@johnny-T
Let me answer one question at a time.
#1:The only limit you would have for image size would be based off whatever space is available in storage.
#2: Are you asking if you can transfer images from one server to another? Is so then yes. You just need to make sure everything in the web GUI fo the image settings as on the original server as it is for the server you are transferring it to (image name, operating system compression, etc.)
I am trying to deploy an image to a machine that requires a USB to Ethernet adapter. I have the adapter registered as a host in FOG and I have the kernal arguments set. I have been able to do this before on version 1.4.4, I am now on the latest version and not able to do so. This is the first time I’ve had to do this on the latest version. When I did this with version 1.4.4 I used this link as a reference:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_NIC_(usb_network_adapter)
So now when I go to deploy the image to the machine it will PXE boot to the FOG menu and I can select the image, it will go through bzImage…ok and init.xz… just fine, but after that its just a black screen. I’ve tested other known good images on this ethernet adapter with the same result.
Also here is a Ethernet Adpater I am trying this on with how I have it set in FOG.
https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/1b30zBDYwcKOLiCxiiTymzEvJM9HdgRQ/image.png
Also I ran a syslog tail here is the results below the machine in question is getting a .106 IP Address:
https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/2rQONvoHXxarn3byt1j8K6G4aRfpaKWI/image.png
This is the type of adapter I am using:
https://www.amazon.com/Network-CableCreation-Ethernet-Supporting-Required/dp/B013G4C8RE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1528291661&sr=8-4&keywords=usb+3.0+to+ethernet
I am guessing there is something different in the new version with the settings that I am just not aware of.
@Joe-Gill Try looking into your apache settings and look at logs. Here is a an article on how to do that, might vary depending on the web service you are using for web server.
https://blog.codeasite.com/how-do-i-find-apache-http-server-log-files/
Updating the FOG server to the latest image appears to have resolved the issues. Good thing is did not have to modify anything after the update all models appear to be imaging successfully. :)
@Sebastian-Roth Machine was working fine after re-image and then started having performance issues mainly with Office and did Office repair. We are probably going to pull machine back and do another RAM test along with Lenovo diagnostics. Maybe just even replace RAM.
We do want to upgrade but we have been pretty swamped withe people working from home, so hopefully we can do this when things settle down :)
@Sebastian-Roth The machine has 4G of Ram. I hit memtest on the FOS drive and it then started imaging and it looks like it is working mysteriously. Probably would not be a bad idea to update our version.
I have a Lenovo 13 laptop that I am trying to image and it give the error message below. It is a machine that does not have an Ethernet port so I am using a Ethernet to USB adapter with the FOG FOS USB. At the end of imaging is when it gives this error. I am currently running version 1.5.6.5.
I did try to look at the /var/log/partclone.log and could not find it in the system. Any ideas on how to fix this? This only seems to be an issue with machines using the USB-Ethernet adapter with the FOS drive. All other machines with straight Ethernet image just fine.
@Daniel-Miller I looked into the speeds, auto-negotiating was set however the speed was messed up. It seems the port on the switch went bad. Plugged into another port and got the correct speed. Imaging seems to be back to normal now.
@Sebastian-Roth No we did not update any of the BIOS.
We are all the sudden experiencing image deployment slowness on all our images. This just started today. We did not make any changes to any of our images or FOG server recently. We are currently running version 1.5.6.5. I did try rebooting the server and the switch and still the same result.
I made sure all the BIOS settings were correct and also did a factory reset. I have a Lenovo T470 and Lenovo E490 that are taking about 30 minutes to an hour to deploy an image. I tried several images we had on the server and all them took a extremely long time. Usually we are able to deploy within 5 to 10 minutes, now it is 30 to 60 minutes.
Any suggestions as how to resolve this?
@Sebastian-Roth We have imaged 20 computers of different models without the issue. So far so good.
@Sebastian-Roth
That error is fixed. We are imaging a large batch of computers now, I will let you know how the disk space is on them after we image and check them.
@Sebastian-Roth @Tom-Elliott
Ok I did that and rebooted the FOG server and got this error message on a T440 and T490:
Would it be worth updating to 1.5.7?
@Tom-Elliott @Sebastian-Roth @Quazz
I tried imaging a machine on our FOG Mobile server that has 1.5.6.4 that has the same hit or miss issue with incorrect partition/full C:. Here is the debug:
