[quote=“Kevin, post: 13015, member: 3”]Paul,

Do you have the FOG client installed, and enabled the hostname changer? You may need to modify the .ini file from this to fine tune the client a bit to your liking.[/quote]

Hi,

it’s very interesting. Once machine is registered with FOG, host name is mac address, (correct?) how fog client can help to change hosts’ names? Where I can see more info about this? Because now, I’m renaming all hosts manually.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Hello,

I pushed image to 70 PCs successfully and all of them where turned off after imaging was complete ( as fog has this feature ), but I’m not sure how long imaging process was? Can I check it from fog logs? I used multicast deploying.

I see reports for unicast imaging duration - but can’t find for multicast.

Thanks for advice!

I have read this article: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577[/url] remember now that I got some issues with license key in the past, thanks Kevin for your help, anyway I’ll test this and will come back to you with feedback.

I like this multicast option if it will save bandwidth - good one.

I’m trying to sysprep xp machine because need to have different pc names and ssid after restore.

But when running ‘fogprep.exe’ I receive 3 different errors and now I see that:

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333][B][CENTER]FOG Prep[/CENTER][/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]Download FOG Prep which must be run on computers running Windows 7 immediately prior to image upload. [/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333] [/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]If this tool is only for windows7 how can I solve this on xp?[/COLOR][/FONT]

[quote=“Kevin, post: 10591, member: 3”]That would very well cause a problem glad to hear that you got it working for you now.[/quote]

Kevin,

I just built image and saved on the server, now I’m restoring another machine from this image.

I was wondering how I can restore 10 or more machines per time, I created a group for this and successfully deployed an image to machines - great.

Thanks

FOG server was rebuilt and now quck/full registration methods are working fine.

Once fog server was built IP was changed few times, it seems like it was main problem.

Thanks.

[quote=“Kevin, post: 10468, member: 3”]I did find this thread, [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-server-fatal-error-failed-to-mount-nfs-volume.115/[/url] I also found a KB article on the Wiki that might help a bit as well, [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image_Upload:_Error_Checking_Mount[/url][/quote]

Great, thanks. I created upload task yesterday and got this error, now deleted the image template and existing host from web interface. Switched on the same host to run quick host registration to see how bios update affected registration methods, but host tried to upload the image to the server again - here is now active tasks anymore but it still trying to upload the image, while another machines with old bios still attempting to register the host. Will update bios on another machine and will test quick/full registration methods.

I saw few similar posts, will check this on the server.

LAST UPDATE: I did BIOS update on dell optiplex gx520 with XP, manually registered host and created upload task.

After host reboot AT LAST saw some progress, it was an error: “failed to mount nfs volume, PC will reboot in 1 minute”

However it is still not working but now I am able to see more details

thanks for you patience, it’s more interesting now just can’t wait to make it up and running

Thanks for reply

Basically how long it takes to register the host? I even don’t see any messages that fog was unable to register the host.

IS IT A MUST to install fog client on host which I want to register or this step is optional?

Yes your understanding is correct. I did it just same way as you wrote here: created image template, register the host and tied with the image, when I’m registering a host it’s asking for host name: Do I need to put a real PC name? or I can leave like “PC” or “test” ?

Once I registered host manually and tied with the image I created upload task on this host. Started machine and was able to see fog menu and time just passed through and it booted to operating system.

I also tested another model: HP Compaq DC5750 - without manual registration. I tried to register it through the fog menu: quick and full registration. 100% the same thing: “atempting to send inventory…” THIS message disappeared and only black screen.

SO: I am unable to register the host through fog menu on quick and full registration and also unable to register the host manually by typing mac address in web interface.

Question: is firmware upgrade on this stage can be helpful? Any thoughts guys? Any other options how I can test what exactly is wrong? PXE and dhcp is working fine, when checking host compatibility everything is fine.

Thank you for your help.