Posts made by foglegs

well this is what ive been thinking about this past hour, after all programs are installed that takes about 35GB out of the 100gb leaving roughly 60GB free, so I think im going to recreate the base image with 60GBs total which will then be used about 35Gb of data and roughly 50% free after that for microsoft updates or what else that may be needed, this should decrease my deploy from a 100GB drive to a 60Gb thats 40Gb taken off…

well I tried to muticast to 8 workstations and the time estimated was 9 hours, the speed was at 65 MB min for 8 in a multicast…and I let it finish and yes it was about 9 hours. I really want to believe in FOG and use it to deploy my Windows 7 in-place upgrades so im trying my best to make this work but its the image time that is killing me because of my huge HDDs i guess, I cant be the only one that has HDDs over 100gb with Windows 7 at this point in 2013

Scenario: HP DC6000 160 GB HDD with 2 partitions (System -2GB, OS - 100GB with about 24GBs used for OS, Office 2010, Printers, Microsoft Updates) with roughly 45GBs of unused blank space left. I used FOG to capture the image using [Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Non-Resizeable) due to my hosts all being same or bigger in HDD space. This process to deploy to another system takes about 45 mins and yes I have Gigabit from Fog Server to Switch to Host. Is there any way I can make this a quicker process, imagine doing this for 10 workstations.

ok we are finally getting somewhere…[B]FYI if clients are trying to use FOG as the DHCP server you need to modify this directory as well if your modifying your pre-existing FOG servers ip information for a different site location.[/B]

/etc/dhcp/dhcp.conf - this was the culprit for me, it still had the old ip address information and I also discovered I can narrow down the dhcp address scope here as well.

PXE-E11 ARP Timeout
TFTP Cannot open connection
this is what i get now…how to verify and test the fog tftp connection is working?

ok I have changed the IP Address for all settings but im trying to figure out how to modify the “/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default” I have navigated using Nautilus but its read-only, then i tried using VI but after pressing I for insert and started navigating thru the file i got tons funny looking characters so i closed out…How do I config the read-only file?

Update - i noticed the default file has root as read only and fog user as full access so i WinSCPd to the fog server as fog user with the password that is located in the TFTP Server settings under “FOG_TFTP_FTP_Password” I modified but yet host gets this error now:
PXE-E11 ARP Timeout
TFTP Cannot open connection

ok this is great info, I have navigated thru these areas you mentioned and I see all areas i need to change the IP Settings for…except FOG Configuration/Other ->PXE Boot Menu…I dont see any areas that have a ip change that need to occur in order to modify then resave…

ok all images will be stored on the local workstation I have anointed my Windows7 Host>Oracle Virtual Box>Ubuntu Desktop x64 12.04>Fog 0.32 server, so I will need to change my ip host (Windows 7 box to local subnet im at) then change the ip to the Ubuntu (virtual pc) which effects the fog server.
now all the fog ip addressing that I need to change will all be in the “Fog Settings”? also how do I resave my PXE file for the new subnet?

hey thanks for responding. heres my issue I have multiple subnets at different cities, I want to plug in my fog station on any local subnet and obviously change any ip settings on the fog server side that need to be changed in order for the clients to pxe from the fog server. If end up at a site and the subnet is 192.168.1.x and my fog server is still set at 192.168.100.0 (from the last site) wouldnt I need to change my fog server ip settings to match 192.168.1.x subnet so that the clients can see the fog server? also Im traveling to multiple sites so if plugging in a temp fog server is a quick way to upgrade to Windows7 then im ok with it and also my clients are all static IP’s no current DHCP so I will having the fog server supply temp dhcp when booting off pxe client.

I want to use fog 0.32 built inside of Ubuntu 12.04 x64 vm, and be able to change the network settings of the Ubuntu host and change all ip changes (tftp, dhcp, ip address) in the fog server to match the current network in order to talk to clients and use fog DHCP for the site. Is this possible to have a mobile Fog Server that can still keep all my images for different sites but just change the IP information when i got to different sites?