Getting a VM to boot fog is as easy as bridging the network card and turning on network boot.

If it actually deployed 95% of the image, you’ve probably got a good shot at recovering a file that’s on the image.

Take the drive that you deployed the image to and attach it to another (bootable) computer directly or via a usb adapter and try accessing it with a software recovery tool. There’s lots out there that are free or free to try in some fashion.

GetDataBack for NTFS is one I’ve used often with good results. It’s at runtime.org and lets you do the whole recovery and preview the recovered files for free. You just need to pay them if you want to save files from the recovery. It’s pretty good at picking out NTFS even if its hashed up a bit. It can do a raw recovery as well, but that’s pretty time consuming. Even if you don’t want to pay runtime.org for the software, you’d be able to get an idea of whether you’ll be able to recover it with another program.

On win7 make sure you use GDB-NTFS using run as administrator or it won’t have rights to work with the physical disk.

As i said, i am using identical computer and disks

Thanks, I am going to Try a Wn7x86 ISO to see if that makes a difference. Regarding MOD of the ISO, what is the approach I should use in the default file for a network share? We have a N5200X NAS server and I can setup a ISO share from there. Do you have an example of a default file entry to allow share from a NAS?

Hi there,

Matt42180 did you create a custom kernel and got your R410 imaged with fog? I am having the same problem and was wondering if you could share your work. That would be awesome.
Thank you very much.

Best,

skral

Changes in Ubuntu 12 cause TFTP daemon to try to start before the LAN interface has been initialized. Simply restarting the tftpd after booting the FOG server, or searching the forums for the many topics on tftp problems in Ubuntu 12, you’ll find a modification to the boot scripts that pauses tftpd long enough to allow the interface to be bound to it’s IP before starting.

If you want your hosts to have specific names, use the full registration and inventory option. Quick reg just numbers them sequentially I believe and if you have the fog client configured to rename hosts or join them to AD it may lead to more work than you want.

If you have a C# developer, you can probably create a module that does this, but I don’t believe it’s built into FOG right now. Check the feature request forums and see if it’s already been suggested and do so if it has not been.

Hi chad-bisd

Thank you for your replies.

It was me, I have been overlooking… I found it after check each laptop (30+) - it was active in 2 of them. It is a remote site and though they are instructed to connect to the local wifi after imaging, it looks like it has not happened. I should have checked instead of assuming…

Now the laptops are roving and connecting in via Cisco VPN, (mostly via wireless) thus it does not register the MAC over the VPN…

Ohh well, have to gather the MACs by some other method…

Thanks again for your help.

Steve

There is a guide article in the wiki that explains this. Have you looked at it yet? If you haven’t, look through it. If you have, what specific issues are you having?

[QUOTE][SIZE=15px][FONT=Segoe UI][COLOR=#000000]To create a dummy file of 50MB, we first need to convert the file size into bytes (1024 x 1024 x 50 = 52428800) and then enter the following at the command prompt:[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[I][SIZE=15px][FONT=Segoe UI][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#666666]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=yourfilename.test bs=52428800 count=1[/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I][/QUOTE]

from: [url]http://dreamcreative.net/2011/05/how-to-create-a-dummy-file-in-linux/[/url]

You can try altering the mysql table field to a larger size. I don’t know if there is any code in the web UI that limits it, but you might have to change that too.

Are you having issues with 1 image only or deploying all images?

What type of image did you upload ( single partition resizeable, single disk multiple partitions, etc)?

Have you checked the /images/ directory to make sure the files are there?

Thank you for using the search function and/or looking around. It gets tiring answering the same questions over and over and copying and pasting links to the threads that have the answers. I try to stay civil about it, but it does wear on a person.

Do your best to search using keywords and don’t forget about the WIKI too. I spend a good amount of time updating those articles when I can.

I had problems with Fujitsu and the hidden recovery partition. A usb bootable gparted stick and a bit of time later, I had the unwanted partitions removed and the rest of the disk resized to where it was just the 200mb win7 special partition and the main system drive. i was then able to image successfully.

I tried different kernels but it didn’t work. When booting from liveCD and pulling image from the server via NFS there is a spike of 1 Gbps transfer for like 10 seconds and then 0 after that. I found out that if on a managed switch i set the port through which it is deploying to 100 Mbps instead of AUTO then it goes through without getting stuck. Also, wiki claims that it can be done from a server by “ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half autoneg off”

Use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, or search the forums.

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/task-management-not-doing-anything.3777/#post-9594[/url]