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performing unattended XP installs on machines that need 3RD party SCSI or RAID drivers?
by Ryan Shugart 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi all: Quite a few of the machines at work, higher end Dell Precisions, need a 3RD party SCSI driver to see any hard drives during an XP install. During a normal interactive install, the user is prompted to press a certain function key, I believe F6, at the very beginning of the install if such drivers are necessary. They then insert a floppy with the drivers on it and the install proceeds normally. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how this was done with an unattended install? With Vista this issue never comes up, but XP doesn't seem to have as many drivers built into the CD as Vista does. Loading the drivers onto the same disk as the unattended file doesn't seem to work, so was wondering if there was an easy way to work around this? Thanks. Ryan

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cloning a hard disk
by Dave 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello, I've got a machine that's got a hd in it that's running out of space. I've attached a second drive to it and want to clone the disk from smaller to bigger adjusting for file size. I do not have my old copy of ghost 5.1 floppy, or 7.5 for network disks, btw if anyone does i'd appreciate that, and am looking for something that's a drop in, boot up, enter a few commands and it's off and cloning. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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Orca on Linox
by Troy Hergert 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello, I have a client wishes to know how difficult it would be to use the Orca screen reader in the Linox environment. She is experienced with JAWS in the Windows environment. Does anyone have a short keyboard navigation guide for Orca or linox in general? Thanks. Troy

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serverfault.com
by Jared Stofflett 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

I notice general system administration questions get asked on this list as well as ones relating directly to accessibility. I've used the site http://www.serverfault.com for general system administration questions and had good luck. To summerize it's a site where people ask and answer questions, and the answers get voted up and down based on the judgement of everyone viewing the questions. I've found that there are simply more eyeballs on the site then on email lists so am more likely to get a good answer quickly unless it's something very nitch like installing Jaws on windows 2008.

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fedora preupgrade-cli
by John G. Heim 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Anybody know how to use the fedora preupgrade-cli script? I ran it to upgrade a system from fedora 9 to 10. After downloading 900Mb of files, it said "Upgrade will begin after you reboot". So I rebooted. But now I cannot ssh into the machine. It seems to me that the preupgrade-cli program shouldn't require you to have console access. Else how do you remotely upgrade a fedora machine?

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opensuse?
by Dave 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hello, A while back i read something about opensuse being accessible during the install. With a little time i decided to google this, there is an elusive podcast on the subject that i'm trying to get a listen to. I was wanting to know opensuse's current status and if anyone was using it and how it stacked up to other linux distros? Thanks. Dave.

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application imaging
by Dave 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hello, A while back when i had ghost 7.5 enterprise edition that had a program on it called application imager, ai snapshot. What you did was take a before snapshot of a system, then installed and customized your application and took an after snapshot, it then did a comparison and generated an executable file. I do not have this anymore and am wanting to app image, i'm going to have to a laptop and some other system reinstalls and i'd like to push out exe files with the apps in place. Does anyone use this capability? Thanks. Dave.

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unix machine and ldap authentication
by Dave 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hello, Long shot question, but here goes. Does anyone have a Unix either Linux or FreeBSD machine authenticating users against an openldap directory? If so, can you write me? I am having issues on configuration. Thanks. Dave.

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Email addresses
by Andrew Hodgson 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

Hi Guys, Please can you ensure you post using the subscribed addresses? If you don't do this, the list software will hold the message for moderation until I can get at it. There have been several of these over the past few weeks. Thanks. Andrew.

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Email addresses
by Andrew Hodgson 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi Guys, Please can you ensure you post using the subscribed addresses? If you don't do this, the list software will hold the message for moderation until I can get at it. There have been several of these over the past few weeks. Thanks. Andrew.

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