Posts made by raice

Yes, you fixed it

Did you get the same error in installation as mine?
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7326/there-can-be-only-one-timestamp-column-with-current_timestamp

Got same error as result

searched a lot in the forums, but couldn’t find the answer.
Try to set up a new FOG image server. Installed Debian (later also tried CENTOS and Ubuntu) and get the latest developer release. I need this release because of the Broadcom chipset in the workstations.
When I install it, everything works fine. But at some point in the Install script one needs to go to the url
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/fog/management
to create the database and create the tables.
After pressing the button, the following message appears:

Incorrect table definition; there can be only one TIMESTAMP column with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in DEFAULT or ON UPDATE clause

ALTER TABLE fog.hosts ADD COLUMN hostSecTime TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

The login works, but there is no possibility creating hosts. Every registration fails.
What needs to be done to get it running?

@Wayne-Workman in out environment that’s nearly impossible. We sell new and second hand laptops. So we got different models every day. Now we can just start the installation and sysprep it afterwards.

Do you want the documentation or did you write your own now? I almost finished and only need to translate it.

I didn’t test it. But I would say, mount it via linux (ssh into the fog server) and make sure it got the right permissions.

@Wayne-Workman @Quazz already on it. Mounted the disk with DISM

dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:“c:\temp\winpe\x86_64\media\sources\boot.wim” /index:1 /MountDir:“c:\temp\winpe\x86_64\mount”

navigated to Windows\System32\startnet.cmd

It already contains wpeinit. Do not change that line, but add your code after that.
Mine so far is
net use z: \x.x.x.x\isos\win7
net use x: \x.x.x.x\isos\win8
net use y: \x.x.x.x\isos\win10
menu.bat
now creating a menu in a separate batch file
So after that I created a menu.bat in the system32 folder with
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/78083-batch-files-create-menu-execute-commands.html
to start the setup of different windows versions. Now I only have one PE box and 3 Windows installs. The next step is to automate the installations.

@Wayne-Workman I am able to get it to work too. Used this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn613857.aspx to add all network drivers (got around 40 laptops here) and created 2 samba shares on the FOG server. One to the installation folder (where I got win7, win8 and win10) and one to the same folder with write rights. This way I am able to alter the installations from my pc and create an unattended.

scrolling down shows me you beat me to it

@Wayne-Workman But it works
Now I can starting the UEFI project. My working day is over, so get back to you tomorrow. Thanx for your help so far.

@Wayne-Workman The link you gave me says the same I think:

Download the latest version of wimboot and extract the file wimboot to the same directory on your web server.
Create a text file boot.ipxe in the same directory on your web server, containing:
#!ipxe

cpuid --ext 29 && set arch amd64 || set arch x86
kernel wimboot
initrd ${arch}/media/Boot/BCD BCD
initrd ${arch}/media/Boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi
initrd ${arch}/media/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
boot

The files are present at the given location.

@Wayne-Workman thx! My paths are very different,

kernel winpe/wimboot
initrd winpe/${arch}/media/Boot/BCD BCD
initrd winpe/${arch}/media/Boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi
initrd winpe/${arch}/media/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
boot

but I will test it now.

@Wayne-Workman Created a WindowsPE and added it to de apache server dir. Now I’m running onto the same problem. I don’t know how to add this to the boot menu. documentation says: add it through “Create New iPXE Menu Entry” But I still don’t know the parameters. Do you know them. I maybe can help you out with the UEFI drive. When I am able to test it

@Wayne-Workman Thanks Wayne, I will try and figure it out. It will be no problem documenting it, because we also need that for ourselves someone needs to take over.

After a lot of searching via Google and youtube I can’t find a normal answer. I need to create an unattend install for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Then add them to the boot menu in FOG. At first we used FOG 1.2 but I couldn’t get it to work. After a few hours of searching and trying, I came across this link: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Boot_Menu_Configuration_options

After I failed to get it to work I found this sentence: Note: The things in this article apply to FOG 1.2.0 and below. FOG 1.3.0 uses a web-based interface that easily alters the boot menu

So I upgraded the FOG server to 6531 and tried to go to Create New iPXE Menu Entry in the Fog configuration menu.
There I have to fill the parameters in order to get it to work.
I added the ISO file to a location I can open with my browser and tried a lot of things in the parameter field. Things like:

initrd http://${fog-ip}/isos/windows8.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||

and

kernel http://${fog-ip}/isos/memdisk
initrd http://${fog-ip}/isos/windows8.iso

but none of the options I tried seem to work. I hope someone can help me out here.