Hi yes you can enter audit mode again, just go to C:\Windows\System32\sysrep\sysprep.exe, from there change “System clanup action” to “Enter system audit modem”. Tick generalize and reboot. It will start backup in audit mode. Check out my guide here for more information, you never know it might help:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]
[quote=“Kendall Eley, post: 4271, member: 1270”]Thanks for your attempts to help. When the driverpacks script runs, it issues a message box that says No Files to Extract. I click ok, it seems to begin extracting and run fine after that. Any idea why that might occur?[/quote]
Hi,
I suspect you are doing something wrong, or you are using a diff script to the one I suggest.
Make sure you put your downloaded driver packs in the location below (for a 64 bit machine):
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4Xsr9.jpg[/IMG]
If it is a 32 bit windows, put them in x86 of NT6.
Download the version of DP install tool I specify in step 8, I think it’s version 111118 or something. But just replace the DP_Install_Tool.cmd with the one I uploaded previously: (I’m having problems uploading to the forums now, but it’s still attached to the bottom of the third post in this thread). You don’t have to do the whole process to test the tool. You can run the script manually to test it. Just run DP_Install_Tool.cmd manually on any computer that doesn’t have drivers. Make a virtual and use snapshots so you can try it multiple times. The idea is to get it working without any interferance or prompts. That’s why i removed all pauses from the script, there is no way my script will stop now.
I don’t believe you will have to worry about injecting more drivers into your image but if you do you will have to learn how by following the guides on Driverpacks.net
[quote=“falko, post: 4173, member: 48”]thanks for the share, still haven’t got around to trying snapins yet but i’m with the info above this should be quite easy to get working.
START /wait GoogleEarth.exe /S /v/qn /V"/qn ALLUSERS=1
say i wanted to deploy something else is it as simple as changing googleearth.exe to the exe that i want?[/quote]
It depends on the installer. But yes most are easy.
START /Wait means the installer will start, and the cmd script will wait for the process to finish before moving on in the script.
The /S is a switch to install it silently. /Qn will make it non interactive.
So it varies, also running .msi is a little diff, you have to have msiexec instead of “START”. Read this page for more info:
[url]http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.php[/url]
But you will find you don’t have to change much. See this one for FileZilla, it’s basically the same as google earth:
::::::::::::::::::::::::
@ECHO OFF
Color 4F
@ECHO Installing FileZilla
SLEEP.exe 5
START /wait FileZilla3.5.3.exe /S /v/qn
SLEEP.exe 5
CLS
@ECHO FileZilla Installed…
SLEEP.exe 5
EXIT
::::::::::::::::::::::::
But then you might want registry entries after the install, check out the original adobe reader because that contains registry entries.
I just updated Adobe reader because for some strange reason on some machines it wouldn’t printer colour…?? Anyway check out the new adobe reader script:
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@ECHO OFF
Color 4F
@ECHO DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW
@ECHO Installing Adobe Reader X 3.1.2…
START /wait Reader.exe /msi EULA_ACCEPT=YES /qn
SLEEP.exe 5
::::::::::::::::::::::::
CLS
REGEDIT /S Disable_protected.reg
SLEEP.exe 1
REGEDIT /S Disable_updates.reg
SLEEP.exe 1
REGEDIT /S Units_to_CM.reg
SLEEP.exe 1
REGEDIT /S EULA.reg
CLS
@ECHO INSTALLED ADOBE READER X!
SLEEP.exe 5
EXIT
::::::::::::::::::::::::
If you have any problems I’ll help if I can. A good site resource is Appdeploy.com too. Just recently got renamed to: [url]http://www.itninja.com/[/url]
Just another example for you.
This is another simple one, being google earth.
All I want it to do is install Google earth for any user. I’ve tested this installer and luckily it works on XP/win 7x32/64.
So first I found an installer. You can download full offline installer version 6.2 here:
Then you need to unzip that exe, it will then extract the ‘real’ installer file.
Now use this script and put it in the same directory as the googleearth.exe along with sleep.exe.
You can use the script below, just copy and paste it into a .cmd file.
::::::::::::::::::::::::
@ECHO OFF
Color 1A
@ECHO Installing Google Earth
SLEEP.exe 5
START /wait GoogleEarth.exe /S /v/qn /V"/qn ALLUSERS=1
SLEEP.exe 5
CLS
@ECHO Google Earth Installed…
SLEEP.exe 5
EXIT
::::::::::::::::::::::::
You can also hide the script if you don’t want people to be able to close it, but if you are deploying the SFX from FOG, windows 7 will actually hide the script anyway.
