[quote=“Matthew Hood, post: 8958, member: 353”]I also have a Raid 5 with 6 drives but they are older drives, I would be in a lot of trouble if something happened and we lost data. We have over 30 images which as you know is a lot of man hours to recreate them. I know there is a backup script that comes with the previous versions of FOG is there one for .32?[/quote]

Maybe this would work, I modified the backup scripts a while ago, but YMMV

[url]http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3449766&group_id=201099&atid=976201[/url]

Auto-answer 🙂
Source: [url]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/increase-size-of-a-mounted-filesystem-459585/[/url]

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what you want to do is create a new image, say existing one is initrd.img and we’ll call the new one init. To create an image with a max size of 50 megs

dd if=/dev/zero of=/init bs=1M count=50
mke2fs /init (answer yes to the question it asks)
mount -o loop /init_old /mnt/img
mount -o loop /init /mnt/img2
cp -Rp /mnt/img/* /mnt/img2
<now add whatever other files you want to /mnt/img2>
umount /mnt/img
umount /mnt/img2
gzip init

Now you have a new larger image as init. There are other ways to do it but this is by far the easiest/safest in my opinion (been doing it all day trying to install rhel as 2.1 to install on an unsupported SAS controller).
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We don’t have a release date for FOG 0.33 at this point. FOG 0.33 isn’t just a collection of bug fixes or feature updates, it’s a complete rewrite of the underlying code structure, so it’s not like we can say “feature X will have to wait until next time”. The standard response is “it’ll be released when it’s ready”.

I can find inactive accounts in AD, that’s simple. I need to find a relatively easy way to compare that to the inventory that FOG outputs. Then I will be able to tell which hosts I need to delete from FOG and/or AD.

As I said the easiest way would be for FOG to report when the last time hosts checked in which should be rather simple utilizing the FOG client.

1> As far as I know only the full disk wipe.
2> Check out Capone. [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Capone[/url]

Edit: Just thought, you might actually mean that you want to register the mac at the client computer. All you do in that case is choose quick or full registration from the PXE boot menu on the client PC

[quote=“djm79, post: 8006, member: 1568”]I’m trying to understand how the snapins work code wise. I’m wanting to try to implement a location based pull for the fog client much like the multi location patch. [/quote]

That sounds like a good project. I’d wait until 0.33 comes out, or just download that code on a spare machine and start working on it. 0.33 is unlikely to change dramatically before release (Right, Blackout?), but it is likely that whatever solution you find for 0.32 will need to be rewritten for 0.33.

Keep us updated on your efforts. If you get it working perhaps you can post a FAQ with your code.

–astrouga

You need to look into the way fog does it now. I believe it calls one of the scripts under {webdir}/fog/service/, passing in as POST arguments the information needed to create the task in the database and file under /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/

If you expand out the /tftpboot/fog/images/init.gz (instruction on wiki), and look into the /bin/fog folder, you’ll see the fog.man.reg file, which is what runs when you choose the Full Host registration and inventory from the PXE boot menu. If you can look through that file, you can see how the script is calling the page which creates the imaging task, and you can replicate that in whatever program you are wanting to interface with FOG.

one is based off of rhel the other ubuntu so it won’t be as easy as getting those images into the init/bzimage as both os’s handle splash/init a bit differently but I’ve taken apart init enough times and am fairly familiar with ubuntu so I think I should be able to marry the two without too much of a headache and in the end we can/will have a usb/cd bootable image that can come in handy aside from loading via pxe.

What OS? On Ubuntu 10.04, phpmyadmin installs fine.

If you installed MySQL during the FOG install and you followed the instructions, then there is not root password for FOG. Otherwise, it’s the password you told it to use for root during the FOG install.

It’s whatever password you have to use if you type:
[CODE]mysql -u root -p[PASSWORD][/CODE]

The biggest problem is that partimage images will not work with partclone.

partimage has not been updated in years, where partclone is still under development.

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Nevermind me. I figured out what the different parts being recompiled actually do. Maybe next time I’ll wait until after my morning caffeine has kicked in to ask questions like this :rolleyes:

Code for 0.33 BETA
[code]// Within a FOG Class
$hostExists = $this->getClass(‘HostManager’)->exists(array(‘name’ => ‘chicken’)));

// Outside of a FOG Class
$hostExists = $GLOBALS[‘FOGCore’]->getClass(‘HostManager’)->exists(array(‘name’ => ‘chicken’)));[/code]

Find a kernel that supports your video cards. Most of the kernels available through fog support multiple video chipsets. Sometimes the KitchenSink (KS) kernels work better. Use the Kernel updater portion of the WebUI to try different kernels until you find one that works best. If you are up to it, compile a custom kernel that supports your hardware. It’s a bit scary for a beginner, but after doing it once or twice, it gets a lot easier.

I’d search the forums for your particular problem(s). If don’t find anything, just post the particular issue here and someone will likely help. If it looks like a bug, or something you think the developers can help with, I’d post it in the bug section of the forum:

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/forums/bug-reports.17/[/url]

I just put FOG onto a netbook that dual boots Ubuntu and Win7 and have the admin people at my small offices do reimaging.

As far as I know, there is currently nothing in Fog to set it up to have a structure like Active Directory. Fog cannot directly talk to active directory, but when the new UI comes out and allows easier creation of custom pages, it might be possible to add LDAP functionality to help achieve what you want, but it’s not in vanilla Fog.

I’m curious what you are trying to achieve overall by setting Fog up to mirror AD.