You know what? ive been a complete numpty. I should have tested it before I asked for help.

If I press a keystroke is aborts the automatic boot and I can select the options.

Thank you so much for your help though regardless, youve got my FOG up, running and useable, your a legend.

Thank You Chad I did do this at your last suggestion and that is how i was able to add the new virtual drive.
Guess i missed the last move step but its working!!

Thank you for all your help

If you are going to be isolated to any switch and not connected to the rest of the network then you must enable DHCP on the FOG server in order to answer PXEboot requests. It doesn’t matter if you use the 4 port wireless router, but you need to disable DHCP service on the router when you are trying to PXEboot, or you have to jump through hoops to get them two systems working together ([URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_ProxyDHCP’]proxydhcp[/URL])

The command line is all there in the wiki article. You’ll fdisk to find the disk and set the type, then you’ll make the filesystem, then you’ll move the images folder to images1, create a new images folder, mount the new virtual disk to the /images folder, then move the images from /images1 to /images

So after I uploaded one of my existing images successfully, I made a new image and uploaded the contents of the VM to it.

Now it works. One thing I noticed is FOG can see two partitions rather than just one which is all it was seeing before. I’m not sure FOG can only see one partition on the disk I was using previously. I didn’t do anything different to prep it this time.

Ahh okay – yeah I had been eyeing the wiki article about buildroot: ([url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Build_FOG_file_system_with_BuildRoot_-_init.gz[/url])

I was holding off on diving in to that, since I was hoping there would be a way to mount the init.gz, import the installation (somehow or another), and gzip init back up without having to rebuild the whole thing. But if there’s no other way, then that’s what I’ll do.

I think you have a valid argument for your boss to change his opinion about volume licenses. 125 images per computer must be hard to manage no matter where you store them.

Did you defrag the HDD and run chkdsk /r 😄 at least twice?

Not sure if you’re still having these issues or not, but here is some more information in the wiki: [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting_Host_Management_Showing_Hosts_as_Down[/url]

Not sure if you ever resolved this issue, but after dealing with it myself I decided to document it in the wiki: [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting_Host_Management_Showing_Hosts_as_Down[/url]

Did the IP address of the FOG server change?

Let’s take one problem at a time.

Have you tried viewing the FOG web UI from any other computers? Is it messed up on all computers you use? If not, it might be a browser encoding setting. If it’s messed up on all of them, it might be a language setting in FOG, PHP, Apache, or Ubuntu.

If you are getting the PXE TFTP timeout error, is it all all computer models you try or just some? Did you setup DHCP in FOG or are you using something else to do DHCP?

if you want to delete the whole directory, try

rm -r /images

maybe you need to put a “sudo” in front of it.

FOG may try to rename the computer at the end of imaging if quick rename is enabled. It does this by editing the registry from Linux. Otherwise the FOG service checks the current name of the machine against the registered name in FOG and changes it in windows shortly after boot up. FOG 0.32 will also auto join to the domain if configured properly. It’s all built into the hostnamechanger module of the FOG client.

Google “ubuntu 12.04 kernel upgrade” and see what you get.

Nope - plenty of disk space - 2TB currently holding one lonesome image. It starts after about 8 seconds, long pause then jumps to 11 seconds (or so) and upload speed drops, then jumps to 16 seconds, long pause, speed drops - does several times, then very long pause and I get the above message.

This is good info, Michael. I appreciate it when some people do the extra research that is needed to identify the cause of problems.

Let’s hope this will lead to better partition table handling in FOG, so that FOG can handle GPT as well as MBR. I believe this is one of the major shortcomings of FOG these days.

Bjorn

Also got a Z68XP-UD3 Gigabyte mobo and no dice for me. Wondering did anyone get it to work?