Thanks for this post…its going to be useful very soon for me!
[quote=“danuel, post: 4659, member: 628”]Hi!
Finally! I can Deploy and Upload Caixa Magica and Ubuntu 12LTS.
My resolution:
MAKE INSTALLATION IN VMWARE MACHINE 
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THANK YOU!! You helped a lot by posting the method you used, this helps brain dead zombies like myself, do the same for my setup!
[quote=“Adrian Zaugg, post: 18233, member: 3427”]I will love to have another server with another distro I have to learn again. And I am sure it will save a lot of time to the FOG developpers… No sorry, wrong way.[/quote]
Im prolly missing what you all mean by distro, but I am reading this as:
the FoG team pre-package a running fog install on Ubuntu 13.10 (or watever).
OPTION 1
I download the new FoGuntu (FuBuntu, FogBuntu etc etc) as an ISO.
Install FogTu on new PC.
During install, fog asks a few questions (IP address, pretty much the current questions)
BAM. You have a running Ubuntu distro with Fog running.
OPTION 2
Download an appliance. (An already sorted VM of the above.)
Adrian Zaugg if youre already using Ubuntu, you wont need to “learn” anything else.
Or have I misread this?
The words “wrong way” are probably not the most accurate choice, as there isnt a wrong or right way for anyone do anything in these areas. Id say the Fog Devs can do what they want, and if we like it, we will use it…one man’s “right” way is another man’s taboo.
Its good you have strong opinions tho, keep up the active participation!
ps: with the above resume I could be going for a job at whirlpool or OCAU, or even be a politican!!
My name is DrJam.
I seek to be the wiki scribe-a-nator, lord obami-san, penman of Cheem and inductor of words.
I promise to re-write everything thats put up, delete useful posts that dont conform to my limited world view, and generally harass intellects greater than my own.
vote for me!
[quote=“Sebastian M., post: 1058, member: 229”]
The image is Windows 7, x64, ~ 121GB, Multi Partition - Single Disk
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[quote=“MadX, post: 1092, member: 456”]We are deploying an image to about 30 PC’s @ around 1.4GB /min[/quote]
How big are your images for compare? (ha! sounds like a “how big are YOUR bicepts” thing lol)
[quote=“tractor, post: 1832, member: 190”]I am having the same problem. Did you find any solutions?
I have version .32 also.[/quote]
How big are your images for compare?
[quote=“Dark000, post: 16727, member: 867”]Did anyone find some kind of solution for this. I have the same problem, deployment starts fine but than it slows down considerably. I am using Kernel - 3.8.8 Core and i have also tried different kernel. It made no difference.[/quote]
How big are your images for compare?
[quote=“Dark000, post: 18008, member: 867”]…Image is 100gb big so it could be that problem is the size and not 50% progress…[/quote]
Just wondering if there is a max size for this sort of thing…
Maybe with fog, one of fog’s services or configs, maybe the host OS (ubuntu normally?) or the host OS kernel version…see where Im going with this?
I only wish i could be more helpful then just asking pointed questions…
[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 17996, member: 7271”]I think that already exists. Under, the directory mobile. Instead of going to /fog, try /fog/mobile[/quote]
Cool, I shoulda thought of just trying that…it makes too much sense now! lol
[quote=“Florph : Lawrence, post: 17999, member: 17035”]Ok, Well i have been working on this app, and have made a part of it. …, its up to you if you use it, i just thought that it some people would find it useful.
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looks cool guv. feel free to port it to android for when you upgrade to a smartphone 
hehehe
srsly, youve done good work too!
so maybe less of an app, more of a /mobile.html site page that we could each customise? or just have those four buttons on it:
[I][SIZE=12px]View all hosts[/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=12px]view all images[/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=12px]Upload Image[/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=12px]Deploy Image
Edit: maybe needs “add new host” as well lol [/SIZE][/I]
I have no idea how fog works (apart from i LOVE it) but if i had 2c to offer:
Has any network hardware changed since a year ago? ie: switches replaced with managed switches? hardware firewalls added etc?
You know, stuff that monitor network traffic and can cap/alter it?
and it would be ironic if all the older workstations were having hdd issues leading up to failure all at the same time
dang, some good points.
with that in mind then:
internal use app
has large buttons
simple use only
View all hosts
view all images
Upload Image
Deploy Image
my app would have maybe 4 buttons as above.
So i could be working on a new machine and image it there, and not have to runover to a workstation or my main pc to do this.
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Sweet!
Now to be reeeeally awesome, the geek community would love some android time too
But seriously, thats pretty cool, smart-device apps are useful. I hope any apple users will get to use it!
[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’re a sole-trader handling break-fix pcs for users who dont appreciate your time, effort and patience talking to them, then yes, we are similar lol!!!
[quote=“andyroo54, post: 17915, member: 267”]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.
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Yeah i was hoping that I could build a single image and roll it out using your really-bang-on procedure man. It would save SO much time with pcs!! My issue said ‘hulloo’ to me in the form of LAN drivers on a standard AMD FM2 Gigabyte mobo. The driverpack (i used the latest of all the stuff on that site, totalled over 1.something gig) in all its glory didnt find the LAN and add the driver.
I figured this didnt work because of MY noobness at work with this setup, but after all the time ive spent so far, i couldnt spend another week learning code, scripting driver packaging, hunting and testing. AAHHHH!!
I love this forum btw…thanks for being alive!
[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…
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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.
Ahhh ok then, Im glad I asked!
Im running most on version 8 it seems, they work fine so unless you know of any compelling reasons to (somehow) upgrade them to version 9 or 10 even, il stick with what is working!
Thanks Kevin!
[quote=“falko, post: 17881, member: 48”]also note that you shouldn’t upgrade the virtual hardware of your vms as you will not be able to edit there settings as you need the vshpere web client (paid)[/quote]
Really?
Dayam, I better look into this.
Does that mean I cant alter RAM or hdd settings once the vm is made?
Because I can still do that…in fact I had to for UniTrends Backup.
i cbf looking that up in google… how new is the
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[quote=“drjam, post: 17863, member: 16842”]The image above is not showing, but the error message is:
Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize] blah blah
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup
The the VM says “fine, im gunna reboot and fix it.” but it just loops reboot with same errors.
Im having this issue too.
Ive read that it can be:
[LIST]
[]A Space in the ComputerName field (I dont have a space, ive called mine RENAME)
[]Bad product Key (I used the one from this post, should be good)
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I have no idea what to do from here… heeeeelp?[/quote]
ok the “fix” is to delete the entire key: Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup
pretty crap fix. I hope to find the reason why this didnt work on a vanilla Windows 7 Pro SP1 OEM install on an ESXi VM machine.
But if anyone can… it will be superman. or steve.
[quote=“andyroo54, post: 10394, member: 267”]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]
The image above is not showing, but the error message is:
Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize] blah blah
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup
The the VM says “fine, im gunna reboot and fix it.” but it just loops reboot with same errors.
Im having this issue too.
Ive read that it can be:
[LIST]
[]A Space in the ComputerName field (I dont have a space, ive called mine RENAME)
[]Bad product Key (I used the one from this post, should be good)
[/LIST]
I have no idea what to do from here… heeeeelp?