When you Create A New Image within the Image Management, set image type to Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable). This is my unattend.xml for Windows 7 Professional x86 and it does work with Dell Factory partition setup. What I did is registered the computer with the FOG server, booted the Dell factory install in win7, installed all the software I needed, put the unattend.xml in the C:\windows\system32\sysprep folder, syspreped, and started the image upload process.

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>
<unattend xmlns=“urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend”>
<settings pass=“windowsPE”>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Setup” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall>
<EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
<UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass=“generalize”>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
</component>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass=“specialize”>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Deployment” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<ExtendOSPartition>
<Extend>true</Extend>
</ExtendOSPartition>
</component>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation>
</component>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<ComputerName>Computer Name</ComputerName>
<DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>false</DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>
<ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
<TimeZone>(GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada)</TimeZone>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass=“oobeSystem”>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-International-Core” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage>
<UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback>
<UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale>
</component>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“[url]http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State[/url]” xmlns:xsi=“[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/url]”>
<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC>
<SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
<SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
</OOBE>
<TimeZone>(GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada)</TimeZone>
<ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:OfflineImage cpi:source=“catalog:c:/images/install_windows 7 professional.clg” xmlns:cpi=“urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi” />
</unattend>

Checking my server, I’m running vsftp version 3.0.2-6.

Here’s what my vsftp.conf file looks like:

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
listen=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=NO
tcp_wrappers=YES

The only other things I can think of are:
[LIST]
[]to make sure the vsftp service is enabled, not just running, so that when you reboot your server it starts automatically
[]make sure the username and password are correct, not only under the FOG settings of the web interface, but also under Storage Management and in the your …/fog/comons/config.php file
[LIST]
[]in the config.php file, make sure the TFTP and STORAGE FTP username and password (the password may be encrypted) are set to your values
[/LIST]
[]if your firewall is on, make the appropriate exceptions for vsftp, or you can disable it completely
[/LIST]
Hope that helps.

Hello Tom

thanks your “wondering” (and your work on/at fog) 🙂

Your are right: It’s hard to get rid off GPT. But that’s by intension, but
I’m lucky currently not to have to handle GPT-
I think i will use fog to deploy an “embedded” OS.
So the disks delivered are empty (i think all “00”), uses MBR.
But don’t (usually) have a BIOS compatible console.
So there is problem with the debug-option 🙂
No keyboard, No screen.
Deploying via fog would have been so elegant.

If i could give help i would like to help to find the reason while that big fog script fails to detect that the disk is empty.
I see it is looking on /proc/partition and asks sfdisk. All say: There is a “/dev/sda” (but no /dev/sda1)
I used a dd | hexdump to see that the first 32MB are really empty(=zero(0)).

A new feature request thread (i’ll place there):
Would it make sense the setup a syslogd so the fog-script could sent persistent log file entries the fog-server.
IIRC this are only some line of configuration in /etc and installing

Dear FOG-Community,
Dear Tom,

I have a big Problem with FOGService/FOGTray. We configured it depending on Service winmgmt and Spooler. Rolled out a testimage without syspreping it and it worked. Even as it didnt started automatically. After Syspreping the FOGService/FOGTray doesnt work anymore. No Hostnamechanger, no Printer attachment, no greenfog and i dont know why…

What did Sysprep do to the Services? Why does it worked before sysprep?

Hope you can help me.

Update:
All Services work except the HostNameChanger.
Log says: Index out of Array at FOG.HostNameChanger.changeHostName()

Greetings

Andy

At work we purchased approximately 140 of these. We eventually gave up on FOG and turned to WDS. If you want to save yourself lots of time and stress I would go this route. Good luck!

Hi Tom! I started with a clean installation so nothing is moved or copied from /images. I even set the permissions/ownership correct in /home/images but they are back to wrong settings each time I do an upload.

During an update (svn) the /images are recreated again. I have not checked lately if the /etc/export file is kept unchanged (it was correct now with references to /home/images).

Sammary: The ownership is changed to root:root each time I do an upload

The problem was I had the Fog Server set up as the master storage node. In order to image & have it saved on the Fog storage I had to change Fog Storage to be the Master storage node( done within the Fog Server). Now all my problems are fixed…

it looks like you were hit with a big that was identified in 1.1.2, and was actually a large part of the 1.2.0 update. under certain conditions all of the settings could be blanked on the settings page. i’m afraid you’ll just have to set them back manually. but at least it won’t happen again…

Nobody has ever seen this before?

To add to this, if I set a task, it doesn’t restart the computer.

The Fog Service is running but the client isn’t responding.

What’s going on here?

Could the problem be there is only one partition (as seen in the screenshot)? My Thinkpad models show two partitions. The one partition GX755 running win7 works fine.

Hey Tom, I appreciate you following back up on this. Currently, I do have a drive that has failed in the LVM and am waiting on my boss for a replacement.

However, I don’t think that was the problem. As soon as I get a replacement drive, I’ll finish the upgrade process from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS and from FOG 0.32 to 1.2.0. (The first one of these temporarily caused GRUB to break…)

Thanks again,
Chuck

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 34899, member: 21583”]compression on 0.32 was hard coded to 3
if you’re uploading an image off of a slower computer, it will make a very big difference.
download speeds are typically faster then they were with 0.32, and isn’t that more important?[/quote]

Oh btw! We just tested it on the download and holy hell, you were not kidding about the improved download speeds. Excellent work!

I’m interested in the same documentation because I’m having issues with the new PXE setup and I thought it might be my old hardware.

Hey guys,

Thanks for the replies, I can give it a go sure thing, everything else by the way is working like a charm 🙂

Thank you, that solved the problem!

Kind regards,
CodeBarbarian

Thanks tom that’s great just made the change

thanks I will make the change and test.

I had the same issues the fix for me was using terminal to restart mysql server as well as the tftp server than it was all back to normal not sure if this is gonna happen everytime I reboot the server or not.

Also, just clear your browser cache, all should function if you run into issues again.