[quote=“Terry Bates, post: 5057, member: 594”]Hey Lethal

I added the following to /var/www/fog/management/includes/tasks.advanced.include.php around line 165, i’m using FOG 0.32, seems to work a treat, not sure why its not included in the standard build.

[PHP] <tr>
<td class=“c”><a href=“?node=tasks&type=group&direction=onesnap&noconfirm=<?php print $groupid; ?>”><img src=“./images/snap.png” /><p><?php print _(‘Deploy Single Snapin’); ?></p></a></td>
<td><p><?php print _(‘This option allows you to send a single snapin to a Group. (Requires FOG Service to be installed on client)’); ?></p></td>
</tr>[/PHP]

Would love to know how you have added extra info to the database I would like to add a location to the hosts section so I know where my computers are, have requested the feature maybe you can help [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/location-information-for-each-host.913/[/url][/quote]

Thanks Lethal, this is a great help. I’m going to use FOG to apply updates for programs such as flash/java etc. This is great thankyou,

[quote=“nikonaum, post: 10129, member: 2897”]I love this tutorial. Everything works perfect. I made myself a Universal Windows 7 x86 image out of a VirtualBox (ver. 4.2.6) virtual guest in my ArchLinux. I deployed it on some “metal” it takes about 30 minutes – 10 min. for image deploy (12GB) and 20 minutes unattended install and SAD2 drivers installation. One issue with the Video Card driver in the real hardware – “Device manager” says driver error: “Not enough resources”… or something similar, maybe because my video uses just 8MB of RAM (shared memory) and there is no option to increase it in BIOS even with the latest bios flashed. Though Microsoft site says that this error is related to Interrupts been occupied by other device. NOTE: There is a scenario which is very important for me: I want to deploy this image to previously installed and used PCs (some kind of reinstall) and just deploy it on the first partition e.g. drive and leave drive intact, because there are some user’s saved files, mainly office documents, pictures etc. but I don’t know how to do it, the only suggestion that I found was that I had to create multipartition image (single disk) and basically delete from /images/image-name/ directory the not needed partition of the drive. Because my Golden Image is one partition only (and one 100MB for special win7 needs) so it wipes all my D drive of the computer on which the image is deployed. Any suggestions? How can I save the data of my precious drive?[/quote]

Hi,

I’m glad you find it useful. As to the D:\ user drives, I’m not sure of any easy way to preserve that data. You might want to post it in the help section to get a response.

I personally would write a logon script to copy the users data to a file share. Once they are all copied as they logon (robocopy?) then you can image them, and copy the data back.

[quote=“jasonaedwards, post: 10076, member: 3147”]This is perhaps a dumb question… I want to follow your tutorial step by step, but I have not yet downloaded FOG. Should I install it has a virtual machine? Or do I just install it on a standalone server on our network?

Thanks

Jason[/quote]

Hi, you can follow the guide without having fog, you can still create your image etc, and get it all ready, just make sure to use lots of snapshots along the way.

But to fully test the deployment you will need FOG.

You could run the sysprep and turn the machine off, then ghost the hard drive to test it in another machine. But I would just get fog working anyway.

[quote=“Darrell Lanson, post: 9630, member: 1392”]With the way I have mine setup it installs in the background and doesn’t disturb the user while the snapin deploys the only thing the user might notice is the adobe reader shortcut showing up on there desktop. So once you have edited the msi file save it to a new name run sfx maker on it with the /qn silent swutches than create executable and upload that to the snaping folder. add snaping to whatever computer you want than deploy either all snapins or a single snapin under the advanced tasks.[/quote]
Ours used to be done like this, but I found that fog actually hides it anyway if you deploy it from Fog.

But I prefer to see it run if I’m running the SFX “manually”.

Hi,

We are starting to use win 8 occasionally… I’d like to build an image, which I have done, however once deployed while it does work occasionally on some hardware, many times it say’s “missing operating system”. As the guy below points out, it’s due to an incorrect boot member?

Jesus Jordan:
[I][SIZE=12px]Hey guys. I’m running 0.32, not 0.33 but I wanted to share some insight to help the Windows 8 support for 0.33.[/SIZE][/I]

[I][SIZE=12px]I set up a virtual machine running Windows 8 Enterprise with a single partition and uploaded it to FOG. I ran the fogprep exe which I had to modify because it does not support Windows 8 (I just commented where you check to make sure the machine is running Windows 7 because the registry keys being modified are exactly the same in Windows and I ran sysprep with my unattended xml answer file. When I tried to download the image to another machine, I received an error at boot saying “Booting… Missing Operating System”. I dug into the fog source code with my boss and discovered that the issue is that there is a method that checks the os version and applies one of several mbr files that you have. Because Windows 8 is not supported and I selected Windows 7 as the host os on the fog web interface, it wrote the wrong mbr to the machine. After we copied the correct mbr from the Windows 8 master image and wrote it to the machine, it booted correctly. There still is a problem, however. The hard drive was not resized properly to the size of the new machine it was being imaged to. The new machine is showing only ~40GB which was the size of the actual fog image. Also, I the fog client is not working properly. It is not renaming the machine or joining it to the domain.[/SIZE][/I]

[SIZE=12px]I was just posting this to ask if windows 8 will be supported in .33?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12px]Thanks, [/SIZE]

[quote=“mmoore5553, post: 9311, member: 2685”]can anyone explain to me the issue ?[/quote]
Hi,
you should disregard that step, you shouldn’t need to change it, read back earlier in this thread because others have mentioned it.

