it’s pretty basic sql.
You want to connect to mysql, switch to the fog database, and updated the records in the images table. A few questions first.
Did you set a password on your mysql installation?
How do you want to handle the active/inactive images definitions? i.e. active are 1 through X, and inactive are 1000+?
I’m excited about Windows 8. At this time, if it works, it works; if not, we’ll probably have to wait until retail before we can troubleshoot.
if the host records already exist, you may have to go back to each record and select the “Active Directory” menu option, and choose to join the computer to the domain after the image task. I had this issue because I had host records created before I had the Active Directory credentials working properly.
Make sure the account you are using is specifying the FOG_AD_DEFAULT_DOMAINNAME as a FQDN (something.something.etc), your FOG_AD_DEFAULT_USER is specified as (DOMAIN\User), and your FOG_AD_DEFAULT_PASSWORD has been FOGCrypted properly. I have not had success is specifying the FOG_AD_DEFAULT_OU just yet, but I plan to work through that next. For now, they are joined to the default Computers location, and I move them to the correct OU as part of the deployment.
You need Account Administrators group membership in AD, OR be a domain admin, OR be delegated computer account management rights on the default Computers location and any other locations you plan to put machine accounts.
[quote=“Chino, post: 828, member: 276”]Fog is actually on a static ip…but again it’s so wierd that only this model is giving me this problem.[/quote]
Fog server having a static IP doesn’t really answer the question? Is the FOG server your DHCP server also? Did you update all the settings that tell the clients where to go for PXE? Are you running a proxyDHCP/LTSP/DNSMASQ?
For my Windows 7 images, because I do NOT do a sysprep /generalize right before imaging, I find the Single-Disk, Multiple Partitions works best. I generally image onto same size or bigger drives though, so I’m lucky.
Maybe incorporating sysprep /generalize into your last steps before imaging will help your single-parition, resizable problems.
First of all, I strongly caution you to NEVER use the administrator account, especially for 3rd party software. Setup an account and either make it a member of Built-in\Account Operators, or delegate rights to computer objects in the OU structure you are using.
Second, have you tried without the OU specficiation? Just to see if FOG is able to add computers to the default “computer” location? If so, your OU value may be wrong. You might need to specify the full OU path, like [CODE]OU=B1S010,OU=Level2,OU=Level1,DC=test,DC=local[/CODE]
Manually register the device. After it’s registered, specify the custom kernel options, and created a new task to perform the upload. The registration ONLY uses the default bzImage kernel and ignores custom kernel settings because of the way the PXE boot options are specified. When you create a task for a unit already registered, it will use the custom kernel.
If your non-defaut/custom kernel works for everything else, just make a backup of the original bzImage and rename the non-default kernel to bzImage. Make sure you chown and chmod so the new file is the same as the original as far as owner/group and permissions.
This post is a copy/modify from the original post on the old FOG forums on sourceforge. I believe it has value for any one that may need help compiling a custom kernel.
The original issue I had was with the Acer Iconia Tab w500p tablets. Running FOG 0.32 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I could not get them to boot the fog kernel, they just crashed with a video problem. Also, they lan port on the docking station was actually an integrated USB to LAN adapter from Asix, and it didn’t work in any of the linux based cloning solutions (novell zenworks or FOG).
I loaded Ubuntu 11.04 onto one of these devices and the Video works. Unfortunately, the Asix 88772B usb nic is not detected. I downloaded the driver from Asix at [url]http://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/driver/AX88772B_772A_760_772_178_LINUX_Driver_v4.1.0_Source.tar.bz2[/url] and I ran through this ( [url]http://dinomite.net/blog/2007/setting-up-ubuntu-for-building-kernel-modules/[/url] ) before trying to compile. I didn’t follow exactly though, I found the linux-source-XXXXXX package manually by looking at the output of [CODE]uname -r[/CODE] and [CODE]apt-cache search linux-source*[/CODE] The rest of it I was able to do, including updating the Makefile with the “-8-generic” instead of leaving it at “.8”.
After I followed those instructions, I went back to my folder that had the new Asix driver source and ran [code]make[/code]. It compiled in a few seconds and left me with a asix.ko file. I ran “modinfo” and verified the vermagic matched my running kernel. I then ran: [CODE]insmod ./asix.ko[/CODE] to make sure it loaded the new version that I just built instead of the version that came with the distribution. It worked. My Asix AX88772B usb nic showed up and I was able to get an IP address. I disabled the wireless that I was using and was able to ping the internet.
Now that I knew the kernel module worked, I had to figure out a way to get it into FOG during the Host Registration and of course imaging. I loaded up another machine with Ubuntu 11.04 using kernel 2.6.38-8-generic. I downloaded the source files using [code]apt-get install linux-source-2.6.38[/code] and ran through the procedures again outlined in [url]http://dinomite.net/blog/2007/setting-up-ubuntu-for-building-kernel-modules/[/url], but I don’t know if it was necessary.
