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      Quazz Moderator @Tom Elliott
      last edited by Quazz

      @Tom-Elliott I think people are confused because in certain software/circles, to image a system is to capture the image, not deploy it.

      I think most people will operate from the perspective of the client device since they’ll be present at it to use Quick Image. This is also how the terminology is used in the WebGUI for scheduling tasks.

      At the end of the day it’s all semantics, and if I’m not mistaken well documented on the wiki.

      edit: Perhaps something like “Deploy image to this client device” is a decent way to phrase it?

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott @Quazz
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        @Quazz The phrasing is what I’m talking about. It doesn’t matter how you word it, somebody may make some correlation in the opposite direction.

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        • JunkhackerJ
          Junkhacker Developer @Quazz
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          @Quazz i have never heard anyone say to image a drive and mean to create an image. I’ve heard “capture an image,” “create an image,” “pull an image,” “make a backup image” but never “image the drive” the only way to completely eliminate confusion would be to make the description ridiculously verbose.

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            Quazz Moderator @Junkhacker
            last edited by

            @Junkhacker I think the exact wording doesn’t matter much as long as the direction is expressed clearly (using to and from), imo

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            • Tom ElliottT
              Tom Elliott @Quazz
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              @Quazz I see where you’re headed, but that’s just it. You’re saying the exact wording doesn’t matter, but that’s exactly what this post is about. It’s about the exact phrasing being expressed clearly, where anybody can misinterpret any text however they see fit.

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              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman
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                You cannot misinterpret “Quick image deployment”.

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                • Tom ElliottT
                  Tom Elliott @Wayne Workman
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                  @Wayne-Workman Quick Image deployment up or down?

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                  • Tom ElliottT
                    Tom Elliott
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                    Deploy:

                    verb (used with object)

                    1. Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
                    2. to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately:

                    To deploy literally means to set up a tasking. That’s it.

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                    • Wayne WorkmanW
                      Wayne Workman @Tom Elliott
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                      @Tom-Elliott Then “Quick deploy existing image”

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                        Quazz Moderator @Tom Elliott
                        last edited by

                        @Tom-Elliott I agree that at the end of the day there’s almost so much you can do and that a well documented wiki is far more important than any of this, but I see little harm in trying to minimize ambiguity.

                        @Junkhacker said in Fog client confusion:

                        @Quazz i have never heard anyone say to image a drive and mean to create an image. I’ve heard “capture an image,” “create an image,” “pull an image,” “make a backup image” but never “image the drive” the only way to completely eliminate confusion would be to make the description ridiculously verbose.

                        ^ working off that logic, having just “Quick image” makes no sense at all.

                        At the end of the day I care very little about this, just playing devil’s advocate I guess.

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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott @Wayne Workman
                          last edited by

                          Quick deploy existing image? Where is it existing from? Server, or the machine that’s trying to setup the tasking?

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                          • JunkhackerJ
                            Junkhacker Developer @Quazz
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                            @Quazz my point is that to image a drive by default means to put an existing image on the drive. any other use of the term requires qualifiers like “create an image”

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                              Quazz Moderator @Junkhacker
                              last edited by

                              @Junkhacker That’s fair, but perhaps it would be useful for the long run to have consistent terminology accross all of FOG, that is to say if “Quick image” represents “Deploy image to this host” from the WebGUI ( sort of ), then that should be named something similar.

                              I understand where newbies’ confusion is coming from, is all.

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                              • Tom ElliottT
                                Tom Elliott
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                                To clarify in the english language would require more along the lines of:

                                Place existing file from FOG Server after another master system had its data copied to the server by means of placing the bits copied from the originating file onto the this system.

                                Like I said, I understand the confusion, but I’m not changing it. This value is already changeable. As for the init’s, making an entire build of a file simply for changing around a few words (not even spelled incorrectly) is moot to me. It can be done yes, but now that we all know what it means, we can inform others as they ask. There shouldn’t be the rant about something that literally has no impact on how a system works at all.

                                If you take “Image this host now” as to upload and image and ruin your “master” system, when this is already clearly documented not only in our own wiki, but other tutorials on how to properly create a master image, I’m sorry. I didn’t know we had to make the entire system self documenting, which means the point of a manual is what?