[quote=“viggo, post: 9248, member: 457”]Thank you very much for this guide, the sad tool works perfect in our environment.
I am stuck with one problem, our new laptops have some display drivers that are not included in the driver packs, so my idea was to add these drivers to the 7zip archive under mobile display drivers, but it doesnt work.
The laptop models is a Fujitsu lh 532 with both nvidia 620 and Intel 300 driver, and a lenovo Lh530 with Intel 3000 display driver.[/quote]

I have never modfied the driver packs, however there are tutorials over at driverpacks.net

[url]http://driverpacks.net/docs[/url]

[quote=“Jesus Jordan, post: 9263, member: 2573”]Hey guys. I’m running 0.32, not 0.33 but I wanted to share some insight to help the Windows 8 support for 0.33.

I set up a virtual machine running Windows 8 Enterprise with a single partition and uploaded it to FOG. I ran the fogprep exe which I had to modify because it does not support Windows 8 (I just commented where you check to make sure the machine is running Windows 7 because the registry keys being modified are exactly the same in Windows and I ran sysprep with my unattended xml answer file. When I tried to download the image to another machine, I received an error at boot saying “Booting… Missing Operating System”. I dug into the fog source code with my boss and discovered that the issue is that there is a method that checks the os version and applies one of several mbr files that you have. Because Windows 8 is not supported and I selected Windows 7 as the host os on the fog web interface, it wrote the wrong mbr to the machine. After we copied the correct mbr from the Windows 8 master image and wrote it to the machine, it booted correctly. There still is a problem, however. The hard drive was not resized properly to the size of the new machine it was being imaged to. The new machine is showing only ~40GB which was the size of the actual fog image. Also, I the fog client is not working properly. It is not renaming the machine or joining it to the domain.[/quote]

Hopefully this (windows 8 support) is rectified in version .33 because we are having the same problem. Curiously it does occasionally work but only on certain machines. Also fog client from memory did work, it renamed and installed snapins?

[quote=“Matt Harding, post: 8998, member: 1207”]Check Andyroo54’s tutorial here: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-make-a-simple-snapin-start-to-finish.304/[/url]

The example snapin is Adobe Reader X

Where his example scripts call for “REGEDIT /S” though, I would recommend instead using “REG IMPORT” but maybe that’s just me. “REGEDIT /S” just didn’t work for me so I used REG instead.[/quote]

Yeah I need to fix that, don’t use regedit /s, it doesn’t work

[quote=“John Deery, post: 5769, member: 46”]Hey all,

So I was following the guide and I have set up my Win 7 VM (using VirtualBox) but I guess I went over my initial 30 days, so now I’m in non-genuine mode. I never installed Security Essentials, so I’d like to do that, but I can’t until I activate. What should I do? And even using the VM snapshot method, won’t it always jump back to non-genuine after the 30 day non-activated period is up?[/quote]

Yeah mine does this to. For me it isn’t a problem as we use our own anti virus etc. Once a machine is imaged it gets another 30 days to activate it.

I suppose that’s one way… you could deploy it to another virtual machine, then put that machine back into sysprep, and re add your unattend xml etc.

Perhaps you could also change the date somehow in the ‘bios’ of the virtual machine.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 5459, member: 18”][url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_with_VMWare[/url]

searching the wiki for “vmware” led me straight to it.[/quote]

That’s only been updated since this thread was created.

[quote=“Leroy Brown, post: 5431, member: 1560”]Ok, I finally got mine working, scrapped the whole “gold image” build from VirtualBox. When I did it baremetal - it worked. However, I can’t tell if my SAD2 install worked with the drivers, since I have network, ide, etc but have a few with the notorious yellow question mark for (base, and something else) Not sure if there’s a pause in the script to allow something else to finish or what. I know it’s always a work in progress, so maybe once I’ve figured it all out - for good, I can draft a nice step by step with pretty pictures.[/quote]

I’d suggest to test the SAD tool by itself first, by installing win 7 vanilla on some hardware, then manually running the sad tool. This is how I got it to work initially… but if you get the same version I used and use the scripts I uploaded then it should work.

[quote=“Tony Cimello, post: 5276, member: 1669”]Everything seemed to go well for me until I imaged the new machine. Windows 7 x64 started OK, but then asked me for languages, time zones, a user name, and a key even though I had selected these in my unattend.xml. Then it didn’t join the domain even though I selected the domain and credentials in FOG. Finally, I couldn’t sign in as machine or domain administrator as they are disabled.

Any ideas where I might have gone wrong?[/quote]

Sounds like a problem with your xml file and your sysprep. I would strongly suggest to scrap your image, and rebuild from scratch, following each step very closely. If there’s something you don’t understand then post in this thread. You will probably have to try a few times to get the sysprep/unattend file correct. But if you follow my guide it will work.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 5103, member: 18”]Download the kernel from the sourceforge page you linked above. Backup your current kernel and then copy this one to the /tftpboot/fog/kernel directory. Rename it bzImage and chown to fog:root.

