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• FOG Problems

  Technical help directly related to FOG.
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  @Tom-Elliott When searching for a solution I recall seeing a related post on GitHub but that was not me. Today I created a new VM that was 70GB with 2GB EFI partition and after sysprep and it yielded the similar resize error during capture.

  I then tried Windows 11 25H2 June 2026 Build 26200.8655 with 60GB VM and it generated the resize error. 25H2 with 60GB VM and 2GB EFI also generated the resize error after sysprep during capture.

  The AI suggested defrag C : /X

  I ran the defrag before sysprep and capture was succesful.

  The pre optimization total fragmentation was 22% and post defragmentation it was also 22%

  To my understanding the /X flag consolidates free space. How was this the solution to my issue?

  Per the FOG Project wiki I found that defrag is recommended before sysprep:

  "…
  Before Running Sysprep
  Other steps to consider are:

  Run Chkdsk /f /p prior to imaging
  Defrag the drive
  Make sure 2gb of disk space is free or the NTFSresize will fail
  Make sure the FOG service is installed and properly configured
  Update your hostnamechange.dll file
  …
  "
  https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Client_Setup

• Hardware Compatibility

  Problems with specific computer models.
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  @JCS-RVK Understood and apologies there’s not a good method around this.

  Thanks for at least understanding. I wonder if some of the similar types of issues we’ve seen historically have a similar style of problem that I’m only coming to realize now-a-days.

• Windows Problems

  Technical help related to a Windows Problem.
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  @Tom-Elliott

  I pulled latest dev-branch version 1.5.10.1856, re-run installer and snapins are working again.

  Thank you very much for help.

• Linux Problems

  Technical help related to a Linux Problem.
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  Shoutout “The Minester”

  https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/issues/685

  On the storage node, create a .my.cnf file in root’s home directory:

  sudo tee /root/.my.cnf << ‘EOF’
  [client]
  skip-ssl = true
  EOF

  MariaDB will try to connect with SSL by default but that’s not enabled on the main FOG server. This is why I had to use the --ssl=FALSE flag when I connected to mysql manually.

  The installation succeeded!

• Mac Problems

  Technical help related to a Mac Problem.
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  Hello everyone,

  As I work at a secondary school, I was able to get hold of some Catalina iMacs (iMac 14.3).
  I already use FOG to deploy Windows and Linux images on PCs.

  I would like to deploy a LinuxMint image on these iMacs.

  However, I am unable to boot into PXE on them with FOG, and I do not know what is wrong.

  I modified my DHCP server as follows:

  ## FOG class "UEFI-32-1" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00006"; filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-32-2" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00002"; filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-64-1" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007"; filename "ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-64-2" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00008"; filename "ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-64-3" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00009"; filename "ipxe.efi"; } class "Apple-Intel-Netboot" { match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = "AAPLBSDPC/i386"; option dhcp-parameter-request-list 1,3,17,43,60; if (option dhcp-message-type = 8) { option vendor-class-identifier "AAPLBSDPC"; if (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:01) { # BSDP List option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:01:04:02:80:00:07:04:81:00:05:2a:09:0D:81:00:05:2a:08:69:50:58:45:2d:46:4f:47; } elsif (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:02) { #BSDP Select option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:02:08:04:81:00:05:2a:82:0a:4e:65:74:42:6f:6f:74:30:30:31; # filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi"; filename "snp.efi"; } } } class "Legacy" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00000"; filename "undionly.kkpxe"; } ### END FOG

  I tested ipxe.efi in 64-bit and 32-bit, as well as snp.efi, but it still doesn’t work. I get some kind of spinning planet when I try to boot.

  I admit I don’t fully understand the documentation page: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC

  Thanks in advance!

• General Problems

  General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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  @Tom-Elliott

  I’ve updated my FOG to the stable release and also updated my script with the following three lines, and everything’s fine – the database has been backed up successfully, it’s perfect!

  fogApiToken="XYZ=" fogUsrToken="ZYF" curl -ik -X GET "http://$fogServerAddress/fog/system/export" -H "fog-api-token: $fogApiToken" -H "fog-user-token: $fogUsrToken" -o $backupDir/mysql/fog.sql 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1

  Thanks again for all your hard work on the FOG project!