DHCP reservation is acceptable, i personally prefer static IP’s for most servers.

Update: After following your suggestion, I got a step farther.

It was able to detect the hard disks in PXE. I got passed my error.

[S]But now there is another error,[/S]
[S]Error now says : *unable to move /images/dev/000c29769fc5 to images/2k3[/S]

This worked for me, the above issue was not encountered when I ran it on a real server. (Only the VM gave the error)

Thanks Bryce for the assistance… and thanks to everyone who helped FOG become the most awesome tool ever![S][/S]

[quote=“rixter, post: 474, member: 168”]Blackout, are you sure this isn’t an initrd issue? I was thinking I had some issue where I changed out my init file and it took care of something similar to this.[/quote]
No 🙂 Its just my best guess 😛

It could indeed be another issue.

Am I reading this right, you have windows and debian on the same pc, and on that pc you have fog installed and you want to ghost the windows partiton from the same pc that fog+debian is on? Maybe pulling your hard drive from the other pc, installing it in the pc with windows 7 on it, booting to debian (not windows) and learning how partimage works would be your best option here… You really need fog on a seperate PC than you are trying to pull a ghost from…

Thanks! but turns out my WOL wasn’t working because I had to update the driver of the NIC card, and then it only works during standby and hibernate… also, my switches were of the unmanaged type, so i didn’t have problems 🙂

Wouldn’t hurt to give [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/pxe-boot-goldmemory.12/page-2#post-368[/url] a shot. It should be fairly easy to setup and might fix your issue.

Hi
I just upgraded to the latest and it worked. i dont think there was something wrong with the old version coz it was working before. may be installing the new version has fixed some error in my old installation.
regards

here you find step by step guides for different os:

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation[/url]

Thanks - I’ve been studying the code. Looking forward to the next release. FOG’s already been a game changer for me over using just an old copy of ghost and pxe/bartpe.

Nice work 🙂

To rule out the resizing as a problem, try re-uploading the image as a Multi-Partition Single Disk image.

Please report back if the Multi-Partition image boots correctly after deployment.

Yes you can, the installer should skip what is already installed… unless the package names are different.

If you are new to Linux, i would not suggest this route as you will most likely have problems.

The easiest and most straight forward Distribution to use is Ubuntu.

What is the “external hard drive” ? Is it a stand alone NAS or plugged into another computer? I’m confused.

You need to make sure the “Storage Node” allows annon access to it’s ‘/fogstorage’ NFS share.

The error ‘Permission Denied’ tells you straight away that it does not have access to that share.

Try booting into debug mode and manually mounting the NFS Share
Read this: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/wiki-troubleshooting-an-image-deploy.20/[/url]

Feel free to make multiple posts.

You need to make sure you have a valid gateway. Use ‘route -n’ to look at your routes.
There should be a default route (0.0.0.0) to your gateway IP (What ever that is)

i.e. mine
[code]fog-2:~# route -n

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 bond0
0.0.0.0 10.10.10.10 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 bond0[/code]

I have static IP settings for my FOG servers, you will probably want this too.

The PHP upgrade for CentOS is brutal. I have no idea why they have not upgraded to 5.3, or even 5.2.

Please see the comments on CentOS 5.6 (at the bottom) on how to manually upgrade PHP to 5.3
[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation_on_CentOS_5.3[/url]

If this is your first FOG server, i [I]really[/I] recommend Ubuntu. APT’s package management is far superior to YUM’s.
The package maintainers for APT packages are standards nazis; they adhere to a very strict set of standards.

Checking the packages for PHP5 from Ubuntu/Debian shows 5.3.8 is the latest version.

[code]fog-2:~# apt-cache policy php5

php5:
Installed: 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
Candidate: 5.3.8.0-1
Version table:
5.3.8.0-1 0
500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/main Packages
5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny13 0
500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
*** 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
[/code]

[LIST=1]
[]Mouse over a link for the particular Image
[]Look at the ID in the URL
[/LIST]
Why do you need the Image ID? Host registration? Type ‘?’ and press enter.

Thanks for the reply, I’m using my home environment for testing since i’m pretty new with Ubuntu, but I’ll look into Clonezilla afterwards. As for the router I just bought a new one from D-link…I’ve never had a bad one in the past and didn’t realize the one I got can not use DD-WRT without risk.

OK one last question that will clear up my confusion----noob–>😕
If I setup FOG to run with MAC filtration
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide#Integrating_FOG_Server_with_Existing_Network_Systems_in_non_intrusive_mode_using_MAC_filtration[/url]

The instructions state “[FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]This allows clients to get IP addresses on the network and connect to the FOG server”[/COLOR][/FONT]. Then to turn off and configure FOG’s DHCP and turn back on. Won’t there be a conflict later on between Windows DHCP server and FOG’s after I turn it on? Is there a step missing on this page to still update the Windows Server with the PXE forwarding?
Damn I’m such a newbie