hey just an update for you guys, I got it working by using a dumb switch the managed cisco I was using as a image station was having issues. Unlike other cisco switches that flood the network when fog multicast my switch (cisco 2960) just stopped broadcasting causing fog to think the imahe ahd finished deploying causing me all sorts of MBR issues etc on the laptops. I’ll have a look in the switches config and see if I can find a fix but for now i’m just happy I can finish this roll out of laptops easily, albeit much slower than the cisco switch but atleast it works!

Thanks to all!

-James

Ok, it was supersimple 🙂

I just had to add “shutdown=on” to the pxelinux.cfg default file.

Fixed this - just reinstalled fog.

Sure. Just look in the wiki under [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide#Troubleshooting’]Troubleshooting.[/URL]

then i removed all php5 stuff and re-installed them it all worked again :). Thanx for your reply!

A follow-up for those interested.

Re-uploading a fresh SOE image to Fog solved the issue: once I had done that it was fine. Still not 100% sure why I had the issue with restoring the image files I restored from backup, but maybe it could be related to the following…

I use the standard Fog backup script, which does a good job of getting all the important stuff. One thing it doesn’t backup by default though is the /tftpboot/ partition. Now, you don’t really need to back this up unless, like me, you have made changes to anything pxe-related.

In my case, I had applied the chainloading fix described here:

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FIX:_Chainloading_alternate_SYSLINUX_to_force_boot_from_first_hard_drive[/url]

Of course, that was ages ago and I had forgotten about it…until all of our newer Dell machines (optiplex 790) started rebooting when they tried to load the pxe boot menu 😞 Once I reapplyed the fix it was fine though.

The end result is that I manually added the /tftpboot/ partition to my fog backup scrupt, just to make things easier next time I have to do a restore (hopefully not for a while!).

If you are new to FOG, I would recommend that you set it up that that it sends out the DHCP request (The default value) This is a good way to get your feet wet with FOG. Once comfortable you can always setup a new server once you are comfortable with the test server and actually point it to your real DHCP server. If you install FOG on VMware player/workstation make sure that in your NIC settings that you have it set as Bridged and not NAT. Bridged will allow your server to pull a real IP from your network where NAT will hand out a “fake” IP based on your network.

If you are new to FOG, I strongly recommend using all default values when installing FOG on a test server, especially when MySQL is installing. If you put in a password at this point you’ll need to configure other files to match your password. Leaving everything blank will create an encrypted password that will automatically add itself to the correct files.

kwisher: Glad I’m not mad, I thought I remembered v0.32 didn’t need Fogprep… Hmmm, it’s certainly a strange one. I may have to try the wipe and reinstall method the way things are going… Or use Clonezilla 😞

Would the kernel I’m running have any bearing on the upload process (i.e. determining the wrong format?), I’m still using the original one that comes with Fog I think!!

That’s what I did, a new installation for 0.32 with the kernel that comes with it.
I don’t want to update to avoid those problems, I have to stick to the production plan.

Still having problems with this. It’s strange. I built a windows 7 pro image on a physical machine (samsung series 7 slate) and uploaded without sysprep because it was only to be deployed to the same hardware. But for whatever reason the virtual just won’t rename once it’s deployed to clients. I’ve tried installing the fog service both before/after sysprep and neither seems to work. Fog log doesn’t show any problems… I think anyway. Doesn’t show any tasks pending, but the host name in fog is totally different. Does the machine name have to be less than 15 characters when the fog service is installed maybe?

20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::GreenFog No actions were found.
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::GreenFog No tasks found after validation!
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::GUIWatcher Dispatch OK!
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::printerManager Management level = 0
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::printerManager This host is set to NO MANAGEMENT, we will exit now.
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::printerManager Major printing operations complete, moving to tracking mode.
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::printerManager New user detected: WINDOW\Administrator
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::printerManager Waiting for tray to load…
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner Starting directory cleaning process…
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner Attempting to connect to fog server…
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner Module is active…
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner Determining which directories should be cleaned…
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner No directories are configured to be cleaned.
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner Starting directory cleaning loop…
20/02/2012 9:32 PM FOG::DirCleaner Module has finished work and will now exit.
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Reading config settings…
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Reading of config settings passed.
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Starting Core processing…
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Operating System ID: 6
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Operating System Minor: 1
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 0 00:0C:29:82:CB:AC
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug MAC POST String: 00:0C:29:82:CB:AC
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug A user is currently logged in
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Username: WINDOW\Administrator
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Hostname: WINDOW
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Attempting to open connect to: [url]http://fogserver/fog/service/debug.php[/url]
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Server responded with: Hello FOG Client
20/02/2012 9:33 PM FOG::MODDebug Module has finished work and will now exit.

Just confirmed that if I:

Run sysprep, then upload and then deploy the image to another machine, (the PC name is 15 characters for some stupid reason, I can’t figure why my unattend.xml won’t specify the PC name, rather than giving it this random 15 character windows-wa532f2 name…), then rename the machine manually to a smaller name- THEN install fogservice and restart- THEN it will rename to the correct FOG name…

So basically I need to rename the PC after sysprep to a short name (can probably do this with a powershell script), THEN get FOG service to install on SECOND start up… I wonder if I can even do that… “second” log on commands?

[quote=“falko, post: 1481, member: 48”]A move to 0.32 (0.33 is to be released soon I believe) is a must for Windows 7 deployment, no more fogprep and has a brand new web GUI over 0.28

I can’t comment on exactly what you want bit I have windows 7 both 32 and 64 images that I can deploy, auto renames, adds itself to the domain etc
And so far the latest kernel 3.2.4 (I think). Works on all 8 of my different desktop/laptops[/quote]

Right, I do all those things you mentioned, the one thing I cannot do with anything over version .28 is have the fog host register host.

It’s not to have them automatically register with the service that I push out via GPO, so that I know in 6 months when I got to image the machine I can count on it being in the database.

I have machines spread out over 7 locations, so being able to go to in to FOG, know the machine is there, tell it to image , and it be imaged, named and added to the domain without me having to go to the location to PXE boot it because it never got registered before being rolled out to the site is a huge thing.

I’m just trying to figure out why it was removed, if it was causing issues, or if it just wasn’t requested.

Or if it’s possible if someone could help me integrate the funtion into a custom FOG service module:
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_Custom_FOG_Service_Modules[/url]
I Would think it would be fairly simple as taking the code from the earlier service module and adding it, but i’m not programmer.

Thanks for all the help.

I made this patch specifically for Ubuntu users to backup all files that FOG needs to run. You still need to install FOG first, but then you can move the files back after you install FOG. I was working on a restore file but have been side tracked with work.

[url]http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3449766&group_id=201099&atid=976201[/url]

no, mine is similar. Hopefully there is a solution to this in future releases

I’m using 0.32 and must be missing a step with Capone. I followed the instructions in the wiki. I pasted the capone text in the pxe menu but it didn’t show up. I was able to do enough reading and modified the default file to include a Capone option. I get an error saying that the OS type couldn’t be determined. Any suggestions?

No one here who can help me?

Thank you for that information. I added another init.gz file and the kernel from another server that is running fog version .029. This is awesome that you can have multiple kernels.