FOG 0.33 - What's coming?
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I am very excited for .33! .32 has been great! It has made my life so much easier for deploying new PC’s, and refurbishing PC’s here at the office! Much better than any other cloning solution I have tried! Kudos to the developer! I am running uBuntu 10.4 on an old intel core 2 duo machine with a gigabit ethernet card & 4gb of ram. Has a 1TB HDD that has only a few images on it, but it is rock solid! I did have a problem with the latest kernel, but switching back to an older kernel was a breeze!
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[LEFT]@maafty, unfortunately there is no projected release date for .33. This new version is a complete re-write of the code, and not a simple patch update. So the answer, although no one likes to hear it is, it’ll be ready when it’s ready :). It’s taking some time to get everything worked out. However, there is a beta that you can try and report any bugs you find in our Bugs forum. Just note that this is still a beta and there could be bugs. You can try the latest version by installing subversion on your machine and entering:[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]
svn checkout [url]https://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeghost/trunk[/url]
(Make sure you are in a folder, this will download all the folders/files from FOG in your current directory)I’m glad to hear that FOG is working well for you!
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I am currently checking out .33
I have been loitering around the support forums and finally decided to join in. I would like to give many thanks to all working on the FOG project and those who support it. There is a great community and lets keep it alive!
I have been using 0.32 since release and have a pretty good feel for it considering i am not a Linux guru. I wouldn’t be where I am at without the support here. Good work!
Cheers
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When can we expect to see a final .33 release? Loving this project so far. I just wish that it could boot up systems with nVidia graphic cards. Maybe i am just doing something wrong though.
Keep up the great work!
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It would be awesome to include the option of tweaking sysprep.inf / unattend.xml to change the hostname and join an AD before booting the computer after deployment.
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@Kevin, thanks for the reply
i will check out the beta and report any bugs if i come across any, and i appreciate it will be ready when its ready!! i also do software development so i know how it works… again thanksWill
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Yu yo, re: “It would be awesome to include the option of tweaking sysprep.inf / unattend.xml to change the hostname and join an AD before booting the computer after deployment.” We use Powershell for that. The Unattend.xml does it all, we log into the desktop and run our Finalize.ps1 which enables and sets a password for the local administrator account, joins the computer to the domain and restarts the computer.
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@Steve: So you deploy the computer “out of the domain”, with a LogonCount=1 in your unattend, and join the domain once it has logged in, right?
Can you post your Finalize.ps1? (Hiding your sensitive data, of course
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Correct. This allows us to set the computer name, etc. before we join.
Finalize.ps1:
reg import c:\deluser.reg
;imports a reg branch that tells it to run a batch file at next boot. The batch file deletes the temp user account created by sysprep and also deletes the finalize.ps1 file as it contains the local admin password in plain textnet user administrator xxxxxxx
;sets password for local admin accountnet user administrator /active:yes
;enables the local admin accountAdd-Computer -DomainName “student.emcc.edu” -credential student.emcc.edu\itadmin
;adds conputer ro student domain (prompts for credentials of domain admin account)restart-computer
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hello
just to thank again for your work !
i’m using 0.32 and when i can test 0.33 i’ll do it (busy job too). Congrats to the team ! -
[quote=“Blackout, post: 49, member: 1”][B]What’s coming?[/B]
[LIST]
[]Rewritten PHP code base to be fully Objected Oriented - easier to develop & maintain
[]Developer Tools - create your own FOG Page’s to suit your needs
[]Hook System - manipulate data & structure easily
[]Web UI update - tabs, style updates, lots of code updates & bug fixes
[]Mobile UI update - revamped structure & styles
[]Partclone - EXT4 & Extended Partition support
[*]Advanced Format Drive support - 4k sector support
[/LIST]
[COLOR=#808080][SIZE=2][I]Disclaimer[/I][I]: This list may change[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/quote]
will possibly have hot/live capture or deployment -
“re: “It would be awesome to include the option of tweaking sysprep.inf / unattend.xml to change the hostname and join an AD before booting the computer after deployment.” We use Powershell for that. The Unattend.xml does it all, we log into the desktop and run our Finalize.ps1 which enables and sets a password for the local administrator account, joins the computer to the domain and restarts the computer.”
I use FOG to change the unattend.xml before it reboots after imaging so before it even boots into sysprep all options are set as needed and jsut let sysprep take care of it all - never fails and requires no additional reboots after imaging (like changing hostname, adding to domain) because it’s already all correct before booting into windows
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That’s awesome. Can you tell me how you do that?
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There is already a tutorial, admittedly abit lengthy:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/hostname-change-joining-domain-before-sysprep-runs-xp-win7.3332/#post-7964[/url]I can talk you through it if you want.
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That’s OK. I enjoy a good mystery novel and I will remember it better if I work through it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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Any way it would be possible to allow addon images? It would definitely help with driver deployment to have an addon image that is downloaded to C:\drivers that is specific to the machine and separate from the windows image. Otherwise .33 beta is installed and running for us right now, upgraded from .32 without issue.
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[quote=“BryceZ, post: 8935, member: 2”]The testing thread is [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/bugs-in-fog-0-33.631[/url]. Feel free to jump in and give a hand, just make sure you’re not cluttering up the thread with useless questions (search before you ask).
As for a release date… when it’s ready. I know that’s not the answer most people are looking for, but it’s the truth. There are three FOG developers, each with real jobs that keep them busy. If more people help with testing then the devs can spend less of their own time tracking down bugs and more time fixing them.[/quote]
Is this still a work in progress? or is it dying?
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Everything is still in development, Everyone that works on this project does it in their free time.
0.33 is a serious re-write of code so it is taking some time to complete.
I can assure the project is still in development, the developers just have lives
