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You know what stinks?

Sneaking into a lab, leaving the lights off so no one will find you, booting up your client to image and MY LAND WHO SET THE BACKGROUND TO RETINA SEAR?

I have made a darker background that I wanted to share that may help with the sizzling retina, it’s a lot harder to find me when there isn’t a bright white screen in front of me

Enjoy! (It’s nothing spectacular, but its something!)

You have one of two options, either
A.) Change the background by using the web gui. You still need to place the file in the {fogwebdir}/service/ipxe folder but you can name it whatever you like, just make the adjustment on the fog settings page under Fog Boot Settings for the FOG_IPXE_BG_FILE option.

B.) Upload this image to {fogwebdir}/service/ipxe and save it as bg.png (I used filezilla to place the image)
This will overwrite the old background file, I highly recommend backing up the previous bg.png JUST IN CASE!

These commands will need to be issued after every SVN or GIT pull. Keep the new background above in a safe place (/home/user/Pictures).
BACK UP
Ubuntu
sudo mv /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png.old

CentOS
sudo mv /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png.old

I will put up other commands later when I figure out where the bg is stored in other versions of Linux.

I can confirm personally as I own these devices and use Ubuntu 16.04 on them, they will in fact work with this version of linux installed.

I used a single hard drive in my instances and did not use any of the on board raid configurations or NAS/SAN options.

@Rj_linux

sudo -i
git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git fogproject
cd fogproject
git pull
git checkout working-1.3.5
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh

@Wayne-Workman Don’t like Ubuntu?

@Junkhacker I have never had to adjust the compression. 3-5 minutes to image a client machine is well within my acceptance.

@THEMCV What tweaks are you referring to?

I download Ubuntu, apt-get install git, clone the git run the installation and have a FOG server running.

I never have to tweak anything. So I am curious what others are seeing.

I like them both, I have run many web servers on Debian and Ubuntu. Personally I liked Ubuntu better back before they wen all eye candy mode in 12.04. Matter of a fact, that Ubiquity crap pushed me more towards Debian until I discovered the MATE desktop environment version. I have been using the Ubuntu MATE ever sense.

I have no real issues out of the server versions of Ubuntu either. But I don’t test every iteration and in order for someone who is not as use to linux I tend to use the desktop environment so that others can use the box if I happen to move on to better things, kind of as a courtesy.

But nether here nor there. I do think that a Debian Tutorial is in order, I was only poking some fun at Wayne’s expense

Why not code in a script to disable the UAC (or disable it by default in the image) and use a script to re-enable after your snap in is complete.

This way, yes it’s still half hearted, but it seems the issue is on the windows side of things rather than FOG, but you won’t be leaving your systems UAC disabled.

Happy Valentine’s Day (if that’s your thing) from everyone here at the FOG Project!

We hope your day is filled with love and joy, even if we can’t provide it (sorry love and joy are closed source projects!

In case anyone is in need of a Flux Capacitor:

http://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor.html?ref=patrick.net

I am trying to find a plutonium supplier

I use:

[code]
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup” processorArchitecture=“x86” publicKeyToken=“31bf3856ad364e35” language=“neutral” versionScope=“nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>
<ComputerName>*</ComputerName>
<RegisteredOrganization>Microsoft</RegisteredOrganization>
<RegisteredOwner>CORPORATION</RegisteredOwner>
<ProductKey>FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4</ProductKey>
<CopyProfile>false</CopyProfile>
<TimeZone>TIMEZONE</TimeZone>
</component>
[/code]
This causes the machine to generate a name for itself based off the RegisteredOwner criteria. Then I let FOG rename the machine.

I see where you included the <computername> but in my experience, without a registered owner the naming process fails

I used AutoBVT (Only because when I set up my unattend.xml I used the windows AIK to do so, and it was the default) as the RegisteredOwner and each of my machines started with AutoBVT-(Random Sequence) and then FOG renamed them appropriately.

Hope this helps.

That’s the way I do my drivers right at C:\Drivers. I even add it to the path variable in the registry so that when windows parses for a driver it looks in that folder too by default.

I ended up making the TEACHER do their job so that I could continue doing mine

@abos_systemax
Since you are trying to remove a key. You can use the command line to do so.
reg delete "HKCU\The\Registry\To\Delete" /f

OR if you have a .reg file open the file and put a - before the HKEY portion…
[-HKey_Current_User\The\Registry\To\Delete]
like so and do a reg import for that file.

I use a hidden flag.txt and a script that will look for the flag.txt file, if not found, it will run some scripts similar to what you have described and then the next time the user logs in, if the flag.txt is present (which it should be, the script copies the file to where it needs to be.) then the script won’t run again.
I do this in cases where I need to update the registry values for that user only one time. I.E. I set the taskbar, and Start menu to a specific layout. I don’t want to do this on every log in, and it requires registry edits. So I do it once per user when flag.txt isn’t present.

Another option would be to create the script, use a snap in as a deployment after imaging completes. I don’t know exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but I am certain it can be done.

Hope this helps!

Sure you got it.

The way I handle my drivers is, When I get a machine in that already has windows installed, I run a program called DriverGrabber
[url]http://integrator.professorcpu.net/index.php?addons&id=242[/url]

I usually create a folder on my virtual machine under the C drive called “drivers”.

I then set up a folder for each model and put the driver grabber folders in there. This way there is a nice neat structure so if you need to manually apply the driver for the nic card, you may do so by looking in the corresponding folder.

Then I use a registry key to associate the folder with the windows installation:

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version click on “DevicePath” and enter “C:\Drivers” (remember the entries must be separated by a semicolon).

Alternatively you can add the path (C:/Drivers) to the environment variable path under My computer, Properties, Advanced Settings then at the bottom environment variables.

I do not know that this is the correct way to install drivers, but I have had a lot of success in doing this with Tangent machines which use MSI mainboard, Intel graphics and Processor, and Realtek Audio and Network cards.

Good luck!

@fredlwal

Do you have a webfilter appliance?

You may have to add launchpad.net to the whitelist, or the bypass list so that the traffic is not monitored?

We filter all traffic anything ssl gets decrypted and sent down to the client (basically a man in the middle) and I had to add the url to the bypass list so the traffic is not decrypted.

I could get to the website fine, but I saw issues with adding the repository. (I even added the repo to the sources.list which helped some but not completely.)

sudo mysqldump -u root --allow-keywords -x -v fog > fogbackup.sql

@Junkhacker said in ZSTD Compression:

there are other issues that deter us from adoption, but that’s the most significant reason. in fact, the single greatest reason TO adopt it would be because i think it’s really cool, lol.

It would be REALLY COOL

I couldn’t agree more!

And being opensource, it has the ability to do more than just DHCP and routing.

I use my pfsense router as a webfilter and also use it for NAT/internet rules (I shut my internet off at night except for certain devices).

I love the control that pfsense gives you, and I also enjoy the easy set up with fog

Can you test the Mysql connection please?

mysql -u fog -pPasswordHere -D fog
exit

This will let us know if the service is running and if a connection can be made.

You may want to restart the service as well

service mysql restart

I usually leave the mysql password blank though…

If all else fails check out this section of the Wiki:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_MySQL#Ubuntu_13.04_14.04_15.04_and_higher_with_FOG_1.2.0

It may give some insight, not certain if we still have these issues or not, but it wouldn’t hurt to check the settings and verify the passwords are correct, it definitely seems like a password setting.

@dloudon96 Did you change the setting on the fog server Storage Management page for the nodes?

then this causes the graph on the front page to display a higher number

Is this the answer to the question you were asking?