Do I need to have each driver extracted from their installers down to their .inf file?

Has anyone here tried to deploy Windows 10 using ClassicShell to bring back the Windows 7 Start Menu? I was thinking about using it.

@davido38 said in Windows 7 OEM activation:

we use sysprep.

Why not put the key in the answer file?

@theBiggestRick Did you enable the Administrator account and set a password in your unattend file?

I haven’t tried this, but since Chocolatey is already installed it would probably be easiest to just use a PowerShell script.

I did this on my Windows 10 PC with PowerShell 5. This is using PowerShell’s new package manager and adding the Chocolatey site as a provider.

# Adding the Chocolately repository.
Install-PackageProvider chocolatey -Force

# Installing the adobereader package from the Chocolatey provider.
Install-Package -Name adobereader -Provider Chocolatey -Force

Again, haven’t tested it. What you want to do should definitely be possible though.

Note: No idea what version of Windows or PowerShell you’re running. Windows 10 comes with the Package Manager and PowerShell 5. Windows 7 you can update to PowerShell 4.0 and then manually install the Package Manager. There is an MSI file somewhere on a Microsoft site about it.

It’s very lonely in this Hangout right now.

@MattPayerle You could use a site like http://pastebin.com/. Copy/Paste the log there and then provide the URL.

@Junkhacker said in A hostname with that name already exists.:

@svalding in that case, i would manually add that address to a host (one you’ll keep track of) and check the checkboxes that say to ignore it. i do something similar with usb network adapters.

I did this (since I don’t have database access) and it worked. Thanks!

Will mark issue as resolved.

Sorry for the delay in response. Busy time of the year.

I had the guy with access to the database look for a Host with the ID of 0, but he didn’t get back to me, lol. Going to assume that means he didn’t find one.

I exported the FOG inventory and there wasn’t anything listed with that Host ID.

What I did notice, the MAC address listed in that picture is not the MAC address of the PC I was trying to register/inventory. No matter what device I attempt to full register it displays that MAC address.

I don’t have the MAC address in the inventory, but I think it used to belong to a HP dc5100 that caused me issues in the past.

Maybe attempt to find and delete an entry with that MAC address?

Like how there is already a RC3? lol
https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-3-0-rc-3/

Awesome.

Any expectations as to when the full 1.3.0 might be out? Liking what I’ve seen so far.

Hello,

Ever since updating from FOG 1.2.0 to Trunk (v8424, SVN Revision 5837) I have been unable to register a new host via the Full Registration and Inventory option. When attempting to add a new host I get the message “A hostname with that name already exists.”

See the attached image:

I’m still able to register new hosts using the quick registration option and then changing the name from the web menu. It’s just obviously not as convenient.

@Tom-Elliott said in Full Inventory with Kernel Options?:

@Avaryan What I’m saying is the “Quick Inventory” happens to every system after they’ve been registered. The inventory process itself is identical regardless of what is performing the inventory.

Full Registration already performs a Full inventory though. So I don’t understand what you’re asking for.

I just wanted the option to create a custom menu item that was identical to the full registration option, but also added in the ‘pci=noacpi’ under kernel arguments for the registered device.
That’s what I originally came for, but I don’t really need it now (I’ve already registered most of my new devices). I already created a menu option to use that pci setting as a boot option, allowing me to inventory and then go back in and manually change the kernel argument. I wasn’t able to do full registration because of some other issue… which I’m currently researching/possibly making a thread about.

I’ve marked this as solved, but I’m still curious if I can set the kernel arguments automatically like this.

@Tom-Elliott said in Full Inventory with Kernel Options?:

I feel I should add, full inventory is already it’s own tasking type. So long as the host is registered, you can task it like any other task by going to Basic Tasks from the element’s sub menu (element being Host or Group). Click on Advanced Tasks. Click on Inventory task.

OR

If you deploy the image to a host, it will automatically perform a full inventory every time.

The reason that I like the Full Inventory option rather than Quick is because I can type the desired hostname in as I’m registering PC’s.

Apparently doing Full Inventory on ANY model is currently messed up since we upgraded from 1.2.0 to trunk last week…

Putting the “pci=noacpi mode=autoreg” in Boot Options allows me to get these into the inventory. How do I set the kernel argument automatically to pci=noacpi?

I created a new menu entry with “pci=noacpi mode=manreg” in the Boot Options. That seems to have worked, as I did arrive at the normal Full Inventory screen.

However, at this point the onboard keyboard was not functioning. Continuing with a usb keyboard resulted in me getting “A hostname with that name already exists.” messages; regardless of what hostname I entered…

A bit odd.

For one of our devices I need to add the kernel argument ‘pci=noacpi’ in order for FOG to be able to work with it.

I’d like to be able to still do a normal full inventory, but with this added option. Can someone show me the proper parameters and boot options in order to create this as a menu option?