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    Injecting Drivers during audit mode for syspreping Windows 7 and then Fogging

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    • Jaymes DriverJ
      Jaymes Driver Developer
      last edited by

      Not a problem, good luck! I’ve been thinking about writing a driver pack I may give it a go for this summer… then I can actually help troubleshoot the issues with it.

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        MichaelDigital
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        What folder do you Jaymes put your drivers in for windows to automatically locate them?

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        • Jaymes DriverJ
          Jaymes Driver Developer
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          C:\Drivers just like that guide, but the funny thing is I never read the guide until today 😛

          Then I use RegEdit, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version click on “DevicePath” and enter “C:\Drivers” (remember the entries must be separated by a semicolon).

          I’ve only had issues with one particular unit we have here, C115, they change the motherboard type, and it’s been a bit of a hassle to get the chipset drivers to install untouched (Mainly because it likes to run an installer to get the drivers in place), so I just wrote a script to run the installer and added it to the setupccomplete.cmd file.

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            MichaelDigital
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            Very Awesome. Honestly, I think I like your way better. I’ll get this going. And thanks for the quick response!

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              jbsclm Developer
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              We do something similar, ie a vanilla w7 image, at the end of the install, we have a VBscript which installs the “known” items, based on the model, after which we check if certain device ids, eg, PCI\VEN_xx&DEV_xxxx, are present, and then run the installer silently with no restart, after which it reboots.
              This catches for example desktops with special video cards, or laptops where the same model can have different wireless or 3g card, which also needs its own management utility. For example you need the full ati catalyst suite to get the best from the card, rather than just the bare driver from windows.

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                MichaelDigital
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                Hey Jaymes got another question for you.

                I found all my drivers that I believe I need from Dell’s website for this Optiplex 755 (only one of many kinds) and I created a folder called “Drivers” on the root of C. I next edited the registry like you mentioned, adding the ; adding “C:\Drivers”. (without quotes) My question is, the drivers I downloaded are in zip format, so I simply extracted all the drivers into their sub directories under c:\Drivers. Is windows smart enough to search threw sub directories to find the correct info by just pointing it to c:\Drivers?

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                • Jaymes DriverJ
                  Jaymes Driver Developer
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                  Yes it can, well it does. I normally add them in folders so I know what I am doing if I need to point a driver manually 🙂

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                    MichaelDigital
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                    I just tried this. Man, this works great! Thanks for your help!

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                    • Jaymes DriverJ
                      Jaymes Driver Developer
                      last edited by

                      Not a problem glad I could be of help!

                      Like I said it may not be the “conventional” method, but I’m pretty good about finding my ways around things 😉

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                        MichaelDigital
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                        So,

                        Everything is working well, but I wanted to remove the driver pack from the machine’s after imaging them because they are almost 2 gigs. So, I wrote a script to remove the unattend.xml file and included to remove the drivers folder. Placed the script in c:\windows\setup\scripts\ folder so it will run automatically after computer finishes its setup.
                        Real basic, here is what it is -
                        @echo off
                        del /Q /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml
                        del /Q /F c:\windows\panther\unattend.xml
                        rmdir c:\drives /Q /S

                        I think this is removing the Drivers directory before windows finishes the drivers install. Any better ideas on how I could accomplish this?

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                        • Jaymes DriverJ
                          Jaymes Driver Developer
                          last edited by

                          Add a script to the END of the setupcomplete.cmd file that runs another script to remove the fill/folder.

                          Just keep chaining scripts until you accomplish the goal you desire lol

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                            MichaelDigital
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                            LOL Good thought. And, In the end of the script setupcomplete.cmd script put a wait or a pause command to make the computer wait. Gotta look up the commands. I’ll post my finished solution.

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                            • Lee RowlettL
                              Lee Rowlett Developer
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                              I do exactly the same to handle drivers except i get the init.gz to detect the machine model, download the relevant drivers folder (drivers in .inf form) from the closest node and then add the registry entry to devpath so all drivers (as long as they’re signed) are handled and installed by sysprep that way i can keep the image small and drivers up to date without having to modify the image - also means i can have one image per OS 🙂

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                              • Lee RowlettL
                                Lee Rowlett Developer
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                                it also means you do not have to run an additional script after sysprep and i build my images on a VM so that there is bare minimum drivers on the image during audit mode - also means again image can stay small for faster deploys.

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                                • Lee RowlettL
                                  Lee Rowlett Developer
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                                  …i’ll speak to Tom about maybe getting something implemented so any “options/pre-reqs” aren’t hard coded and you can set them from the Web GUI i.e. folder path (C:\Drivers) and maybe have a “Driver Management” page so you can manage the folders without having to do it all back end on the server.

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                                  • Tom ElliottT
                                    Tom Elliott
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                                    Very intriguing and interesting.

                                    If you’re up to the challenge, just do like we normally do.

                                    Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                                    Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                      MichaelDigital
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                                      Very interesting Lee,
                                      Can you go into more detail on the process of this for everyone?

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                                      • Lee RowlettL
                                        Lee Rowlett Developer
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                                        Myself, Tom and james are looking to working on this as a plugin potentially may take sometime… just watch this space 🙂

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                                        • Tom ElliottT
                                          Tom Elliott
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                                          Definitely!

                                          Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                                          Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                                            MichaelDigital
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                                            Good news! There was nothing wrong with the script. It deleted the Drivers folder after they installed collect along with the unattend.xml. Thanks for everyone’s help! it wasn’t until I pushed the image to a different model PC that I noticed it worked correctly. The first one I was using as testing grounds, apparently is missing a driver. Thanks Again!

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