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I've had this error before! We found BIZARRELY that using an IP address in the config.ini sometimes gives you this kind of hassle, from SOME machines! Ensure your fog server has an entry in DNS and then give it a DNS name, then change your config.ini to use the DNS name instead. It works a charm for us (though WHY, we don't know!)

Thanks for the info, seems the latest version of the kernel I downloaded panics Went for an older version and it works a treat. Cheers!

Unfortuanately, this didn't work for us. It didn't change the kernel when we put Host Kernel in the host section on the fog menu. What IS possible for us though is to change the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg menu and throw in a new entry that reads: kernel fog/kernel/Kernel-2.6.30.2.ps ... ... MENU LABEL Full Host Reg and Inventory (PS Kernel) This sorta does the trick (by the fact it seems to change the linux kernel on pxe boot if we select that menu option from the pxe boot menu, but we get a kernel panic if we do it like this. Any ideas on what we can do to either get the former working, or the latter? Cheers!

What OS are you trying to image / what version? If you're totally sure it's not a permission thing, then you could be trying to do something wild like Image a Windows 7 machine with an OLD version of FOG that doesn't properly support W7.

Hiya, we're suffering problems imaging Dell Optiplex 740's and have read that we need the Peter Sykes kernel in order to make things 'magically work'. We're on the latest version of fog and the most recent version of ubuntu but we have no idea how to go about compiling/installing fog kernels. The FOG Kernel Updates section on the management GUI sits there forever (it's likely that it is dying on our proxy if it is trying to access the Internet, in whichcase we need to know how to configure whatever it is using in order to work via the proxy). So we don't know how to get the fog kernel section of the management GUI working, and we don't know how to manually compile/install either. Ultimately, we just want to be able to successfully inventory and upload/deploy images to these machines. Please help, Thankee

I was a major feature programmer for Stepmania. Short of that, loads of in-house systems are coded by yours truely.

Aye, tis true. What the documents DO lack though are how to get IME's installed as standard, although you can sorta do it with Japanese (and I suspect Hong Kong IME too) no Chinese Simplified IME for me yet though...

Yeah, I am. The sysprep does work if I use the config above, its just got some annoying quirks. It seems that en-GB is an underdocumented feature (non-documented?). This is how my languages sysprep section looks: 0809:00000809;0401:00000401;0411:00000411;0419:00000419;0804:00000804;0415:00000415 en-GB en-GB en-GB However, input locale still uses the hex format. This gets rid of en-us and still retains all the aforementioned languages (and doesn't tank the machine). But still no IME yet! Still, some progress at least I wonder if theres an un-documented hex for the imes or something? I'll try ja-JP and hope things don't fall over! Update Well how crazy is that? Doing 0809:00000809;0401:00000401;ja-JP;0419:00000419;zh-CN;0415:00000415 en-GB en-GB en-GB Seems to work for Japanese IME but not Chinese :S

Infact, typing en-gb on my InputLocale seemed to not work at all (it TANKED the machine -- fresh W7 reinstall was required). The docs seem to strongly indicate use of the hex codes. I will try changing to some of the others to en-gb, but I suspect I will turn up with problems (as it is likely such a language pack doesn't exist in W7). As an aside, your ZIP seems corrupted? Thanks for the help anyhow!

I don't think it needs a language pack as such. If I manually install Japanese IME then it works a treat, but of course I want this to be available straight after a sysprep. Installing a Japanese keyboard (default) doesn't really enable you to type Japanese symbiology (it's essentially a US keyboard), it's the input method that really enables this functionality. Here's the keyboards we install (straight from the answer file): 0809:00000809;0401:00000401;0411:00000411;0419:00000419;0804:00000804;0415:00000415 English (GB) Arabic Japanese Russian Chinese (Simplified) Polish (Programmers) Now, in the case of English, Arabic, Russian and Polish, the keyboards have a 1:1 mapping. That is, if you press the Ж Key, you'll get the Ж Character. No problem here, pretty easy. But with Japanese and Chinese, there's over 60,000 characters, the keyboards themselves use an input method to translate between the sound/reading of the word into the relevant character. But it seems to me that Windows 7 Sysprep doesn't support the installation of these input methods, just the base keyboards themselves, here lies my problem. (And yeah, we have a few foreign language keyboards here!) As for the EN-US thing, you'll see I don't even have US keyboard listed there, Windows 7 "helpfully" adds it right on for us. There's no US keyboards in the school. However, these are set like so: en-US en-US en-US This might have some weird knock-on effect that additionally adds the US keyboard layout. But having read the docs en-US seems like the only sensible option (lest we have our interface in Japanese!)

