Hello,

I was reading you thread and from reading your initial post and the post where you state FOG “does not multicast” I believe I might have an idea of what’s happening to you.

First, are you starting multiple individual images? If so, this means each PC is going to access the image on the fog server independently, hitting your disks harder and slowing the transfer with each additional PC.

Secondly, you CAN multicast. Here’s how:

Add the machines you want to image into inventory.
Create a group and place the machines you want to image into that group.
Go to TASK MANAGEMENT.
LIST ALL GROUPS
You’ll see the multicast option next to the group you want to image.
Set the CRON settings, shutdown, etc., and hit submit the job.

I hope I’m not totally off base, but I did this in the past and had the same reaction. “WOW this is too slow!” “I used ghost and it was soo much faster!” etc,.

Let me know if it helps.

sigh Please ignore my post … I found my answer here

[url]http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/194077-fog-can-t-upload-image[/url]

LOL … its early thats my excuse.

Running FOG 0.32 on Ubuntu 11.04
I am experiencing the same problem, even without using Dell Vostro clients.
Receiving the
NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
error repeatedly regardless of the machine type.
Our short term solution to this problem was replacing all of the gigabit switches on the network with 10/100 switching. Now everything works, but slowly. I would be interested to know why this worked.

@Phil,
Even easier than creating a new kernel, in the VirtualBox settings, create an IDE HDD.
Settings > Storage > ‘right click’ IDE Controller > Add HardDisk
Fog should recognize and deploy to this drive just fine for you… also make sure network settings are ‘bridged’

Can anybody help with this?

Just realized the two partitions I was trying to use were on the same disk… just deleted the one I was trying to expand with and extended the size of the one currently in use.

LVM would have been another way of going about it had I been using two separate disks like I thought I was. Thanks for your attempt at helping!

#close

If you chain load them it should clear up the boot loop. I have a batch of dells that would boot loop on me till I just chain loaded all my FOG computers and now no problems.

You can disregard this message as I was able to get it fixed. I missed a step in the process where it talked about copying the mac address file from the pxelinux.cfg folder and renaming it to syslinux.cfg. Once I did that it took right off and seems to be processing the upload now.

Amazing what happens when you read ALL of the directions!

We solved this by creating 2 snapins. THe first copies the cab file to programs (x86)/fog/tmp. The second runs the java msi.

for ubuntu 12.04 use
ppa:ubuntu-clamav/ppa

hmm, so you are working fine now or it still doesn’t allow you to register/deploy/etc? The issue you just mentioned where you would select an item and then it would go right back to the menu is exactly what I was seeing for most menu options on a particular dell laptop (E5420). The menu options for loading iso’s would start to load and then either go back to the menu or occasionally give me some memory error. I had 4GB of memory installed and the ISO was only around 100MB so I knew it couldn’t be a lack of memory and I tried different sticks and putting it in a different slot (ironically all the memory for these laptops was installed in slot 2 and slot 1 was empty). After trying different kernels/pxelinux/memdisk versions I stumbled across a different BIOS version on Dell’s website listed for the model and that worked. The PITA is that the version was newer (A09) than what they had listed in the downloads section for the laptop, I had to click A08 and then another link listing other versions to see the latest which worked like a charm.

Well I came across
sudo stop tftpd-hpa
sudo start tftpd-hpa

Which I tried previously and did not work, but now under my new circumstances it does work and I am now able to PXE boot and am currently uploading an image!

Anyhow through there were no responses to this thread, I want to say thanks to all the other threads out there for helping me so far!

Having the same problem with the same netbook, NB510.
Tried Eric’s kernel, still same problem.

Any help appreciated, need to get these imaged asap!

EDIT: Also tried the core 3.3.3 kernel.
Ran the ‘fog compatability’ test from ‘Client information’ on the pxe menu which said network drivers failed.
Building custom 3.6.1 now with extra drivers now to test that.

Didnt work with 3.6.1 however I think I have found the driver needed to make this work, but im unsure of how to add/patch the driver to the source code before building bzImage.
[url]http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx[/url]
Can anyone help?

As this is down to the network module not being loaded can someone move this thread to Hardware?

FIXED:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-2330-all-in-one-network-issue.1054/#post-9005[/url] Someone compiled ALX drivers into the kernel last week 😄

They are just different kernels built on different linux kernel versions. They have different drivers built into the kernel.

You can get them from here:
[url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/Kernels/[/url]
Here is a link that show how to switch between them:
[url]http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2338-setting-up-fog-to-use-different-kernels-for-different-computers[/url]
Here is list of kernels that work well for various computer models:
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/WorkingDevices[/url]

THIS IS WHAT I 'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR! Everything works perfect after this!

ok, read up on capone and it seems like the right thing.

trying to get a master image from a pc, but i get screen resulotion problems - tried to updat the kernel trough the web managment - but i get a error, after “moving file to tftp” “ERROR:unable to connect to tftp server”

update: reinstalled FOG server and was able to updated kernel to 3.3.3.

host stil get this on the screen (i use VGA) is there somwhere i can modify to get the right resolution?
[IMG]http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/killboxalpha/2012-10-05142123.jpg[/IMG]