Windows Fails to Install

[boeleke]

@Wayne-Workman said in Windows Fails to Install:

@boeleke All I can say is try it and see.

To explain the problem in more detail, when your sysprep stuff is happening after deployment, the fog client starts up and does it’s thing too (rename, reboot, etc.), and breaks the unattend.xml and setup complete stuff. The simple answer is just to disable the service before taking the image, and set up your golden machine so that it re-enables the service after all your stuff is done.

Also - it’s not a bug. The FOG Client is designed to do it’s job.

But maybe a tip , put it in the wiki.
i searched like i was crazy last week to all forums. But maybe i’m wrong , i’m just going to try it out. I’ll update this tomorrow when i can test! Thanks!

[michael_f]

@Wayne-Workman OK, I thought about installing the fog client after imaging by calling the msi-package from setupcomplete.bat, but this way is even easier.

I can confirm this working for me.

Thank you!

[boeleke]

I can confirm its also working for me :).
But if I was you guys , i would put this on the FOG-WIKI. @Developers

This is going to be a problem for many of us & maybe they stop earlier with FOG because that and the don’t know it
But thumbs up for the good work ;)!

[Wayne Workman]

@boeleke @michael_f Ask and you shall receive.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#FOG_Client_with_Sysprep

[x23piracy]

Hi,

do you try to restore to vm? i’ve seen several error for example with virtual box when trying to restore an earlier captures sysprepped image.
If yes try the same image on real pyhsical hardware please.

Regards X23

[zpoling]

@Wayne-Workman This fixed my original issue as well. Thanks for the help!

[Wayne Workman]

TO clarify, are you guys putting this in setupcomplete.cmd or setupcomplete.bat ?

I’ve not done this myself yet, so I’m just going off of what you all say.

[zpoling]

@Wayne-Workman I had to look up where to put the script in the first place, and was instructed to use SetupComplete.cmd; that is what worked for me.

[Wayne Workman]

@zpoling Care to provide a screen shot or some steps?

[michael_f]

@Wayne-Workman setupcomlete.cmd has to be placed under C:\Windows\Setup\scripts in the master system.
As the name indicates, the script is called by windows just after setup has finished.

Btw. l set the Fog service to delayed start, ie I put
sc config FOGService start= delayed-auto
into the script.
I don’t know, if this is really necessary with the new fogclient, but it doesn’t harm.
Reason for this is i’ve got some computers which require delayed start with the legacy client (afair network doesn’t come up fast enough)

[Wayne Workman]

@michael_f I’ve not heard of the issue with the delayed start for the new client.

And I’m well aware of the timing issues the Legacy Client had - I had to delay it here at my work too.

I’ll get the things you’ve stated into the wiki.

[michael_f]

@Wayne-Workman Good to know that the new client works smoother.
I just upgraded to trunk a few days ago and didn’t have the time to test yet.