Anyone have any ideas on what should be thrown into the answer file for any of the following: * Adding Japanese or Chinese IME as a keyboard language option, the default keyboards don't cut it. * Removal of EN-US as a keyboard language option (it installs it regardless of what you specify it seems!)

Depends on the soundcard. Quite a few cards don't have such settings, but quite a few M-Audio cards let you (such as the Delta series) and maybe some others do that I don't have experience with.

Sounds like the sound card is recording at the wrong sample rate (e.g. record at 22,050hz then playback at 44,100hz and you have chipmunk mode) Worst case scenario you could try pitching it down to proper levels or playing with sample rates as a post process.

Agreed, however, I am skeptical that all machines in his workplace need all software. For instance, we only have cubase installed in our music labs, and only photoshop is available for Art. Maybe he can trim down some image size by moving over some of these into appropriate GPO's?

Perhaps you should look into getting more software deployed via GPO? This way, when the machine first sets up onto the domain, software is pulled across. Theoretically all you need is windows and a bunch of drivers, that'll rapidly reduce your image sizes to < 4 gig. Also, if you're concerned about updates you could look into setting a WSUS server up? Unless you mean to tell me *every* pc in the building needs *every* piece of software installed which makes *every* pc 28gigs+ (even so, bandwidth isn't here nor there if you're throwing 28 gigs around, GPO, fog, or otherwise) Out of curiosity, what is it you're running around the network that requires 28 gigs worth of apps o_O? thepiratebay.com?

I can't see anything wrong with the code whatsoever. Make sure that the images url is different every time (check the properties). It should be something like.... For Example: xp11.jpg?1258360019056 then the number will be different on refresh: xp11.jpg?1258360024056 Ensure it's actually different, if it IS, then the code is doing its refresh thang.

Tried gpupdate /force to make sure the policy is DEFINITELY in place? Like I said, if all else fails, build it into the default profile (so by default, accounts will not have offline files enabled). When a new profile gets built from the default profile you won't have offline files. Build with care though! I can't see recreating shares helping you much personally... At least, we've never had to do anything of the sort to disable offline files in the past.

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User Configuration Administrative Templates Network/Offline Files Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline Prevent use of Offline Files folder Prohibit user configuration of Offline Files Remove 'Make Available Offline' Worst case scenario: Disable offline files for a generic profile, then use that to overwrite default profile.

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Get the tray part replaced, the sensor might've taken a knock or something. We've had this before, where we need THICKER things to obscure the pen tray sensors. Chances are the tray part of the board has become faulty or damaged.

Well you're making very weird comparisons then. Life isn't filtered! err right okay.... Censorship is compariable to filtering at the end of the day. Sure, our lives aren't thrown through a PC and churned out as acceptable or unacceptable. Instead we have powers that be decide about what we can and cannot do and say... Filtering is a form of Censorship...

LOL What planet are you on? Censorship exists in the modern world everywhere, if you can't see that then you need to get out into the real world!! Try swearing on TV, or infront of kids. It's unacceptable. Yet, it is still censorship. The examples I cited are indeed extreme, but you can see censorship even in smaller quantities all around us. Sure, your home connection might be unfiltered but there's plenty of other things in your day-to-day life that are most truely censored in one way or another.

We've done similar but during school hours! In our case we pre-prepared images and set up everything serverside as much as we could in advance (Including imaging machines in advance!), then three of us blitzed two rooms in the space of 2 spare periods. Made it JUST in time for the next lesson!!