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  Unsolved Image upload & deploy taking a long time
  • Brad Schumann

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  From my use of FOG for the short about of time. Few key important parts for making capturing image go faster and deploying. I know when I skip these steps, FOG will capture much more. Which takes longer.

  Step one - Turn off hibernate mode and delete the file.
  Step two - turn off swap file and delete the file
  Step three - Delete all cache files
  Step four - defrag the drive
  Step five - turn on hibernate and swap
  Step six - capture the image. I am running raid 10 with 10 gig network. Windows 10 fully updated and ready to work takes about 45 minutes. To deploy takes about 5 minutes. My image size is about 50 gb.

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  Snapins does not deploy
  • jhalbert

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  Unsolved Errors while PXE booting
  • Jarl2.0

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  Unsolved "Could not open inode XXXXXX through the library..." Windows 10 Sysprep Capture
  • foggerj

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  After replacing the hard drive on a different laptop of the same model, success. I was able to image the repaired laptop with the raw image and then capture the same image off of the repaired laptop as a resizable image.

  Now I have a different model that starts to do the resizable image, gets started, but quits half way through. I am trying the raw image now to see if that works.

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  Solved Attemting to send Inventory.......No host found for Mac-Adress
  • fogthepog

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  YES! It works!

  Very good ducumentation, best Support!

  Thank you very much!

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  Solved Failed to set disk guid (sgdisk-) (restoreUUIDInformation) error after deploying to new Lenovo laptops
  • Brian Hoehn

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  @brian-hoehn Check the time on the imaged laptop and the fog server and make sure they match. I’ve had this problem before and it was very confusing until I changed the time or time zone inside the fog configuration web page.

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  Unsolved Windows 10 is not activate after cloning
  • JulienL

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  @julienl Ok that is what I thought you meant.

  First let me say I’m not in education or have dealt with education licensing so I may be wrong. But as far as I can find you can’t activate the Win10 Education with OEM keys for Win10 Pro. You need to use a Win 10 Education MAK or KMS key.

  When I look at my company’s MS Volume license site, there are keys that are specific to Win10 Pro Education.

  Now I have to ask, can you manually activate Win10 Pro Education by keying in the OEM key?

  Microsoft gives you details on how to activate or switch between Win10 Pro and Win10 Pro Edu: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/switch-to-pro-education

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  Unsolved Cannot boot local from my Advanced PXE Menu (EXIT Type differences?)
  • x23piracy

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  @x23piracy Because there is a difference.

  Typically for bios (legacy) mode the exit mode is SANBOOT (that is the way iPXE attempts to location the hard drive). For uefi system the best exit mode is rEFInd, which is an external program that is used to find the boot drives. You may be able to tweak the refind.conf file to look for legacy stuff but I haven’t tried it.

  There is something I just discovered the other day while I was hacking FOG’s boot menus. That is the platform variable. ref: http://ipxe.org/cfg/platform you can use that in your boot local section to test to see if the platform is efi or pc-bios and then select the best exit mode there.

  such as in: (warning I just glued this code together there is no testing done)

  :bootlocal iseq ${platform} efi && goto boot-efi || goto boot-bios goto MENU :boot-efi <don't know the syntax for refind> || goto MENU :boot-bios sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
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  Unsolved DBAN FOG Boot Menu
  • Arrowtron

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  @Wayne-Workman There were other issues like missing kernel command and incorrect variable name as well. Though in current FOG versions you cannot put stuff in /var/www anywhere you like because of our redirect configuration. When you turn on redirect engine debug logging you can see why. I remember having had a first unsuccessful go with trying to come up with a different redirect/rewrite config that works for the API but still allows you to have files pretty much anywhere in /var/www…

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  Unsolved stuck at "ipxe initialising devices.." (Lenovo)
  • Jim Holcomb

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  To me this sounds as if the OP never had IT in UEFI mode. I am pretty sure of that because when you try to PXE boot a legacy binary in UEFI it should not even get as far as “initializing devices” …

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  Unsolved Fog Setup for a complete noob (two network cards)
  • ally_uk

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  @sebastian-roth Thank you for the explanation, I will have to do some digging on the serva box and see how it has been setup.

  Our main DHCP server isn’t actually a router it’s all being handled by a SME Server. I don’t have the authorization to change the dhcpd.conf on the SME box.

  Another way regarding FOG couldn’t you just use one Ethernet card create a static I.P with normal network details and main DHCP server and create a virtual interface on a different subnet?

  Does Fog install it’s own DHCP server? if so could I just change the port number it operates on? then create a custom IPXE disc to make contact with the Fog server.

  Shoot me down if this is wrong.

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  Solved Authentication ERROR: Could not authenticate : Value cannot be null.
  • ttbm

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  It worked with the following versions : mono 3.10 and fog client 0.11.12 on a debian 7 system.
  Thanks !

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  Unsolved FOG clone IP address issue (holding onto cloned IP)
  • HSD3Tech

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  @sebastian-roth Thanks for the reply Sebatian! Can you please guide me on how to “check in the file /tftpboot/default.ipxe” on my FOG server? I’m am a Microsoft guy and kind of light on the Linux knowledge. Thanks!

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  Unsolved Windows 10 Death Loop/Reboot
  • msaglioc99

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  @msaglioc99 What happens if you turn off force reboot for AD join?

  It’s possible it tries to join/change name, fails for some reason, forcefully reboots, and thus gets stuck in a loop.

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  Unsolved Image replication between nodes keeps restarting
  • AndersHoeg

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  @jgallo I’d put everything on the same particularly as it addresses replication directly. The ftp error however is not because of the password you add when installing a new node. That password is what’s created for the node automatically. Sometimes, however, it’s possible it creates unusable characters.

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  Solved Client fog error
  • Sunks

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  Nice it’s now working fine

  Thanks, it was quick

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  Unsolved Updating FOG 1.40 to FOG 1.5.0 RC9 (Slow load Fog Settings)
  • wanderson

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  baixa, uso esporádico dos nodes.

  edit:
  translation: low, sporadic use of nodes

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  Unsolved full host registration error
  • roger

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  @roger Most probably you are seeing a Spanning Tree issue here. Configure the client ports on those Ciscos to Port-Fast and the problem should go away…

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  Unsolved fog.man.reg in 1.5.0. RC9
  • JGallo

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  @tom-elliott said in fog.man.reg in 1.5.0. RC9:

  http://${web}… to just ${web}…

  Well I feel dumb. Missed one. Confirmed and that works. Thank you once again.

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  Unsolved FOS does not honor web gui parameter FOG_KERNEL_RAMDISK_SIZE
  • george1421

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  @george1421 What is this project called? Do you see any difference between the df -h output? Mind posting a picture of the output when booting the patched FOS?