error deploying windows 11

[robertkwild]

hi all,

im getting this error when i deploy a windows 11 image

sorry no idea what the error could be, i was hoping you guys can let me know

thanks,
rob

[Tom Elliott]

@robertkwild Did you actually capture an image to deploy?

It looks like you should expect an image in: /images/w11_24H2

Based on the message, it seems like if you had captured this before, it may not have completed or maybe was not written to /images/w11_24H2?

[robertkwild]

@Tom-Elliott this is interesting

yes i sysprep’d and then captured it using fog

ls /images/win10-22h2gi/
d1.fixed_size_partitions  d1.original.swapuuids  d1p4.img
d1.mbr                    d1p1.img               d1.partitions
d1.minimum.partitions     d1p2.img               d1.shrunken.partitions
d1.original.fstypes       d1p3.img
[root@lon-c-fog10 ~]# ls /images/w11_24H2
/images/w11_24H2

du -sh /images/w11_24H2
0       /images/w11_24H2
[root@lon-c-fog10 ~]# du -sh /images/win10-22h2gi/
18G     /images/win10-22h2gi/

but when i look on the fog web gui i get this

its saved the image as a file not a dir, why is this?

[Tom Elliott]

@robertkwild I don’t know why it did this.

There was some showing if this exact type of thing happening where/when

/images is one mount, and /images/dev is another individual mount

For example:
2TB HDD (SSD or otherwise) drive that /images is tied to in fstab.
Another 1TB HDD (or something like it) that /images/dev is tied to in fstab.

When the file gets moved from /images/dev/<mac_of_host> to /images/<image_name> for some reason the system moves it and makes it as a file instead of moving it as a directory.

You might (though I’m not holding my breath) still have the image in /images/dev/<mac_of_host> that captured?

[robertkwild]

@Tom-Elliott you are the main man, thanks so much !!!

rm -f /images/W11_24H2_GI
cp -rf /images/dev/00505692a681 /images/
mv /images/00505692a681 /images/W11_24H2_GI
chown -R fogproject:fogproject /images/W11_24H2_GI
chmod -R 775 /images/W11_24H2_GI/d1*

when i deploy it now works

is it ok to delete the folder in dev or leave it?

[Tom Elliott]

@robertkwild I think you’re okay to delete the folder /images/dev/00505692a681 But I leave that trigger totally up to you so long as you tested your copy of the W11_24H2_GI folder is good

[robertkwild]

@Tom-Elliott Hi Tom, this is happening all the time now, im having to run the commands everytime now i create new image

is there anyway i can automate this as in /dev folder i see the mac address of the host so in that folder would it contain the image name of what i called the image, if i know this i can definately automate it?

[Tom Elliott]

@robertkwild Is what I asked correct?

You have one drive mounted for /images, and another totally different drive mounted for /images/dev?

This used to work I suspect, so something changed and I’m going on a limb suspecting the issue is the inclusion of a secondary drive for the singular mount point.

[robertkwild]

@Tom-Elliott sorry Tom

no i only have one /images mounted

df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                  95G     0   95G   0% /dev
tmpfs                     95G     0   95G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                     95G   18M   95G   1% /run
tmpfs                     95G     0   95G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root   50G  7.1G   43G  15% /
/dev/md6                 3.6T  902G  2.6T  26% /images
/dev/sdf4               1014M  154M  861M  16% /boot
/dev/mapper/centos-home  835G  309M  835G   1% /home
tmpfs                     19G     0   19G   0% /run/user/0
[root@lon-c-fog10 ~]# ls /images/
backup  dev  lon-transkoder  lost+found  os  postdownloadscripts  w11-gi  win10-22h2gi  Win10H22_Theatres
[root@lon-c-fog10 ~]# ls /
bin   dev  home    lib    media  opt   root  sbin    srv           sys       tftpboot.prev  usr
boot  etc  images  lib64  mnt    proc  run   script  swapfile.sys  tftpboot  tmp            var
[root@lon-c-fog10 ~]#