@wayne-workman Says the man with an aintient electonictube as picture…(-: I am too old to pick that stuff up now, been trying that on and off for the last 10 years, as i told you, it doesn’t stick to me…

And I am happy for you people who can master Linux, I envy you that it comes to you easier than to me… I really do not know how to get started to solve my problem…

So, it is google all the way for me…

Thanks for sticking around and actually add something usefull to the community, I on the other hand am to stupid to help!
(I think…)

Gentlemen, gentlemen, i told that I have the deepest respect for you guys, working hard for zippo(not the lighterbrand) (nothing)
I am very pleased you gave an eye opener and so to say it is something to wait for, even if it takes a few years…
Yes please, lets put their efforts into developing FOG 2.0.
Thanks for the insight…

Signed: A FOG-fan!

Ps. it was not my idea to bash heads, but merely to point out that such a great program needs a bigger community… It is awesome and I have worked with the older version some 8 years ago, and I always wanted to have my own fog server… It never, ever failed once and that was the time before multicasting… So Thumbs up!

Re: F.O.G on windows server It is with pain in my heart that I have to say this to the stubborn Linux community, I am not angry but only very sad that this is still not possible… Open source, does that mean that it only applies to Linux?
Why waking this up? I know that a lot of people put time money and energy into Linux and all products available, but can’t we just try to make something to work on other OS’s, so that more people can contribute in a way to the community.
Now It looks like a bit working in the shade, not that Linux (or Unix) has not got a foothold in the world, no, it is clearly visible, but It lacks a bit.

If I want to put up a fog server, I have to install a linux variant, and I have to pick the right one, because in the past I made such attempts many times concluding that some versions did not work with FOG. What a shame, hours spend to install it, and then from the errors I got to know that the OS is flawed… (ubuntu 16 -> 14) it did not work with FOG…

Such things happen, but the bridge between OS’s must be made, this is giving this piece of software such a big opportunity to expand real big. I know for a fact that a lot of companies now dwindle with GHOST and equivalent programs, but it must not be that hard for those who can program, to make a connection between FOG and Windows Server OS… Without virtualization ofcourse. (Then it still runs on Linux and that is totally not the idea)

I hope You, in the community, see the benefit of it, not only the lame facts that has been spewed out into the world around Linux.

Why? I tell a short story: I have this laptop with Ubuntu 1.14 i think, and with a lot of googling i installed FOG, commands I gave made no freaking sense to me, I could not comprehend the structure as I am a Novell-Microsoft man, so those were unclear. But it worked. After a year or so, I wanted to check upon it, seeing that it had no harddisk space left, and it needed updates… How am I going to start? Everything I do is type commands you put on the WWW, nothing that gives a meaning. If I go to Windows server, i can see the volumes, the space that is left, I can alter, move, work clearly without any compromise and I wished that Linux worked like this, user friendly, management friendly. Now maybe this is in the past, I don’t know, because I never dug into it in the last year, so, tell me, Isn’t there a soul who would like to put some elbow grease in it and start expanding the OS-world of FOG???

Absolutely no hard feelings, just respect for the work you all do, and the ease you find it to make Linux something that is your second native language, but not mine. I am too damn old to pick it up…

Thanks for reading, listening and I hope to see something in the near future…

@sudburr How in the **** could i have missed that… It is running now. So shutdown with the shift i totally forgot and worked for me…
And you did not insult me at all, thanks for the solution…

And to all participants who did try to help me, thank you all…

@george1421
If you read correctly, i did say that the HP pavilion was out and not interesting anymore for this problem. It showed only the ongoing progress i made earlier. That said, the i3 Asus laptop with the Solid State Drive (SSD) could not get mounted… But ok, i see that you get confused, but the problem remains. Is there anyone who successfully managed to clone any SSD??? (With FOG ofcourse).

@Tom-Elliott said in Why can't i clone this laptop of mine:

So for clarification:

Some of your systems work fine (except for the imaging portion due to “could not mount” errors).

This HP Pavilion laptop doesn’t like to PXE boot at all and, based on the information I’m gathering, is not receiving DHCP at the based PXE Boot screen.

Can you provide pictures of the errors you’re seeing so we can more appropriately troubleshoot this?

I know there was one set of HP systems that had problems PXE booting and this was/is due to Firmware issues. They (HP) never published a newer version of the Firmware so it still would have problems.

FOG Works perfectly fine with Ubuntu 16.04.

