Topics created by Dustin

It did take me a good few minutes to work out how to deploy multicast, I’ve not tried your changes but it does sound like an improvement. Maybe something that could be implemented in the new version.

Awesome info Dustin! We use static IPs on our printers, but we have quite a few HP 4000 series printers, so this is good to know. Good find.

Just discovered that FOG is ignoring setting changes in FOG System Settings. For example I changed FOG_PXE_MENU_TIMEOUT to 1 (second) and it still is starting at 5 seconds. Also tried to change FOG_PXE_MENU_HIDDEN to 1, menu still appears. Not sure how I broke all this. Again, only thing I’ve really done was installing phpMyAdmin.

Dell makes great business computers (I stress the business end end, not talking home PCs). Dell is also the only company to allow you to mass edit BIOs settings and other settings remotely. No other company has ever given that option. So if we wanted to change 2000 computers to boot to PXE first, with a flip of a switch we could. We have recently switched to Lenovo due to a big price difference when purchasing 300-600 PCs, as we do yearly.

Back on topic. I have a couple bugs to work out, then yes, I’ll post the files. 😉

I think you can install windows 7 and customize the partition to be about 80gb, which is hopefully the smallest drive you’ll need to support. Do your customizations and sysprep it with an unattend option to resize the partition to fill the drive. Shutdown and take the image as single disk, multiple partition (it just works better).

When you deploy, depending on your sysprep options, it should fit onto any drive 80GB and over and auto expand the partition to fill the disk.

It’s more complex than this because of all the sysprep steps and making the unattend file, but I think this is the route you’ll want to take I think.

I do NOT use single partition resizable with Windows 7 because it may not work, and if it dies in the middle of resizing the partition, it makes it unusable.