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  démarrer une machine via le réseau
  • julio

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  @julio I think we have two questions with your post.

  Can I configure to boot into fog without changing the bios options each time? If you have dell computers, you can use the dell program “command and control” also known as CCTK to change bios settings. One that may help you is pxe boot at the next reboot. You would send this command as a FOG snapin to run the cctk program to tell bios on the next reboot, pxe boot. This way you can get to FOG.

  I want to deploy an image without registering the computer in FOG. Can I do this? Yes. This is how I deploy my images today. I have a technician sit in front of computer and power it on, press F12 to get to the bios boot menu and then pick pxe boot. In the FOG iPXE menu I pick Deploy Image and select the image to send to the computer. I don’t use FOG to rename the computer or connect to AD so once the image has been pushed to the target computer, the windows installer does everything to connect and setup the machine. This process I call is “load and go”. System builders use this method because they build the computer once and sell it, there is no need to register in fog unless you need to manage the computer after imaging.

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  PHP Issues Installing FOG
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  Snapins CentOS_7 Client
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  @kyl Could just be a PATH issue then. Try /bin/touch instead of touch on your next test.

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  at wits end: trying to pxe boot an ubuntu 20.04 iso to laptops connected with usb-c ethernet cables (long post with many details) LINUX experts wanted
  • Generalcanada

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  @Generalcanada Not exactly sure but maybe this post might help you: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/143080

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  Installing fog client on Ubuntu-Mate 20.04 Errors
  • OmegaXis

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  @OmegaXis Strange error. Have never seen this before.

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  problème d'uploade de debian dans fog
  • julio

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  @tom-elliott salut tom et ici ca veut dire quoi et comment je pourrais resoudre cela??? merci bien

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  SOLVED GParted Live from FOG
  gpartet • • user435

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  @b_man said in GParted Live from FOG:

  Out of curiosity, how come this was marked as solved?

  Not sure if you noticed but this is an old topic that was marked solved even before you posted. That’s one of the reasons why we keep telling people to open their very own topics and post all their details in that new one. Makes things a lot clearer. If you think a lot of the information is in the old topic, then just link to it from your new one.

  Please add details like the exact commands used to prepare the files and version of GParted you use as this might make a difference. As well post if you boot in UEFI or legacy BIOS mode and if it’s a VM setup or on hardware.

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  dnsmasq won't start automatically. [SOLVED]
  • Fog_Newb

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  @george1421 said in dnsmasq won't start automatically. [SOLVED]:

  @fog_newb Well there are really two commands you need to use.

  Enable the service to start every reboot systemctl enable dnsmasq To start the service now systemctl start dnsmasq

  These are two distinct actions and one doesn’t depend on the other.

  @george1421

  Thanks. I have used both of those commands before trying to get it to autostart on boot. I haven’t used them since running sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq , which was the one that got dnsmasq starting on boot for me. Perhaps since I used those commands prior it is all good?

  I went through my bash history and saw I almost used sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq I had the syntax messed up though. I used sudo systemctl dnsmasq enable

  I am really starting to like Linux. I digress, I am mostly a casual so I doubt I will ever have it on my daily driver but I am thinking about trying it on a laptop. I don’t know though, sometimes, I just like to point and click.

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  Unable to locate image store
  • jcyrus_rti

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  @jcyrus_rti said in Unable to locate image store:

  Did I do something out of sequence or something? Why would it create the directory with the mac address name instead of the unique name I listed in the directory?

  When everything works as expected the capture goes to the MAC address named directory in /images/dev first. Then when the client sends the final ok to the FOG server it’s moved to /images and re-named. If that did not happen it’s likely the final step has failed. So I suggest you pay close attention to the last messages on the PC/VM’s screen when you capture next time.

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  SOLVED manually updated mariadb; installfog.sh fails to see it
  • altitudehack

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  Yes, that solved it. Thanks for the quick work, @Sebastian-Roth!
  How do I mark a topic as Solved? Or is that a moderator-only task?

