Posts made by andyroo54

You can also change the sleep time for the snap ins, change this in your image and see if this helps: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-modify-your-snapinclient-dll-file-to-check-in-more-quickly-on-a-reboot.613/[/url]

Hi not sure why it won’t run, but a work around would be to add the cmd and ps scripts to your image, and make them run on first startup? You could do this with your unattend xml file.

Check out part 7 of this guide to see about scripts running first time after imaging: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 17767, member: 7271”]I’m very sorry about that! I think it’s due to the 4k Advanced Format Drives though. Not so much the fact that it’s SSD.[/quote]

Thanks Tom your bzimage worked for me too.

The 7420 I was setting up did have an SSD, however it was only 120GB, and it imaged just fine. I checked and the SSD is a 4K drive, so not sure why jjacobs didn’t work. This is the disk:

[url]http://www.liteonssd.com/msata-ssd/item/msata-ssd/m2m.html[/url]

[quote=“StylusPilot, post: 18228, member: 441”]My 2 cents.

[LIST]
[*]Could FOG become its own distribution? Maybe even a TurnKey Linux patch or similar to ease packaging[/LIST][/quote][LIST]
[/LIST]
I love this idea, and agree with all of your points.

I love the idea of a Fog distro.

[quote=“The Dealman, post: 18013, member: 53”]what’s the largest snap-in you have deployed?[/quote]

Office 2010 it’s about 1GB

[quote=“The Dealman, post: 17970, member: 53”]The deployment method is fine my comment is geared towards the encapsulation apps e.g (InstallRite & SFXMaker)[/quote]

I use SFX maker and have no problems with it, it is not related to FOG though?

[quote=“Knight, post: 17917, member: 17014”]

This is the exact same reason I’m wanting to do this also, however I’m more repair, then building a new machine. So I’ll have to figure out the best way to allow me to manually enter legit license codes, etc. I haven’t even gotten to the SAD2 part yet, lol.[/quote]

If you follow my guide, it does not activate the license key, it is a dummy key (legitimate). Once the computer is imaged etc, we manually enter our volume license key. So the same process will work for you. I did consider a license server for our VLK but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. Plus if we have an OEM desktop/laptop then we enter the windows license it comes with to save activations on our VLK.

[quote=“drjam, post: 17914, member: 16842”]Same, what is different? Maybe at what point is it first different?

Ive had some MAJOR issues getting fog itself running, as well as a nice sys-prepped VM working.
Id love to share my learning curve with you here, in the interests of common learning!

I followed this thread for my setup, and ended up scrapping the SAD2 drivers totally as they didn’t seem to make any difference when rolling it onto a physical box.

So now ive dumped a lot of motherboard drivers into a folder on the VM called “Drivers” and will do that by hand after each image deployment.

I will be searching here and googleing there…to find a way to script the driver installs, even if its just making a bat file to daisy-chain the drivers install per motherboard model.

I run a PC business…this will be useful for our pc builds.[/quote]

I find the SAD2 drivers tool works great for us, but it’s good you found a way that works for your own setup. The main point of this was deploying windows 7, the drivers are just a bonus really.

[quote=“Knight, post: 17912, member: 17014”][url]http://prntscr.com/1wbrjg[/url]

Things aren’t nested the same way, and I can’t seem to insert anything into “3 generalize”.

I’m using Windows 7 Pro x86, Not SP1.

ISO MD5Sum is: D8F675AAEB48057452666B0CD686D7F5

Btw, thanks for the awesome tutorial.

Knight.[/quote]

That would explain why the screen shots I took don’t look the same for you. Every version of windows 7 has diff options for configuring the XML file. For example the XML file I created for windows 7 Sp1 x64 is different to the one I created for windows 7 Sp1 x86, and so it will be different again to yours because you aren’t using SP1 even.

Here is another guide:

[url]http://www.mockbox.net/windows-7/149-windows-7-autounattend-example.html[/url]

Remember my guide will work if you are following it exactly, since you aren’t using the same DVD then I’m afraid you will need to figure out the unattend xml, you will need to read guides, there is now even more info out there compared to back when I wrote this guide.

[quote=“Knight, post: 17910, member: 17014”]Were you ever able to upload your unattend.xml? I’m having issues following along the tutorial, things are all appearing different then the screenshots included on the original tutorial.

Thanks,
Knight.[/quote]

What is appearing differently? Are you using windows 7 pro SP1? Or a different DVD?

[quote=“The Dealman, post: 13190, member: 53”][COLOR=#0000ff][SIZE=4][FONT=Arial] a nice to have item for me would be a better way to do snap-ins. If i had that it would reduce the size of images by far ![/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/quote]

I’m not really sure I understand this.

Snapins work flawlessly for me. They are without doubt one of the best features of FOG in my opinion. If there was a seperate distrubtion where all it did was deploy snapins to clients I would be happy.

Can you explain what you mean by ‘better way’?

Because ALL of our software is deployed by snapins. Our windows 7 SOE is around 12GB that includes all driver packs.

