error message "can't find the server", back to the net and researched the subject, adjusted all the config.sys, server.ini etc files as needed and tried the install again. ~ting~ patch cable instead of Xover, change the cable and try again (several times, but eventually it "caught") and I went for the advanced install because I wanted to format the laptop harddrive to HPFS. Trap 00005D. Power off and back on and start the install disk routine again (several times, but evetually it "caught") and went for the simple install and away we went to the first reboot. Can't find the ....ing server again. It carried on installing all the crap that IBM stuffed in there but none of the important stuff. I reboot it and it has formatted the harddrive FAT (which I didn't want) so fdisk the drive and start again. After about fifteen ....ing reboots with "Error: cant find the ....ing server" messages I drag > > the 4 port hub out and connect everything up with patch cables just to try something different. From here you can basically repeat the above story. > >After two days of research, adjustment, reboots, and loading those three ....ing install disks I have worked out that: >1) I am ready to throw the whole lot in the bin, or just reload windows onto the laptop and forget it >2) the remote install server seems to poll the network about every five seconds. If the remote install disks run the > >CALL=A:\SRVATTCH.EXE z: \\SHITBOX\CDROM (guess what I ended up calling the server) > >line at EXACTLY the same time, it will connect. I managed to fluke this about four times out of god knows how many tries. > >I want to know is there any way of changing the parameters in either server.ini or the SRVATTCH.EXE to extend the polling period so the bloody things will do an indian love call for long enough to connect? Or some other thing I can try to get the things to connect without having to load those ....ing install disks repeatedly? > >If all else fails I can loan a PCMCIA CDROM (IDE I think) so what lines will I need to modify in the config.sys and what extra drivers will I need on the install disks to try loading it this way. (ie: normal install disks with PCMCIA.SYS added or remote install disks with the CDROM stuff added?) > >Yours in desperation > >Andrew Hood > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------