Posts made by IdahoTech

@madeyem THANK YOU !! That saved my bacon! So let me ask this to all who answered do you have a password on your sql? Seems to be a problem with ‘no password’ mysql installations…

Again Thank you for this…it is now working.

When I try to run mysql -u root -p and I set it up with no password it doesn’t work. Then when I try the password for the adminuser I have that is tied to root it doesn’t work either…before it did…does it reset the password or something?

From what I can see it is running…not sure how to post the output here other than retyping it.

I do not see any errors or anything of that sort. Is there something specific that I should look for in the output?

I do not know, there a way to view what was updated? I started it then had a call to take care of and when back it was done and rebooted it…

Hello Everyone,

I did a sudo apt-get upgrade and let ubuntu do its thing but didn’t upgrade to the latest still on the same before issuing the command.

Now after restarting the server I try to go to the web gui and get

Database connection unavailable

What changed and how do I fix this so I can get back into my fog installation???

Help? Kind of a noob when it comes to linux but can limp along with it if get a little help.

Thanks for any help out there…

OK Well I solved my own issue. Had to retrace my steps and go all the way back to the beginning. When I set the IP and everything in the cfg file I had a dash instead of a equals sign next to the gateway.

My bad but glad I caught it. This only goes to show that you should not work in linux until the coffee has kicked in… So this is solved.

Hello Everyone,

I just installed CentOS7 in my VM server and followed the instructions on how to install it and get it ready for FOG install.

All seems fine and dandy until I go to the fog install and I run into a problem with it installing what it needs to…

SO when it says installing package like mariadb or php it sais Failed! (Will try later) on most of them and it will not install…

I thought CentOS7 was one of the best to install on? What is causing this issue. And I already have it in my DNS and also put a exception in my firewall to allow all traffic to and from this server until it is done being setup, so it is not getting blocked for any reason.

What am I missing?

I appreciate any help or insight as to what I may be doing wrong or have not done.

Thanks for your time

IdahoTech

I hear ya…gotta cut mine…soon I can make grass skirts if I don’t get out there soon…

OK I will do. Thanks for the quick reply and the down and dirty on how to… Being 1 of 2 techs in a district and the other tech is on vacation for 3 weeks :eek: helps me out greatly with the quick run down. I will try it later on Today and let you know what comes about.

I appreciate the information and yes I will have to bite the bullet and install .32 and then upgrade. Do I just go from .23 to 1.2.0? Or go through the steps of certain versions like from .32 to 1.X then from there to 1.2.0?

Can I uninstall the FOG 1.2.0 from my VM and install the .32 to it without loosing my clients I have already registered to it?

I know I am being kind of a wanny, but just want to do this as painless as possible, if it is at all possible. And yes I did have that same setup where I created the images in Virtual Box and then did a snap shot before I syspreped the machine just in case something happened, then did another snapshot after the sys-prep when I imaged it down to a machine and all went well.

However the machine I had that on the HD drive crashed and I lost all my images for it. I mean dead as a door-nail. AH well so goes the life of a techie…always telling people to backup, backup, backup and the one thing I forget to backup…well lesson learned. Yeah I was a idiot on that one. Let the insults commence

If you can give me any kind of quick step by step to either reinstall on my VM with the old then upgrade or what i would appreciate it. If not I understand and can muddle through it, just got a lot going on here and the less I have to muddle the better it would help…;)

OK so where would i find this setting. In the Fog Configuration under Fog General Settings? The main problem I am having is imaging with the Windows XP images…For some reason the WIndows 7 images work and deploy. The Windows XP images come up to the screen where it starts to image then reboot. It happens so fast I cannot see what it states on the screen, but in the logs it states that error I quoted before about cannot have partition outside…

These images were made on the .32 version of fog and I did do a clean install, because instead of going through the upgrades I thought a fresh install would be less troublesome.

Is it because I made such a huge jump in versions that I am having these issues? Is there a way to get it to see the image sizes properly as well as use my XP images?

Thanks for all you do…

Sorry there should be some images there where it states ‘The WINXP img looks like this’. Don’t know why they didn’s upload.

Hello Everyone,

I am running into interesting issues that everyone here seems to be running into and have found a few things.
I have created a FOG server on my VMWare 5.5 server with the new FOG server 1.2.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 and the old setup was coming from a Ubuntu 10.04 server with FOG .32 on a hardware system.

After creating the new server on the VMWare server, I then followed the instructions here to move the server information:

[url]http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2631-moving-a-fog-server-to-new-hardware[/url]

I did change the new server’s IP address one Number up from what it was and made sure all my IP’s for all my information was changed as well.

Here is the interesting things I am seeing as some of the others in forum are seeing:
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[]Some of my images are not showing up with image size information. Even after I image a machine (yes, but with Win7 only not XP)
[]I cannot image a XP machine with any of my WinXP images. After looking through the logs and booting the system with new fog it tells me something about a partition outside of disk as panthersfan25 has stated??
[]I CAN, however, image a machine using my W7 image on the same machine I tried to push the WinXP image to…
[]The windows XP disk reads "Single Disk -Resizeable’ and the Win7 image reads the same, but only the Win7 image works.
[]I have tried messing with the Hard Drive settings in the BIOS and not luck there for the XP Image.
[]The Win7 img that works shows no Size on the FOG server for the Client or the Server
[]The WinXP img looks like this, (and most of them do look like this)
[]Some actually have sizes in the columns, but they do not represent the correct size. The HSLIBWIN7 img above has been used a few times to image since the new server is up and notice it did not populate the information for the client or the image size on server.
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I have made sure that ALL IP’s were changed in the software and I ran through the setup listed above.

Again kind of weird that the Win7 image worked and the WinXP image didn’t? All of them say that they were created with PartImage, and if one works they should all work yes? It sounds like it has something to do with that error ‘partition ouside of disk’.

If it was something in the way I brought the images over any way to fix that? Or is it something in the program that is causing these strange issues?

I have had to restart my old FOG server to image machines since I cannot be without it for long.
Any ideas so far on what could be the issue?

Thanks for any help or thoughts on this matter.

IdahoTech…

OK got it. Will give it a try today or tomorrow and see what happens. Need to do some scanning on some systems for this damn bug. Thanks for the help. I’ll be back…

And the DNSmasq is in Novell, correct?

And yes I did not only boot the machine with the problems with a different cable, I also boot the machine right next to it that I just created a image on yesterday with the cable from the machine with the Realtek card and it worked fine got me to the FOG menu without a hitch.

OK, ran it and this is what I got

Transfer Succesful 16967 bytes in 1 second 16967 byte/s

Sound about right?

I even went to go check on INTEL’s site for a new BIOS and there was one and it mentioned the card, but I installed it and still the same error.

Nope no proxy DNS that I can see. Should I set that up for the Realtek nics?

I don’t believe I do have that setup, but I will check it out. Give me a few and I will check the ProxyDHCP. Also yes that is the switch address. It is hard set just like the servers. Our range is a large one. When we set it up we made it for expansion. The DHCP is set to

172.0.0.0 255.0.0.0

We are running in the 172.16 range so we should be ok.

I will be back have to log out and log into the DHCP server and see what I have.