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  Centos 7 UUID not updated during imaging - will not boot
  • Gerrit Anderson

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  @gerrit-anderson said in Centos 7 UUID not updated during imaging - will not boot:

  From what I can tell, FOG is handling the UUID’s correctly…

  Would say so too from what we discovered so far. It’s interesting you can capture/deploy from/to VM<->VM and machine<->machine but not “across”.

  For further debugging I suggest to dig into the dracut emergency shell/mode more. First run ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ on the dracut command prompt and post a picture of that here. As well you might also follow the instrcutions printed, run journalctl and look through the log for hints on why it fails booting. Also take a look at the file /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt mentioned. Feel free to share the file here and I’ll take a look as well.

  Edit:
  Searching the web I found this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/183859/initramfs-uuid-problems-after-cloning

  Sounds like the initramfs might be generated differently on your VM and bare metal install. Both are missing a driver for the other one. If that turns out to be true you need to find out which one is missing and manually regenerate initramfs with dracut e.g. on your VM before capturing the image to be deployed to hardware.

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  FOG client certificates removed on mono update
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  @Sebastian-Roth It did containing

  04/13/2021 11:58:30 Installer Settings successfully saved in /opt/fog-service/settings.json 04/13/2021 11:58:30 Middleware::Communication Download: http://fog-pxe-srv.XXX.de/fog/management/other/ca.cert.der
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  BTRFS postdownloadscript
  • mstabrin

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  @mstabrin Good to hear the BTRFS resize code is working for you! Thanks again for your work on this.

  For a long time FOG would not move partitions if they were recognized as “fixed” because moving e.g. a recovery partition in the old MBR days would render it useless because of static sector addressing in boot loaders and such. Now as we all move towards UEFI and GPT partition layouts we have updated this logic to handle “fixed” partitions as fixed in size but not fixed in position anymore. For more details read this topic: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15025/move-partitions-on-gpt-layouts-need-people-to-test

  I did a test with Linux partition layout having SWAP at the end and it was able to shrink it down and deploy to a smaller size disk: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/141373

  To make a long story short, download the latest inits from our webserver (64 bit, 32 bit) and you should have this feature included as well as your BTRFS resize.

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  Remove FOG task
  • mstabrin

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  @sebastian-roth It sure is!
  But I love how flexible FOG is with its postinit and postdownload scripts and the API functionality.
  I can really create everything I need, really things as complex as this problem here, by simple using the FOS binaries as building blocks.

  I have to say that FOG is indeed an amazing product!

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  FOG service is too long to stop
  • adrien17

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  Yes, it works.
  Thanks a lot.
  Adrien17

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  FOG-Client suddenly stopped working
  • kek

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  @kek Just a quick update as I got to work allowing the fog-client to use a simple local CA certificate file instead of the mono keystore stuff. Would you be interested to test?

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  Using fog over Samba for back up and restore
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  @robertsaron You missunderstand FOG to be a backup tool. While it can be used to take a backup it’s definitely not what it was made for in the first place and other tools are a way better choice.

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  Installer will not complete because of CURL issue
  • rogerpenn

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  @rogerpenn Why would you want to install FOG 1.4.4? It’s years old and we don’t fix installer issues in older versions. Just use current 1.5.9 and it will install just fine.

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  Unable to configure DHCP in Ubuntu for PXE boot Win10
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  @itachi_19 There is something going on here because both conditions can’t happen tcpdump sees nothing but dhcpd responds to a client request.

  Are you running tcpdump as root or sudoing to it? If you don’t have elevated rights I can understand why tcpdump would not see (because tcpdump can’t connect to the raw socket).

  Yes, both are VMs on a Virtualbox, and their network is set to NAT.

  Well that would keep the witness computer from seeing this communication. With NAT enabled that still doesn’t explain where the tftp://10.0.2.4/Windows@2010.pxe “Windows 10.pxe” file name is coming from. As they say, the culprit has to be in the house (virtualbox).

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  Improve MD RAID imaging speed?
  • RobPomeroy

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  @george1421 Yep, thanks, that’s exactly the approach I have in mind for my centralised systems.