I am assuming you downloaded the Windows Automated Installation Kit…which holds the Windows System Image Manager program. If this is the case make sure in your unattend file that you set the password value for the administrator account. If its blank then sysprep will strip the password and you will be prompted to provide one during the Windows installation. This is done in pass 7 under the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup_neutral component…subheader is UserAccounts.

I am not aware of FOG being able to uniquely name the computers after being imaged. If that is a possibility I would sure like to know…because that would sure simplify my issues that I am having.

You should not have any issues with the product keys for Windows since they are part of an OEM license. One thing you need to make sure of is that all drivers are defaulted to the original drivers (of your motherboard) that self-install when your machine boots. If you install any additional/updated drivers then your Windows key will be invalid after booting your sysprep’d/imaged machines. You can try the PnpSysprep component and see if you have any luck with that. It is supposed to make all drivers persist through the Windows install.

I will get into the switch and enable portfast. Maybe that will fix the problem. Keep fingers crossed.

The switch I am not sure about…I had my Network Administrator reset it to defaults so that it would multicast. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with Fog 0.32. I didn’t reboot the server after the first imaged set. I setup another round and started booting them which is where I ran into the “No DHCP offers received” snag. Once I ran into this I did restart the server as well as start dchp3 manually (which I have to do every time on a reboot). Still have the issue.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 4725, member: 18”]What is the static IP address of the Fog server interface you are using?[/quote]192.168.1.1…gateway and DNS are the same as well.

I am using Fog as DHCP on a private network with a Cisco switch (default settings) to image laptops. I just imaged my first set of laptops which was 20. Upon setting up the next set about half of them were exiting the PXE boot because “No Proxy DHCP or DHCP offers were received.” I always check to make sure dhcp3-server is running…it is fine. I am wondering if there is an IP address limitation…leasing, quantity…I don’t know. I did change the default and max lease times under the suspicion that the IPs weren’t being released…still no luck. Can someone help me out? I have my DCHP config file and will post it…please help me. I am on the chopping block here.

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I work for a school district and right now I have my Fog server setup as standalone and imaging a large quantity of laptops. I am doing it this way because we have to have over 1000 laptops imaged before the end of summer before the kids come back to school…at which point I will reconfigure the Fog settings and have it use our DHCP server on our network. We have 5 different campuses…all are on the same subnet mask but different gateway/ip scope. Example: High School is on a 10.20.20.1 - 10.20.29.1 range, Junior High is on a 10.20.30.1 - 10.20.39.1 range. Will Fog work when needing to send an image from one gateway/ip scope to another? If this will work it will help me on the road to keeping an accurate digital inventory through MAC addressing among all other things.

At least you can multicast LOL! When I get a task started for multicast all machines load up fine but then freeze on “Please Wait.” I can deploy machines but only about 10 or so at a time. We started at trying 20 machines but a few of them will come up with errors when trying to image…“NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08.” This is nerve racking…I have done well with building the machine and installing Fog…I have it running stand alone with independent DHCP through a Cisco unmanaged 24-port switch. We are imaging laptops and have about 1000 to go. We are in a bad situation. It would be nice if someone could help me out as well. I am still fairly new to Ubuntu and not totally comfortable with this new education yet…LOL.

Server Specs:
HP Compaq 5100 Small Form Factor
Pentium 4 Duo-Core 3.2GHz
2 GB RAM
Using a PCI Intel PRO/1000 GT low-profile NIC
Running Ubuntu 10.04 with Fog 0.32

I realize this hardware is minimal but right now its the only thing I have to work with. The system monitor shows to barely have any CPU usage or RAM usage. The network activity is steady at about 75%.