I set up DNSMasq when I work at home with home networking equipment. a lot of the home issued stuff won’t have settings to be able to designated the tftp/boot server or the next-server. Using a DHCP proxy service like dnsmasq has prooved beneficial.

Something else I have done is turn the DNS portion of FOG on and use a hub and keep it separate from the network unless an internet connection is required, which I have not needed DURING imaging, only after.

Glad to be of help.

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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21615, member: 7271”]That may still be a need, but if you can document the process slightly, I might be able to automate this within the FOG Scripts so we don’t have to do as much.[/quote]
see some message up…

One, add more CPU’s to it. On an upload process, it has to compress the image as it’s being uploaded.

Two, check the compression setting, it’s on the FOG Configuration->FOG Settings menu called: FOG_PIGZ_COMP and should appear as a slider bar. 9 is best/most compression (most cpu intensive and takes time) and 0 is the worst/fastest compression (less compression means more space is used)

no will try that monday thanks for the reply

Yes, thanks. I will use parted now. Apparently using cfdisk to create partitions is not good for me. 😉 😄

This is much easier and from a command line.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21463, member: 7271”]

[code]
wget https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/udpcast-20120424.tar.gz
rm -f udpcast-20071228.tar.gz
sed -i ‘s/udpcastout=“udpcast-20071228”/udpcastout=“udpcast-20120424”/’ …/lib/common/config.sh
sed -i ‘s/udpcastsrc=“…/packages/udpcast-20071228.tar.gz”/udpcastsrc=“…/packages/udpcast-20120424.tar.gz”/’ …/lib/common/config.sh
cd …/bin
./installfog.sh
[/code]

[/quote]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21377, member: 7271”]I don’t know for sure how to get them started, but I know that the Regular Active Tasks should NOT be displaying the multicast tasks.[/quote]

to start unicast:

group management -> list all group -> click on group name -> image association -> x
group management -> list all group -> click on group name -> os association -> x
group management -> list all group -> click on group name -> basic task -> deploy

to start multicast:

task management -> list all group -> deploy multicast, but don’t work giving the error in first message of this thread

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21449, member: 7271”]Are you looking at multicast tasks or active tasks[/quote]

clicking on
group management -> list all group -> click on group name -> image association -> x
group management -> list all group -> click on group name -> os association -> x
group management -> list all group -> click on group name -> basic task -> deploy

starts unicast imaging.

task management -> list all group -> deploy multicast, but don’t work giving the error in first message of this thread

Apparently, had not re run installfog.sh after starting nfs. Tried that first and the error. So, I ran the commands above and still get the error. Just in case, I did re set the password for the Fog user to match the Fog settings in the gui. Also checked permissions of /tftpboot and it is 0755 and the owner is Fog.

I am running fog 0.32. I uploaded an image and then I booted the drive, added a folder to desktop, and then deployed the image and when it booted the folder was gone so I believe that there is an image uploaded. Then when I put in the blank drive it does the restarting business.

V/R
Adam

Your default file (that’s the name sorry) is located at:
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

On the bottom line you should see:
[code]TIMEOUT 30[/code]
This means 3 seconds. Thirty seconds would be:
[code]TIMEOUT 300[/code]
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0.33 doesn’t have the same issues.

no problem.

does this new location have .mntcheck files:

[code]
sudo touch /images/.mntcheck
sudo touch /images/dev/.mntcheck[/code]

Also check that your ftp information operates as expected as well. The storage username and password should be that of the FOG Servers (or storage nodes) fog user (on the server/node) not the database username and password.

solved! thanks

If you run the system in debug mode. What this means, is setup the task you’re trying to perform as a Download Debug Task (under advanced options) or Upload Debug.

On the client, the file should be under /tmp/status.fog

It’s just a text file, but it’s main purpose is to store the errors thrown from partimage. There are common thrown errors with is what the progress reads/gets its data from.

Hi Tom,

I wanted to give you an update on my issue… I was able to get the server back up and running by re-running the installation, as it may have seemed that I was missing some of the proper software on Ubuntu 12.04 for Fog to run properly. After re-running the installation all I had to do then was edit config.php with the proper mysql password and now get back to imaging all my machines now.

Stay Warm, as where i am located, HELL as frozen over in ND at -26 degrees (without wind chill of course.)