Posts made by Lee Rowlett

this is an ace tutorial!!! i’ve just got two tedious issues that i can’t seem to solve and no searches on the net have came up with any answers (i suppose it is because it is REALLY trivial)

1. when opening IE after sysprep it asks “do you want to make IE your default browser?” even though all other customisations have been kept from making changes in audit mode and i made sure IE was the default in audit mode also tried adding ie settings in unattend.xml, still no luck

2. Desktop icon layout - it’s hard to explain so i’ve took a before and after example to show you… i know this is picky but soo annoying…

[IMG]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1241/desktopissue.png[/IMG]

i’ve tried everything i can in the registry, i’ve even set the layout for every resolution in vmware incase this was the cause (diff resolutions) - refreshed desktop after setting for every resolution and noticed keys were being set for each resolution under: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop] and the keys still exist after sysprep but don’t seem to keep the layout (although they do before sysprep) i’m pulling my hair out because it really is tedious but i’d like to solve it lol.

Hi all,

Now that FOG’s website has had a complete re-vamp and looks very sleek, i was just wondering whether the partimage GUI can be customized or an alternative can be used, as it is looking very dated and would be nice to add/remove the info it displays etc… this may be my lack of knowledge on linux tools but i thought i’d just throw it out there to see the views of others and whether anyone’s attempted it?

just incase…

1. Connect to mysql server [mysql -u root -pyourpassword fog], note there is not space between -p and your password.
2. List all tables [show tables;]
3. Table images is where you need to make change, so see all available fields in that table [select * from images;]
4. Above command will list all images for your with all their detail.
5. Pick any field except imageID and do a query based on that to udate relevant imageID, i.e. I want to udate imageID to 2 for image called “XPSP3” I would run the following command:
   update images set imageID=‘2’ where imageName=‘XPSP3’;

this was indeed the culprit! thank you very very much, saved me a big headache!

you can and i can’t see anything obvious - it’s got to be the console driver support as it is the same on any device. but i can’t see anything to say use certain screensize, font etc…

btw i’m using the core.config

Hi All,

i’ve updated my bzimage (kernel) to the latest one however the writing on terminal/display is really quite small! it does not use all the screen like the older kernels, i’ve tried modifying the bzimage but can’t see what option would be affecting this? any ideas?

cheers

actually, it wasn’t the way i had mounted the ntfs, it was actually because i was adding a ; at the end of these lines when i obviously shouldn’t of!..
machine=“${machine%”${machine##[![:space:]]}“}” #Remove trailing spaces
ln -s “/images/Drivers/WinXP/${machine}/” /root/mydrivers
cp -r /root/mydrivers/ /ntfs/testmachine

so actually dvlsg you have helped ALOT! thanks for all your help

t’s worked! it’s worked!!! i hadn’t upload the change fog but thankyou! it was the way i was mounting ntfs by the looks of things because where i was putting the code ntfs was already mounted but i had it mounted as: [B]mount.ntfs-3g $part /ntfs [/B]but should of been: [B]ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs[/B]

anyone who has this working in their funcs.sh/fog could i get a copy just so i can see what’s different to mine?

Just to rule it out, i got the script to create a new folder and also changed the permission on the drivers folder on the server/node but still no go

cheers dvlsg! you’re a star

using “$machine” only works if i manually hardcode the variable (machine =“Optiplex 755”). that’s strange about the new image!

i can’t get the script to work even if i follow the instructions step by on the first page and have the same directories etc… i’m close to giving up

This worked:
machine=“Optiplex 755”
[I]cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“[B]$machine[/B]”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;[/I]

[I]so somethings going wrong with the following two lines but i can’t see what because if you print the variable within an echo it displays as it should (no space before or after but one space in between i.e Optiplex 755)[/I]
[B]machine=dmidecode -s system-product-name;[/B]
[B]machine=“${machine%”${machine##*[![:space:]]}“}”; # Remove trailing whitespace[/B]

This worked:
machine=dmidecode -s system-product-name;
machine=“${machine%”${machine##[![:space:]]}“}”; # Remove trailing whitespace
echo -n " * Downloading $machine Drivers…";
cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“Optiplex 755”/ /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers; #Hardcoded Model/$machine

however changing:
[I]cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“Optiplex 755”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers; [/I]#Hardcoded Model/$machine
to
[I]cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“[B]$machine[/B]”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;[/I]
or
cp -r /images/Drivers/WinXP/“[B]{$machine}[/B]”/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers;

fails. i’m pulling my hair out now! lol

Hi all,

i’m getting “can’t stat no such file or directory” when trying to copy the drivers… example directory is /images/Drivers/WinXP/Optiplex 755 on imaging node and relevant code is:

ln -s “/images/Drivers/WinXP/${machine}/” /root/mydrivers;
cp -r /root/mydrivers/* /ntfs/WINDOWS/TestDrivers; # folder already exists on the image

i must be doing something silly because when i run the code directly on the server through ssh it works! (change destination directory obviously)… i’ve checked all paths and been conscious of case sensitive. what am i doing wrong? :-S oh and $machine is working it (correct name without trailing space etc… got that code above this section. i’m also not adding it as a function, i want to include it directly into fog code itself (bin/fog)

Thanks for the info, it’s not so much having the newest but the minimal without having an in-complete drivers set. will start with the .cabs and see how it goes thanks again dvlsg

The Drivers function is a fantastic addition to FOG but i struggle with drivers for each dell model. What do you guys do for drivers? because the driverpacks are quite outdated or bloated with unneccessary drivers, the .cab files on the dell website aren’t as up to date as the individual drivers listed and downloading each driver is tedious and time consuming and also only want to have whats required (.inf and files) to keep it as unbloated as possible. what do you recommend?

Cheers