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FOG supports both 1 and 2 partition layouts for Windows 7.

Using the Windows 7 OS type will make FOG determine the amount of partitions and act accordingly.

NTFS Resizable and Multi-partiton will both work.

[quote=“astrouga, post: 3543, member: 907”]Can you give us your recommended setting for a Windows 7 image? Specifically, for testing purposes[/quote]
If set to Multi-partition, it does not matter if there is 1 or 2 partitions.

For NTFS Resizable there are checks made to determine the amount of partitions, meaning both should work.

In saying this, both will need to be tested. Personally i use 1 partition

[quote=“astrouga, post: 3557, member: 907”]Windows 7 64-bit (with the 100 MB system partition) imaged just fine on a Dell Optiplex 745 using the “Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable)” option. I don’t ever use the single partition option, but I tried it. I imaged the same config as a “Single Parition (NTFS, Resizable)” and got a “Windows Boot Manager” screen when I download the image. A repair did not work.[/quote]

There are NTFS resizable deploy issues to sort out still.

Could you please test if Windows 7 works after you have Uploaded an image? (dont deploy, does it boot after uploading?)

There is resizing performed before and after the image is uploaded, knowing if the OS is still boot able means that resizing is working correctly and i have a bug in the deploy some where.

Thanks for the reporting, keep them coming! The less testing i have to do, the more development i can do

Some times i wish there was a “Microsoft frequent installer rewards program”

@astrouga

I looked into the ID issue but i could not replicate it. I tested emptying my Hosts table and creating a new host via the GUI.
This worked as intended giving the first host an ID of 1. I have no tested this on a fresh install, but it did work as intended as of ~860

How did you add the host? Via the GUI or another means?

Great to hear it’s all working well. The latest tools provide a good performance boost by properly aligning drive sectors.

Windows XP has some issues with the aligning etc as it’s installer still uses start sector 63.

If someone could test an NTFS re sizable image for Windows 7 that would help a lot.

While testing 0.33 you should have the following in your ‘php.ini’

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED
display_errors = On

I have fixed the call_user_method_array() issue.

872

• FOGPageManager: render(): Replaced deprecated call_user_method_array() call with call_user_func() - dropped argument pass as PHP Strict was throwing errors if the FOGPage class did not expect the $argument - $this->arguments is accessible in FOGPageManager but should not be required
• schemaupdater: Fixed wrong field type on Task State name field - this fixes ‘state’ icons no showing correctly - need to write a better schema updater to sync my dev server with svn

[quote=“astrouga, post: 3458, member: 907”]Just installed 871 on a clean ubuntu machine. All of the webpage content below the title on an page is blank. For example, on the main page, I see the icons and the title “Dashboard”, but there is nothing below the “Dashboard”. Similarly, if I click on the “Image Management” icon, I see “Image Management” and a menu on the left with “New Search, List All Images, New Image”, but if I click on “New Image” I just see the same page. It does not load the content below “Image Management”.

Effectively I can’t do anything.[/quote]
Check /var/log/apache2/error.log

Any PHP errors being reported?

ext4 should work in the latest SVN

871

• Boot image: NTFS Resize: Windows XP: Upload: Partition start sector is now detected and used when recreating the partition for resize - throws error if not 63
• Boot image: NTFS Resize: Windows XP: Download: Sets start sector to 63 (same as xp.mbr) - new tools use 2048 for sector alignment, but this will corrupt images made with a start sector of 63
• Boot image: Maybe sleeps reduced
• Boot image: Some outputs made consistent
• PHP Strict warning updates
• Service script updates
• All of these updates should make non-resize imaging work as intended. Resizeable windows xp should work, vista and 7 are untested

I’ve found some problems with NTFS resizing - the cylinder boundary issues with new versions of fdisk etc

I’ll have something committed today to fix these problems.

I just ran a test, non resizable partition options are working. resizable is not.

I will look into this more. No doubt it’s service scripts related as im currently working on them.

[quote=“regad, post: 3421, member: 1053”]I have downloaded and successfully installed the 862 trunk on a 12.04 lts Ubuntu. But I didn’t manage to install on a Debian6 machine;:tftpd-hpa package couldnt be installed .
Then I tried to upload an Image ( Debian6, ext4 and lvm) on my Ubuntu machine. But upload is always performed in raw mode, even I have created the image in Multiple partition Image : Single disk.[/quote]
I have just recently installed FOG on Debian. It works fine and that package is available.
[code]root@chicken:~# apt-cache show tftpd-hpa
Package: tftpd-hpa
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 172
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Original-Maintainer: Debian Syslinux Maintainers syslinux@lists.debian-maintainers.org
Architecture: i386
Source: tftp-hpa
Version: 5.0-11ubuntu2.1
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, upstart-job, libc6 (>= 2.11), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~), adduser
Suggests: syslinux-common
Conflicts: atftpd, tftpd
Filename: pool/main/t/tftp-hpa/tftpd-hpa_5.0-11ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
Size: 44756
MD5sum: fa90e5d3fc0bca0520877c4741b0b138
SHA1: 10524c8d583323652fc68d9a4c992a30662feb6f
SHA256: 8420383c8a20f44e927cfa0861bae8af0e12537f37766a13fb92367728eaa0d8
Description: HPA’s tftp server
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a file transfer protocol, mainly to
serve boot images over the network to other machines (PXE).
.
tftp-hpa is an enhanced version of the BSD TFTP client and server. It
possesses a number of bugfixes and enhancements over the original.
.
This package contains the server.
Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
[/code]

