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• FOG Problems

  Technical help directly related to FOG.
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  Hello,
  I’m noticing something odd in terms of capturing and deploying images.

  I’m capturing and deploying Linux in this case.

  While things are working, I wanted to bring this up in the event that I don’t understand how Fog is supposed to work.

  I’ve gone with Fog defaults in terms of;
  Image Type = Single Disk - Resizable
  Partition = Everything

  However I’ve captured a system having a 450GB drive with a 450GB partition having 100GB used.

  When I deploy that very image to a different system having a 400GB drive, I get the error that the source drive is larger then the target drive and cannot continue.

  Conversely when I take that same captured image and deploy it to a system with 1TB drive, it creates a 450GB partition leaving roughly 50% of the drive not partitioned.

  Am I misunderstanding how Fog works?

• Hardware Compatibility

  Problems with specific computer models.
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  @yardk Okay, good news, bad news, so good news is the code loading the Arm architecture seems to be working correctly.

  Bad news, we haven’t really had much time to troubleshoot against all potential arm devices and I believe this is a semi-known issue that we just haven’t been able to narrow down and/or fix at this point.

  If you’re able, can you try loading a 6.1.22 arm kernel or maybe 6.1.89?

  I suspect, and it’s just a sneaking suspicion, what you’re seeing is similar to the issue we’re seeing with hyper-v/proxmox and efi loading.

• Windows Problems

  Technical help related to a Windows Problem.
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  I am having an issue with windows 11 going into repair mode and am soon going to give up as I havent found a soltuion yet and have been trying a lot of different ideas however all ended up the same, either after encrypting the hard disk I reboot the pc and then issue occurs or now I am noticing that issue is happening also when I run windows updates after a reboot this happens.

  I never had these kind of issues when I did the implementation of win 7 to 10 few years back with FOG and have been imaging win10 machines since then with FOG and found it great.

  [EDIT] I removed the hard disk and connected it to another computer to read the log however the folder was missing so there is no log to check whats the issue 😕
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  I install win11 on hyperv (tried also installing on an old esxi 7.0)then go into audit mode do all windows updates, just the windows updates and then run sysprep with the below command to use the unattend file (I tested the unattend file using usb to do the installation and it worked so that eliminates the unattend.xml of causing the issue.

  @echo off cd c:\windows\system32\sysprep sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:C:\Sysprep\unattend.xml

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  Then I would backup the image to fog by disabling the secure boot on the virtual machine

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  Then I would deploy it on the computer (with secure boot switched off as to be able to boot from the network,
  Issue happens both if computer is joined to domain or not
  Till now I tried it on Dell optiplex 3060 and Dell vostro 3510 both are getting same issue.

  Any ideas as I am soon giving up and will end up doing them with usb and unattend 😕

• Linux Problems

  Technical help related to a Linux Problem.

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  Hi!
  I captured a linux computer (debian 12, ext4).
  Unfortunately the power failed during the capture process.
  At the beginning of the process the disk was compressed, then the capture started, then the power failed. Now the filesystem has not been uncompressed.
  Is there anything I can do ?
  (I use FOG since v0.9something and this problem NEVER occured)
  Thanks!
  Xibeaga

• Mac Problems

  Technical help related to a Mac Problem.

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  @george1421 Hi,

  Thanks for your reply. Its strange. I am working with (almost exclusively) early 2012 hardware. My older Imacs 2009-2011 afaict pxe boot fine image with FOG w/o issue. The problem comes along when, I try to image our macbooks. They display different levels of progress before they flat out hang. I had one mbpx,y I’m almost sure it was a 3rd gen intel just can’t find it right now. I may be being processed to go out the door to our clients.

  Yes the 2019 verison of ipxe was executed from a boot of clonezill 3.1.x the version I would attempt to boot from ventory stick or from an imaged usb stick would display an error regarding not having efi capability and/or hang or return to the ventoy menu. If I just let them be long enough the MBP would just restart.

  So I did attempted to roll my own and ran into the same problem with the oobox downloadable iso/zip file. Hang… I am researching w/o much success with how clonezilla compiled their ipxe menu entry or how to just plain add efi capability to ipxe.iso/zip and burn it to a usb stick. I just am not knowledable enough to formulate a good question or find what I am looking for (cause I don’t know:))

  So thanks again for your reply. I have a large donations of older MBP’s coming just before the holidays and I would lik to be able to make it rain.

  Regards,

• General Problems

  General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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  Hi All, I need advice regarding the network requirement for FOG to operate in a different network between 2 buildings. FYI, I already raised multiple firewall ticket for FOG setup. You can refer the picture attachment.
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  When I try to deploy the image, it was stuck at “post init script” for a few minutes before it proceed to skipped it and proceed to mounting the image but failed. Below is the picture for the error and the firewall logs.
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  I already request to allow port 111 since I saw it was blocked first during post init script and then I saw it try to access port 20048. Now I need to know what is the correct port should I open before raising another firewall ticket since it takes one week to apply the rules. I hope developers can advise me what port I need to open to avoid such issue again.