What i meant to say is, each of my PCs have their own key on the case label. They have a factory image on at the moment as in when they boot up it goes through the sysprep steps and is activated automatically. so i dont fully understand which key i would use in sysprep to get them to activate. I could go round after each machine has been imaged and enter the key on the case but that kinda defeats the point of an automated system. XP was so much easire o_O

Thanks for the guide, i have 3 days to learn to create and deploy a windows 7 image and this is helping a great deal. Am i missing something though? You said in the guide you get the to entering the correct install key? I cant see that part anywhere.

Also If all the keys are different how does activation work? I have 7 new Windows 7 machines that are factory sysprepped but i want to windows update them and install company specific software and then sysprep again ready for FOG deployment.

Same here.

If I remember correctly I had to change php-gettext to php-common. There 2 entries for it in the .sh file. To be honest I wouldn’t bother with fedora. After this step I got stuck with the pxe booting. I think too much has changed with fedora since the install script was written. Stick to Ubuntu. Seems to work fine on 11.10

Mike

Nope still doesnt work on Fedora 15. Fails at the NFS server portion. ARGHHHHH Can the developers shed any light on this? Really dont want to have to use Ubunutu in a VMware image under windows.

Well i got it working then couldnt do anything with it. Set the pxelinux.0 in my existing DHCP and pointed it at the fog server but the client never gets the fog boot screen. I think the FTFP server on fedora 16 wasnt running and i was spending too much time trying to figure it out (different to ubuntu) Gonna try Fedora 15 as people seem to have had success with that.

Thanks for the heads up but this will have to be something i look at at a later date. I have just moved here from another school and the network is in a mess so i have little time to sit down and learn a new technology (new to me anyway)

I have managed to get Fedora further and get FOG installed, not sure how or why but a reboot of the server seems to have cured it. Just preparing a test machine to see if all is OK.

Hello all,

Im building a FOG server at my new place of work on a HP DL380 G5 and Fedora 16 is the only version of Linux i could get the server to boot. Ubuntu (my prefered option) doesnt want to know.

So far i am running the installer and i got the usual php-gettext errors which i have resolved via the suggested actions on the old forum. Now im struggling with the NFS service. I found this article but doing the steps it suggested doesnt resolve it.

[url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/forums/forum/716419/topic/4851544[/url]

Basically the when the installer gets the restarting the NFS service it fails.

Since im new to fedora can anyone shed any light on this?

Desperatly need FOG to be working as im getting bored installing Windows manually

Cheers

Mike