As part of the FOG Installation prep, I updated my system and that took me to kernel 2.6.38-11-generic and gave me new directories in /usr/src. At this point, I still have /usr/src/linux soft linked to /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.38. I installed FOG 0.32 per the instructions at [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_10.04[/url] since they are the same with regards to 11.04. I did not make FOG accessible at the root of my web server: there was no immediate need.
So now FOG 0.32 is installed and setup, the kernel source is downloaded and my test fog server is setup for compiling kernel modules. I followed the instructions for [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_a_Custom_Kernel[/url] except for steps 2 and 3 of the Build Process section because I already had the correct sources. Since I knew the Asix driver that came with the Ubuntu source did not work, I made a copy of the /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.38/drivers/net/usb/asix.c file for backup.
Then I took the asix.c, asix.h, axusbnet.c, axusbnet.h files from the driver I downloaded, and put them in the /usr/src/linux-source- 2.6.38/drivers/net/usb, overwriting the original asix.c file.
In Step 4 of [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_a_Custom_Kernel[/url], I originally tried the kitchensink.config, but could not get it to work later on, so I used the core.config file as a base. In Step 5, I ran the [code]make xconfig[/code] and made sure to select the “Device Drivers - Network Device Support - USB Network Adapters - Multipurpose USB Networking Framework - Asix AX88xxx USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapters”.
Because the video on these devices is ATI Radeon HD 6250 (PCI Express based) I also deselected the “Device Drivers - Graphics Support - AGPGART (AGP Support)” and selected “Device Drivers - Graphics Support - Direct Rendering Manage (XFree86 4.1.0 and Higher DRI Support) - ATI Radeon”.
I deselected the option under ATI Radeon for: “Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER”.
I saved my config and closed xconfig, and from /usr/src/linux, I ran [code]make bzImage[/code]. After a long wait, I was greeted with a ndiswrapper error about undefined pointers relating to CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV, which doesn’t seem to be defined in the config files provided with FOG. After looking this up using google, I found that it’s related to the ndis wrapper for windows drivers, specifecally the section of the code dealing with wireless.
I ran [code]make xconfig[/code] again and deselected: “Networking Support - Wireless”, and also “Ubuntu Supplied Third-Part Device Drivers - Wrapper for Windows NDIS network drivers”. I saved the config and closed xconfig and from /usr/src/linux I ran: [code]make bzImage[/code] again. After a long wait, the process finished.
I made a copy of the /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage for backup using: [CODE]cp /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage.YYYYMMDDHHMM[/CODE] I then copied the /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage to /tftpboot/fog/kernel using:[code]cp /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage[/code]
When I PXE-booted my Acer Iconia Tab w500p and selected Full host registration… I was greeted with the “Enter a hostname for this computer” prompt instead of crashing with grey speckles on the screen. So far, I have successfully registered 4 devices and uploaded 2 images and deployed back to 3 devices.
some additional references for support and feature request trackers. Support tracker about video crashes during host registration: [url]https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3414110&group_id=201099&atid=976200[/url] Feature Request tracker for updated Asix driver: [url]https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3414106&group_id=201099&atid=976202[/url]
I don’t recall of the top of my head, but you can compile it into a custom kernel if the drivers are available for your kernel version.
When I have tried to do my Windows 7 images, I have been unsuccessful in using the Single-Partition (NTFS Resizable) option. I do a sysprep early on, but mainly for the copyprofile feature. I then complete the setup and finish customizing the computer to the point of installing all our software and updates and updates and more updates to the point I’d be ready to give the computer to the end user, ready for them to log on. This is when I take an image to FOG using the Windows 7, Single Disk Multiple Partition. It works without problem for me.
I am in a school district with a Volume licensing agreement using a MAK, so there is no need to force every user to go through the 45 minute setup process after sysprep completes.
I don’t think this is a config setting, but something else in the init.gz; but maybe a developer can chime in.
Can you give me a better idea of how you’re connecting the clients to the server? There may be some configurations to check on the switch to make multicasting more efficient.
Are you connected between the clients and the servers through the same switch? Do you have VLANs configured? etc…
Can you try exporting the share through NFS on the windows server?
You’re images didn’t come through for me. Try again?
copy the images to the /images/ folder on the new fog server. go to the web ui, setup the image definitions pointing to the named files or folders matching what you copied.
The FOG UI/Database keeps information about the images, like what they are named, where they are located, and what operating system they correspond to. The filesystem keeps the actual image files. You have to redefine the images in FOG (webui) to match the data files you stored in /images/
usually a [CODE]ps ax | grep dhcp[/CODE] will tell you. You can also check your syslog to see if dhcp is having problems starting due to a configuration error. I believe in 11.04 it’s /etc/default/dhcp… something.
Are you multicasting on a private/isolated network or one connected to your business/campus network?
I tried multicasting back in Nov 2011, and I was not happy with it. I get better performance out of my setup if I just unicast to all the machines, even if using a private gigabit switch.
Thank you for coming back to explain how you fixed your issue. It adds value to the forums and the FOG community.
Did you try only posting in 1 forum for the same problem?