Including Windows 11 as operating system type

[FGeyer]

As my question rises in the head.
Is it somehow possible to add my own operating systems for the imaging tasks?
Background:
We are using fog to deploy customer basic images and downloading specific drivers for every hardware we have and specific preinstall oobe’s for every operating system. So we need to add win11 to the operating system types under images.
Is this anyhow possible?

[Tom Elliott]

@FGeyer While it’s possible to add an OS, is this really a necessity?

What I mean is the osID does do some actions based on the osID, but my question is it just about a display of Windows 11 as an option?

FOS (the linux system that performs the actions of imaging) would need to be changed to include the new osID.

Now, we could change the name of the existing value for Windows 10 to something like Windows 10 and beyond.

If Windows 11 is absolutely necessary as a separate option (to my current knowledge this isn’t the case) we will work to add it as it’s own defined OS.

[FGeyer]

@Tom-Elliott This would be just one use case. Yes we want to use the osID for several other things too. For example we have some really exotic SLES installations that we want to treat seperately to normal linux distributions. So we just dont want to go the hacky way, mounting the os partitions and searching for special files so we can identify its a sles installation…

For the Windows 11 thingie:
We have very custom postdownload scripts that rely on the hardwarename/osID/ARCH/ stuff so adding own osID’s would make it much easier for us to differ between the Operating systems and unattended files.

[Tom Elliott]

@FGeyer So, as I stated, the issue of adding a new operating system type isn’t difficult (from the UI) perspective, it’s all the fos code that relies on it.

https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/search?q=osID

Particularly regarding the resize and partition code.

Modifying this code ultimately isn’t difficult either, but does require a rebuild of the FOS without ultimately adding to the value of the code.

If, for example, from a base level at least, Windows 11 did things differently from Windows 10, this would likely already have been worked through or being worked on.

Adding new image types makes sense when the processing of the generic base of FOG is dependent on the OS to be worked. Not as just a means to simplify customized “things”.

I’m by no means trying to diminish your custom things and the value this could provide, just that this isn’t as simple as just adding an item to the Web side of things and you’re done. It impacts how the imaging system in general actually operates.

[FGeyer]

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[Sebastian Roth]

@FGeyer @Tom-Elliott FYI we had a pretty similar topic on github a few months ago: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/pull/503

[greichelt]

@FGeyer

I know this is an old topic, but it looks like you don’t have a solution. I have this exact problem. It looks like @Tom-Elliott may consider this unnecessary (which may very well be true for other use cases), but for the sake of using @george1421 's awesome driver injection solution, it would be really nice to have. My workaround was to utilize OS type 4 for Windows 11 as I am not using it for anything. I updated the following line in “fog.custominstall”

case $osid in
5|6|7|9)

to

case $osid in
4|5|6|7|9)

Then I updated the following line in “fog.copydrivers”

case $osid in
5) osn=“win7” ;;
6) osn=“win8” ;;
7) osn=“win8.1” ;;
9) osn=“win10” ;;

to

case $osid in
4) osn=“win11” ;;
5) osn=“win7” ;;
6) osn=“win8” ;;
7) osn=“win8.1” ;;
9) osn=“win10” ;;

Mark you image as OS type 4 and it works as it should. Hope this helps.