FOG install Centos 6.2 as VHD - tftp error
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Few problems have made me feel like such an idiot as this ([COLOR=#ff0000]just read the red perhaps, to cut out details you may not care about while skimming a forum).[/COLOR]
I’ve searched the wiki and followed the advice. I searched this forum and found a number of tftp related items that make it all sound SO simple…
If I can solve this, I’ll write up a step by step ‘guide for idiots’, honest. I mean, someone needs to do it, who recently fought the good fight.
I’d love to regale you with stories of the 5 day battle, and the 8 fresh install attempts, but… to the point:
1.[COLOR=#ff0000] Installed fresh CentOS 6.2 in a HyperV VM on server 2008 R2[/COLOR]. Got it to network (who KNEW it installed without networking enabled! Learned much about eth0 and such).
2 [COLOR=#ff0000]Installed FOG .32, but had to remove php, htmldoc, and clamav before it would install.[/COLOR] I seem to HAVE php 5.3 already installed, so that part is fine, and one set of instructions says to delete htmldoc, so I assume that’s okay. WHY it can’t find clamav, I don’t know, except I imagine I need to look up how to add servers to yum’s list… when I try to manually install clamav manually, well, it says it doesn’t exist and ‘there is nothing to do’.
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All that aside, it SEEMS TO HAVE INSTALLED AND WORK up to the point where I try to ‘upload’ a host to an image file. At that point I get the infamous can’t connect to the tftp server.
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This is where it gets weird to me… granted, I run linux just to enjoy an OS that works… and last time I dug into any depths was 20 years ago, with Xenix (don’t pick on me, I’m old) at work.
[COLOR=#ff0000]Supposedly this is simple. The fog user password is wrong.[/COLOR] It needs to be the same as within fog gui, under info (the question mark icon)/fog settings: FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD.
This is where I ‘thought I tried everything possible’, but to not keep writing a book…
[COLOR=#ff0000]I log into the FOG Gui on the VM as ‘fog’, and ‘password’.[/COLOR] I am logged in as root (seemed harmless to not do the sudo thing constantly).
[COLOR=#ff0000]I naturally tried to log into linux as fog, but that also failed with the same tftp error.[/COLOR]-
I set the fog user login password to ‘password’, and changed fog FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD to ‘password’.
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On another install (exported a base VHD so I could keep installing fog) attempt,[COLOR=#ff0000] I tried changing the fog user password to "a crazy long number I cut and pasted from FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD[/COLOR], figuring it was some magic number. That also gave me the same error.
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[COLOR=#ff0000]I think what I need, if anyone has the patience, is a blow by blow CHANGING OF THE PASSWORD for both user fog, and fog server. [/COLOR]
[B]MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING BIG I’M MISSING THERE… maybe there is more to it all…[/B][COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR]
This much I know: passwd fog and setting it to ‘password’, and then setting FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD to password, fails.
There must be more to it. That magical long number must mean something special, and copy/paste doesn’t work.
I’ve installed this at least 8 times… on Ubuntu (which is flakey cause in HyperV the nic is unstable), and finally settled on Centos because both MS supports in in a VM, and FOG supports it as an install base for the sw.
To whoever gives me a fix, a HUGE thank you in advance, and a surprise weird gift in the mail if you give me an address privately (gotta have fun, right?)
Thank you,
David
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I should add that I can use putty (ssh) to connect to the server, and log in with ‘fog’ and ‘password’.