On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:12:33AM -0200, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > I am trying to automate the deployment of windows7 + fedora using > anaconda / kickstart ( 100+ machines ) > > in %pre section of anaconda kickstart I do this. > > wget --no-proxy -qO - http://192.168.7.254/itamar/web/windows7.img.gz > | gunzip -c | dd of=/dev/sda1 bs=64k > ntfsresize -f /dev/sda1 <<< y > > the image is restored well , but windows doesnt boot, -> With any particular error message? In any case the most likely problem is that you can't just unpack a Windows disk image into a partition and expect it to work. You have to adjust a few bytes in the NTFS header to make it work, as virt-resize does: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/resize/resize.ml#L1048 The gory details are here: http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/NTFSBR.htm Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
