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    • Jaymes DriverJ
      Jaymes Driver Developer
      last edited by

      That sounds like it can be very tedious, glad you found a work around for you… but personally I aim to fix issues so that when I deploy I don’t have to touch 200+ machines.

      WARNING TO USERS: My comments are written completely devoid of emotion, do not mistake my concise to the point manner as a personal insult or attack.

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        BigMan99211
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        I understand that… I have right around 180 machines. My ultimate goal is to get a “System Center-like” setup… minus the $10k plus pricetag. 😄

        And honestly, FOG is the first software I’ve found, that can even come close to this goal!

        "Failure is not an option. It come pre-installed on Windows…" - Anonymous

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        • Jaymes DriverJ
          Jaymes Driver Developer
          last edited by

          Keep us posted on your journeys, I love to hear about all the cool stuff fog can do for FREE that other softwares can’t 😉

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            BigMan99211
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            I’m still running into this same issue… I noticed that the setup error was pointing to C:\Windows\Panther\unattend.xml and not the original file, C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\unattend.xml. I guess when you actually run sysprep, it copies your unattend to that location. I tried to modify it after the error popped, but still getting “The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error…”.

            Going to re-image one more time, and try to edit the unattend.xml located in the “Panther” folder. If this doesn’t work… I may have to re-build the image from scratch… :mad:.

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            • Jaymes DriverJ
              Jaymes Driver Developer
              last edited by

              Yes, windows makes a copy of the sysprep file to C:\Windows\Panther. This is the file actually used by the OOBE process after imaging.

              I believe it is copied from the sysprep folder during the sysprep process, if memory serves me correctly.

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                BigMan99211
                last edited by

                Yep! That was it. I just modified the unattend.xml in the Panther folder, and it’s fixed! ! !

                Whew!! Close call there. That image took 2-3 days to build.

                "Failure is not an option. It come pre-installed on Windows…" - Anonymous

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                • Tom ElliottT
                  Tom Elliott
                  last edited by

                  Did you reupload it once it was fixed so you don’t have to do all of that again?

                  Also you can scp the unattend file that’s fixed back to your FOG Server or whereever so you have the “good” one when you’re recreating images as well.

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                    BigMan99211
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                    I’m in the process of re-uploading a new sysprepped image now. This image is weird though. It seems to take forever to upload. Every other image I’ve uploaded, runs at a rate of around 2-3 GB/min, but for some reason, this specific image is only running at around 250-350 MB/min. It pushes out at 2.5-3 GB/min though… so weird.

                    Also, I already have a copy of the fixed unattend.xml saved on my desktop.

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                    • Tom ElliottT
                      Tom Elliott
                      last edited by

                      That may be the NFS adjustments I made. I’ll try removing the “tweaks” to the upload side as it may not work as well when writing vs deploying.

                      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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                        Keith Gregory
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                        I like your idea of booting into a pre-boot environment to do minor changes; however it seems like you are taking are hard approach at doing this when you could be creating your image with virtual box using snapshots at each major step so if you miss something or mess something up you can just revert the snapshot. Its still a timely and daunting process to create an image this way but it takes out the headaches of having to start from scratch each time. Then each time you think you have it right or after each modification you simply upload your new image over your old one.

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