Hosts not imaging - HELP

[Junkhacker]

@prestop that’s ok. have you figured it out? it’s the local user account for the user “fog” on the linux system. it’s not all that different from a local user on a windows computer.

[prestop]

@Junkhacker
can only get in with guest session -don’t know how to find users.

[Junkhacker]

@prestop did you follow the link i sent about resetting the account in single user mode?

[prestop]

@Junkhacker Yes!!! Thank you.
But now at desktop not sure how to proceed. Should never have left (weeping)

[prestop]

@Junkhacker Trunk has no items in its folder.

[Junkhacker]

@prestop you’re logged back in? have you created a new user?

[prestop]

@Junkhacker YES.
Updated fog user and created new admin account.
Started FOG and updated…looks like a version 7 - new interface, etc. Hosts and images still there.
Trying now - bugs have appeared again -I think they sense my desperation.

[Junkhacker]

@prestop well, now that you’ve changed the fog user password, you’re going to have to change the stored password everywhere fog uses that user…

[prestop]

@Junkhacker
D’oh!
Please tell me where - config? TFTP?

[Junkhacker]

@prestop web interface, storage management, DefaultMember > Management Password
also, you’ll want to update the information in the hidden file /opt/fog/.fogsettings where it stores the password for fog upgrades
off the top of my head, i can’t remember where else it will be needed
technically, also FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD in fog settings. but that shouldn’t be important unless you change the IP of the server

[Wayne Workman]

@Junkhacker https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_FTP#Credentials_.2F_Passwords

[prestop]

@Wayne-Workman
HOLY CR@P …Partclone started!!! Could it be???

It looks like it’s actually moving quickly…ten more minutes.

[Junkhacker]

@prestop oh yeah, btw, the trunk version of fog is faster. depending on circumstances, it can be a LOT faster. lol

[prestop]

@Junkhacker
Well, it looked as though it mostly worked , it did /sda1, /sda2 but then it said the disk was too small to image /sda3. the machine boots to the windows recovery console - like if you had your cd in the drive to restore windows.

[Junkhacker]

@prestop did you replace the drive with a larger one, as previously suggested? your non-resizable image will need to be deployed and recaptured to become resizable. you’ll want to check the “Schedule Shutdown after task completion” checkbox when you deploy, and then schedule a capture after it finishes. if you don’t boot up the computer after imaging, it doesn’t even have to be a computer compatible with the image you’re deploying.

[prestop]

@Junkhacker
I don’t have any larger disks in this junkpile left behind.

[Wayne Workman]

@prestop Ever consider building a new image?

[Junkhacker]

@prestop i’m afraid there really aren’t any other options. if you have a lot of storage available on another computer, you could create a virtual machine to deploy it to (but that’s going to have some headaches involved too). i’m guessing the original drive was 500GB?

[prestop]

@Wayne-Workman
Yes - but there’s a lot of programs and things that I don’t know much about that appear to be in the image. I was hoping to be able to figure it out at some later date.

[Wayne Workman]

@prestop said in Hosts not imaging - HELP:

@Junkhacker
I don’t have any larger disks in this junkpile left behind.

Order one. They are cheap.