Okay, this is/was the problem:

the cloning DOES start, but it is really slow.
There is no image file visible in /images/dev for a really long time (20-25 minutes).

Thus, I can live with the black console 🙂

The console wont show anything, even with serial-stuff enabled in the pxe-config file.

i dont care any more, i am happy that this thing (an embedded system without vga-card) can be cloned :)))

Did you define a mysql password?

You need to manually enter the password in /var/www/fog/commons/config.php

Updating,

Two very importante things that I’ve experienced:

Wipe the disk before the image Run FSCK if the image is not uploading properly

Now seems to be working well in all hardwares.

Thanks!

Troy

Ok, Thanks! I will give it a try!

Excellent news! I had tried various kernel and boot kernel combinations, but gave up and just used an older version of FOG. It’s nice to know we can avail ourselves of the new version and interface (and just switch boot kernels when needed). Thanks for the update!

Hi PatinMT,

FOGServer does but if you set it up as a Node it will not unless you modify the installer for node installation. Might be worth doing so if you have future setups?

Well done in solving your own issue 🙂 and posting the solution.

Are the any requirements for keeping your deployment LAN separated from your Production LAN, like multicast filtering, security, etc?

Are the machines in your production LAN already able to interact with the Fog server for client updates, snap-ins, etc?

This topic should not be in developer help, but I’ll give you some advice anyways.

You want to run your server with ProxyDHCP enabled. This detects PXE boot requests on the network, allows the computers to get an IP address from the real DHCP server but get PXE boot details from your fog server.

I have heavily modified the articles on the wiki with my experience using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Fog 0.32. The article title is
[SIZE=6][B][URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server’][SIZE=4]Using FOG with an unmodifiable DHCP server/ Using FOG with no DHCP server[/SIZE][/URL][/B][/SIZE]

there are a few notes i have taken, using the partimage program in Fog 0.32

The image must be ext2 or ext3
You can’t use extended partitions, only Logical
swap got nothing special notes

but all partitions my come after each other, and not skip blocks between them, or else the hdd fails to restore proberly.

took some tries as i used some extended partitions first, they seem to not work at all in partimage.

i heard of some people trying to replace partimage with other tools, (but never tryed it myself), for better linux support, but as normal beings, i guess we just have to wait for fog 0.33

Like kevin mentioned. If your IP phones are on a seperate VLAN they can point to different boot server than the PCs because they would be on a seperate DHCP scope…

Thank’s for the tips !!
I finally use EXT3 and everyting is working fine now.

Regards,

check the fog permissions

chown -R fog:root /tftpboot/

I fixed it by running the install script again.

OKay, let me answer my own question:

edit: /var/ipcop/dhcp/dnsmasq.local
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,hostname,x.x.x.x

run: restartdhcp

Hi guys,

and thank you Fernando: it’s now working!

The configuration is:

a multiboot Win7/Ubuntu 12.04 (alpha2) (anyway 11.10 is the same) deploying on a Dell Optiplex 960 Fog 0.32 (no cutomization)

The PC configuration is:
4 primary partitions sda1 and sda2 for Windows7, sda3 for swap, sda4 for linux (ext3)

The fog server configuration is 1 disk, multipartition, declaring as ostype linux
(declaring it as windows does not work)

The installations are a base Windows 7 installation, and a base Ubuntu installation
CHANGING TO GRUB-LEGACY: this was my problem: grub2 seems to be not working.

Now I’m writing some documentation, and then I’ll try to customize my Ubuntu and Windows
installation to fit my organization, but the base deploying infrastructure seems ok!

thank you again
giammy

Hi,
we deploy Centos and (K)Ubuntu sistems without problems. Are you try to upload a Ubuntu 10.xx image?
If you need deploy a ubuntu 11.xx image, you need make some changes:
*create or modify the menu.lst file
*install and configure the grub-legacy
See the next documentation (sorry only in spanish, but you can use Google traductor 🙂 )
[url]http://www.ehu.es/es/web/instalaciones/fogehu/-/wiki/main/conocimiento[/url] (see Despliegue de imágenes con Ubuntu 11.04)