Thread resurrection! This actually happened to a member of our IT department again, today.

Has anyone else ever run in to this problem? Some possibilities of causes:

Computer had the original OS hard drive and the secondary drive in the computer before, while FOG imaged it The original OS drive was removed, and replaced with a new SSD The hard drive mode was switched from RAID to AHCI in the bios After all those changes were made, FOG imaged the secondary drive, instead of the SSD Post installation, the SSD is listed as /dev/sda and the secondary drive is listed as /dev/sdb

Still pretty stumped. Anyone think any of those options would have temporarily caused the secondary drive to be read as /dev/sda?

You need to edit the dhcpd.conf file located in the /etc/dhcp folder on your server. Once you make your necessary changes here, range dynamic-bootp x.x.x.x x.x.x.x, all you should need to do is restart the dhcp service. This can be done by typing [B]sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart[/B]

If you want to migrate the images, I would backup the SQL database and copy your /images and /tftpboot folder.

glad to hear you were able to get it figured out.

I believe the IP address field is going away in FOG 0.33. It was meant for documentation purposes back when FOG was mainly used to image desktop machines.

I would use the current dhcp server to assign static IP based on mac if it’s a possible. If not, turn of DHCP on that and use FOG. It will allow you to assign the same address to each machine based on the mac.

Theoretically, maybe. But you’ve got to give a % of that 1GB to management and overhead. Same with the disk systems. If you are servicing 1 client, and the file is completely defragmented on the source drive and the system never has to read anything but a sequential sector on the disk, and, and, and…

If you image (unicast, not multicast) more than 1 client, you are stressing the disk system on the server and the network switch and you’re speeds will go down.

I can image about 14 Fujitsu laptops on a gigabit switch, each getting about 1.3GB per minute per client according to the clients. I can image about 30 acer tablets that are 100Mbps before I get below 1GB per minute per client.

I can do this because the disk system on the server is six 10K rpm disks in RAID 5 mode optimized for read throughput. My first test server was a desktop machine with a single 3GB sata drive, and I got 4GB per minute with 1 client, but it dropped to 1GB per minute by adding the 2nd client. The disk couldn’t handle the read requests from the 2nd client as well as a real server that has a raid controller with built in cache and multiple disks to read from.

Nevermind, problem solved. The data fields were empty because we had not deployed any image yet.

I seem to be having an issue with some of the lab Acers getting stuck in state where they will not answer to a WOL packet. So setting the scheduled task is not going to work.

Anyway I can start a UDPcast from the command line? I would like the teacher to click on an icon and then make sure all the computers are working before leaving at the end of day. I don’t really want them into the web interface tho.

I’m using Ubutun 12.10 ; the image I made come from a HP computer with a HD of 250 GB, but jus one partion of 176 GB had been created. Thanks to all

So I realized that on the computer I took to made the image, there was another partiton created but not formatted. So I removed this partition and made another image under the option ‘single disk’. Afte the image deploy, Windows refused to start with the error ‘Windows 7 deploy error 0xc000000e - boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible’.

I would check the etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file and make sure everything is set correctly in there. That’s the DHCP config file. I’m not by my FOG server to check, but i’m pretty sure that’s where it’s located.

Great to hear. Let me know if I can provide additional help.

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GREAT SUCCESS!!!

My two problems were (well, one really, RTFM):

[URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Managing_FOG#Active_Directory_Integration’]Follow this article[/URL] to configure your hostname changer service and then edit the config.ini where you will generate encrypted passwords Follow [URL=‘http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818091’]M$ KB818091[/URL] to setup the account that will join nodes to AD

Can someone point me in the right direction please? I cannot find any help on this, basically I am new to fog and Linux, I have been tasked with deploying fog, we have 4 sites all on extremely slow links so would like to have the main fog server at head office and a storage node at each site, when a client pxe boots it needs to look at the database at head office for task assignments but pull the images from its local storage node, is there a numpty’s guide to acheive this please?

MOD: Can you delete this post. I have my fog server up and running fine.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 8570, member: 18”]What version of OS is your FOG server? What version of FOG? What OS is the client? What image type is the image?[/quote]
Hello all,
I had exactly the same problem with FOG 0.32 installed under ubuntu 12. I tried to restore an image on a windows 7 pc, multi.partitions on 1 disque. I solved the problem by entering in debug mode and then fdisk /dev/sda and finally ‘w’.
I need to deploy in a classroom and I wouldn’t like to have to do that on each machine , so I don’t know if there’s a workaround.
Per advance, Thanks for your help

You might want to look into this.

[quote=“Bjorn Jentoft, post: 2149, member: 587”]It’s a known fact that tftp is not the fastest protocol out there. Bigger files transfer much better on http. If you exchange [B]pxelinux.0[/B] with [B]gpxelinux.0[/B], http is supported. This will decrease loading time of ISO files substantially.

Your pxelinux.cfg/default would then contain something like this

LABEL winstall32
MENU LABEL Install Windows (all 32-bit)
LINUX memdisk
INITRD [url]http://myfogserver/iso/LiteTouchPE_x86.iso[/url]
APPEND iso raw

or

LABEL winpe
MENU LABEL WinPE
LINUX memdisk
INITRD [url]http://myfogserver/iso/mywinpe.iso[/url]
APPEND iso raw

Good luck, Bjorn[/quote]

the gpxelinux.0 can be grabbed from SYSlinux, [url]https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/[/url]

I have installed FOG on my Fedore Core 7 box, and I am unable to get to the default management webpage ([URL=‘http://localhost/fog/management’][SIZE=12px][FONT=Arial][U][B][COLOR=#000000]http://localhost/fog/management[/COLOR][/B][/U][/FONT][/SIZE][/URL]). I created 'fog" in www, and copied everything from ‘packages/web/’ to ‘var/www/fog/’.

Now the problem is that I’m not sure if I’ve edited the ‘/var/www/fog/commons/config.php’ file correctly with the correct MySQL settings. I’m also not sure if the ‘/opt/fog_0.32/packages/service/etc/config.php’ file was also edited correctly.

And when I try to log into the MySQL server via the terminal using the username and password indicated in the config.php file, it doesn’t accept the password.
Any help would be greatly appricated!
Thanks.