Montreal, Quebec Canada

Hi apathic admin! personally the way I manage my deployment server is with 2 nics 1 on my main network and it display the web interface. the other provide dhcp tftp and pxe is on a separated vlan. when i need to image a computer I just reconfigure my switch port for being on the deployment vlan and I switch it back after. it’s safer at my advice and easyest to manage.

Hi Tom your solution is good in theory. if you manage a huge computer park it is far most easy to keep in hand one usb nic and one pci nic and upload the driver then manage a 120 go windows image … and this technique permit to add driver on the fly into your repository, upgrade them easily or remove them if they are not need anymore

Personally I am running fog in ESX 5.1 on a gig nic and on a dedicated vswtich on a private deployment vlan and i don’t have any issues

Hi guys and girls! this is my first serious post in there but I want to share my knowlage of a multi hardware auto installables drivers

1 you need to build your image as you want softwares, and updates personally I sugest to use vmware

2 find all nic drivers yu need for all the computers you hav to deploy and put them into c:\drivers of your image

3 use a microsoft tool called DPinstall
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff544842(v=vs.85).aspx[/url]
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3 call dpinst into your boot script for installing your nic driver

4 mount a samba share with net use (on your fog server for my set-up)
5 recall dpinst.exe into that location for installing your drivers specificly for your pc

voila ! you have an image driver indenpendent how can manage all hardware

for specific desktop you may use a nic how you already have the drivers into your image and just plug-in it for pulling out of your samba server your computers drivers

volia if you need more specifications of my technique feel free to ask!

this feature is really interesting I am managing a park of laptops and I want to keep the manufacturer restore partition. does somone have the sourcecode or a clear walktrough of how to do that in 0.32 or 0.33