I want to thank everyone for their hard work on this project!! I really love this project and have already told others about it. I think my real issue is that I’m not on Trunk… I know it would be better for everyone if I went to Trunk, but since it doesn’t seem like you have any sort of snapshots (a known working trunk version) I feel like by luck i’m going to step into some unknown dev bugs and cause even more problems. I have decided to move my current project to a commercial offering, but will be following this FOG’s development and plan to use it in future on other projects. Again you guys have put together such a great project and I support open source whenever I can. I can’t wait to see it grow and get better and will be watching for the next stable release. Thanks again to @Wayne-Workman for all his work on this and everyone else who tried to help. @Sebastian-Roth if it will help I can still upload the mbr file, but only if it will help others. At this point I don’t want to waste anyone else’s time.

@Wayne-Workman said:

@Tom-Elliott We were taking information from his previous thread here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6362/upload-never-gets-moved-out-of-the-images-dev-folder

Yes thank you. I should have reposted that info…

@Tom-Elliott said:

I’m so confused. Where did the information about the nfs mounts come from? It should be /images by default. How did we know it was going elsewhere?

Unfortunately I have been doing a lot of poking around and following tutorials online (Probably made changes I shouldn’t have). I had added /media/external to the /etc/exports file previously. I copied the default ones and just added two more with the same settings. I later added a new storage node pointing to /media/external, and deleted the /images. Not sure if that was supposed to alter the /exports or not…

@Wayne-Workman said:

@mobile_bob can you check your exports file? Make sure it’s pointing to the right locations. cat /etc/exports
If that’s the issue, edit your /opt/fog/.fogsettings file to point to the right directory for the exports file.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_NFS

It still had pointers to the /images folder in the export file. I deleted those, and it may have fixed the problem, but it’s hard to tell because the download jobs are not doing anything anymore… They just flash past and the task is deleted. If I do a debug download it just says press enter a few times then says it’s done without partclone coming up.

Unfortunately it’s still not working. The crazy thing is, when I copied the folder from /media/external to /images it restored one time. /images is not even on the list of storage nodes anymore, and all images where created AFTER I setup the new node and delete /images. I thought I could hobble through things by manually copying the files over for the time being, but after that first restore job that worked, now it doesn’t download at all. When I do a download task and use debug so I can watch it, it just has three hit enter to continue with no text then says that it’s complete. Nothing actually happened. I hate to be a bother, just can’t seem to get this thing working fully…

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks i’ll check that!!

Ok, so everything was working fine and uploaded a couple of images. When I went to download an image I get the error “Unable to locate image store”. The image is correct, because I just uploaded an image and turned right around to download it and get that error. Again i’m at a loss. I did the debug download and all the variables looked correct, and I was getting an IP address and could ping the fog server.

For anyone that wants to know, my issue wasn’t quite fixed with formatting and changing the owner to fog. After I did all that I had to delete the storage node and recreate it.

@Tom-Elliott Still testing the imaging problem, but the TFTP and DHCPD not starting is fixed thanks to the suggestions on the issue you referenced.

@Sebastian-Roth It was set to NTFS, I think that was my problem… I’m not great in Linux and I had set ownership to FOG, but it wasn’t taking and I hadn’t realized it. After following the FTP troubleshooting doc I formatted the USB drive to ext4 and successful set the ownership. I’m testing now.