[quote=“Daëavelwyn, post: 11401, member: 3269”]Hi,
I’ve exactly the same issue, have you found any fix or workaround for this ?[/quote]

Run a scan on the XP image and make sure it’s not infected with the SASSIR worm. As in unpack the ISO on a clean disconnected system and scan everything. it does happen, USB keys, old media, torrents. Lots of hidden holes in a process were it can creep into an image.

That process BTW is the Security service that manages your keys and other fun stuff. It’s a big time target for virus/worm annoyances. Latest I’ve heard is unauthorized Microsoft/Linux ISO’s in torrents preinfected with bitcoin agents and other botnet goodness.

[quote=“Alvaro Campoy Neto, post: 11486, member: 3686”]Direct ISO boot are done using YUMI (or other grub-enabled loader tool). To install like that, first, use Windows AIK and make real god WIM’s images. Then, scripting, you are done. Direct boot trough yumi will NOT work for Windows.[/quote]

This or Ultimate Boot CD.

[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793434.aspx[/url]

This is how licenses are managed for Windows 7 deployments. It’s included in your Windows 7 license. You will also need this to manage any other MS desktop product after 2010.

Quick overview. Install KMS somewhere (anywhere really) on a windows OS. Add the DNS pointer in DNS. Add your key’s for 7 and office (import on a csv or one by one on command line). Then you are done.

Deploy until you run out of key’s. Read the link above first thought to make sure I’m not missing anything and obtain the technical details of the process of setting it up.

[quote=“Travis Ford, post: 369, member: 176”]My company is upgrading a few student labs from XP to 7. We do not want to manually activate each machine after deploying our image, nor do we want to run a licensing server, as our network for the labs is very small. We are using HP machines that came with professional edition pre-installed, so we can legally deploy a new Windows image on the machines.

Anybody know how to manage licenses in a more elegant manner when deploying Windows 7?[/quote]

You create three separate winnt.sif files for each of the PC’s and feed them into each deployment. They need to be copied to the image before the MININT setup after sysprep.

[quote=“Alan Reeves, post: 11442, member: 3679”]Hi,
I am brand new to FOG. I have installed a test system under Ubuntu 10.04, uploaded an XP SP3 image and successfully deployed to three machines. FOG looks superb, thanks and well done to all who have contributed.
I have a question about regular, unattended deployment to multiple machines.

First, some background. I am a volunteer IT administrator for an independent school in the UK. I’m retired now, but in my professional career I was an IBM mainframe systems and assenbler programmer. That is by way of explaining that my knowlege of the Linux and pc world is limited (but I can learn quickly!).

The school has about 25 Dell pc’s, running XP PRO SP3. These are all second-hand, donated from businesses, so all the machines have unique product licences and COA stickers (ie there’s no Volume Licence key). Up to now I have been manually deploying a single image from a master machine, by removing the hard drives and cloning them (with Clonezilla and other tools). This is hard work but generally I don’t have problems, as the machines are identical. However, occasionally I have been prompted to re-active the XP licence, and I don’t really understand the circumstances in which this happens I’m looking to using FOG to do regular network deployments.

Now, my question. Everything I have read makes me understand that I should use SYSPREP to prepare my common image. But, if I understand correctly, I can only set a single product licence in Sysprep? I want to achieve completely unattended deployment, so don’t want the deployed systems prompting for licence activation - or, if it does, I want some automated way of replying to the prompts with the correct (unique) licence key (side question - could I use “AutoIt” for this?).

It might help to know that I am not using a domain controller, the pc’s are simply in a workgroup, with a login script to map to a shared NAS drive for student folder access.

Thanks for bearing with me. I hope I have correctly explained the issue I have, and thanks in advance for your assistance.

Regards
Alan Reeves[/quote]

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 11482, member: 2”]Off the top of my head, it sounds like a bad hard drive; could be either server or host.

Are you pushing these images from the same server? Are they going to the same host? Were there any problems with uploading the Windows 7 image?[/quote]

This, the drive will eventually go. Could be the disk, the cable. Reseat everything on the motherboard and give it a shot again. otherwise force Full duplex on your router and double check the onboard nic is also set to full duplex.

Take out the wireless card and try it again. It’s fighting with the video card for IRQ assignment. I had the same issue with getting Ubuntu 12.04 on a midrange model of Acer.

