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Virtual machine templates for Windows written in legacy JSON and Batch Scripting/JScript
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Windows Patch Updates? #121

Closed TekMage closed 7 years ago

TekMage commented 7 years ago

Is there a flag, switch, config option for Makefile.local to enable the patches being done to the image build? Yes, I understand it takes for ever to do, or maybe there is a better iso to use in the Makefile.local that has a more recent patch base?

Thanks for any help.

TekMage commented 7 years ago

I was able to successfully add floppy/update.bat into the win7, win10 .json files as the second to last entry in the series of floppy scripts.

"floppy/win7x64-pro/Autounattend.xml", "floppy/update.bat", "floppy/zz-start-transports.cmd"

I also had to increate the winrm timeout as the build kept failing after a timeout. I later found out that the update.bat file got all the patches installed after several hour/reboots, but then did not exit. I had to manually run the floppy/zz-start-transports.cmd, and then it was able to complete the process and create the .box. A look into why that happens is something I didn't have time to do at this point, but it needs looking after. Better docs on this or a switch in Makefile.local would be useful in the future.