[quote=“regad, post: 3421, member: 1053”]My question is : is it already possible to upload an image ext4 format ?[/quote]
Yes

[quote=“astrouga, post: 3429, member: 907”][CODE][Fri May 11 09:02:46 2012] [error] [client ipAddressOfClient PHP Fatal error: Call to
undefined function isValidMACAddress() in /var/www/fog/service/Post_Stage2.php on
line 53
[/CODE][/quote]
Woaps, my bad, i removed this function from the old Code. I have commited it back into 867

[quote=“Fernando Gietz, post: 3432, member: 13”]Other bug:
I can’t access to the fog configuration in the web gui. I can only access to the external links.[ATTACH=full]112[/ATTACH][/quote]
The FOG Page for this section has not been created yet.

The SVN Log keeps track of all updates to the FOG code.

Since my last post there have been a lot of code updates.

FOG SVN Log: [url]http://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeghost/trunk/?view=log[/url]

Keep the bug reports coming

864 + 865

• Installer: Updated version to 0.33BETA
• Installer: Redhat: Updated PHP packages to be install - thanks Fernando Gietz

863

• MACAddress->getHost(): Now checks Additional MAC Addresses for a Host match
• service/Pre_Stage1.php: Lots of love - has been converted to a try{}catch style script
• FOGBase: Moved getClass() from FOGCore to here - all FOG classes should now be able to access $this->getClass() instead of $this->FOGCore->getClass()
• Host: Added: getActiveTask(): Finds a Task that has the state of ‘Queued’, ‘Checked-In’ or ‘In Progress’ (1, 2, 3) - Want to get the Active Task for a Host via MAC? $this->getClass(‘MACAddress’, $mac)->getHost()->getActiveTask() or $MACAddress->getHost()->getActiveTask()
• MACAddress: Now correctly constructs FOGBase
• MACAddress: Added: getMAC() - calls getMACWithColon()

I may have broken some stuff as i have not tested yet

These updates provide an easier way to access Active Tasks and data related to service scripts.
The service scripts will eventually be replaced with OOP versions.

Are there PHP 5.3 packages yet?

Last time i looked you had to manually compile php 5.3 for CentOS. Booooo

861

• Installer: TFTP: Removed ‘\n’ in pxelinux file
• Installer: TFTP: Ubuntu: Installer now correctly detects /etc/default/tftpd-hpa file and installs if file found

862

• Task Status ID Updates in service script functions - image upload and download now work as intended - please verify
• StorageGroup Class simplified

860

• Host: createImagePackage(): Now checks if a Storage Node was found before checking if it’s valid
• Host: Updated layout, MAC now sits under Hostname
• Tweaked icons on search results for Host, Group, Image and Snapins
• Image: Now enforces OS requirement
• Made ‘delete’ pages consistent between all Management Pages

859

• Storage Management Web UI Pages completed
• schemaupdater: Added unique fields for tables: nfsgroups & nfsgroupmembers
• Updated remove icon

There is lots of information on the wiki. Teach a man to fish etc

857

• schemaupdater: Added table: taskLog
• Added Classes: TaskLog, TaskLogManager
• Host: createImagePackage(): If task is upload, add ‘dev/’ to end of ‘storage’ kernel arg - fixes bug reported
• Task: Added: removePXEFile() - Removes PXE File
• Task: Added: cancel() - Sets Task to ‘Cancelled’ status and removes PXE File
• Active Tasks: “red x” now Cancels Task instead of Destroying
• Host + Group Management: Added ‘Deploy’ icon to row results
• Host + Group Management: Renamed various links
• Deploy: Update titles and buttons to reflect Task Type and Target

#1 - Fixed
#2 - Fixed
#3 - Probably not fixed - please test again
#4 - Related to #3
#5 - These pages arent complete yet
#6 - Will be updated on final packaging, thank you for reminding

Need some imaging tests if possible as I’ve made a bunch of State ID changes.

I’d like to know if you can deploy -> boot -> image and have the task removed automatically.