Now follow the earlier instructions to .7z it and make an SFX!
Thanks,
Hi thought this might help people. If you are using both Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit, and the installer has two versions (32 and 64) you can use this simple script to determine OS. Because only windows 7 64 bit has this directory:
“C:\Program Files (x86)”
Then the script can check this and know the machine is 64 bit. Maybe it’s not a very technical way of doing it but it works just fine. So below is a script you can use, just copy and paste it into a .cmd file.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
@ECHO OFF
if not exist “C:\Programdata” goto XP
if exist “C:\Program Files (x86)” goto METHOD2
if exist “C:\Program Files” goto METHOD1
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
CLS
:METHOD1
Color 1F
CLS
@ECHO 32 BIT OS DETECTED…INSTALLING BLANK
SLEEP.exe 5
START BLANK.EXE
goto :FINISH32
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:METHOD2
Color 4F
CLS
@ECHO 64 BIT OS DETECTED…INSTALLING BLANK.EXE
SLEEP.exe 5
goto :FINISH64
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:XP
Color 9F
CLS
@ECHO XP OS DETECTED…INSTALLING BLANK.EXE
SLEEP.exe 5
goto :FINISHXP
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:FINISH32
Color 1F
CLS
@ECHO Installed BLANK!
SLEEP.exe 5
EXIT
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:FINISH64
Color 9F
CLS
@ECHO Installed BLANK!
SLEEP.exe 5
EXIT
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:FINISHXP
Color 5F
CLS
@ECHO Installed BLANK!
SLEEP.exe 5
EXIT
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[quote=“Kendall Eley, post: 4010, member: 1270”]I have built my image. I got all updates to the OS and installed Microsoft Office, Adober Reader, FLash, Java and a few others similare programs. (Note I had an error in my unattend file, so I recreated it after installing everything and then copied it over to the proper location) I then captured it to FOG. I then deployed it back to the VM. When it boots, I am asked to accept the license terms of Win 7 Pro Service Pack 1. If I accept, I am then prompted to choose how to deploy updates. I choose recommended settings. It then proceeds to finalizing settings (which is still running after 30 minutes) Any ideas on what I have done wrong?[/quote]
Are you sure you have copied the guide correctly? Have you run sysprep correctly? I’d suggest to strongly re read the instructions and try again with your xml file. Use snapshots, which will reduce your time. I know my guide is long and in some cases can be difficult to interpret due to language differences, but you will find that everyone does this differently so you may come across diff problems. I will try to upload my unattend xml tomorrow for you to try…
[quote=“Kendall Eley, post: 3955, member: 1270”]Thanks. I will do that. After I change the type to IDE, will I need to rebuild the whole machine?[/quote]
It’s better just do rebuild the whole thing yes. It doesn’t take long since you have done it before. I have rebuilt mine three times.
[quote=“Darren George, post: 3810, member: 375”]HI all im banging my head with sysprep big time, Ive read several forums blogs trying to get a definative idea of sysprep and theres so many different opinions, ive been syspreping for around 5 months now with windows 7 and seem to get so many strange things the new one seems to be “cannot parse the XML file” any one got any ideas please the help would be very helpful[/quote]
Hi I made a guide for this because I was having problems just like you:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]
Feel free to post in the thread or PM me and I will help if I can.
Thanks,
Is there anyway to force snapins to start? I still find freshly imaged machines will sit for a long time before fog starts to deploy snapins? I don’t know how often the client checks the server for updates? Or does the fog client wait for a certain time? Would be great if you could “force start” snapins to deploy, is this in 33?
[quote=“Jim Graczyk, post: 3147, member: 931”]I wish I’d found this guide about a week ago. Thanks to Andyroo54 for the hard work to get it together and the willingness to share it.
I’ve done essentially the same thing, but without the DP_Install_Tool. I do have a fundamental question on the efficacy of the process. I apologize in advance if I’ve misunderstood any of what’s been documented here. Just point out my error. So here’s what I think I understand:
[LIST=1]
[]This whole process is an attempt to make an image that will work on a wide array of hardware platforms?
[]OS is installed
[]drivers are copied to a drivers dir on the machine prior to imaging (driver packs).
[]system is sysprep’d
[]System is uploaded
[]image is sent to some other PC, boots, sysprep runs, reboots, etc
[*]of the first logon on the new machine, DP_Install_Tool runs, with your defined alterations and drivers are installed, unused stuff is deleted.
[/LIST]
If all of the above is true, how does the OS boot the first time if the image knows nothing about critical chipset or mass storage drivers that are normally required to boot the OS? DP_Install_Tool runs after the first boot. It seems like a chicken and egg issue. How can the OS boot in the first place.[/quote]
It can boot because Windows starts in OOBE, which is the process when you are installing windows 7 manually, for example, once windows is copied it says “Windows will now restart and installation will continue”. Windows then starts again, it scans the hardware and “installs devices” then “starting services”.
With the process I’ve outlined, the image is copied to the C drive of the new PC, and then windows starts in OOBE mode which is what I just outlined above.
You don’t need driver packs, windows 7 will install basically all essential drivers for pretty much an PC living or dead. I use driver packs after install, because occasionally windows 7 may not install a mass storage, or a wifi driver for example. Using driver packs after the OS is installed solves that problem.
I hope that clears that up, but remember, there is no right way to do it with FOG, this is just a guide that I made, based on one way that does work.
[quote=“Al@akuni, post: 2917, member: 250”]Thanks Andyroo54 - another great article. I’ve started building an image per your WIN7/SAD tool doc, next I’ll try the snapin method you outlined above. I don’ suppose you’ve had any luck with snapins for JAVA RTE have you?[/quote]
No sorry i don’t use Java. With SFX with cmd line scripting I’ve never come across an application I couldn’t install. And the way installers are going they are only going to get easier to execute silently.
[quote=“iphunt3r1, post: 2862, member: 932”]hey there guys, great guide but i have a problem with trying to boot into pxe, i get anerror stating that it cant read the hard drive size. it tells me to unmount the hard drive 1st. not sure what this means
PLEASE help[/quote]
Make sure you set your virtual machines’s HDD to IDE and not SCSI, for some reason FOG won’t pick up SCSI. Other than that, you might have more luck starting a thread in the help section.
[quote=“Bobfrid, post: 2317, member: 224”]Ran across this topic as I was getting the “tps65010 no chip?” on an e6410 as well. I ended up flashing the BIOS from A04 to A09 and then it PXE booted on the 0.32 default kernel.[/quote]
Can confirm the bios update worked for me. Thanks for the tip!
[quote=“Darren George, post: 2711, member: 375”]Hi all ive recently looked into this guide and use the dpinstall and sad tool, now for me the drivers get uncompressed with no problem at all, the issue i get is the drivers dont actually get installed in device manager, i have to click through to install each device driver any body got a trick to get this to work??[/quote]
Hi Darren,
I’d suggest testing the DPinstall tool on a PC that’s just been loaded with win 7 fresh, and running it manually. Get the version I specify in the guide I think it’s 1.111118, and run it. I’ve never had the problem where the drivers won’t install, so perhaps its a policy setting you’ve changed or something else, hence why you should try it on a totally fresh install of win 7.
[quote=“falko, post: 2464, member: 48”]is it possible to attach the latest cmd/text file that you use, i dont want to have missed anything out?
thanks[/quote]
Here you go, I haven’t changed much, (Just to Stop/start FOG service, and clean a few things up) you can compare the differences yourself (if you use it, just remember to change it back to a .cmd file, it won’t let me upload .cmd files):
[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/85_DP_Install_Tool.txt?:”]DP_Install_Tool.txt[/url]
You can deploy them anytime. They are very useful, once you have made the package, you can use it to install the program on any machine that has been imaged, whenever you want. You can also use them by running them yourself on machines that haven’t been imaged. I use them all the time in this fashion. I usually only deploy snapins while imaging from FOG, usually once PC’s are out and deployed I will just run the SFX manually by running it from a server file share.
This is how I do it, but everyone is different;
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]
[quote=“ssx4life, post: 2401, member: 268”]Fog service also pushes out software packages you can customize and build yourself. Can auto-shut down / log off / modify clients remotely (big help).
If you don’t want to use Active Directory for all your software pushing and updates it’s a great work-around solution.[/quote]
As SSX says, For me one of the best features of FOG is to deploy programs automatically. It’s one thing to save two hours installing windows 7, but it’s another game all together installing programs automatically after imagine. Saves time like you wouldn’t believe.
[quote=“falko, post: 2367, member: 48”]I have never edited hostnamechanget.dll. I just install fog service before sysprepping and add AD credentials to FOG web ui.
My machines rename on deploy and join the domain just fine[/quote]
Yeah I’, not really sure but I couldn’t get mine to work even with credentials in FOG web ui, our FOG server was setup by the person before me, I’ve only ever set one up at home just to try it out for myself on an old PC. But I found unless I used the Hostnamechanger.dll from his original XP image it wouldn’t join to the domain. So I assumed he must have edited it with credentials or something…