Sorry that I never updated this post in a timely manner. Right after I started this thread, I went on a 2 week vacation, and when I got back, I had been so busy that I didn’t have the time. As of today, I have a working FOG Server. I know now that the black screen with white writing is the partition and mbr screen. This is the screen that would flash right before the computers would reboot. I know now that the problem was that we didn’t completely clear out the old partitions before imaging, so the image had about 5 partitions and some were logical, which I know now that FOG doesn’t like. Now, I have the standard 100 mb system partition and then the partition, and everything is working great. I imaged my first 10 computers today in under 40 minutes. Thank you all for your help!

Thank you soooooo much!!! That is all that it took. I ran the commands and then restarted the clients, and they started right away. I can’t tell you how much this helps me. We have to have over 40 computer imaged and handed out by September 1, and we were about to loose our minds. We lost our licensing for Norton Ghost, which we hated anyway, so we started to look at Fog. Now that it is working, we can start imaging on Monday! Thanks!

I have seen a few other posts on this issue, but I didn’t see anything in them that answered my questions. I am not able to run multicasting on my FOG server. I first tried multicasting 2 computers and it just sat on the following screen: [IMG]http://fogproject.org/forum/attachments/multicast-png.1159/[/IMG]

It just sits there, even after all computers have connected. After reading some old threads, I tried to multicast with just one computer, but it did the same thing. Uni-casting 2 computers at once works, but when I get up to 30 computers, that will take a lot longer and a lot more resources. Unfortunately, I am not very good with Linux-based systems, so I will probably have to be walked through all solutions. Thanks so much in advance!

Austin

@Wolfbane8653: What you said is exactly what happened except for the “task complete” screen, which I never saw. The black screen with white text showed up and it appeared to be replacing the MBR, and then something else flashed on the same screen really quickly, which I couldn’t read or get a picture of, and then the computer rebooted.

@undead-rattler: I am about to go back in and check this out, I will post results.

@junkhacker: I should have been more clear. I meant the black screen with white text that appeared to be replacing the MBR.

I recently installed Fog, and everything was going great. I was able to configure just what I wanted, upload images, and register hosts, but I tried earlier today to do both a multi-cast and a uni-cast, and neither of them worked. On the multi-cast, only the computer that I built the image on would connect to the server and wait for the image, the rest went through the MBR screen (at least that’s what I think that it is) and then rebooted. A screen then came up saying that the computer was missing the operating system. For the uni-casting, once again, only the computer that I built the image on would work, every other computer would just restart. I am running fog 1.1.2. The image that I am trying to push is single disk, multi partition, Windows 7 32-bit. I read some other threads where people has very similar issues, but I didn’t understand some of the answers (I am new to fog and I am not a linux guy) or the questions were never fully answered. Thanks in advance for your help!

That was indeed the problem. As soon as I got rid of the space, it registered properly. I don’t know what I was thinking, as all of our current host names don’t have spaces, but have dashes instead. Thanks for your help!

Austin

Thanks for the info. I wan’t exactly sure. I will try tonight and let you know.

The Host Name that I was trying to use was “Mini Desktop.”

When I perform a full inventory via the PXE menu of a host computer, I add a custom Host Name, but when the registration is done, the host name listed in the FOG interface is the MAC address, just like it would be if I used quick registration. I can’t find the host name that I entered anywhere in the description either. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Is this still a place to request access to edit the wiki? If so, I would like to do so.

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