@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.

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?

@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.

@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

@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.

@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!

Yes, it works.
Thanks a lot.
Adrien17

@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?

@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.

@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.

@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).

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

@Oleg I lost track of this but stumbled upon it just now. Thinking some more about it I find that we should not try to fix this within the FOG installer. We have done so many times and it just makes it a nightmare to keep up to date with the different OS requirements and specifics…

So you might follow the steps Tom outlined some time ago - maybe you already did. If you need more detailed information on that, then let us know.

@julio You need to look into who installing those programs on Ubuntu/Debian is possible at all. For example, Notepad++ is a native Windows program and seems like you need to use snap (on Ubuntu) or even manually install wine to be able to run Notepad++ on Linux: https://itsfoss.com/notepad-plus-plus-linux/

Visual Studio Code seems to be available for Linux: https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Putty is available as official package on Ubuntu and Debian as far as I found.

An so on. This is well beyond what we can do for you! You need to figure out how the installations work or ask in different forums specific to that software you want to install. Start by searching the web.

As soon as you figured out how to install each software you can use bash scripts (mentioned below) to do the job for you.

@julio les snaping son concue pour creer des applications à installer sur des systèmes d’exploitations windows.

@rubensurtfe-0 It works once we have the right ISO image and correct web server path.

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@quazz Ok, thank you for the answer.

@coop90 Sounds like you got it all working again. Anything you still need help with?

@sebastian-roth

oui je veux de l’aide roth. je devrais normalement booter le images de ubuntu et débian. centos etais une erreur déseolé de mon retard

@julio This is a new error for me. If the destination is failing to deploy I think there should be a different error. But I give you steps to debug this.

Schedule another deploy task to this computer, but before you press the “schedule task” button, select the “debug” check box then submit the task. PXE boot the target computer. The computer will start into the imaging steps, but this time you will see many pages of text that you will clear by pressing the enter key. At the end of the text you will then be at the “FOS Linux” command prompt.

At the “FOS Linux” command prompt key in lsblk. This will show you if FOS Linux can see the local hard drive.

The next step you will start the imaging process. In debug mode the imaging process will pause at certain steps. This is done so you can read errors during imaging. I am guessing since your deployment is failing, there is an error message that is getting overlooked. I might think there will be an error message on the partclone screens (blue screen with text). To start the imaging process at the FOS Linux command screen key in fog and press enter. You will need to press the enter key at each pause to go to the next steps.