[Libosinfo] [PATCH v4 11/12] win8.1: Re-enable unattended installation

Fabiano Fidêncio fabiano at fidencio.org
Tue May 3 16:42:41 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hi Fabiano,
>
> So the problem I had when I tried unattended installation with Windows
> 8.1 (more than an year ago) was that installer script was being
> completely ignored (or so it seemed). This is the reason I suspected
> that I might need to change the installation method from floppy to USB
> stick or something. While trying your patches, I bumped into the issue
> again and seems it's to do with locale. If I use the en-US (which are
> just prefixed as "en-") ISOs, installer works fine but if I use en-GB
> ISOs, the installer drops me to the first step (to choose locale) but
> works without prompting from there on.
>
> FWIW, I tried with LANG=en_US.utf8 but that did not work either.
> Further investigation is required but I suspect that our locale
> mapping might not be valid for Windows 8.1.

If it's not broken for Windows 8, then it may be considered a blocker
for this series (even if it's not related to my series). Otherwise,
please, file a bug and then we can address it later as it seems
totally unrelated to my series.

>
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
>> From: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>
>> Now the unattended installation works properly, apart from the user
>> avatar not being set for Windows 8 (or newer)[0].
>>
>> [0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328637
>>
>> This reverts commit 49ae46cda4fbd2e95dc794cb64aec27117351c85.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>> ---
>>  data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in
>> index a68c788..29b1fc6 100644
>> --- a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in
>> +++ b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in
>> @@ -136,5 +136,16 @@
>>      <devices>
>>        <device id="http://pcisig.com/pci/8086/2668"/> <!-- ICH6 -->
>>      </devices>
>> +
>> +    <!--
>> +        User avatar not being set for Windows 8 (or newer).
>> +        For more details, please, see:
>> +        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328637
>> +    -->
>> +    <installer>
>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/jeos'/>
>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/desktop'/>
>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/cmd/desktop'/>
>> +    </installer>
>>    </os>
>>  </libosinfo>
>> --
>> 2.7.3
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>
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