sysfs,

You also have to mount it.

The gzip is ext2 formatted file/filesystem.

The way you edit is to perform these tasks:

First unzip, as you already know how but just for clarity sake:
[code]cd /tftpboot/fog/images
gunzip init.gz[/code]

Then make another directory and mount it like a filesystem:
[code]mkdir tmp
mount -o loop init tmp
[/code]

Then cd into the tmp folder and you’ll see all the scripts and the “Root” filesystem fog uses. Most of the scripts are in the bin folder so:
[code]
cd tmp/bin
[/code]

Then you can edit all the scripts you need to.

When you’re all complete perform these tasks:

[code]
cd /tftpboot/fog/images
umount tmp
gzip -9 init
[/code]

You should, then, have successfully customized your init.gz file.

[quote=“ITSolutions, post: 12543, member: 4222”]My solution is the script that is included with FOG for back up, modified quite a bit and then made a cron entry.
[/quote]
Thanks for sharing, ITSolutions. If I may suggest one edit: quote your strings. A space in a password breaks the script:
[CODE]–password=“${MYSQL_PASSWORD}”[/CODE]

I’ve been contemplating setting up a 0.33 server, but my 0.32 server works so well! I will figure out the ins and outs of getting this to work on 0.32 and post my findings.

Thanks. I could not find a reason to query for all fields in the table (*) when only the gmHostID was ever being used. In all the calls to the function I could never see where other fields were being used out of the result set. Since I didn’t want to mess something up I didn’t know about, I made a new function and changed the call in the specific page.

There is a post/wiki article somewhere around here that shows how to customize fog to prompt you for which drives to include in a task.

Awesome, I got a form of it working. However if I don’t have the Novell client installed on the computer, it will not map the drive. It tries, it just never succeeds. This should more than work for my student and staff images. Thanks a bunch!

I would just like to figure out how to map the drive without installing the Novell client, but that isn’t your problem 🙂

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 14267, member: 7271”]I forget which file to edit would be, but you just need to add the line:

net stop “FOG Service”

Before the SAD2 tools start running.

Then after it’s complete, put in the same script:

shutdown -r -t 10

So that the system will reboot automatically after the install of the drivers are complete. This will prevent the FOG Service from restarting the system automatically.[/quote]

Ah, I skipped that part. Works fine now, thanks!

I guess that’s how it’s supposed to work, but I’ve never tested it yet. Within every storage group all images from the “Master node” should be copied to the other nodes.

Do you also need to
[code]sudo touch /images/dev/.mntcheck[/code]

Ozzy - well done, great info. Like Jaymes Driver, I used your process (slightly edited for use in command line only Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) to compile a new kernel with SCSI drivers included, for working with VMWare SAS disk virtual machines. Thanks mate 🙂

P.S. add a few more screen shots and it’s good for the wiki!

Hi,

create a cron job from fog and check crontab entries to see what it does.

Greetz X23

Hi,

[quote=“Blackout, post: 3723, member: 1”]The client (including the snapin dll) has not been recompiled yet. This will be done when 0.33 is released.[/quote]

[quote=“variable205, post: 3753, member: 359”]Excellent :)[/quote]

Here we go…

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/silent-install-of-the-fog-service-client-given-hostname-or-ip.4323/[/url]

i have recompiled the msi pakage for two ways,
faster snapinclient.dll & faster snapinclient.dll and no fog tray autostart entry.

See attachments.

Greetz X23

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/323_FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient.zip?:”]FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient.zip[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/324_FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient_noautostart.zip?:”]FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient_noautostart.zip[/url]

If you are running it on ESXi, go to your web browser and goto the IP address of your ESXi server. On the right hand side, you can “Browse datastores in this host’s inventory” which is an option on the right side of the screen. Once you authenticate to the server, you can browse the datastore and backup your VM.

OR

if you have the vshpere client installed. You can browse your datastore from within the program and download the VM to an external drive with the datastore manager.

[quote=“Paul Trevathan, post: 9845, member: 3006”]Hi Brian,
This is looking good, just to confirm is this on a windows 2012 server x64 running VMware of Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 x64.
Cheers
Paul.[/quote]

I tested everything on 2008 R2 x64 running Hyper-V and once that all worked i migrated everything over to real machines. the server 2008 R2 was a in use as a DHCP server/WDS/… and the fog machine was put on a T110 II server with 14 gigs of ram

Or for command line installation

[url]http://schoolitexpert.com/network-tools/fog/306-install-fog-server[/url]