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    Adding drivers at the end of an restore.

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      Terry Bates last edited by

      Hey There,

      I have to say this is the third time I have used this project for deployment situations and its fantastic.

      I have an odd request, I would like to add a custom some script to copy driver files from a directory on my fog server to my xp image once its restored to the machine.

      I understand that you can mount the init.gz image and modify it, I am thinking that adding a bit of code to the “fog” script in /bin will do but at what point should I add this? for the most part my images are single partition.

      Also any suggestions on what I should write as well would be great I can write a vb script file but first time with bash script, basically would like to copy a folder full of drivers say /mnt/drivers to ~c:\sysprep\drivers, anything basic will do I’m sure I can modify it to suit 🙂

      There may even be an easier way of doing this but I dont know it 😛

      Cheers

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        De Thegeek last edited by

        Hi

        I created this page some time ago

        [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Working_device_drivers_snapins[/url]

        I’m used to deploy device drivers as snapins. most device drivers have a installer able to run silently. However, some drivers need to run when a user is logged on. Some of them (sometimes realtek hdaudio or ac97 depending on the computer, or some ATI video drivers) are a bit ugly and don’t run well silently.

        Have a look, that’s quite nice 🙂

        Now I’m using .cmd files as snapins, and they start my device driver from a SMB share. This is easier to maintain and troubleshoot. No more need to create a sfx with 7z 🙂

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          jdd49 last edited by

          Here is a solution that I currently use. I added an extra host option in the database. Similar to kernel options but called it scripts. Here I can add different scripts to different hosts or groups. That information is then appended to the bootimage in a variable called hostScripts. I created a new nfs share called scripts. In here are all of the different bash or shell scripts that can be ran after a host has imaged and before it checks out. Here is the function I call from my boot image.

          if [ ! “$hostScripts” = “” ]; then
          runScripts
          fi

          function runScripts()
          {
          mkdir /scripts
          mount -o nolock,proto=tcp “$serverIP:/scripts” /scripts 2>/dev/mntscripts
          echo “Running Script(s)”
          sleep 1

          scriptCount=$(grep -o “,” <<<“$hostScripts” | wc -l)
          scriptCount=$(( $scriptCount + 1 ))
          echo “> Found $scriptCount Script(s)”
          sleep 1
          i=1
          while [ $i -le $scriptCount ]
          do
          scriptArray[i]=$(echo $hostScripts | cut -d"," -f$i)
          echo “> Running ${scriptArray[i]}”
          sleep 1
          cd /scripts
          ./${scriptArray[i]} $hd
          i=$(( $i + 1 ))
          sleep 1
          done
          }

          So if hostA had hostScripts=script1,script2,script3 set for it. It would run all 3 scripts that are stored on the server.
          I know this has a lot info missing but this is a general idea of how you could do it.[/i][/i][/i]

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            Terry Bates last edited by

            Had some time today, added this to my fog script

            [CODE] if [ “$type” == “down” ];
            then
            # Windows XP
            if [ “$osid” == “1” ]; then
            echo “”;
            echo " * Copying driver files";
            echo “”;
            ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs
            mkdir -p /ntfs/sysprep/drivers
            cp -R -f /images/drivers/* /ntfs/sysprep/drivers
            umount /ntfs;
            fi
            fi[/CODE]

            It seems to work well, will probably expand on this in the future, might even send through page for your wiki with what I’m doing for deploying images.

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