Hosts Sharing USB NIC

[it101]

So I am trying to image a few Dell XPS 13 (9350) but only have a single USB-C to Ethernet adapter. I registered the first host and was able to capture an image and test it, but now that I have plugged in the adapter into another PC. It says Host not registered. So I deleted the host from the web interface and went through the registration process again. It says everything is good and I can see the host in the web interface but when I PXE boot the host, it says it isnt registered.

I have deleted the host from the web interface a few times and have had no luck with registering it through PXE. I have updated the server OS (Ubuntu 12.04.05 LTS) I am still running FOG 1.2.0.
Any ideas or advice?

[Wayne Workman]

Things work better with FOG 1.3.0 Release Candidate and the new FOG Client than they ever did on 1.2.0.

So in 1.3 with the new client, You’d just not register these computers, and use the “Image Deploy” menu entry to image it. You don’t need a machine to be registered to use this. Then, if the FOG Client is installed on your image, the fog client will later contact the server and that computer’s MAC will list in the “Pending Macs” area that you can just approve or not.

[it101]

How do I upgrade to 1.3? Is that the same as “Upgrade to Trunk” in the wiki?

[Wayne Workman]

@it101 Yes, that’s exactly the one. I don’t know how much luck you would have with Ubuntu 12 though, but it has been done before. I’d suggest Ubuntu 16 or Debian 8 or CentOS 7.

[it101]

Thanks, I’ll try this and report back.

[it101]

Well I am trying to update and keep getting to Installing php-gettext…Failed.

I found a thread with something similar but it doesnt help. The thread said to run these commands

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
sudo rm -rf /etc/php5
sudo rm -rf /etc/apt-get/sources.d/ondrej
sudo apt-get purge php5*
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

But the install still fails.

[Wayne Workman]

@it101 Try to install gettext beforehand, and then try the installer again.
sudo apt-get install gettext

[Wayne Workman]

Also, what’s the error when you try it manually?
sudo apt-get install php-gettext

[it101]

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[it101]

This is what I get.

sudo apt-get install php-gettext
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
php-gettext is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libapache2-mod-php5 : Depends: apache2-mpm-prefork (> 2.0.52) but it is not going to be installed or
                                apache2-mpm-itk but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: apache2.2-common but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I think I’m just going to backup my images and install a fresh 14.4 LTS and FOG 1.3

[Tom Elliott]

@it101 The instructions you followed weren’t followed properly, from what I can see.

You should’ve ran:

rm -rf /etc/{apache,php}*
rm -rf /etc/apt-get/sources.d/ondrej
apt-get purge apache2* php5* php7*
apt-get autoremove --purge

Notice you must add apache to the list.

Also, the RC-25 should properly handle this installation and changes required properly.

[Wayne Workman]

@it101 said in Hosts Sharing USB NIC:

I think I’m just going to backup my images and install a fresh 14.4 LTS and FOG 1.3

I would urge you to use Ubuntu 16.04 - it is Canonical’s current long-term-support version of Ubuntu and FOG 1.3.0 installs and runs perfectly fine on it.

[it101]

@Tom-Elliott I ran those commands too and the update fails at the same spot of installing php-gettext, I tried manually installing php-gettext and get the same error as above.

@Wayne-Workman The only reason I said 14.4 LTS is because the wiki says 16 has issues. But with your blessing, I will use 16 LTS.

[Wayne Workman]

@it101 16 doesn’t have issues anymore (Tom fixed them). What wiki article were you looking at?

[Tom Elliott]

@it101 What version of FOG are you installing? (SVN, GIT, tarball?)

[it101]

@Wayne-Workman I was looking at This

@Tom-Elliott I am using GIT

[Wayne Workman]

@it101 Fixed.

[it101]

@Wayne-Workman Can I just install FOG 1.3 on Ubuntu 16 or do I need to install 1.2 first then upgrade to 1.3?

[Wayne Workman]

@it101 You don’t need to touch 1.2.0 at all, you can go straight to 1.3 using the “Upgrade to Trunk” article, or the “Ubuntu 16.04 Server” article in the wiki. Or, if you just know the commands, you don’t need any instructions. But no you don’t need to mess with 1.2.0 at all. People keep asking that here in the forums and I don’t know why. Is there anything indicating that 1.2.0 is needed? Please point out why you feel that way and I’ll do what I can to change it.

[it101]

@Wayne-Workman I tried installing 1.3 on Ubuntu 16 one time without installing 1.2 first and it didnt ask me about changing the SQL password but did ask if the password was blank. I said yes and it installed without a hitch. But when I went to capture my first image, it couldnt mount the file system and fails immediately

Also, I think some might be taking the “Upgrade to Trunk” at face value thinking it is JUST an upgrade and not a full install.