Try to boot up one of the new laptops and see how it works for you.[/quote]

Thanks for your help. Updated kernel and it’s working, using a custom kernel from fellow user.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 5100, member: 18”]Were the new Dell Latitude E6430 laptops imaging fine in the past or is this the first time you’re trying to image them?[/quote]

Hi no this is a new machine first 6430 I’ve tried. It is very new.

I think I need to update the kernel. The one we are using is from August 2011.

I tired to do it through the GUI on the fog settings but when I got to the kernel update page I just get his message:

This section allows you to update the Linux kernel which is used to boot the client computers. In FOG, this kernel holds all the drivers for the client computer, so if you are unable to boot a client you may wish to update to a newer kernel which may have more drivers built in. This installation process may take a few minutes, as FOG will attempt to go out to the internet to get the requested Kernel, so if it seems like the process is hanging please be patient.

The rest of the screen is blank, so there is no option to update it.
So I guess I could manually get the file to the server to the location tftpboot/fog/kernel via moving it to the server via FTP…
Could you confirm where I could download the latest bzimage file?
Thanks

Hi,

So suddenly we have a problem with FOG. I have made zero changes on the server, nothing at all.

But now when I try to image a PC, I get all of the following problems, and then it just sits there. I will post the screen shots below, this is while attempting to perform full host registration and image:

I’ve uploaded the screen shots below:

[url]http://imgur.com/a/QlN6X[/url]

The PC being imaged is a Dell Latitude E6430 quite a new laptop, with the latest A03 bios revision.

It appears only to be the new laptop that is having problems. All other models are still image OK.

Is it just because this hardware is too new, and so not supported? Can I update the server?

It seems there have been newer kernels released, according to this site yes?

[url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/Kernels/[/url]

So this would be the latest kernel?

[URL=‘http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/Kernels/Kernel-3.3.3.core/’][LEFT][B][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#006699]Kernel-3.3.3.core[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][/LEFT][/URL]

[quote=“Gilgamesh1082, post: 4602, member: 404”]I’m using VirtualBox, latest version with the extension pack loaded so I can PXE boot. I couldn’t get the image to deploy at all when using the single partition. I tried the multiple partition on the last attempt and it actually deployed, its just stuck at the WinSAT checking your video settings part of the sysprep. :([/quote]

If you cant figure it out, then I would suggest using VMware workstation as I outline in the guide, because it has been proven working with Vmware. It’s got a free 30 day full featured trial, so give it a go. Single partition should work, or multiple, just make sure it’s IDE and not SCSI.

[quote=“Axel, post: 4576, member: 686”]AGGGG, silly error on my part. I placed all of the files into a folder and then archived the folder. Once I put all files into the archive, not a folder before hand I deploy and it installs great![/quote]

Hi Axel glad you figured it out!

[quote=“Gilgamesh1082, post: 4400, member: 404”]Alrighty. Went back and redid it again. This time, I image to the 390 and it goes through Sysprep. Now my problem is that it hangs on Setup is checking video performance. It does this on multiple machines and on my VM. Any suggestions?[/quote]

What virtual software are you using to create it? Vmware or something else?

[quote=“Gilgamesh1082, post: 4405, member: 404”]And one last thing. Is there anyway under the sun for me to be able to use the Single Partition (Resizeable) option? We have a multitude of machines in our district. Having to constantly resize them once we’ve imaged them would be a colossal PITA.[/quote]

Fog actually still resizes the images in the process I have laid out. Basically, it only uploads as much data as their is on the original image, ie, if there is a 60gb hard drive, but my SOE only takes up 13gb, then that’s all it uploads. Then, when deploying to a physical machine, Fog will resize the partition to suite. So if it is a 250gb hard drive, fog will repartition the c drive to 250 from 13.

[quote=“Gilgamesh1082, post: 4366, member: 404”]Alrighty. I’ve been beating my head against this for the last 4 days now. I’ve created my VM in VirtualBox, verified that its using IDE instead of SATA and have created and recreated my Win7 image 5 separate times now thinking that I’ve just messed something up. The image works flawlessly on my VM. It uploads just fine. It downloads to an Optiplex 390 just fine. But when I boot the machine, it simply states Missing Operating System.

I’ve created a Win7 image with just one partition. The 100MB partition, I get rid of when initially installing. The only things I’ve installed on the image itself are updates and Office 2010. That’s it. Any suggestions out there?[/quote]

I suppose the two differences I see there are;

1. you are deleting the 100mb partition, I left it there are there is really no reason to delete it and

2. you are using virtual box instead of Vmware tools.

I doubt it is the second (vmware tools) that is the problem, more likely its the removal of the 100mb partition. Try leaving it there and checking if this works. Then try using vmware tools after that. It’s free for 30 days with vmware workstation 8.

Also make sure the dell optiplex has fully up to date bios. Can you try to deploy it to another PC? How about another vitual PC?