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@Sebastian-Roth I will try this in about ten days when we are back in session. Thanks!!

If you select any one of the tasks it will present a deployment confirmation. On the confirmation it asks you how/when you want it to happen. Instant means immediately. Delayed means one time in the future. Cron style means you want it to happen on a regular cycle.

I’ve left the PXE menu activated to register everything to begin with during my deploy period.
But for my use/production period, I will have it as NO MENU.

On second thought, I will use the NO MENU option since that seems to also fix the issue that none of the EXIT TO HARD DISK TYPE values work for me…but NO MENU boots just fine.

[quote=“Bcundiff, post: 31717, member: 22232”]This is where sysprep can be useful-- we use a master image with a ~40GB Windows install partition and then use ExtendOSPartiiton in the answer file to extend the C:\ drive to fill the remaining space in whatever drive the image is deployed to. The same answer file can also be used to make partitions, but that seems a bit riskier.
Sysprep’s generalize flag could also help with other hardware issues-- I’ve spent a few months working with Fog 0.32, Ubuntu 12.04, and W7 Pro x64 clients, and I’ve been able to get away without sysprep on occasion while testing, but, in my experience, sysprep /generalize really helped us deal with varying hardware, including things as trivial as getting an image from a 120GB drive to a 128GB drive.[/quote]

Hi, and thanks for your input.

I started to “play” with creating an image and sysprep last week.

I followed these instructions:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]

and did this on a virtual box.

It went fine until “Step 8” (Drivers- SAD2). I did the suggestion at the end of Step 8 which says “you might want to try the tool out manually”. I did this and it updated a lot of drivers in the image on the virtual box. When it was all done, my network adapter was gone (i.e. without a driver) and several other critical path components too. I didn’t have more time to play with this, so I wiped it out and got a fresh image.

Do you follow these same procedures? Has this situation with drivers ever happened to you?

Sounds great! Thanks. That’s what I planned to do until I went to go download and saw the FOG VM… that caused me to pause and question.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 29976, member: 7271”]What is the OS of the image?

What is the type of the image (raw, single disk, multi-part?)

It looks like the mbr or gpt tables aren’t being written back. At least not properly.[/quote]

I may have found something that fixes this.

I did a deploy-debug on both PC’s.

Then at the debug prompt:
# fdisk /dev/sda and then “w” to write it out
# fog

Both PC’s seems to be loading. Though I don’t know if this is one-time or I will need to manually do this every time I want to load these machines. Any ideas?

(got this from: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/partition-table-error.1234/#post-10305[/url] )