[quote=“tlongfog, post: 4047, member: 1305”]
[FONT=Tahoma]Hey guys,[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma]I just started using Fog today and am trying to upload my first image.[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma]The Dell box is a OptiPlex 780 running Windows 7 64bit.[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]It has a ATI Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card and a Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit NIC.[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma]I have it booting via PXE and am able to select “Preform Full Host Registration and Inventory” from the Fog menu.[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]I have installed the Fog Service and have completed the FogPrep.[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma]After the Host Inventory starts I get the following errors…[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][3.884261] tps65818L no chip?[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][4.262476] acpiphp_ibm: ibm_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][4.262856] Could not find Carillo ranch MCH device.[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][4.263894] uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][4.263121] uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][4.263158] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=8x4f88, err=-2)[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma][4.263178] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma]This screen will display for about 3 minutes and then I get a screen of black and white lines like static.[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma](I have attached two screen shots)[/FONT]

[FONT=Tahoma]I did complete a successful upload and deploy on an older Dell GX280 that worked perfectly.[/FONT]

I would assume this has something to do with the graphics card in the 780. I have about 90 of these boxes to reimage and would love to start using Fog.

Thanks guys.

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Oracle products, painful, poorly documented and I wish the company would go away.

However…here you go. These should work for you.

After you’ve got everything sorted out, build a wrapper. Lots of good products out there. AppDeploy Repackager is excellent and free. Very comparable to WISE Package Studio…but doesn’t cost 2 grand. Not open source though. The guys at ITNinja maintain it.

Good luck, hopefully you don’t have too much trouble.

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[ToadStandAlone]
msiexec.exe /i “\Source\Toad_Standalone\11_6_0_43\Toad for Oracle 11.6.msi” /qb INSTALLDIR=“C:\Quest\Toad for Oracle 11.6”

[QuestSQLOptimizer]
msiexec.exe /i “\Source\QuestSQLOptimizer_Oracle\8_7_0_2431\QuestSQLOptimizerForOracle_8_7_0_2431_32bit.msi” READONLY=TRUE ApplicationUsers=”AllUsers” /qb INSTALLDIR=“C:\Quest\Quest SQL Optimizer for Oracle”

[ToadDataModeler]
msiexec.exe /i “\Source\Toad_Data_Modeler\4_3_3_6\ToadDataModeler_4.3.3.6.msi” /qb INSTALLDIR=“C:\Quest\Toad Data Modeler 4.3”

[ToadforMYSQLFreeware]
msiexec.exe /i “\Source\Toad_For_MySQL_Freeware\6_3_0_642\ToadforMySQL_Freeware_6.3.0.642.msi” /qb INSTALLDIR=“C:\Quest\Toad for MySQL Freeware 6.3”

[quote=“Kilpady, post: 10226, member: 3216”]Hello All, just became a member, can someone kindly advise how I may image a laptop(Acer table W510) with Windows 8 - 32 bit.

Many thanks[/quote]
You don’t.

Driver support is nearly zero for 32bit Windows 8.

[quote=“Jordan Rumph, post: 4527, member: 1473”]Did anyone ever find a resolution for this? I have the exact same config as the OP but no access to a Pro version of Visual Studio. I have the exact same error.[/quote]

There are ‘issues’ with mixing and matching .net dependencies on Windows 7 to begin with and they have to be installed/slipstreamed in the order they are released. 1.0 --> 2.0 --> 3.0 --> 3.5 --> 4.0

If you go into Event Viewer you should see a bunch of WMI warnings and errors. For some unknown reason 7 will unregister the wrong DLL’s if the staged deployment of .Net updates isn’t followed in the order they are given. You can attempt to repair WMI, but it’s usually safest if you just wipe and rebuild.

Build your baseline first

• OS, fixes and patch level to X date
• Then worry about applications after.

Ryans VM has some excellent guides on the subject and his method works will all available deployment platforms to build a solid and fast OS baseline for XP, Vista and 7.

[url]http://siginetsoftware.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?9-RyanVM-Integrator[/url]

[quote=“ChrisG, post: 11776, member: 2515”]I’m unsure I set the timezone on the machine I build the image from. Would you like me to upload the XML I use for windows 7? If so do you want 32 or 64 bit?[/quote]

Paste the XML up.

BTW don’t bother going 32 bit for 7. Keep your XP on 32bit machines until they are evergreened. The hardware vendors made all sort of agreements in 2011 to stop all 32 bit development for drivers. With MS’s new push to drop a new OS every 18 months now you will get stuck fooling around with it unless you make a business process to handle it.

Don’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, it’s complete waste of time and energy.