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?

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!