Thank you for using the search function and/or looking around. It gets tiring answering the same questions over and over and copying and pasting links to the threads that have the answers. I try to stay civil about it, but it does wear on a person.

Do your best to search using keywords and don’t forget about the WIKI too. I spend a good amount of time updating those articles when I can.

I had problems with Fujitsu and the hidden recovery partition. A usb bootable gparted stick and a bit of time later, I had the unwanted partitions removed and the rest of the disk resized to where it was just the 200mb win7 special partition and the main system drive. i was then able to image successfully.

I tried different kernels but it didn’t work. When booting from liveCD and pulling image from the server via NFS there is a spike of 1 Gbps transfer for like 10 seconds and then 0 after that. I found out that if on a managed switch i set the port through which it is deploying to 100 Mbps instead of AUTO then it goes through without getting stuck. Also, wiki claims that it can be done from a server by “ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half autoneg off”

Use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, or search the forums.

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/task-management-not-doing-anything.3777/#post-9594[/url]

Ah okay. Thanks that will work.

If it helps I am running FOG on top of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with no GUI. Also, it helps to make sure your linux is fully updated. In ubuntu use the following commands.

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update

Did you get anywhere with this project? I’m a slackware fan at heart but I’ve always used ubuntu for fog. Short of it was that I never had the time to properly play at adapting things to work on slack etc. Would be good to know if was done by anyone.

Thanks a ton, madeyem. That did the trick!

A quick Google came up with this thread. Perhaps it pertains to you?

[url]https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2137283[/url]

here are how to link.

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Custom_Kernel[/url]

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Have you considered FOG in ProxyDHCP mode? FOG can still answer PXEboot requests while letting whatever other DHCP server hand out the IP addresses, be it your VPN machine or the corporate network.

Have you made sure the source of your image is “clean”. Defrag and chkdisk? It may not have anything to do with the ubuntu upgrade and something to do with the tweaks to your windows 7 master.

Try uploading another image just to see if it works for that.

Right now have successful tftp get pxelinux.0 on my remote machine but when I try to boot it the dhcp the request times out, I did not set the IP for the dhcp server during the fog set up how can I change it?

Although it sounds like DHCP options are correct, it might be worth checking it using Wireshark on the client PC. If you filter the capture to ports 67 & 68 (UDP but it doesn’t matter if you capture both TCP and UDP), then perform an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew or simply disconnect/reconnect the network cable. Within the captured packets you should be able to see the DHCP options and that pretty rules out DHCP configuration issues.

I’ve solved the problem myself. It seems that the machine i was using for testing is not compatible.
I have just tested with two different models and all works well.

The incompatible model is a Lenovo A70z (1165-ABG). The config im using is:

LABEL NXTOP 41 Engine Installer
MENU NXTOP 41 Engine Installer
kernel mboot.c32
append fog/nxtop41/xen.gz — fog/nxtop41/vmlinuz boot=casper webboot=[url]http://ip-of-server/fog/nxtop41/nxtopengine.iso[/url] ro quiet console=tty8 — fog/nxtop41/initrd.img –

Maybe someone else has any use of this information.

[SIZE=6][B][SIZE=3]Looks like I’m going to move on and use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012.[/SIZE][/B][/SIZE]

Would still be interested as to what was wrong?