We are deploying about 300+ of the same hardware, and I need to load WinXP on the 300+ machines. This Windows XP has some software preloaded that we will use for testing the machines before shipping out.
I manage to configure my fog server, and I was able to upload an image to the server using a sample of one of the machines. I was unable to download the image back to the machine, I got an error message that said “This is Not a partclone image”. I don’t know what went wrong, I will retest again on Monday. I googled but there is not much information for that error. Anybody here gotten it before?
My other question (related to the title), all these machines are brand new, and they come with NO operating system loaded. The way we handled it before was: connected the machine to an internal network where we had an imaging server. The server would automatically load the default image for that hardware and halt at the end of the imaging process.
The person that was in charge of this system left the company, and took the knowledge with him.
Is it possible to do the same with FOG? I’ve been going around the forums and Google but can’t find an answer.
I know FOG identifies hardware based on the MAC address. How can FOG tell that they are all the same config and autoload the assigned image for that particular hardware version.
At at different point in time there will be other hardware configurations, but for now one single one would be enough.
By the way, I am running FOG on Kubuntu 14.04 VM. It should be the lastest version of FOG