I noticed exactly the same and would just like to add weight to the argument for imaging using the multi-partition single disk option. I think it may be specific to windows 7, not sure.

Hi Rob,

Multicasting does not start on its own. By default if you deploy an image to a group of machines it will unicast. To multicast you will have to go to to “Task Management” and search a group of hosts and there will be a double arrow icon next to the group name that you can click to multicast.

more info here:
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Managing_FOG#General_Tasks[/url]

Cheers

I get this problem sometimes with drives that are brand new following replacement. In my case (Panasonic Toughbook CF19’s) the drives are in easily removable caddies so my workaround is to put them into a machine temporarily and boot the unit from a Gparted live cd, then just create a default MSDOS boot sector. HTH

Glad to hear you got it working.

Disregard, we are cloning a computer right now…I WIN thanks for all of the help!!!

Well I have install a FOG 0.30 in RHEL 6.3, and you must make some changes:

1º) Disable firewall and selinux
[I]#sudo selinuxenabled; echo $?[/I]
if the echo returns 0, the SELinux is enable and you must disable it
[I]#sudo /etc/selinux/confi[/I]g
change the value to disabled
[I]#sudo setenforce 0[/I]
[I]#reboot[/I]
2º) Download the FOG code
3º) You must make some change in some config files:
3.1) Unziped_folder/lib/redhat/config.sh
[I]packages=“httpd [B]php php-gd php-cli[/B] mysql mysql-server [B]php-mysql[/B] tftp-server nfs-utils vsftpd net-tools wget xinetd tar gzip make m4 gcc gcc-c++ htmldoc perl perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 lftp clamav [B]clamd[/B]”;[/I]
I change the next packages: php53 -> php and add clamd. The php-gettext not exists in RHEL.
4º) download and install the next repositories:
[I]#wget [url]http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm[/url][/I]
[I]#wget [url]http://mirror.uv.es/mirror/fedora-epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm[/url][/I]
[I]#sudo rpm -i --quiet rpmforge-release-0.5.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm[/I]
[I]#sudo rpm -i --quiet epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm[/I]
The EPEL repository is necesary to install htmldoc package.
5º) Run installfog.sh to install FOG
6º) You must config timezone in your php.ini:
[I]#sudo vim /etc/php.ini[/I]
In my case:
date.timezone = “Europe/Madrid”
[I]#/etc/init.d/httpd restart[/I]

Some issues:
*During the install process appears the next error:
[I]Setting up and starting NFS Server…Failed![/I]
Solution:
[I]#sudo service rpcbind start[/I]
*I have config the logwatch to see the freshclam messages, to config it:
Edit the [I]/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf[/I] file
Add the next line:
[I]MailTo = [EMAIL]miemailaddress@mydomain.com[/EMAIL][/I] (<== your email)
if you don’t want the logwatch messages delete the [I]/etc/cron.daily/0logwatch[/I] file

In logwatch messages appears the ext error:
[I]Notifyclam error[/I]
Solution:
Edit the [I]/etc/freshclam.conf[/I], uncomment and config the next line:
[I]NotifyClamd /etc/clamd.conf[/I]
[I] Error: clamd was not notified can’t connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock[/I]
Solution: sudo touch /var/lib/clamav/clamd.sock sudo chown clam:clam /var/lib/clamav/clamd.sock

Did you modify the pxe boot menu to add this option? I think in the append line, you could specify that option.

All that HP junk went by the wayside when I had to reconfigure the raid on the laptop anyway. Really don’t know what the issue was sadly, but a new VM and a new install of fog only took a few minutes.

Both Dell and HP laptops seem to be imaging happily with your 3.3.3 kernel.

Thread resurrection! This actually happened to a member of our IT department again, today.

Has anyone else ever run in to this problem? Some possibilities of causes:

Computer had the original OS hard drive and the secondary drive in the computer before, while FOG imaged it The original OS drive was removed, and replaced with a new SSD The hard drive mode was switched from RAID to AHCI in the bios After all those changes were made, FOG imaged the secondary drive, instead of the SSD Post installation, the SSD is listed as /dev/sda and the secondary drive is listed as /dev/sdb

Still pretty stumped. Anyone think any of those options would have temporarily caused the secondary drive to be read as /dev/sda?

You need to edit the dhcpd.conf file located in the /etc/dhcp folder on your server. Once you make your necessary changes here, range dynamic-bootp x.x.x.x x.x.x.x, all you should need to do is restart the dhcp service. This can be done by typing [B]sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart[/B]

If you want to migrate the images, I would backup the SQL database and copy your /images and /tftpboot folder.

glad to hear you were able to get it figured out.

I believe the IP address field is going away in FOG 0.33. It was meant for documentation purposes back when FOG was mainly used to image desktop machines.

I would use the current dhcp server to assign static IP based on mac if it’s a possible. If not, turn of DHCP on that and use FOG. It will allow you to assign the same address to each machine based on the mac.

Theoretically, maybe. But you’ve got to give a % of that 1GB to management and overhead. Same with the disk systems. If you are servicing 1 client, and the file is completely defragmented on the source drive and the system never has to read anything but a sequential sector on the disk, and, and, and…

If you image (unicast, not multicast) more than 1 client, you are stressing the disk system on the server and the network switch and you’re speeds will go down.

I can image about 14 Fujitsu laptops on a gigabit switch, each getting about 1.3GB per minute per client according to the clients. I can image about 30 acer tablets that are 100Mbps before I get below 1GB per minute per client.

I can do this because the disk system on the server is six 10K rpm disks in RAID 5 mode optimized for read throughput. My first test server was a desktop machine with a single 3GB sata drive, and I got 4GB per minute with 1 client, but it dropped to 1GB per minute by adding the 2nd client. The disk couldn’t handle the read requests from the 2nd client as well as a real server that has a raid controller with built in cache and multiple disks to read from.

Nevermind, problem solved. The data fields were empty because we had not deployed any image yet.

I seem to be having an issue with some of the lab Acers getting stuck in state where they will not answer to a WOL packet. So setting the scheduled task is not going to work.

Anyway I can start a UDPcast from the command line? I would like the teacher to click on an icon and then make sure all the computers are working before leaving at the end of day. I don’t really want them into the web interface tho.

I’m using Ubutun 12.10 ; the image I made come from a HP computer with a HD of 250 GB, but jus one partion of 176 GB had been created. Thanks to all

So I realized that on the computer I took to made the image, there was another partiton created but not formatted. So I removed this partition and made another image under the option ‘single disk’. Afte the image deploy, Windows refused to start with the error ‘Windows 7 deploy error 0xc000000e - boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible’.

I would check the etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file and make sure everything is set correctly in there. That’s the DHCP config file. I’m not by my FOG server to check, but i’m pretty sure that’s where it’s located.

Great to hear. Let me know if I can provide additional help.