I don’t use sysprep or any other file/system. Up to this point fog has just worked ( as it’s so well built ) and the computer name has been changed to reflect the host name from the server.

Sort of, the core windows registry files where the computer name is stored are still saved on the C drive however I have made a different partition the “active” partition to allow the advanced repair options available when F8 is pressed during boot.

However the pc still boots from the C drive and I would like the computer name on the same drive to match the ID on fog rather than the master image.

Ok, thank you a million. I have just run another test, manually changed the computer name to 12345 and post imaging it has become the same as the master image computer name.

This is my problem, once the device has restarted post imaging, it usually gets unplugged and sent out to site so doesn’t see the fog server until it next gets imaged.

Do I need to install the service on the hosts or just activate it on the server. Do the laptops need to be still connected to fog on first boot for this to happen?

Hey all,

Bit of a weird one, we actually use fog to manage a fleet of devices that are constantly being turned around and re-imaged as we’re an events company so devices never remain on fog for a long period of time to set up services etc.

The problem I’m having is I have an image of 4 partitions (including system reserved) that images fine and works however as part of a procedure we have in place, ( I have built a custom recovery partition into the HDD on the image so on-site, someone can recover the device back to our “base image”) I have made a different partition (E) the active partition rather than the C drive. This is leading to all the computers coming out post fog image with the same computer name rather than the one registered against the mac address on the fog database which is causing network collisions and all sorts of people moaning about it.

Is the answer set up active directory or is there something someone can think of to aid this problem. I know fog has the hostname changer which I presume was working fine when the C drive was primary as each mahcine would image and come out unique.

Fog 3091
Ubuntu desktop 12.04
Imaging various dell laptops and desktops all running windows 7
HDD content: system reserved, C drive (windows os), D (computer back up image), E (recovery partition, essentially a copy of a windows 7 disc containing the “system image recovery” algorithm under the repair this computer section")

Thanks in advance.

Afternoon all,

Tried to find a coherent thread for things to change to try improve fog speeds but haven’t been able to find anything concrete.

All of the images I am pulling are around the 30Gb mark.
Running fog svn on a virtual os.

Right now I am pushing an image to a host and getting around 3.3Gb/minute (400Mb/s). In the past I have seen this up at 6Gb/s but I would like to achieve 1000Mb/s per host being imaged.
Network card is Realtek RTL8169/8110 family PCI gigabit ethernet NIC
Running through either a gigabit TP-link SG1024D (probably has a small backplane) or I have a cisco SG300-28 which has full 1 gig duplex capacity on all ports.

I have upped the MTU of the port to 7000 and the port is running on 1000 base, full duplex.
The image data is being pulled from a Raid5 4-disk array which I thought the read speed may be the problem?

Any other thoughts or tips to improve speeds?
Thanks,
Chris

Hey Guys, Just wondering if people are still having this problem with newer versions of svn (2923). Tom is this something you have time to look at amongst everything else you do?

Thanks

Hey Tom,

So after trying what feels like a million different combinations of mount points, shared folders, directories, I am still no closer to getting it work but I know it is possible as I managed to do this exact thing once before, I just didn’t save the example
My latest stumbling block is an Input/output error. ipxe.org/1d0c6139.
Had a quick flick through a previous thread to do with the same code, but his was regarding macs so no use and I’m using the svn so it won’t be the geotag problem.

Thanks,
A very stressed and tired Chris!

Have tried the mount command and the fstab ( given they do exactly the same). They still mount correctly and as a user, I can modify/edit the files, though I did need to be sudo to save the changes. Fog quick image still complains about the mounting problem.
Have given the tftpd-hpa service a restart as well as I wondered if I am constantly mounting/unmounting the/images folder, I can see that the disk info gui is constantly switching between the raid array disk space and the disk space left on the 10GB Vdi that the host is running so it is clearly mounting and picking it up as otherwise fog wouldn’t change from using the VDI to using the raid array space.