Posts made by SNarc

Thanks Tom. That’s exactly what I expected, but I’m stuck on the approach. How do I customize FOG to take an action after the box is imaged? Or do I create a mysql trigger to call the script? Or does the script live on the imaged client and act on boot?

Sorry I don’t know a lot about sysprep. When you mention sysprep for setting the key, are you referring to the windows key? The key file I mentioned is for a 3rd party application running on the box, not for windows itself. is that something that sysprep can do?

Thank you for the response. There are several “clients”, each of them have the same image, with the exception of a different license file that gets dropped on the box. I was trying to avoid having a whole separate image for each client just for the license file. For the windows boxes, we do not run sysprep because we want the image directly tied to the hardware - which we control.

I am setting up FOG in a “manufacturer” type setting, whereby the box gets shipped out after imaging. I don’t want the FOG client installed on the image in the field.

I have setup Capone to image based on MOBO - all is good there. The trick is while (or after) imaging, I want to drop a specific file on the box (which file will depend on the client). Since the FOG client isn’t installed on the image, I don’t believe I can use a snap-in. Is that a correct understanding?

Other workaround/thoughts I had were:

1. Somehow develop a separate script/utility or trigger that would watch the MySQL table to identify a client has been imaged and remotely connect to the PC and drop a file.
2. Setup a cron job on the image so it runs when booted to grab the file via TFTP. Except I only want this to run once and then delete itself. Easy with runonce on windows, not so much on Linux.
3. Somehow mess with PXE to add a menu item to “save the file”, which would be done after the PXE image is run.

FYI, I have to be able to support clients that are Windows-based and Linux-based.

Any suggestions/leads will be so very appreciated.