Posts made by cokewithvanilla

yes, you can consider this solved. Thank you all for your help. You guys have been great. And I must say that FOG has come a long way since I started using it in ,29 (at least for my uses).

it did not reboot. It is asking me to press any key to continue, and then it gives me an advertisement for Blancco. Then you hold the power button for 8 seconds to shut down hah.

thank you. that works perfectly. I am waiting for it to finish (its at 10%) and i will let you know if it will auto reboot. Question. Is there any way to run a menu item that will Dban, then reload a new OS from quick image? I imagine i will have to get rid of the quick image password (though my attempts at this have so far failed)

yes, there are quite a few results, but they all pertain to 1.2 and older… i cannot find anything on the new system… and the old way doesnt seem to work

Helloooooo i just updated to SVN. I cant seem to find a tutorial on how to use the menu entries. I am trying to add a dban menu entry (as I once had on .32), and i am stumped. Where do I put dban.bzi, and how do i tell it to run? Seems like a lot has changed

It is virtualized. I just restarted all my switches and whatnot and the problem is gone. Interesting.

Hello, I am having some odd FOG issues. When I boot to PXE, it is extremely slow when getting to the boot menu. Sometimes, the boot menu fails to load the graphics. 9 out of 10 tries to load something from the menu results in connection timing out. I have tried multiple systems and multiple cables, all have the same issue. It seems like the data is just coming across really slow, and sometimes it gets there in time and sometimes not. What could be causing this? It times out at “bzimage…”… once or twice i got it to work flawlessly.

I am running Ubuntu x64 14.04 w/ latest FOG from trunk. I need the quick image option, and 1.2.0 fails with ipxe, and I have to workaround that with the old pxelinux.

Fog is doing DHCP. I believe options 66 and 67 are set, but how do I look? I recall there being some file with that info but i forget where

I just did that, reset, and i am getting the same message. I have also checked the tftpd-hpa file, and it is identical to yours

I have also disabled the firewall in ubuntu, changed permissions to 777, made sure iptables was correct

no such file or directory

I have disbaled the firewall on the server, now it seems to work. ONly one issue, I now get “No such fire or directory” error when trying to boot

would this make a difference for PXE? I mean, I am running the test because the PXE boot getrs stuck at “TFTP…”

i opened port 69 and am still having the issue

Ubutnu 14.04 Desktop x64. I’ve tried older versions, and server versions as well

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A while back, my fog server went down. Linux did updates, then the server stopped working. I thought, alright, ill reload ubuntu and turn off auto update. I have since tried to load fog about 50 times with no success, using every version of linux i can find. The major problem I have is tftp. I cannot connect to tftp from the windows command line. I can from within linux.

I have gone through every threat on tftp, i have done everything suggest, permissions, etc. I cannot get it to work. Any suggestions?

Thank you for the reply. When trying to load FOG on ubuntu 12, I get to the point of checking the packages, and the last two fail… the DCHP ones.

A few months ago, I installed fog 1.2.0. It was working great, then ubuntu ran updates and broke the fog sever. I thought, ok, lets just reinstall it.

I have now tried to install fog about 30 times. I’ve tried ubuntu 14 lts server, desktop, 32, 64, ubuntu 12 lts server, desktop, 32, 64.

Everything fails. Any version of ubuntu 12 will not finish the install of fog, always an error checking a package. Version 14 will finish, but never be able to connect to TFTP, no matter what I do. I am following all the same steps I did when the server was working, but no luck. Has something changed? I tried CentOS and Debian as well, debian wouldn’t install apache and I forget what happened with cent. I’ve messed with this for hours, with the tftp issues, i have replaced all the passwords, turned off the firewall, etc. I have tested the tftp from the fog server itself, and it downloads the file… any other computer, nope.

I have installed working fog servers on 3-4 occasions… It really shouldn’t be this hard

I used to use this method to bypass host registration. It seems that in 1.2 a lot of things have changed.

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Bypass_Host_Registration[/url]

I found a post that helped me unicast from the boot menu. That’s great, but slow. Is there any way to bring back multicasting without host registration? I load my laptops once and then never seen them again.

that sounds good

I don’t know if I exactly follow… the menu item sounds good… it’s kinda like what I am doing with unicasting, having a menu item for a particular image? What do you mean about a false task?

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 23167, member: 7271”]
I know it looks like a lot, but this is what will work for what you’re trying to accomplish. I’m sorry it’s not as simple as you’d like, but I don’t think we could make it any simpler for you for what you’re trying to do.[/quote]

Thank you for your help.

I think I may have discovered that fog is the wrong tool for me. If I use your method, which is pretty good, I would have to change the boot settings… which means I would have to change them back. It also means I have to boot the computers twice… the second time through WOL… which I would have to enable. All machines are closed at the time of loading. Also, registering the computers takes a long time in itself. This method might take almost as long as renaming the computers manually.

Ideally, I would like to pick up a computer, network boot, close it, sit it in the rack and move on. Then run a multicast . The network boot should put it in a state that identifies the computer as ready for an image. Acronis came very close to doing this… but it is paid software. It seems like FOG simply isn’t designed for this… and I don’t have the programming know-how to change that

I take it there’s no way for FOG to run a script that changes the registry on each computer after the load? This way, I could do a randomized computer name and it would be just as good… run the same script on every computer

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Yes… there is a reason I want to bypass this. it’s simply an extra step. I have to press f12, then select register (wait forever), then I can go into the fog settings, select the OS, then I can repeat this 46 times, then I can start a multicast, where I will again have to touch the computers, press f12, etc. How do you load a crap ton of computers at a time without having to mess with each one? I really want to open all 46 l;aptops, press f12, go to the server and initiate a multicast to ALL hosts, using automatic naming. This is pretty much what I have with bypass registration, only I cannot name them. Is there a script I can run? Even if I populate a random name, this would be fine.

I tried to use Autopop and it did not like to work… always said host not found. But I guess I was trying to multicast.

Multicasting is a necessity… i always load 46 computers at a time… that would kill bandwidth otherwise.