:::::::::::::::::::::::

I totally agree with Gilou and Tom Elliot. If you went to the hassle of developing FOG to run off windows server I wouldn’t bother with it. I think one of the reasons it works so well is because it runs on linux, FOG is without doubt the most reliable server we have out of around 100 servers.

IMO FOG doesn’t need a ground up rewrite. FOG does everything so well. There are many additional features like the AV which we don’t use at all, however the main functions are perfect, deploying images and deploying snapins. That’s the core of FOG and it does it well running on linux servers. The web interface is fine IMO. The main thing I think FOG needs is EFI GPT support.

[quote=“mllinang, post: 11174, member: 3541”]Hi Andyroo54 ,

Did u manage to upload the new pdf tutorial with the added/updated instructions/informations based from the comments and suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

Lon[/quote]
Negative, but the original thread posts have been updated.

I suggest reading the whole thread first though. But the instructions are still good.

[quote=“falko, post: 10656, member: 48”]I must admit I am not a fan of Win 8 :)[/quote]

You don’t have to be a fan of it, but we still need to deploy it. Right now I keep getting pushed to get windows 8 on tablets. I also use it now on my home PC and recently now I use it on my desktop PC at work, though I keep my domain PC as windows 7 for testing applications etc. I would love to roll out widows 8 for tablets, I think users could benefit greatly. For desktops I don’t seen any legitimate reason.

[quote=“ChrisG, post: 10987, member: 2515”]I have found the easiest way to deal with licensing issues in windows is to use a kms server. Also .32 will (sort of) work with windows 8 if you select vista as operating system type. I have one win 8 image we use on .32 server.[/quote]

I didn’t have to use a KMS server, I just specified a dummy key in the unattend xml I believe. It was a while ago because since fog .32 doesn’t work I haven’t bothered trying anymore, but my sysprep worked fine.

[quote=“YuYo, post: 10923, member: 3300”]The links are broken and take you to a Mediafire error page. :([/quote]
So they are… looks like some one has already reported this in the thread, but here is the only version I have which is 111118, the CMD script is slightly modified by me.

[url]http://dropcanvas.com/k9iq0[/url]

[quote=“YuYo, post: 10903, member: 3300”]Can anybody re-post the SAD tool? It has been removed from the original site and I could not download it.[/quote]
It is still on the website:

[url]http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=5336[/url]

[quote=“wizard210, post: 10657, member: 894”]I’m getting an error that windows cannot open dpinst.7z. Any help would be appreciated.[/quote]

Are you using the version I specified in the original post? Or a newer version? I use version SAD2-111118 of the SAD2 tool.

[quote=“Selfcommit, post: 10446, member: 801”]So does the fog client look specifically for an sfx, or does it just run whatever executable it’s handed as a snapin?

Also - Does it run as the currently logged on user, or as a system account?

When does it run? At logon?[/quote]

I imagine it will run any exe. I haven’t tried, but I don’t know how it would distinguish one .exe from the other, so again it should work. You will just have to try it.

If deployed from fog it will run as the administrator account you setup for fog. If you run it manually on the PC it will run with whatever privileges you have, ie it will not work if standard user, need to run as administrator.

[quote=“Selfcommit, post: 10436, member: 801”]I’m looking for some better understanding on this:

Can the snap-in tool run any executable? (Meaning could I simply write my executable in AutoIT, and then compile to exe?)

Also what user does the file run as? Currently logged on user? System account?
If I disable the UAC controls, will that stay disabled when the system joins a domain?
How many times does the Snapin attempt to run?[/quote]

Yes it can run anything. Just remember, the sfx is just a 7zip compressed archive.

The 7zip file is made into an exe by the sfx program. All the exe does is extract the zip archive to a temporary location, then runs whatever command you specify.

In my example, the sfx will extract the installer and the .cmd script to a temp location, then it runs the .cmd file, which then launches the installer silently. In theory, you could just tell the sfx maker to run the adobe installer, but it would not complete without input from the user which is why we use a cmd script to automate it.

In your case, you could tell sfx maker to execute your executable that you made in AutoIT. I’d suggest trying to make a few SFX first to learn more about it.

[quote=“dahhunter, post: 10291, member: 3244”]I followed all the steps very carefully… and at the “Set up is Checking video Performance”

I get a Install Windows Error
read error in the C:\Windows\pather\unattend.xml

Hmm. a bit confused cause

Here is the Screen shot:
[IMG]http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu305/dahhunter/sysprep_zps5c58b713.jpg[/IMG][/quote]
Sorry I thought I replied to this.

The problem appears to be with your unattend file. In particular something you have specified possibly in shell setup module. If you could upload the file we can have a look, you may need to zip the file first.

[quote=“falko, post: 10236, member: 48”]if you do want to try the current 0.33 beta with windows 8 (and by all means do test it and provide feedback for the devs) you must use sysprep.[/quote]

So Falko the beta has win 8 support?

Is there any info on upgrading your current server to v .33?

Where can you download the beta?