Cannot deploy Windows 7 image to Dell Latitude E5420.
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I have double and triple checked the image type and os. I am deploying separate images to each model and I did sysprep and included the needed drivers. The only thing different from the plain jane/jim way of setting FOG up is that I have a secondary hard drive setup and I followed the instructions on this page, [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Moving_your_images_directory/Adding_Storage_to_the_Images_directory[/url], the part at the very bottom is how I have the drive connected to FOG. I may have messed something up when I did that because I switched it from being in the mount directory to the /image/newdrive directory.
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Check your permissions sample command below.
ls -laR /images -
yeah it’s either permissions or something with the hardware on the E5420.
Or perhaps a different switch model / switch settings that the E5420 machines are connected to.
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I resolved the issue by uninstalling and installing fog again and copying the images to the /images root directory. But the question still remains, why can I not deploy from my external drive when I could deploy from it before I rebuilt my fog server.
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External drive, or a 2nd or 3rd or 5th internal drive… it doesn’t matter. the drive needs mounted and the permissions have to be set.
Also, you’ll need a storage node specifically for it if you want that drive to be detachable.
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To the best of my knowledge, it was mounted because I could look at the data on it. The images were in /images/images/images. I had all the permissions set exactly like the ones for /images that were set during the fog install. I also had the images pointed to the correct folder to do the images.
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Alright,
How confusing can you potentially make this?
First what’s the output of /etc/exports
WHY SO MANY IMAGES folders inside images?
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When I mounted the partition from my external hard drive the partition name is images and the folder inside of that is also called images. As for the /etc/exports, below is the output.
/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1,subtree_check)
/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2,subtree_check)/images/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1,subtree_check)
/images/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2,subtree_check)/images/images/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1,subtree_check)
/images/images/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2,subtree_check)I think I my see the problem now. Shouldn’t the fsid be different for all of these?
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Ok. Found my problem. The problem was the fsid’s in the comments above. The fsid’s need to be different for each line. I changed the fsid’s and it lets me deploy images from the /images, /images/images, and the /images/images/images folders without a problem. I am sorry that the way that I have it setup is confusing but it is working now. Thank all of you that responded.
Thanks,
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no need to be sorry. it was just difficult to read. all i saw was “images were in images/images/images … exactly … like /images. …also images pointed to … images” and my brain threw a kernel panic
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Stack trace:> ~[] too many images in images with images:
Unsure of which image you want to see images in:
Error code :images -
I should have picked a better naming convention when I setup the partition and folder. Next time I will name the partition and folders something else. I will know next time to check my fsid’s first to make sure they are different. Thanks for all your help and sorry for the kernel panic with the /images/images/images.
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It’s all good man. We get a laugh and you now understand a bit better how the fsid system works. No pain or anything on you.
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kernel panic? I got dizzy and fell over! Hit my head on the sink and saw the flux capacitor…
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I’m about to run back to the future or forward to the past
