That node is the master storage node.

[quote=“Todd Humphries, post: 28684, member: 24418”]Jaymes, that was it! I deployed using the advanced ‘Download - Debug’ task and then ran fdisk to create an empty FAT32 partition. I then continued the download process and the image download started normally.

I’ve been using v.32 for several years and never had to create a partition prior to pushing out an image. Now I know. Thanks for the help.[/quote]

Hahaha, I was using a windows 95 disc letting it format a partition then yanking the disc… I knew there had to be a better way, in man all you are loading with the pxe is basically a slimmed down linux cli. Glad I could help someone!

[quote=“Mark Carrara, post: 28662, member: 1363”]I have downloaded Ubuntu 13.04 and will load it today. I’m sure with the help on this forum I will get moved to the new version of FOG.

I thought I remember reading about removing some of the unused/unneeded services from FOG. I am a firm believer in software doing one thing and doing it great and not dong a dozen things well. On our network I have many servers that only do one thing like DHCP, print manger, single app server. I feel it is better for optimization and troubleshooting then having one server do multiple things.[/quote]

I agree with you there!

And you are correct, you can slim fog down from anything you don’t use. If you look at the installer script before you run it, you can even remove the calls there to prevent them from being installed.

However, most of what is installed with fog is required. The only thing that is really optional would be the DHCP sever and that is why there is a question about using FOG as the DHCP. If you don’t want/need it you tell it no and it will still install happily.

If you remove services you need to accommodate them by providing the services else where. But that would involve a custom set up and that would fall outside of the bounds of our support. Of course we will try our best to get you running, I would prefer if you install fog as it is intended and get it working, then you can play with it further from there if you wish.

Got it, thanks!

Does the FOG server have access to the internet? If not, this is the reason for your slowness and it is already documented in the forums.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[quote=“RoweAdmin, post: 28562, member: 23772”]I made the mistake of thinking there was a problem when only 1 client was connected and stuck on the Please Wait screen. After starting the second client, everything worked great.

We are seeing speeds of 2Gb/s and more through an old Linksys/Cisco 16 port gigabit switch with 11 clients.[/quote]

This is the nature of Multicast, it sends the same stream of data to ALL machines on the list and if one falls out the process will stall and fail. You need all machines to stay in constant contact with your FOG server during imaging. Multicast waits until each client reaches the “checkpoint” before sending any more data. This is typically sower than unicast because it will decompress the image at the server to send out, rather than waiting until it reaches its destination and expanding.

I enabled the “Is Master Node” option on my new Storage Node and it works ! 🙂

Any chance you could point me in the right direction as i can’t find where to make those changes at all .

Cool,

I also, hopefully, fixed the image replicator as well to have, basically the same information.

Tom, you are a scholar and a gentleman…
Thank you!

I made a backup copy of each of my init.xz and init_32.xz files (copied to init.xz.bak and init_32.xz.bak), then renamed my init_32.xz file to init.xz and selected your Kernel - 3.14.4 (x86) TomElliott as my bzImage file.

The computer successfully booted and ran the inventory job I scheduled.

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I have reinstalled FOG, but to no avail. And this started yesterday, so I think it might be somewhere in FOG or Ubuntu

That darned cache. Clearing it worked for me. I don’t know why but Firefox has that issue with many websites.

[quote=“George_Lebay, post: 28496, member: 24393”]If it works with the Ghost Console, is it supposed to work with Fog ? Are the settings on the switch the same ?[/quote]

Incorrect, they are two systems and because one client works in one, do not assume it will work in another. while FOG is versatile and we can add drivers to accommodate systems, there are still some issues we have not yet over come. If a machine supports the PXE boot method, it can be used with FOG.

The settings may or may not be the same, but it couldn’t hurt to check to see if the proper settings are turned on, that is if you have access to the administration settings.

I’m having this issue also. Receiving the “[COLOR=#333333]Error: Undefined Index: currentUser[/COLOR]” after uploading an image.

FOG_TFTP_PXE_KERNEL_DIR = /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/
FOG_TFTP_HOST = Server’s IP address
FOG_TFTP_FTP_USERNAME/PASSWORD = same login as fog user on server
vsftpd seems to be installed correctly

Unsure if this is related or not but under “Image Management” it’s not reading “Image Size:ON SERVER” like it did before on Ubuntu. The image files are there and they match the definitions. I can even deploy the images.

OS: CentOS 6.4
FOG Version: 1.0.1

Resolved this issue by

[CODE]chown -R fog:root /tftpboot[/CODE]

[quote=“Iulian Constantinescui, post: 27800, member: 24331”]Solved,

If you do a cleanup install or an upgrade you must change the config/settings in your linux/windows DHCP server.
On windows DHCP server make sure you put the 66 and 67 option.[/quote]

My option 66 and 67 settings were correct, otherwise the client wouldn’t have been able to talk to the fog server at all. What solved (and I use that term loosely) the problem was a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04. All is working beautifully now and I don’t need an rc.local edit either.

Thanks again to everyone that chimed in.