Cannot deploy Windows 7 image to Dell Latitude E5420.

[Wayne Workman]

External drive, or a 2nd or 3rd or 5th internal drive… it doesn’t matter. the drive needs mounted and the permissions have to be set.

Also, you’ll need a storage node specifically for it if you want that drive to be detachable.

[reub_rester]

To the best of my knowledge, it was mounted because I could look at the data on it. The images were in /images/images/images. I had all the permissions set exactly like the ones for /images that were set during the fog install. I also had the images pointed to the correct folder to do the images.

[Tom Elliott]

Alright,

How confusing can you potentially make this?

First what’s the output of /etc/exports

WHY SO MANY IMAGES folders inside images?

[reub_rester]

When I mounted the partition from my external hard drive the partition name is images and the folder inside of that is also called images. As for the /etc/exports, below is the output.

/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1,subtree_check)
/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2,subtree_check)

/images/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1,subtree_check)
/images/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2,subtree_check)

/images/images/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1,subtree_check)
/images/images/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2,subtree_check)

I think I my see the problem now. Shouldn’t the fsid be different for all of these?

[reub_rester]

Ok. Found my problem. The problem was the fsid’s in the comments above. The fsid’s need to be different for each line. I changed the fsid’s and it lets me deploy images from the /images, /images/images, and the /images/images/images folders without a problem. I am sorry that the way that I have it setup is confusing but it is working now. Thank all of you that responded.

Thanks,
Reub

[Junkhacker]

no need to be sorry. it was just difficult to read. all i saw was “images were in images/images/images … exactly … like /images. …also images pointed to … images” and my brain threw a kernel panic

[Tom Elliott]

Stack trace:> ~[] too many images in images with images:
Unsure of which image you want to see images in:
Error code :images

[reub_rester]

I should have picked a better naming convention when I setup the partition and folder. Next time I will name the partition and folders something else. I will know next time to check my fsid’s first to make sure they are different. Thanks for all your help and sorry for the kernel panic with the /images/images/images.

[Tom Elliott]

It’s all good man. We get a laugh and you now understand a bit better how the fsid system works. No pain or anything on you.

[Wayne Workman]

kernel panic? I got dizzy and fell over! Hit my head on the sink and saw the flux capacitor…

[Tom Elliott]

I’m about to run back to the future or forward to the past