[SOLVED] problems with windows 2008 R2

[natxo]

I have upgraded our opsi server running debian lenny to the latest updates:

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izopsi01:/opt/pcbin/install/win2008-x64# dpkg -l | grep opsi
ii  opsi-atftpd                                              0.7.dfsg-1.4               advanced TFTP server - opsi version with pcr
ii  opsi-configed                                            1.4.22-1                   OPSI config editor
ii  opsi-depotserver                                         3.4-1                      server fuer das Softwareverteilungssystem OP
ii  opsi-linux-bootimage                                     20101007-1                 Linux-Bootimage fuer das Softwareverteilungs
ii  opsi-utils                                               3.4-4                      OPSI utils
ii  opsiconfd                                                2.0.0.25-1                 OPSI configuration service
ii  opsipxeconfd                                             0.3.8-1                    OPSI PXE configuration daemon
ii  python-opsi                                              3.4.0.14-1                 OPSI python library

Now I need to roll out a number of windows 2008 R2 standard servers (virtual, ESX 3.5). I have followed the instructions on the opsiserver-installation-v34-en.pdf document.

I have installed the Windows AIK in a amd64 server running windows 2008 standard. I have built the windwos PE environment following the instructions:

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"%ProgramFiles%\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\copype.cmd" amd64 d:\winpe
imagex /mountrw d:\winpe\winpe.wim 1 d:\winpe\mount
echo c:\opsi\startnet.cmd > "D:\winpe\mount\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd"
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows AIK\Tools\<ARCH>\imagex.exe" /commit /unmount
"D:\winpe\mount"

Then I copy d:\winpe\ISO to /opt/pcbin/install/win2008-x64/winpe:

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izopsi01:/opt/pcbin/install/win2008-x64# ls -l winpe/
total 1052
drwxr-xr-x 3 opsiconfd pcpatch   4096 2010-10-12 21:28 boot
-rwxr--r-- 1 opsiconfd pcpatch 383562 2009-07-13 18:39 bootmgr
-rwxr--r-- 1 opsiconfd pcpatch 667712 2009-07-13 18:45 bootmgr.efi
drwxr-xr-x 4 opsiconfd pcpatch   4096 2010-10-12 21:28 EFI
drwxr-xr-x 2 opsiconfd pcpatch   4096 2010-10-12 21:28 sources

But then it gets a bit confusing. For the amd64 version I need to copy the boot.vim from the dvd and copy it to d:\winpe_amd64\ISO\sources ; I do not have this folder, so I copy it to the d:\winpe\ISO\sources. I mount the image and edit the startnet.cmd, commit the change and unmount the image. Then I need to mount the archive 2 of the same image and edit it the startnet.cmd again. So I do that.

Then I need to "Additional remove the files setup.exe and sources\setup.exe". From where?

Then I unmount and comit the image again. I recopy the ISO folder to the winpe folder in the depot server, change the rights. And then I need to copy the whole dvd to /opt/pcbin/install/winvista/vistasrc which does not exist in the depot server. I assume you mean to /opt/pcbin/install/win2008-x64/installfiles .

I then make a host in the webui with all the data we need (name, mac address) and choose in the netbook products win2008-x64 and in its properties I choose imagename Windows Longhorn SERVERSTANDARD and have it work with winpe.

When the windows setup starts, everytime I get this message: A required CD/DVD devide driver is missing. I fyou have a driver floppy disk ....

If you google this, the advice is: redownload the iso image from the microsoft site. I have done that, and a manual installation works perfectly fine. So this is NOT the problem. So please do not tell me to redownload the iso, I have already done that and that is not the problem, with the original iso a manual installation does not have this problem.

Is windows 2008 r2 supposed to work with my version of opsi or do I have to upgrade to the latest version 4? Can I do that on this live production machine or do I have to have a new opsi depot server?

Please advice. Thanks

[natxo]

I have installed version 4 of the opsi software on a test machine. Tomorrow I will see how the installation goes

The installation of version 4 was flawless on debian lenny according to the docs. Congratulations!

[wolfbardo]

Please retry buiding the winpe along

http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/doc//ops ... v40-en.pdf

3.2.6 NT 6 family: Vista / 2008 / Win7

regards

Bardo Wolf

[natxo]

hi,

I just wanted to say that with opsi version 4 windows 2008 R2 installs perfectly.

Just one comment on the documentation. On point 2.1.2 for installation on debian/ubuntu system, you write:

We recommend the following installations:

aptitude install wget lsof host python-mechanize p7zip-full cabextract
openbsd-inetd mc

in fact the openbsd-inetd package is really necessary, otherwise the tftp server does not work , so maybe that package should not be just 'recommended', but compulsory.

Thanks!

[tinjaw]

It is not well documented, but the inetd is not necessary if you change the atftp config file to run without the need for inetd. By default it relies on inetd. (The reason is that it will only run when required and not all the time, but I 'd rather having it run all the time due to the nature of the service it is providing.)