Posts made by Ramzi Youssefi

Hi Tom, thanks for your quick reply!
The PCs come actually with the 100 MB partition.
I will have a look at the documentation carefully and I will image not the entire disk but just the Windows 7 partition and see how it goes.
I will post my results after I’m done with the task.

The main partition, which is that comes by default by these new HP PCs is the 457 GB but used is only 32 GB. The recovery partition is around 10 GB for recovery. The other PCs are still in their boxes and the idea would be to deploy Windows 7 with the necessary software. I could also change the partition and make it smaller but I don’t know if FOG edits partitions “on the fly”.

What I’m doing now is to read a documentation about “Implementing the FOG Cloning Solution with Universal Windows 7 Images”. I don’t know if this will work but at least I will give it a chance.

Hello Tom,

thanks you for your reply!
actually, the initial client has two partitions: the drive which has a size of 32 GB and a recovery partition which has a size of 8 GB. What I don’t understand is that the image that has been created of the drive is 192 GB! so I don’t know why it’s so big. I have used “Multiple Partition Image - All disks”. Maybe, as you said, this could be one of the reasons why it takes so slow.

I have also experienced that after completing the imaging process, the operating system (Windows 7) seems to work fine but the name of the machine has not been changed (I don’t know if I have to left the client always booting from network). I usually have to change the name, restart the machine and automatically runs CHKDSK to fix some problems.

The other observation that I have noticed is that when the deployment starts, at the beginning it says for some seconds that the HP Compaq 6300 is not supported.

Regarding your question about the kernel, is the server kernel? in that case, I’m using UBUNTU 13.10 Kernel 3.11.0-14

So in summary I think we need to figure out why the size of the image is so big (this is what is shown in the image process).
I have to add as well that the size of the /image/image_name/ folder is 29 GB. So I don’t know where the 192 GB come from.

Sorry for this long message

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Hello everyone,

I experience a problem when I want to deploy an image to a single Windows 7 PC.
I have created the image from another Windows 7 machine and it took like 1 hr and 20 min. The creation of the image was very straight forward and the speed was fixed between 1.4 GB and 1.5 GB per minute.
However, when I deploy an image, the speed starts with 1.4 GB per minute but then it slows dramatically to 300 MB or even 100 MB per minute.
I have checked the switch and both ports are full duplex with 1000 Mb.
I have also checked the bandwidth transmit of the server and it doesn’t seem to upload anything. I have checked the network history from the Ubuntu System Monitor and the upload traffic fluctuates between 0 bytes/sec until 5.5 Kb/sec.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!