Ah okay. Thanks that will work.

If it helps I am running FOG on top of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with no GUI. Also, it helps to make sure your linux is fully updated. In ubuntu use the following commands.

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update

Did you get anywhere with this project? I’m a slackware fan at heart but I’ve always used ubuntu for fog. Short of it was that I never had the time to properly play at adapting things to work on slack etc. Would be good to know if was done by anyone.

Thanks a ton, madeyem. That did the trick!

A quick Google came up with this thread. Perhaps it pertains to you?

[url]https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2137283[/url]

here are how to link.

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Custom_Kernel[/url]

[media=youtube]BpyLZEx97gE[/media]

Have you considered FOG in ProxyDHCP mode? FOG can still answer PXEboot requests while letting whatever other DHCP server hand out the IP addresses, be it your VPN machine or the corporate network.

Have you made sure the source of your image is “clean”. Defrag and chkdisk? It may not have anything to do with the ubuntu upgrade and something to do with the tweaks to your windows 7 master.

Try uploading another image just to see if it works for that.

Right now have successful tftp get pxelinux.0 on my remote machine but when I try to boot it the dhcp the request times out, I did not set the IP for the dhcp server during the fog set up how can I change it?

Although it sounds like DHCP options are correct, it might be worth checking it using Wireshark on the client PC. If you filter the capture to ports 67 & 68 (UDP but it doesn’t matter if you capture both TCP and UDP), then perform an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew or simply disconnect/reconnect the network cable. Within the captured packets you should be able to see the DHCP options and that pretty rules out DHCP configuration issues.

I’ve solved the problem myself. It seems that the machine i was using for testing is not compatible.
I have just tested with two different models and all works well.

The incompatible model is a Lenovo A70z (1165-ABG). The config im using is:

LABEL NXTOP 41 Engine Installer
MENU NXTOP 41 Engine Installer
kernel mboot.c32
append fog/nxtop41/xen.gz — fog/nxtop41/vmlinuz boot=casper webboot=[url]http://ip-of-server/fog/nxtop41/nxtopengine.iso[/url] ro quiet console=tty8 — fog/nxtop41/initrd.img –

Maybe someone else has any use of this information.

[SIZE=6][B][SIZE=3]Looks like I’m going to move on and use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012.[/SIZE][/B][/SIZE]

Would still be interested as to what was wrong?

unless you installed a 2nd FOG server, then you have no other storage nodes. A storage node in FOG is another FOG server running in (S)torage mode.

If you just added a new disk to the existing machine, you’re only about halfway to adding more storage to FOG.

Well, It says “free space: 94%”.

I am about to reinstall a new server so, it should resolve my problem.

I think there is another spot in the php.ini file that needs to be updated. Also, FOG keeps me logged in for days if I stay at a screen that refreshes itself, like the home page showing the bandwitch graphs, or the active tasks screen.

If I leave it on something like the hosts listing, it times out after a few hours.

Ooops !

My problem is solved… It was a password problem.
Before my post, just to be sure, i resetted all passwords :

fog linux account vsftp fog account fog settings (other information folder)

But i forgot to reset the one on “storage management”.
Maybe this can help others too !

Now, all seems to work just fine.

Sorry for bandwith…
Patrick

You’ll have to install and configure DHCP server on the FOG server if you want to image from an isolated switch. Basically, when you install FOG, say Yes to DHCP, the defaults should work for an isolated switch.