Posts made by chad-bisd

Also, you might look through the Wikipedia/Wikimedia tutorial on editing articles and using Transclusion to reduce data duplication. I think that’s still what they call it. We really need a wikipedia team of super documenting super heroes!

One of the things we need to do in the wiki is figure out which versions of FOG each article applies to and include that in the information, maybe as a category. Many times people get to looking through the wiki for info, and get confused or frustrated because the procedure is not valid for their version.

I you are using host specific kernel settings, that will work for any tasks you setup through the WebUI in FOG, but will not work for tasks selected from the PXE boot menu. If you have a gmail account, I can share my kernel with you. Just PM me your email.

I have been really busy with back-to-school. Haven’t had a chance to create wiki accounts. I believe I am the only mod that does it right now. I’ll get them hammered out and PM you the info as I create them.

Megabyte, go ahead and start your own thread and post your question including what version of windows and FOG you are using. I’ll be happy to help you get it working with AD if I can.

DNSMasq is the package. It requires you to change a few pathways in the FOG setup and add an IP helper/relay to your router config if you have FOG clients on different subnets/vlans than your FOG server.

I have no experience with FOG above 0.32 right now. So I can’t really help but with general knowledge and suggestions.

Mine always looks like this
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What is running in VMWare? the FOG server or the client or both? Maybe a VMware hardware version upgrade/change could have affected this. Sometimes VM’s are set to upgrade HW on the next boot cycle.

I have 2 models of machines (out of about 20 different models) that will not PXE boot if the DHCP server is not the same machine as the PXE server. When we used Windows DHCP and FOG for PXE, these machines would not PXE boot. Research with WireShark showed that they failed to receive blocks 2 through N of the pxelinux.0 file.

My solution was to implement a ProxyDHCP server on FOG, wherein FOG now listens for DHCP requests as well, and lets Windows DHCP give IP info, but responds to the clients with the PXE boot information. I modified my FOG server slightly and added an additional DHCP relay/DHCP helper to my main switch that handles VLAN traffic routing.

If any of this sounds like what you need, I’ll be glad to help you as much as I can.

You can try to use the WEB ui to upgrade the kernel. Or you can download a new bzImage to another folder. backup your original, and then overwrite the bzImage file in /tftpboot/fog/kernel with the new one. You may have to chown/chmod.

When requesting help, please include the OS and FOG versions you are using and if you have modified anything that may have an impact, list it also.

It appears you kernel (bzImage) is loading, and the init file (init.gz) is also loading, but having a problem with something else. I don’t think this is a PXE boot problem because at this point, you have finished PXE and are now in the FOG kernel and boot image.

Has this exact machine/hardware worked on your FOG system in the past? Very important to know whether your FOG is not working, or you just have new hardware that may need additional drivers/settings.

make sure if you copy it over, that you check file ownership and permissions before you gzip. You may need to chown and chmod to make it match the other scripts.

Here it is. It’s around line 450, and there are comments. Mine may have some other changes in it, but they are unrelated and do not affect this functionality.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1194_fog.progressbar.txt?:”]fog.progressbar.txt[/url]

I updated the file manually and it works for me. I have progress bars on multiple partition, single disk deploy tasks. You probably had a small syntax error, like putting in or leaving out a / or a something.

Is this multiple partition, single disk, and is it upload or download task that is not showing, or both?

Right after I install the FOG client, I set the service to startup type: manual and stop the service. Then I use a command at the end of my setup script to set the startup type to automatic and start the service.

Depends on the speed of your client machine (disk, cpu, network), the speed of your switch, and the speed of your server (mainly disk and network).

I have a 26GB image that I upload over a 100Mb usb-to-ethernet adapter and it takes about 35 minutes. I have a 50GB image I upload over 1Gb and it takes about 20 minutes.

Cancel the current task for the host. Create a new task for the host, like a hardware inventory task. Once the task shows as scheduled in the webUI, log onto the FOG server (ssh or terminal access) and look in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg for a file 01-[mac-address]. If there is a file, mac sure it matches the primary mac address of the host record in the FOG webUI AND that it matches the mac address of the host as seen from inside the host’s OS.

If there is no file, you have other issues, but we’ll wait on your response.

*edited for proper path,maybe