I’d already gone through and done the &$ to $ trick, was battling with one error after the other setting it up but Google was my friend.

It’s imaging right as rain now.

I ended up testing on another (4th) machine and that worked too but this ASUS still refused to play ball.

However, finally solved it!! (I couldn’t work out how to change the title, if an admin wants to mark it solved, please go for it)

It ends up the problem seemed to be that my Fog server (within TFTP) was handing out the wrong DNS server IP (DHCP was handing out the right one, just it was wrong in the Fog settings). I’m still not sure why or how that was the problem (my FOG storage server was set using IP not hostname) and it was strange that all the other machines worked ok (just not this one). But that seemed to fix it, so happy days! 🙂

Do you have auto updates enabled or have you recently updated your mysql? I’ll look through the code to see what the exact statement is and why it might be broken now even though it worked before.

It looks like it’s at [url]http://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeghost/tags/0.31/packages/web/service/auto.register.php?revision=701&view=markup[/url] line 62, but I don’t see anything wrong with the statement.

Look at your /var/www/fog/service/auto.register.php and see if it’s been modified recently and check your apache logs to see if there are any errors about the PHP.

I don’t have much else for you at this point.

Hi again,

issue solved, my if is em1 not eth0 🙂

Someone has posted on these forums the code modifications necessary to implement this in FOG. Requires changing some code so it prompts you which partitions you want to restore.

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/more-control-with-partitions.68/#post-3330[/url]

It’s written to work with FOG 0.30, but might work with FOG 0.32 with some slight modifications.

What is the image definition selected for the host? What are the properties of the image definition? What is located in the file system under /images/[imagedefinitionname]

Getting a VM to boot fog is as easy as bridging the network card and turning on network boot.

If it actually deployed 95% of the image, you’ve probably got a good shot at recovering a file that’s on the image.

Take the drive that you deployed the image to and attach it to another (bootable) computer directly or via a usb adapter and try accessing it with a software recovery tool. There’s lots out there that are free or free to try in some fashion.

GetDataBack for NTFS is one I’ve used often with good results. It’s at runtime.org and lets you do the whole recovery and preview the recovered files for free. You just need to pay them if you want to save files from the recovery. It’s pretty good at picking out NTFS even if its hashed up a bit. It can do a raw recovery as well, but that’s pretty time consuming. Even if you don’t want to pay runtime.org for the software, you’d be able to get an idea of whether you’ll be able to recover it with another program.

On win7 make sure you use GDB-NTFS using run as administrator or it won’t have rights to work with the physical disk.

As i said, i am using identical computer and disks

Thanks, I am going to Try a Wn7x86 ISO to see if that makes a difference. Regarding MOD of the ISO, what is the approach I should use in the default file for a network share? We have a N5200X NAS server and I can setup a ISO share from there. Do you have an example of a default file entry to allow share from a NAS?

Hi there,

Matt42180 did you create a custom kernel and got your R410 imaged with fog? I am having the same problem and was wondering if you could share your work. That would be awesome.
Thank you very much.

Best,

skral

Changes in Ubuntu 12 cause TFTP daemon to try to start before the LAN interface has been initialized. Simply restarting the tftpd after booting the FOG server, or searching the forums for the many topics on tftp problems in Ubuntu 12, you’ll find a modification to the boot scripts that pauses tftpd long enough to allow the interface to be bound to it’s IP before starting.

If you want your hosts to have specific names, use the full registration and inventory option. Quick reg just numbers them sequentially I believe and if you have the fog client configured to rename hosts or join them to AD it may lead to more work than you want.

If you have a C# developer, you can probably create a module that does this, but I don’t believe it’s built into FOG right now. Check the feature request forums and see if it’s already been suggested and do so if it has not been.

Hi chad-bisd

Thank you for your replies.

It was me, I have been overlooking… I found it after check each laptop (30+) - it was active in 2 of them. It is a remote site and though they are instructed to connect to the local wifi after imaging, it looks like it has not happened. I should have checked instead of assuming…

Now the laptops are roving and connecting in via Cisco VPN, (mostly via wireless) thus it does not register the MAC over the VPN…

Ohh well, have to gather the MACs by some other method…

Thanks again for your help.

Steve

There is a guide article in the wiki that explains this. Have you looked at it yet? If you haven’t, look through it. If you have, what specific issues are you having?

[QUOTE][SIZE=15px][FONT=Segoe UI][COLOR=#000000]To create a dummy file of 50MB, we first need to convert the file size into bytes (1024 x 1024 x 50 = 52428800) and then enter the following at the command prompt:[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[I][SIZE=15px][FONT=Segoe UI][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#666666]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=yourfilename.test bs=52428800 count=1[/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I][/QUOTE]

from: [url]http://dreamcreative.net/2011/05/how-to-create-a-dummy-file-in-linux/[/url]

You can try altering the mysql table field to a larger size. I don’t know if there is any code in the web UI that limits it, but you might have to change that too.

Are you having issues with 1 image only or deploying all images?

What type of image did you upload ( single partition resizeable, single disk multiple partitions, etc)?

Have you checked the /images/ directory to make sure the files are there?