It should.

Plug in the USB drive. See where it mounts, usually /media/something. You can cat /etc/mtab to get the device info also, just look for something being mounted to /media/something.

Make a directory for the server image under /images, something like /images/Server1.

Mount the device to the folder you just created: sudo mount /dev/usbhdd1 /images/Server1

See if it works. If so, you can add it to the fstab so it mounts the folder on every boot up. You may also need to use the same usb port each time, but I’m not sure how Linux ID’s the external drive for mounting purposes.

You have to boot from network using PXE. Usually you can press F12, while the machine boots up. Then you see the FOG menu. You might have the timeout set to 3 seconds or so. Log into the FOG webinterface > Other information > PXE boot menu. There you can increase the timeout.

okay will do.

Assuming your server is on the same subnet as the client PC’s.

Change this line in the ltsp.conf file:
[CODE]dhcp-range=192.168.1.10,proxy[/CODE]
to
[CODE]dhcp-range=192.168.101.240,proxy[/CODE]

then restart dnsmasq
[CODE]sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart[/CODE]

Well worked out that i had to change a setting in fog from single partition to multiple. must be the system files

There is not an easy way that i’m aware of. But in the web settings(FOG_WOL_INTERFACE, FOG_UDPCAST_INTERFACE, FOG_NFS_ETH_MONITOR) and in the two config files switch all the eth0’s with eth1’s. And restart the FOGMulticastManager and FOGScheduler.

There may be more you need ot edit for each of the services if they are configured to listen on only one interface.

I havn’t tried this but perhaps editing “/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules” and swapping the eth0 and eth1 for the devices, then rebooting would swap which one is which. This may break other things that are depending on specific interfaces though(other services/uses for the server).

Thanks guys, I’ll give this a shot now.

OK, It’s installed, but for some reason I can’t get it to issue the IP addresses. Is there anything I should be checking for besides the .conf files?

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I did reformat and rebuild the image. So I guess the the next thing to try is “single partition”. All of my other computers had no issues with the multipartition non-resizeable. I will see what happens.

Client couldnt mount nfs, so in GUI menu I created a new Node Storage with a new group storage for that node. Now i Can Upload Image on client, but slowly (less that 1Gb/min) without mounting nfs.

But looking for a solution for my first goal.

100 Mbps(Megabits per second) is about 12.5 MBps(Megabytes per second), you are limited by the desktop computer.

Got answer to silly qwestion

% is a wildcard(like * in bash, or Windows explorer) in MySQL when using some operators such as LIKE, it can be escaped and used as a literal % sign by placing a backslash sign in front of it. [CODE]%[/CODE]

I don’t believe this to directly to be the reason, i assume that fog strips out/substitutes the % sign because it may be used in some sort of web based attack on the fog server. Just guessing though.

Thank you for the advice. These are 755’s with the ATI cards. Since the images taken should contain the drivers for the cards I am not overly concerned about making it work with them installed, but I may take a look at finding a kernel just for the experience. I have not taken any images, so now would be the best time to make any tweaks.

Have a great week and thank you again for the reply.

Tnx. I found answer! Need to edit /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php and /var/www/fog/commons/config.php. Need to edit root pasword to be the same in both files.

I am having a very similar, maybe the same problem. see: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/error-creating-tasks-internal-service-error.3798/[/url]

Yep that is the conclusion I came to. Except for me it was going up in the PHP versions. I’m running CentOS for the server because that is what I am most familiar with and I tried doing the “upgrades” outlined in one of the FOG Wikis right after I posted this. But no luck and I haven’t been able to get back to it except to load a PC with Ubuntu and download FOG 3.2. Someday.

Even if the NAS can use NFS it’s still a little hokey because of the FTP issue discussed in the [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide’]Wiki[/URL], “[B]KNOWN ISSUE[/B] You will get an error “Ftp connection to storage server has failed” at the end of uploading images though. You will have to manually rename and move the file from the dev directory to the directory below.”

I ended up getting around the issues by using VMware. I installed centos6 and FOG in a VM. I iSCSI attached my NAS to VMware and added another disk to the VM using the iSCSI as the source. I then mounted the new disk under /images.

It would be nice if in .33 the whole FTP thing went away since the client already has NFS access to the FOG server. It would be nicer to just have the clients pull directly from the NAS instead of routing the traffic through the FOG server. hint hint