Windows 7 image deployment slows way down at 25%
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[quote=“andyroo54, post: 1833, member: 267”]Sorry but why is your image 85 GB?? Mine is around 11 with driverpacks included?? Do you have all software already installed? Why not just use snapins?? 85GB is going to take a long time over any network![/quote]
Yes, it’s a complete system with all software installed. With the image type set to Multiple Partition/Single Disk the image starts deploying at over 4GB/min estimating that it will be finished in 20 minutes, a time I can certainly live with, but for some reason at the same completion percentage every time the transmit bandwidth flat lines and the image deployment eventually goes down to about 200MB/min. I’ve set the image type to single partition which results in a considerably smaller image size but it won’t boot and when I check the partitions with GPARTED they’re both there but it shows issues with the boot partition. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. -
I think I may have found why Single Partition won’t boot. I rebuilt the system using the rebuild CDs that came with it, loaded GPARTED and looked at the partitions. The system partition is 2GB with 682MB used but when Fog creates this partition it’s only 100MB so the data won’t fit and therefore won’t boot.
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I’ve never seen the system partition bigger than 100mb other than sometimes an upgrade from vista or a beta might have been 200mb. It looks like you are using the OEM copy of Win7, do you have any way of using a stand alone copy? Are you sure you only have 2 partitions and not 3?
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[quote=“jdd49, post: 1871, member: 623”]I’ve never seen the system partition bigger than 100mb other than sometimes an upgrade from vista or a beta might have been 200mb. It looks like you are using the OEM copy of Win7, do you have any way of using a stand alone copy? Are you sure you only have 2 partitions and not 3?[/quote]
As jdd49 said the problem is likely FOG only knows about windows 7 100mb separate partition, and so if it is 600mb that is a problem. As he suggested just use a standard windows 7 iso to build your image, it will be much cleaner and will work no problems. You don’t need the OEM recovery partitions anyway they are just wasted space when you have fog
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Sorry for the late response. Finally checked our 6000 pro’s. They worked set to ide mode in the bios and kernel 2.6.39. Hope this helps but it sounds like it may be the windows 7 system partition.
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[quote=“micah2005, post: 1971, member: 633”]Sorry for the late response. Finally checked our 6000 pro’s. They worked set to ide mode in the bios and kernel 2.6.39. Hope this helps but it sounds like it may be the windows 7 system partition.[/quote]
Thanks for checking, do you know which version of BIOS your 6000s are running? Also, you mentioned that you have it working set to multiple partition/single disk, do you know what you have selected for the Host OS for the systems? I’ve tried both Windows 7 and XP and neither have helped. -
I’ll have to get back to you on the BIOS version in the morning. As for the host OS they are currently windows 7 professional clean install.
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BIOS version is 1.09
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It looks like wiping the drive and reinstalling Windows 7 with a copy downloaded thru our MS license agreement has solved the issue. I have the image type set as single partition and the deployment takes about 10 minutes, much better. Thank you to everyone that responded.
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glad it worked out well for you.
