Wiki: Troubleshooting an Image Deploy
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[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting_an_image_push_to_a_client[/url]
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This process will wipe out whatever is currently present on the client computer.
This tutorial is for FOG .30 pushing Windows XP and assumes that your primary disk is /dev/sda. [B]Note that this process has not been tested on Windows 7.[/B]
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[]In the management portal, start a debug task for the client computer in question. Allow the client to boot and at the bash prompt.
[](Everything below is done within the bash prompt [B]on the client’s console[/B])
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[]From your client, mount the remote /images folder on your FOG server onto a local /images folder using nfs:
[]mkdir /images (type this on the client’s keyboard, as explained above)
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[]mount -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images (where x.x.x.x is the server ip)
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[]you may try also mount -t nfs -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images
[]Copy the master boot record to the first 512 bytes of the local disk. Take a look into /usr/local/fog/mbr/ to determine the correct MBR for your system. This example uses XP:
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[]cd /images
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[]dd if=/usr/share/fog/mbr/xp.mbr of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1
[](For previous versions, find the fog directory under:/usr/local/)
[]Start fdisk and remove all previous partitions:
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[]fdisk /dev/sda (Note there is no 1 at the end of the device name)
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[]Press “d”, then “Enter” - select a partition if prompted and repeat pressing “d”
[]Press “w”, then “Enter” to save and exit fdisk
[]Create a new partition:
[]fdisk /dev/sda
[]Press “n”, then “Enter”
[]Press “p”, then “Enter”
[]Press “1”, then “Enter”
[]Press “1”, then “Enter” or just “Enter” to accept the default starting sector
[]Note: Windows 7 users may want to create a 100M partition, then repeat these steps to create the system partition and assign the rest of the disk to the OS.
[]Press “Enter” to accept the default ending sector
[]Press “t”, then “Enter” to change the partition type
[]Press “7”, then “Enter” for NTFS
[]Press “a”, then “Enter” to toggle the bootable flag
[]Press “1”, then “Enter”
[]Press “w”, then “Enter” to save and exit fdisk
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[]Update the partition info:
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[]partprobe
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[]Use partimage to copy image from FOG server to local partition:
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[]/usr/sbin/partimage restore /dev/sda1 /images/[imagename] [B]-f3 -b[/B]
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[]Use ntfsresize to expand partition:
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[*]/usr/sbin/ntfsresize /dev/sda1[B] -f -b -P[/B]
(For previous versions, find sbin under: /usr/local/)
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An alternate way to do partimage (which gives more feedback) is to load the gui version of partimage with:
/usr/sbin/partimage, then manually fill in the fields/choose options.