Dell Optiplex 3010 imaging to /tmp/pigz1

[lawrence1997]

Hi All

Trying to upload an image for a Dell Optiplex 3010. And it is is saying that it has data on the FOG server with around 230GB of data but when i look in the captured field it states that there is no data.

Upon capturing the image i see that its trying to save it in a different location than the other images are stored its trying to save it in /tmp/pigz1.

Any help on trying to get this image up-to our FOG Sever would be appreciated

Kind Regards

Lawrence Lonsdale

PS: All other images upload and download successfully

[george1421]

What version of FOG are you using?

Does the 3010 have a sata disk or nvme (M.2) disk?

[lawrence1997]

Hi george,

We are using version 1.3.3 and it has a SATA drive.

Kind Regards

Lawrence Lonsdale

[george1421]

@lawrence1997 Just so I’m clear here. You can capture images of other computers to the FOG server and it works just fine, but when you upload a 3010 it attempts to upload the file to /tmp/pigz1 on the fog server instead of /images/dev/<mac_address> ?

[lawrence1997]

@george1421 Exactly right

Kind Regards

Lawrence

[Tom Elliott]

@lawrence1997 That’s 100% incorrect.

/tmp/pigz1 is nothing more than a FIFO (File in, File out).

All images, capture and deploy, get sent to this file. It’s nothing more than a memory buffer.

[lawrence1997]

@Tom-Elliott Do you know why the image wouldn’t be getting to /images even tho on the FOG server thats where the location is set.

Kind Regards

Lawrence Lonsdale

[Tom Elliott]

@lawrence1997 I dont’ know what you mean.

FOG captures images to your Storage Location’s dev folder.

In a typical fog server you have a storage location structure similar to:

/images
/images/.mntcheck
/images/postdownloadscripts
/images/dev
/images/dev/.mntcheck

The main storage (mounted read only for clients being deployed to) is /images.

When uploading, a folder is created in /images/dev with the systems mac address in lowercase form without any special characters. So WHILE an image is being captured it would be uploaded into:
/images/dev/<macaddress>.

When the capture is complete, FTP is called and moves the /images/dev/<macaddress> to /images/<imagepathasdefinedingui>.

[Wayne Workman]

This article also details that process:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_FTP

Also this touches on it too:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_NFS

[lawrence1997]

@Tom-Elliott Tom do you know why all other images can upload except a Dell 3010 then

Kind Regards

Lawrence

[george1421]

@lawrence1997 On this model, have you run through the FOG compatibility tests from the iPXE menu?