FOG EMMC compatability

[Jamie Read]

Hi there , i work in a secondary school and we are looking at purchasing some tablets for use by the students and would like to be able to image them , we have got one to pxe boot into fog but when imaging it it says the hard drive is not recognised , it runs off an EMMC (embedded multimedia card)
is their any way around this?
thanks

[Junkhacker]

@Jamie-Read What version of fog are you running? i’m pretty certain that we’ve gotten at least one other person up and running with a system with emmc ssd drives, so we should be able to get this working for you without too much issue.

[Jamie Read]

we are running version 1.2.0 , we have upgrading all the teachers laptops to SSD drives and they are all working on the system , just the EMMC’s
thanks

[cspence]

I think if you update the kernel inits, it should be supported. My guess is you’re running kernel inits from when you installed 1.2.0. @Tom-Elliott and I have updated the drive detection code to accept more interesting interfaces like mmc cards.

[Jamie Read]

i have upgraded the kernel to the latest version 3.14.2 but it is still saying “no disk”

[Joseph Hales]

You may need to update to SVN latest version there is 4.0.5.

[Jamie Read]

how would i go about upgrading to 4.0.5 , the latest version available as an unofficial kernel is 3.17.0
thanks

[cspence]

Unfortunately, at this time, 1.2.0 uses a specific kernel. I talked to @Tom-Elliot about it and he said that 1.2.0 probably won’t work properly with a newer init.

Your option at this point is to try out the bleeding edge and see if the latest SVN version serves your needs for now.

[ch3i]

@Jamie-Read SVN versions are very stable, lot of us use it
@cspence said:

Unfortunately, at this time, 1.2.0 uses a specific kernel. I talked to @Tom-Elliot about it and he said that 1.2.0 probably won’t work properly with a newer init.

Your option at this point is to try out the bleeding edge and see if the latest SVN version serves your needs for now.

[Wayne Workman]

The most preferred method of upgrading to FOG Trunk is using subversion.

Here’s the article on how to do that: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/SVN

[Jamie Read]

i am getting the following error when trying to download ,svn: E175013 unable to connect to repository at URL ‘https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk’
svn: E175013: Access to ‘p/freeghost/code/trunk’ forbidden
thanks

[Tom Elliott]

@Jamie-Read Is your network blocking it?

[Jamie Read]

most probably but i have configured the server to use a a proxy which has full access to everything

[Tom Elliott]

Is your FOG GUI setup to use the proxy?

[Jamie Read]

i am attempting to setup a new svn fog server so currently there is no fog installed , do i need to install 1.2.0 first then run the svn? , we do have another fog server in place but i don’t want to do anything to that incase it stopped working
thanks

[cml]

You can install from svn directly, no need to install 1.2.0 first.

[Tom Elliott]

Also, i mis-understood orginally, SVN would need to be configured to allow for passing through your proxy.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1491180/how-to-configure-a-http-proxy-for-svn

[Jamie Read]

okay so i have install subversion but there is no ~/.subversion file in the directory which it says you need to amment

[ch3i]

@Jamie-Read No sure but look at the folder /etc/subversion/ .

Edit : the “server” file.

[Jamie Read]

thanks for that , i have ammended that file with the proxy details but still getting error 403