How to use FOG to supply machine specific drivers for Windows 7 Sysprepped machines
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Thanks for the info, it’s not so much having the newest but the minimal without having an in-complete drivers set. will start with the .cabs and see how it goes
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No problem. And if you need to fill the holes, you can always use the MDT to grab the extra stuff. My only experience is with the D and E series laptops, but the only extra driver I had to add in with MDT was an Intel Centrino wireless driver, and I believe that’s only because they aren’t standard parts for Dell machines.
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Hi all,
i’m getting “can’t stat no such file or directory” when trying to copy the drivers… example directory is /images/Drivers/WinXP/Optiplex 755 on imaging node and relevant code is:
ln -s “/images/Drivers/WinXP/${machine}/” /root/mydrivers;
cp -r /root/mydrivers/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers; # folder already exists on the imagei must be doing something silly because when i run the code directly on the server through ssh it works! (change destination directory obviously)… i’ve checked all paths and been conscious of case sensitive. what am i doing wrong? :-S oh and $machine is working it (correct name without trailing space etc… got that code above this section. i’m also not adding it as a function, i want to include it directly into fog code itself (bin/fog)
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This worked:
machine=dmidecode -s system-product-name;
machine=“${machine%”${machine##[![:space:]]}“}”; # Remove trailing whitespace
echo -n " * Downloading $machine Drivers…";
cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“Optiplex 755”/ /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers; #Hardcoded Model/$machinehowever changing:
[I]cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“Optiplex 755”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers; [/I]#Hardcoded Model/$machine
to
[I]cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“[B]$machine[/B]”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;[/I]
or
cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“[B]{$machine}[/B]”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;fails.
i’m pulling my hair out now! lol -
This worked:
machine=“Optiplex 755”
[I]cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“[B]$machine[/B]”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;[/I][I]so somethings going wrong with the following two lines but i can’t see what because if you print the variable within an echo it displays as it should (no space before or after but one space in between i.e Optiplex 755)[/I]
[B]machine=dmidecode -s system-product-name;[/B]
[B]machine=“${machine%”${machine##*[![:space:]]}“}”; # Remove trailing whitespace[/B] -
i can’t get the script to work even if i follow the instructions step by on the first page and have the same directories etc… i’m close to giving up
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Hmm… the difference that stands out to me is the fact that you currently have the folder in place on the image, but the other scripts are creating it. Maybe a permissions issue? But then the fact that you can do it by “hand”… I guess i’m not sure.
If using just “$machine” is working for you, is there a reason you cant just use that?
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If it makes you feel better, I uploaded a new image over the weekend and now I’m having errors too, haha.
Something about not having enough white space for the CP. Reuploading right now to see the error again…
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Ah. Yeah, it doesn’t actually perform the clean up, and as a result doesn’t perform the ntfs extend.
The only real difference I can see here is that one image is single partition resizable, and one image is multi-disk single partition non-resizable.
I’m guessing that it’s not running an ntfs extend by design for the multi-disk single partition image. Maybe. Is anyone else who is using this function using an image type other than single partition?
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using “$machine” only works if i manually hardcode the variable (machine =“Optiplex 755”).
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Ahhh okay.
Tell you what, since I’m going to go dig around in the FOG init anyways to see about that ntfs resize, maybe I’ll add a dummy function that involves using $machine and see what I can find. I’m hardly a linux expert though (never even touched it before FOG), so hopefully someone else can give you some advice too.
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cheers dvlsg! you’re a star
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Just to rule it out, i got the script to create a new folder and also changed the permission on the drivers folder on the server/node but still no go
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anyone who has this working in their funcs.sh/fog could i get a copy just so i can see what’s different to mine?
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I’m running another upload - just got my init changed (work’s been busy). I’ll let you know if I can get it working for me.
I do have a question for you though (for my own problem): are you by chance using a single partition image, or a multi partition non-resizable?
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Ah. I think I have it figured out – one more check quick, just to verify (I’ll get back to you as soon as I get a chance).
[I]Edit:[/I] Sort of good to go on my end… It actually ends up creating a file named “machinetest” instead of a folder. Maybe I didn’t have my file structure quite right on the server. Maybe someone else has more insight. But it seems to be finding $machine, since it’s not erroring out and saying the “Latitude E6510” folder doesn’t exist. Here’s all the relevant code:
Note: I don’t know much about links, but I believe the bolded part of the code below is important: my suggestion would be try to copy it that way if you haven’t already.
Other notes: Testing with a Latitude E6510, relevant folder on the FOG server is /images/Latitude E6510. Permissions are 777 and root:root. c:\machinetest does [I]not[/I] exist on the test computer, but is created through this script. /root/mydrivers also does [I]not[/I] exist pre-function, but is a
[FONT=Calibri] machine=
dmidecode -s system-product-name;[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] machine=“${machine%”${machine##[![:space:]]}“}” #Remove trailing spaces[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] echo " “;[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] echo " * FOG Scripts Copy for $machine”;[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] echo " ";[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] mkdir /ntfs &>/dev/null[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] if [ “$osid” = “5” ][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] then[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] ntfs-3g -o force,rw $win7sys /ntfs[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] elif [ “$osid” = “1” ][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] then[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] fi[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] [B]ln -s “/images/${machine}/” /root/mydrivers[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] cp -r /root/mydrivers/ /ntfs/machinetest[/FONT][I]Edit #2: [/I]Ah. The only file I had in /images/Latitude E6510 was a file called test.txt that only said “TEST”. I opened c:\machinetest with a text editor and it said “TEST”. FOG must’ve copied the test.txt over and converted it to machinetest. I’m guessing if I had a legitimate folder structure/set of files in my drivers location it would’ve worked fine.
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t’s worked! it’s worked!!! i hadn’t upload the change fog but thankyou! it was the way i was mounting ntfs by the looks of things because where i was putting the code ntfs was already mounted but i had it mounted as: [B]mount.ntfs-3g $part /ntfs [/B]but should of been: [B]ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs[/B]
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Hmm… Here’s something else I noticed (probably should’ve noticed this earlier… it’s been a long Monday already – trying to do a lot of IT work with some FOG stuff on the side):
cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/[B]“[/B]{$machine}[B]”[/B]/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;
I noticed that you sometimes have quotes around {$machine} in your code, but in the code I got to work, the quotes went around the whole directory, like this:
cp -r [B]“[/B]/images/Drivers/WinXP/{$machine}/*[B]”[/B] /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;
Maybe that’s the cause of the problem, if they’re still there?
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Ahhh okay. Good! I’m glad you got it all worked out. Sorry I couldn’t have been more help, haha.
