Posts made by Duffney

I personally have never gotten the client installer to pick up hosts. I always have to do a full inventory to get it to work.

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 995, member: 2”]What happens when you try to register them from the boot menu?[/quote]

It does not work unless I do a full host registration.

I am trying to use chain loading to bypass the fog splash screen and I’m able to get that to work. However if I do that I cannot fully register hosts with fog. I have tried using the fog client application to register them, but they do not show up in the Host Management on fog. Also adding them manually does the same thing.

Timeout is set to 30. I found out the chain loading completely bypasses everything and goes straight to the hard drive. Which would be fine If I could register a host manually or with the client. For some reason it does not work. I’m opening another thread for that problem.

Could you tell me where you placed the lines below in the default file. I did this and it just boots to hdd is that the point? is the splash screen supposed to show up at all?

[COLOR=#000000] DEFAULT fog.next
LABEL fog.next
kernel chain.c32
append hd0[/COLOR]

Has anyone been using Ubuntu 11.10 with fog?

[quote=“IT @ CC, post: 872, member: 252”]is this still an issue, we had this with our Optiplex 790’s & fixed.[/quote]
I am still having the problem, but have not had time to try modifying the chain loading as suggested.

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 804, member: 2”][URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FIX:_Chainloading_alternate_SYSLINUX_to_force_boot_from_first_hard_drive’]Chainloading[/URL] is what you’re looking for.[/quote]

Would you mind walking me through the first few steps of that? How might I upload it to the tftpboot?

I have some new dell Optiplex 990s that I have been deploying and changing it to boot to pxe first. The problem is it finds the fog and then shows the splash screen but then reboots to the splash screen again never booting to the HDD share. I have to click esc to get it to boot the the HDD. This also happens on the new dell latitudes. Has anyone figured this problem out? It is confusing the end users a great deal.

Thank[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 760, member: 18”]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/[/quote]

Thank you for your post. This will for sure help me transfer the images. I have them backed up the an external hard drive atm. Have not received the new server yet…

I could not get the command line to work. Said my drive wasn’t in a block format. So I just copied the files via GUI like a noob. What needs to be done to restore these images to a new server?

Where you ever able to figure out the problem or did you have to reinstall. I am getting the same error message, I however have updated the kernel and it was successful you probably needed to update your login password.

Currently running as a vm off a vm server install. It is in a production network. I set up fog as .30 upgraded to .32. got pxe boot to work in both versions. Have not chagned mysql password. The one opps I have made is I needed to change the static address from the Install address from .11 to .10. I have changed the ip in the information tab in fog and edited the config files.

sudo gedit /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php
sudo gedit /var/www/fog/commons/config.php

The problem now is my clients cannot connect to the tftp server. When I try and register the hosts it gets stuck on attempting to register fog. When I try and update the Kernel it gives me a tftp error message.

[quote=“Blackout, post: 465, member: 1”]It should work. I would suggest upgrading to 0.32 before you put too much work into it.[/quote]

From what I read this is as easy as running the deployment package for .32. Is it as easy to uninstall in case it doesn’t work after the upgrade?

[quote=“Blackout, post: 465, member: 1”]It should work. I would suggest upgrading to 0.32 before you put too much work into it.[/quote]

Could a cisco router or any router for that matter be denying my magic packet. I cannot seem to get the computers to find fog upon a pxe boot.

Thank you. I’ll have to get the second server up and running and attempt this. I might also copy to an external to back it up. Do you know of any Ubuntu software that does automatic backups?

How would one move the existing images off one fog install to an external device and then import them onto a new fog install?

I have installed fog .30 on a Ubuntu 10.04 and was wondering what other preparations I need to take to get PXE boot to work. I have a dhcp server and have made the appropriate changes to that. Is there anything else I need?

Thanks I’ll try and get it up and running. Atm I’m having trouble getting the workstation to pxe boot… have read I may need a boot disk.

I am trying to install this on a vim and was wondering if it’s stable?