Hi Tom,

You say that it does work perfectly on Ubuntu 16.04, but i am aware that if it doesn’t all my effort is gone, i have to reinstall the server again.
The HP is not important, so stay far away from that one with all suggestions, it was a failed attempt i had a few months back but got the image already. I am now focussing on my Asus i3 with SSD harddisk that does not like or won’t get mounted by Fog. Before there is any program running via pixie-boot, there is this connecting screen in black with white letters, that screen i am talking about, there it stalls into a error and will automatically boot in 1 minute, over and over …

Hi,
Thanks for the fast reply. The Fog version i use is: per Sun Jun 04, 2017 12:11 pm, Running Version 1.4.1, SVN Revision: 6071
I will dig into the two links you send…(although i knew that Fog, who really likes only Linux, runs best on a server platform, so i provide this but not knowing that the os that makes Fog great is biting back.)
Ok, read most things in the links… first link was not a real eye-opener, as i earlier looked into this fog habbit on other platforms, i did it back then on VM. Now that is not the way, pure install, and only for Ubuntu with fog.
Second link was also not the case, i do not see a cloning program, it does not even get out of the pixie-boot from FOG. It reports in that black and white letters that the disc is not mounted. So this is not in the cloning process, it thinks that the disc is not there, and yet it is, otherwise why would it error in not mounted…It says …or mount the volume with the RO option…

This is the situation, after 5 years not looking into FOG, i made 1 64 bit Pentium laptop into a Ubuntu 14.4 server and installed successfully fog on it back in januari this year. I use my Windows 2012 DHCP server, which by the way works flawless, even the server option 66 and 67 are present, but the my old HP Pavilion laptop does not go further than the rolling character /-|/-| (can’t animate it here)
Well, this laptop i put aside, and went on with other things.

Well. After a few months i was able to clone another pc in my network i got from a friends dead father (rip), Windows 7 home… Flawless…
Then i wanted to clone my laptop i3 Windows 10 running on a ssd, that runs perfectly by the way, but cloning… not. I still get this message that the OS is not completed and that updates or something preventing the disc to start cloning…
Now i am not a expert on Linux, everything i did until now i found on the internet, great help by the way, but this i can’t resolve. I go look for the message
The disk is in a unclean state - could not mount it, it is giving me an option but i do not know where to put the option…
Remember, i updated and shutdown this laptop several times with no problems. So telling me to shutdown properly is not true.

another Q: (Does anybody knows, does the UBUNTU version 16.04.2 LTS works with FOG??? The before version 16.04 did not work, and i had it reinstalled 3 times to get it right… )

Server

• FOG Version: 1.3.0
• OS: Ubuntu14.04.5

Client

• Service Version:
• OS:

Description

I find it very difficult to do, yet my background has giving me the knowledge to solve this kinda problems in a whim, but aparently the better OS, Linux, has it’s flaws.
I tried to install ubuntu 16.4 whatever, yet there did fog not run on, i thought that in 8 months this problem would be solved, but it was not. I redid installation of Ubuntu 14.4 and this time i had it right. I installed version 1.2.0 instead of the newer 1.3.0.
How the hell can i upgrade without stumbling over web services that do not want to shutdown, or either remove…
I would have shot the computer at this point, but, i kept my cool, did it all over again, this time everything went fine, as long as you follow guidelines. As installation progressed, it asked me what my ubuntu would be… well, let’s try samba fileserver… How sorry i was doing that. Obviously Linux is the better os, and i am facing a fourth time installation now. That’s how good it is…
No, you don’t have to react.
All in all, it is for those who know to do what, when and how! Not me, i’ll end up only one ubuntu server 14.4 and only running fog on it; bummer… waste of power…
So, the whole internet is full with “solutions” that are good and bad, but really, it did not help at all…
Why is this procedure of shutting down a webservice so hard…
Wait until i must update to the next version of FOG, i fear that trouble’s on the way…

I guess that either this person is not willing or able to give the link. I tried several attempts to let Fog update but without success. Any comment i got on fora was actually my own fault, not knowing enough of ubuntu or Linux anyhow. I am too old to learn that backwards OS, so do not be mad if i say so, i have a lot of Novell degrees on my name, but even Novell was written in a language far beyond my use and eventually they made Virtual and graphic support. I hope to live to see the day that Linux makes their OS broader, even the server part where fog is easier to implement. I envy those who handle Linux so easy.
Fog is a perfect program, but there is too little solutions and too much problems. But hey, it could be all my fault…