Partimage for old images

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 9:11 AM

Thanks for the new server install instructions. The install was much easier than I thought. I copied my images over to the new server, and then manually created them with the correct settings. However, when I tried to image a machine, it failed. It said it was trying to use partclone.
In your instructions you said I needed to use partimage. I searched for instructions, and what I found seemed to suggest I needed to check the FOG_FORMAT_FLAG_IN_GUI in FOG general settings.
See this - https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/3522/just-to-be-clear-about-partimage/7
I tried to image after selecting that option, and it still said it was using partclone. I then deleted the image, and then recreated the image. I tried again, and it was still was using partclone.
Is there instructions on how to enable partimage? Also, will these old images work alongside the new images I will eventually need to create?
Thanks

–Moderator note: This topic was forked from here:
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8970/decreasing-disk-space

Wayne Workman · Nov 21, 2016, 9:37 PM

@Chuck2000

Setting up an image to use partimage inside of fog 1.2.0 or FOG 1.3.0 is two-part.

First, enable the ability to change the images format:
Web Interface -> FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings -> General Settings -> FOG_FORMAT_FLAG_IN_GUI

After that above setting is enabled, images will now have an extra option to select their format. This is called “Image Manager” on each individual image. Inside of:
Web Interface -> Image Management -> [click desired image] -> Image Manager -> Partclone or Partimage
as pictured below.

After doing these two steps, the image should deploy with Partimage as needed. And to answer your 2nd question, yes this can work with newer style Partclone images that you create in the future as well. You should always use partclone with all new images you create. This feature to select the image format is only meant to enable you to use your old migrated images until you create replacements.

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 3:03 PM

@Wayne-Workman

I see where to change to partimage – thanks.
However, that doesn’t appear to be the issue. The imaging process simply won’t start. This is true for both deploying and uploading an image. After several boot/information screens appear, the computer just reboots and the imaging/uploading process won’t begin.
Below I posted a few screenshots taken when trying to upload a test image to the FOG server. After these screenshots, the computer just restarts and boots to the hard drive.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Quazz · Nov 22, 2016, 9:09 AM

@Chuck2000 Hi, can you please highlight your new setup details?

OS version
FOG version (including RC number)

Also, what system are you trying to capture/deploy ?

Oh and is your FOG server the DHCP server now or is it using proxydhcp or did you alter the DHCP server? (and which bootfile are you using? (default is undionly.kpxe))

Wayne Workman · Nov 22, 2016, 9:15 AM

Also pinging @Tom-Elliott. The OP has done what he’s supposed to do for the old 0.32 image to use Partimage, but it’s not working.

Tom Elliott · Nov 22, 2016, 3:19 PM

@Wayne-Workman What are you pinging me for?

What version of FOG is running currently?

Just saying “what we were supposed to do” isn’t enough, I don’t know all the details. I need those details to more accurately help out.

Wayne Workman · Nov 22, 2016, 3:22 PM

@Tom-Elliott He should be using RC-25.

Tom Elliott · Nov 22, 2016, 3:25 PM

@Wayne-Workman We don’t know that yet.

The other post just says that there was an update, but it was from 5 days ago, to my understanding.

Was there anything from the boot.php output so we could SEE what’s going on?

Wayne Workman · Nov 22, 2016, 3:29 PM

@Chuck2000 What is the output of this link?

172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=64:00:6a:8a:f4:5c

That information was taken from your below screenshots. Be sure that this MAC address is still configured to use partimage in the web interface. Go to the above link and copy/paste what you see.

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 3:53 PM

@Wayne-Workman said in Partimage for old images:

172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=64:00:6a:8a:f4:5c

Here is the information that was requested - thanks.

You are currently running version: 1.3.0-RC-24

DHCP server screenshot:

boot.php file output:

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 172.16.5.153
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
goto get_console
:console_set
colour --rgb 0x00567a 1 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 2 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 4 ||
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2 ||
goto MENU
:alt_console
cpair --background 0 1 ||
cpair --background 1 2 ||
goto MENU
:get_console
console --picture http://172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0x00567a 0 ||
cpair --foreground 1 1 ||
cpair --foreground 0 3 ||
cpair --foreground 4 4 ||
item --gap Host is registered as 7020image!
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.keyreg Update Product Key
item fog.deployimage Deploy Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.quickdel Quick Host Deletion
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 3000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.16.5.153/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.16.5.153/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.keyreg
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param keyreg 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.deployimage
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.multijoin
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.quickdel
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param delhost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.16.5.153/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:bootme
chain -ar http://172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params ||
goto MENU
autoboot

Tom Elliott · Nov 22, 2016, 4:08 PM

@Chuck2000 Please set the mac address into a tasking with the “partimage image” associated to it and then redo the url call and get us the output.

Please wrap the output in triple backspaces for easier readability.

172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=64:00:6a:8a:f4:5c

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 4:44 PM

@Tom-Elliott said in Partimage for old images:

Please set the mac address into a tasking with the “partimage image” associated to

Thanks, but I’m not sure what to do here:

Please set the mac address into a tasking with the “partimage image” associated to

FYI - my images that I copied over and then manually set the settings are showing up with no image size

Wayne Workman · Nov 22, 2016, 5:08 PM

@Chuck2000 said in Partimage for old images:

Please set the mac address into a tasking with the “partimage image” associated to

Tom means: Set the computer who’s MAC address that is to image via the web interface. Afterwards, don’t boot it up to image, instead go to the link I provided earlier. The output will be different because there’s a task waiting for that MAC. That output is what we need.

FYI - my images that I copied over and then manually set the settings are showing up with no image size

That’s fine. This particular field will update when you deploy each of them. Image Size on Client is not the same as Image Size on Server. The server has no idea how big the image extracts to because it’s never deployed the image before.

Tom Elliott · Nov 22, 2016, 5:53 PM

Update to RC-25 to fix the partimage/partclone format issue you’re seeing please.

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 6:25 PM

@Wayne-Workman

Okay, I updated to partimage. Here is the output - thanks.

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 172.16.5.153
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
goto get_console
:console_set
colour --rgb 0x00567a 1 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 2 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 4 ||
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2 ||
goto MENU
:alt_console
cpair --background 0 1 ||
cpair --background 1 2 ||
goto MENU
:get_console
console --picture http://172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0x00567a 0 ||
cpair --foreground 1 1 ||
cpair --foreground 0 3 ||
cpair --foreground 4 4 ||
item --gap Host is registered as 7020image!
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.keyreg Update Product Key
item fog.deployimage Deploy Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.quickdel Quick Host Deletion
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 3000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.16.5.153/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.16.5.153/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.keyreg
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param keyreg 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.deployimage
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.multijoin
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.quickdel
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param delhost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.16.5.153/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:bootme
chain -ar http://172.16.5.153/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params ||
goto MENU
autoboot

Wayne Workman · Nov 22, 2016, 6:28 PM

@Chuck2000 Tom says if you update to RC-25, this issue will be fixed. Please do that and try again.

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 6:34 PM

@Wayne-Workman

Okay, I will try an upgrade. I have never updates a FOG server before. Are these the instructions that I should be following?

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk

Tom Elliott · Nov 22, 2016, 6:35 PM

@Chuck2000 yes, those instructions will work. I personally recommend the GIT method.

Chuck2000 · Nov 22, 2016, 7:59 PM

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Chuck2000 · Nov 23, 2016, 4:48 PM

@Tom-Elliott

After upgrading to RC-25 as you suggested, the issue is resolved. I can now image computers. Thank you and the other forum members for the help.

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