@Wayne-Workman said in Storage Node with Multiple HDD's (no Raid) possible?:

I’d also recommend sticking the OS on RAID 1, in addition to the RAID 10 for images.

I would recommend that but the OP mentioned he was having issues with RAID setting up RAID to boot from. So I was addressing the possible solutions to avoid RAID. Otherwise getting a hardware RAID card would solve the issue all together.

@ITSolutions this is true, but is the storage combined?

No the storage shows as 2 different nodes, when you create an image definition you tell it what group, either backup or default.

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:44:39 +0100
From: Simon Kelley simon@thekelleys.org.uk
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Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.76
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I’ve just released dnsmasq 2.76.

Download from http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.76.tar.gz

It’s more than nine months since the last release, so get the new code
quick, there’s lots to go at.

Cheers,

Simon.

@ITSolutions Thanks! Got it working and shredding!

Fixed in latest.

One word: WebUI, Does Clonezilla have that? Nope, Does Windows Have that? Nope. Does FOG have it? Yep
Also i was turned away from clonezilla because it is not very professional with all the foreign writing on it, and WDS is not opensourse and only support Windows.
And my last point FOG is easy to setup, easier than samba in most cases, unlike clonezilla which is not extremely automated

@GoodGuyQ While this issue has been fixed back then I think it never really got tested by the users (who are a hell lot better at finding the odd bits and pieces that we developers just don’t think about)!! Would be awesome if you can give it a try and let us know. Be aware that things might go wrong. So always keep a full image at hand.

That said you could also do things like skipping only one partition out of three (and still do the MBR) by renaming the image files on your FOG server. Try renaming /image/<image-name>/d1p2.img for example to skip_d1p2.img and it should be skipped while deploying. At least it worked in older revisions. Let’s hope I didn’t break that when working out the single partition cloning stuff.

Looking forward to hear if it is working for you!

@elliot said in Change Fog Background iPXE boot:

var/www/fog.prev/service/ipxe

That’s your web directory backup. It’s incase things go wrong, you can just copy the previous one back to the web root.

@Vanlue-IT-Guy There were activation issues in that version. Update and it should work.

@Wayne-Workman I didn’t get a chance to test this snapin as I needed to have it done the following Monday. What I ended up doing was installing office 2013 and just not open it at all as the timer for office will not start until you open any of the applications.

@atarone I believe the answers you seek lay ahead… https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Dirty_Bit

@reub_rester Depends on what is acting as a DNS server.

I doubt your fog server is acting as a DNS server, because if it was you would know about it.

You need to create an A record on whatever is doing DNS for your environment.

Don’t forget that the machine account in AD has a password, this gets changed on a regular basis, this happens invisibly, it is a function of the way AD words.
From memory it gets changed every 30 days, and as I say is completely invisible to users and admins, the last changed date can be read from AD via LDAP, although it needs a bit of work to translate it into human readable format.
If you image a PC without sysprep, when you deploy that image it will not join the domain if the machine account password has changed.
This will need the PC to be deleted and re-added to AD to resolve.

This actually makes me wonder about the possibility of something similar to a task for imaging groups of hosts, but using multicast instead of singlecast.

Multicast session name could be the group name + incrementing number or something.

@tprice What new documentation (for future readers)?

@Scott-B just about every printer in the building is a different model. of which we have about 100. Some are USB, some network.

I manage the network ones with Active Directory without issue - it’s just this one printer being stupid. It needs replaced. It doesn’t even have drivers for Windows 7, I finagled Windows Vista drivers onto Windows 7 as a local TCP/IP installation before. It’s just impossible to deploy with Active Directory - everything I’ve tried has failed - and I’ve tried a lot.

Fog was my last resort.

But, here in the future, if it proves to be reliable and I think it will be, I want to use FOG for printer management because it’ll lighten the load on our DCs.

@Wayne-Workman Great video. Yeah, your image size isn’t large enough to find the standard transfer rates. Just as the transfer settles down its done. (not a bad thing). In our virtual environment we can pull a sustained 6-7GB transfer rate. That is with a VM with 2 vCPU and 2GB of RAM running on a 24 core processor. But again as long as the server can move the image from disk to net pretty quick, all of the heavy lifting is done by the client. On a e6410 with a HDD we can get no more than 4.5GB/min exchanging that HDD with SSD increases the transfer to 6.1GB/min on the same hardware.

Just for comparison, when I was working with that intel NUC as the FOG server. That dual core celeron with an 256GB SSD was able to transfer at 5GB/min to a e6410 with a SSD. So really the FOG server isn’t the key to deployment speed. It more compression used and target computer performance.

But either way FOG is darn impressive that it can wake the computer up and deploy a new image in under 3 minutes. With that you could almost reimage a whole computer lab {between classes} at any school system. That is impressive.

@george1421

Sorry for the long delay I have been swamped with other project. Thank you for getting back with me and the link to the guide. I will look into possibly upgrading that server to 2012. Thank you again for all of your assistance, it really is appreciated.

Thanks,

Anthony

I couldn’t resist the challenge. This should get you pretty close.

#!/bin/bash . /usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh; mkdir /ntfs 2>/dev/null echo "Mounting Windows File System"; mount.ntfs-3g "/dev/sda2" /ntfs 2>/tmp/mntfail mntRet="$?"; if [ ! "$mntRet" = "0" ] then echo "Failed to mount Windows partition"; echo ""; cat /tmp/mntfail; echo ""; sleep 12; exit 1; fi #Mount successful echo "******************************************************"; read -p "Enter your room number " rn echo "setx /M RoomNumber \"${rn}\" " >>/ntfs/Windows/Setup/Scripts/SetupComplete.cmd echo "******************************************************"; umount /ntfs sleep 5;

@Sebastian-Roth said in BASH on Windows 10 … and maybe FOG also?:

as well do Intel Macs (confirmed in my own lab!!)…

Any news on that subject? My organization has thousands of Macs. Is it easier now?

@ITCC Would you be willing to get a step-by-step guide for Debian ready? Would be a great starting point.