Posts made by Catsrules

[quote=“Jacob H. Weeks, post: 2228, member: 716”]Could Someone Please Provide A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Set The Server up on an Ubuntu system including everything that needs to be done before and after running ./installfog.sh?[/quote]

How about this
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-install-fog-on-ubuntu.5/[/url]
Or this
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation[/url]

The Tutorials section is helpful
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/forums/tutorials.13/[/url]

[quote=“Fernando Gietz, post: 252, member: 13”]We have developed this feature, but we use fog 0.30.
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That is cool, I would be interested in something like that. Would it to to much trouble to post the coding behind this? Even if it is for the older version, I bet people would find it useful, maybe even update it to the newer version.

@LanStack
At the moment the only way to do this, it to do what Blackout said, and rename or delete the secondary partition image. Then when fog does a restore, will not be able to find the second partition and error out and skip it. As long as your partition layout is exactly the same on every computer, it will not destroy any data on the secondary partition.

The thing that sucks about this setup is whenever you update you image, you will need to remember to rename or delete the secondary partition, otherwise it will overwrite all the data on the secondary partition with the one on the server, and that is not good.

Just when I thought I was an expert at networking, You guys throw vlans at me

There has been a bunch of people who want this, but so far no one has done any thing about it. I am not sure if they forms are still lthere some where, and we just don’t has access to it, or if it is totaly gone.
It sounds like it is a giant pain to try to capture any information from the old forums, because it doesn’t have the formatting, so if you copy and past you loose all paragraphs and stuff like that, it is just a mess of text. That is even worse if there is any code you need.

It would be cool if we could just download the old forum data. I don’t think it could be that big maybe a few GBs or something.

I did find out that Google cache has some of the forums, you can grab if you want.

Hmm that is strange, your are missing a lot of files.
/etc/dhcp3 should have
a folder dhclient-enter-hooks.d
a folder dhclient-exit-hooks.d
a file dhclient.conf
a file dhcpd.conf

If you want here is my dhcp3 folder
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1754769/dhcp3.zip[/url]
I think you will just need to edit your dhcpd.conf file, to the subnet you were using.

[quote=“alonebfg, post: 1674, member: 586”] So this is a big thank you for all the good work please keep it up as for me this tool in schools is invaluable.[/quote]
I will second that.

That would be cool.

One of the schools I worked for, had a program called LanDesk, and it would do p2p for deploying windows and also updates. They would have the main server, that gets the updates, then sends it to a few clients, then other clients would connect to those few clients and then it would just grow from there.

But we had a few problems, like one time we where deploying windows on every computer at a school, and one of the first computers, that got the information from the main server, got a corrupted copy, then sent it on the all of the other clients. We ended up having to redo everything again.
But that would be fixed if they just did a CRC check on all of the files. I think that is what the normal bit torrent does.

[quote=“Kevin, post: 1607, member: 3”]I’ve noticed that when I boot an ISO off of FOG it only goes at 4 MB/sec to load the ISO. I know that the hardware is not the issue. Gbe to all computers (10Gbe to the switches), 15k speed drives in the servers running on a 10 core CPU (20 with hyper-threading).[/quote]

I have notice that as well. Anyway we could speed this up? Or it is just how tftp is.

I was thinking of putting ultimate boot cd on there but it is like 600 megs.

[quote=“buckITall, post: 1521, member: 101”]
As for the 1st question…looks like it might not work since all HD are different sizes as well. That’s ok it shouldn’t take too long to create images…(job security) ;)[/quote]

Yeah if i have different size drives, I use the smallest drive use all of the space. Then on the bigger drives set it up exactly like the smaller drive, leaving the extra space unallocated

But it sucks because you loose that extra space on the bigger drives.

Ahh Yes you can do that, but you need to modify some stuff to get it working.

You need to add the images to the fog menu, so you can pick them from the menu. Here is the instruction on how to do that.
[URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bypass_Host_Registration’]www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bypass_Host_Registration[/URL]
Make sure you go to bottom of the page, to get the newer instructions, and not the old instructions.

For the 1st partition and not the whole disk, you need to have you images on multiple partition single disk. Then upload it. It will upload all partitions, this is ok. When it is completed you need to go in to the fog server, and look at the files for your images, there should be a separate file for each partition. You just need to delete the secondary partition file. Now when you deploy it your images, it will error out when it tries to deploy the secondary partition image, and not erase anything on that partition.
But the partitions need to be exactly the same, or fog will erase them.

[quote=“mutilator, post: 1459, member: 536”]irc.freenode.net #fogimaging there are several idlers there to help people[/quote]
Thanks, for the IRC info

I think it would be a good idea to post this information on the IRC page of this sight.
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/ezirc/[/url]

Also to get that IRC chat window working. It looks like it is trying to connect to
server irc.vbirc.com
channel fog

Sorry but I am still confused.

Are you trying to create multiboot computer (So when they boot up you just pick the OS you want from a menu). Or are you trying to make a image for each OS you can deploy to all of the computers? Or trying to do something different.

Yeah moving computers around is not one of fog strong points. My guess is your will need to do some coding on fog, to get it working.
I know there is talk about how to address the moving PC around issue on the developers forum here
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/location-vs-hostname.122/[/url]

You could probably make a script or something, you could run in the PXE boot menu, that will just look at the ip address that computer got, send it to fog and have fog automatically remove it from the last group and add it to the new group that is assigned to the IP range. Then send a re image task using the image assigned to the new group to the computer.

I am just talking out loud here, I really don’t know much about how the programing works in fog, I am more of a network guy.

Not sure if I understand this correctly, So you have multiple partitions on each computer. one partition you want the OS installed on, and the others partition(s) holds your Norton ghost images and you want them left alone. Is that correct?

Ahh, so it was more of a glitch in the web GUI then anything else.

I don’t know much about converting to hex but a sight I tried said it was C0A81416 for a 192.168.20.22 Ip address
I used this sight
[url]http://www.kloth.net/services/iplocate.php[/url]

I also tried this sight
[url]http://www.silisoftware.com/tools/ipconverter.php?convert_from=192.168.20.22[/url]
and it throws a 0x in the front I don’t know what that is about, it has been a long time since I had to convert anything to Hex my self

But I used this sight
[url]http://www.swingnote.com/tools/texttohex.php[/url]
and it gives the Hex string you got, so there must be something different about converting strings and converting IP addresses.

I don’t know much about converting to hex but a sight I tried said it was C0A81416 for a 192.168.20.22 Ip address
I used this sight
[url]http://www.kloth.net/services/iplocate.php[/url]

I also tried this sight
[url]http://www.silisoftware.com/tools/ipconverter.php?convert_from=192.168.20.22[/url]
and it throws a 0x in the front I don’t know what that is about, it has been a long time since I had to convert anything to Hex my self

But I used this sight
[url]http://www.swingnote.com/tools/texttohex.php[/url]
and it gives the Hex string you got, so there must be something different about converting strings and converting IP addresses.

If it ever happens again, it should be under the tasks tab then under Active Multicast Tasks, then you will see a task in the list that you can delete. that will stop the computer from picking up the task.

BTW if you want to stop a normal task it will be under the task menu then Active task.

So I guess you could image a Virtual PC then boot that up and if it will boot. or mount the virtual hard drive on the physical computer.