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                                  coco65 @Tom Elliott
                                  last edited by coco65

                                  @Tom-Elliott Don’t get mad, I was making this remark to help future newcomers, not to troll you. I know how it works now, just trying to help in making it better, not only for the hardcore/oldschool users but for newcomers also.

                                  Note that English is not my native language, I am not trying to be a grammar professor here. In the wiki the word image is mostly used as a thing (an image), not a process (to image).

                                  See https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Hosts

                                  Images
                                  Image objects in FOG are the representation of the physical files that contain the disk or partition images that are saved on the FOG server.

                                  See https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#General_Tasks

                                  General Tasks
                                  The general/common Tasks in FOG include unicast image upload, and unicast image send, as well as a multicast image send. In FOG, sending an image to the server is considered an image upload, and deploying an image to the client is called a send. Both of these tasks can be started directly from the search, list all hosts, and list all groups pages.

                                  In the wiki the terms upload and send are used and explained, but in the web console (GUI) it’s called capture and deploy in the menu and tooltip. So the wiki and GUI and boot menu are not in sync.

                                  From a usability perspective I would suggest that you choose 2 words (like capture and deploy) and then use the same terms in the wiki, the UI and the client boot menu. One line of text describing if it goes from client to server or from server to client, would not hurt. When you are standing before a client, that just PXE booted, the wiki is not at hand.

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                                  • Wayne WorkmanW
                                    Wayne Workman @coco65
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                                    @coco65 Well said.

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                                    • coco65C
                                      coco65 @MRCUR
                                      last edited by coco65

                                      @MRCUR

                                      I have to disagree with this. When you use “image” as a verb, it implies that you are downloading the image to the computer.

                                      In the past I have tried and/or worked with (but i prefer Fog over them):

                                      • Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
                                      • Acronis Snap Deploy
                                      • Clonezilla
                                      • Trinity Rescue Kit
                                      • CloneDeploy
                                      • WDS: Windows Deployment Services

                                      In those systems “making an image” or imaging means copying all the data from a (client) hard disk to a file (on a server or somewhere). Bringing the data back to a client system is called deploy, send, push, download or restore. I do not care how it is called in Fog, just keep it the same in the console, the boot menu and the wiki. Capture/Deploy works fine for me.

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                                      • Wayne WorkmanW
                                        Wayne Workman
                                        last edited by

                                        Also, @Tom-Elliott there are several Web Interface errors that still use the upload/download terminology I’ve realized. For example, “You must first upload an image to create a download task”.

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                                        • Tom ElliottT
                                          Tom Elliott
                                          last edited by

                                          All changes are now made.

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                                          • Tom ElliottT
                                            Tom Elliott
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                                            Understand, this “rant” is not about a particular person or thing.

                                            Yes, I agree text should be common. The only reason Deploy/Download Capture/Upload were used interchangeably around the place is because a while back somebody said Upload and Download made no sense, that it would be clearer to use Deploy/Capture. So I made the change(s) after a very similar discussion here.

                                            So all of my posts regarding this (while admittedly a bit on the “heated” side) are not about how simple (or not) it is to change the text so a single user (Yes I know it can help many more) can understand it, but rather about something called “precedent”.

                                            Because I made this change the first time around, it set the precedent that I would make the change ANY time somebody makes a suggestion. I agree the descriptions should’ve been updated and for that I’m sorry, but those changes would not have had to have been made if we left the original labels as Upload/Download. Making the change to the Quick Image and init’s would’ve likely been more understandable under that light.

                                            That all said, I’ve made ALL of the requested changes. Registration will now ask:
                                            Would you like to deploy image to this computer now?
                                            Rather than:
                                            Would you like to image this computer now?

                                            Boot menu is labeled as:
                                            fog.deployimage with description Deploy Image
                                            Rather than:
                                            fog.quickimage with description Quick Image

                                            All references to upload as it pertains to images/imaging has been replaced with capture.

                                            All references to download as it pertains to images/imaging has been replaced with deploy.

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