Thank you george1421 that 's was the solution.
I was troubleshooting remotely, and the technician on site insisted that images had already been downloaded onto it.

I understand your point of view, but I also have to remain anonymous to my colleagues.

Solved !

I did update the fog server to the latest version and still the same issue. I am not sure where to go. Virtualbox has the extension installed and vm workstation should work.

I did do this from broadcom

https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/discussion/disabling-hyper-v-hypervisor-on-windows-11-pro-host-to-get-vmware-17s-cpl0-vs-ulm-monitor-mode

@george1421 noted. When I was initially testing, I did not know this and it took some digging in the forums to find this tidbit of knowledge. Given that having separate storage groups stops replication between the nodes in my mind it makes most sense to have a more distributed setup of normal servers at each site to handle all of my requirements. Thanks for the input!

@Sebastian-Roth Can I bother you with this quick question ^^^

I am confident I have ruled out NFS. I can now connect to the NFS from localhost and Ubuntu to /images & /images/dev without issue and all the permissions that come with it. The only thing failing now is FOG, any guidance would be great!

@rodluz
Problem solved - the disk with the image was damaged

@george1421

Ok so the system in question has an on board nic (enp128s31f6), 1 single port Intel PCI-E Gigabit NIC (enp5s0), and 1 dual port Intel PCI-E Gigabit NIC (enp3s0 and enp4s0).

So I booted the system with a Linux system rescue USB key. The network cable is plugged into the single port nic. You can see that it has the IP address 172.16.57.22 was fetched. Without any issues. The mac addresses on the identified nics are:

enp128s31f6 - d4:a2:cd:b7:17:f2 enp3s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b0 enp4s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b1 enp5s0 - ec:08:6b:04:f9:d9 (the one that is attached to the network cable)

SysResecue-Image.jpg

Now when I boot the system up into debug mode with FOG into the FOS environment it seems whatever port is pluged into the lan it adopts another NIC’s mac address as shown below:

FogClient-Image.jpg

Now you can see when the fog client boots the mac address changes on the port that is connected to the LAN as:

enp128s31f6 - d4:a2:cd:b7:17:f2 enp3s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b0 enp4s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b1 enp5s0 - ec:08:6b:04:f9:d9 --> Changed to 00:13:3b:50:b2:b0 (the one that is attached to the network cable)

Now I’ve plugged the cable into enp128s31f6 and setup dhcp on that port as well and tested it. When the fog client starts all of sudden the enp128s31f6 has another NIC’s mac address…

Just a re-cap if I pull the two network cards, and do the re-image on the system I have no issues. It only occurs when I put an additional nic into the system… Any suggestions?

@lmoysidis I’m not using fortigate but check out the following article: https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/installation/network-setup/proxy-dhcp/?h=
I needed to dynamically assign a boot file based on vendor class and dnsmasq did the trick!

@Tom-Elliott Thank you so much Tom, as always I appreciate your support and guidance.

I’m going around replying to all these old Docker request threads so people can try out my work. Check out my thread here:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/18000/unofficial-docker-image-beta

and provide feedback in the comments.

the actual github repo is here:

https://github.com/88fingerslukee/fog-docker

I’m going around replying to all these old Docker request threads so people can try out my work. Check out my thread here:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/18000/unofficial-docker-image-beta

and provide feedback in the comments.

the actual github repo is here:

https://github.com/88fingerslukee/fog-docker

I reverted back to a snapshot I had on the same version and it’s working as expected. Unsure how things got corrupted but I would say it’s safe to assume this is working unless others report the same issue.

@chevengur there is not enough information to help you in that picture. If we could see more of the error message that partclone threw (i.e. just above the top of your picture) we would know what happened. At the point in the script all we know is that partclone wasn’t happy.

@Tom-Elliott thx👍

@Clebboii https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_MySQL#Database_Maintenance_Commands

Please see if this helps? Specifically the task related items. Sometimes stale (old/bad items suddenly show up from long ago.) admittedly I’d love to know what caused (or causes?) this but it has so far eluded me this far.