[quote=“DoubleD, post: 33738, member: 24577”]I have the FOG Server and a AMD Dell on the same switch (100 mb) and I’m doing an upload

So far its taken 43 minutes with an estimate of 50 minutes to create the image on the server

is this typical ?[/quote]

This is pretty typical. download is always faster than upload. Upload is heavily compressed, you can try adjusting the compression to a smaller number (default compression is 9) and see if that helps, but really you download more often than upload, and the compression is set in such a way to save space.

Your hard drive, your nic, and even your pc have a role to play in how quickly an image will upload. When I use a Virtual machine to upload images, it always takes longer than a physical machine, approximately an hour to upload about 40gb of data. I would look into some better switch gear, something capable of Gig speeds as well, as Chad noted the speed differences in the two.

Try this:

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/quick-format-to-ntfs-with-fog-for-noobs.10349/[/url]

Delete those old partitions, start with a good fresh one and try to image, what happens?

[quote=“AlonsoP, post: 33677, member: 24925”]Hey guys i have been testing a lot this is what i got.

MOTHERBOARDS

• GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S2PV ( BASE IMAGE COMPUTER SOURCE )
• GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L
• GIGABYTE GA-H81M-HD2

I had a situation where :
i had create the image with a 500 GB HD MULTIPLE PARTITIONS SINGLE DISK NOT RESIZABLE which work using the same GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S2PV on a different computer but with a 500 GB HD as well, when i tried on a 300 GB HD it will NOT work ( NOT RESIZABLE LOL ).
I read in some forums that ppl where using MULTIPLE PARTITIONS SINGLE DISK NOT RESIZABLE instead of SINGLE PARTITION RESIZABLE when trying deploying Windows 7 because it was giving them problems.
In my case SINGLE PARTITION NTFS ONLY RESIZABLE Works like a charm !!! this way i fixed my HD size issue.
Then i tried deploying to GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L and GIGABYTE GA-H81M-HD2 and all went south lol
Windows will not boot !!!
windows failed to start.A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.____
So i am thinking now DRIVERS !!! HARDWARE !!!
I did not have these problem in Windows XP but i Guess 7 does not like it…

• Any Idea to make work Hardware independent ?
• Should i create an image for each Motherboard ?[/quote]

Virtualize your image, stop building it on the physical machines.

You shouldn’t create an image for each motherboard, that sounds cumbersome, see my statement above. If the images are close enough in relation (software is the same) and they don’t require too much change, I use the same image and tweak it differently.

I also, have made MANY POSTS about how I manage my drivers, and I include them on the C:/Drivers folder and add it as a variable path to the machine so after generalize and during the first OOBE when windows wants drivers, it can find them. This ins’t perfect but it works.

ALWAYS build you image at your smallest hard drive, if your smallest drive is 200GB build ALL of you images at LESS THAN 200GB, I recommend 150gb because sometimes drives are the same space “200 GB” but do not have the same exact specs and can fail on restore of hard drive due to bad sectors etc. This allows for error correction, and if done correctly with sysprep or another tool, your partition can be extended to the end of the disk and you will not loose any space.

Why did you change the default username? Did you try changing it back to fog?

Is your BIOS by chance set to fast boot?

And not to beat a dead horse, but is there a “boot menu” you can call by pressing F11 or F12 during boot? If selecting this while a task is active for the machine does it display the DHCP information like it is looking to pxe boot and just skip over it?

[quote=“kpourmand, post: 33649, member: 172”]Also, I fired up my old FOG box and confirmed it does still work. It does not work with the new kernels under the old FOG box either. I get the same errors.

Is there any way to determine which kernel the bzImage file is on my old FOG install?[/quote]

What version of FOG is installed on your old server? You can always copy the bzImage form that machine and put it on the new FOG server.

[quote=“sudburr, post: 33646, member: 4706”]Short of installing, is there a file in the trunk that indicates the svn?[/quote]

The “cloud” on the FOG Web GUI page will display the SVN revision number.

Did you by chance create a user named FOG?

Did you try resetting the password for the FOG user?

[code]
sudo passwd fog[/code]

Make the password “password” as it should be and attempt to log in again.

Let make sure your ftp is working correctly.

Can you create an upload-debug task from the advanced options during task deployment and run fog.

When at the command prompt type:
[code]
ftp 172.16.17.250[/code]

Then it should ask you for the username to connect as. Type fog.

Then it should as you to enter the password. Type f7e1e1.

If you can connect to FTP with your credentials, try to make a folder in there.
[code]
cd /mnt/imagensfog
mkdir test123[/code]

Did it all work?

[quote=“purpleturtle99, post: 33427, member: 23775”]Okay when I stop the DNSMASQ services and let my Cisco router dish out IP’s via DHCP then laptop receives an IP address and the errors are PXE-E53 and PXE-M0F
[/quote]

To be expected there is probably a misconfiguration with the DHCP next server and bootfile name, but some people don’t even attempt settings at the DHCP server if they intend to use DNSMASQ as it will not be necessary.

[quote=“purpleturtle99, post: 33427, member: 23775”]When I start the DNSMASQ services and remove the fog from the config file I get errors PXE_E51 no DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received

And wiresharks shows the same result DHCP discover only messages. So I think the laptop never gets an DHCP offer from the fog server running DNSMASQ…What am I missing here???
BTW also from the ltsp.conf file what range of IP address is my fog server dishing out anyway???and how do I check this in the ltsp.conf file[/quote]

It might be worth downloading the Cisco CNA program from the cisco website so that you can check the settings of your switches.

Now load up the CNA program and select the switch in question (they will probably ALL have to be configured this way to pass the boot file) Log into your managed switch with the administrative username and password.

Click Configure on the left hand side. Choose Port Settings from the list.

Select all ports to be used for PXE boot. Click Modify. Enable Port Fast. Save. Close open windows.

This might help to solve some of the problems you are facing. Now To answer the question about DNSMASQ:

#[B] This range(s) is for the public interface, where dnsmasq functions[/B]

[B]as a proxy DHCP server providing boot information but no IP leases.[/B]

#[B] Any ip in the subnet will do, so you may just put your server NIC ip here.[/B]

[B]Since dnsmasq is not providing true DHCP services, you do not want it[/B]

[B]handing out IP addresses. Just put your servers IP address for the interface[/B]

#[B] that is connected to the network on which the FOG clients exist.[/B]
#[B] If this setting is incorrect, the dnsmasq may not start, rendering[/B]

[B]your proxyDHCP ineffective.[/B]

dhcp-range=10.0.0.10,proxy

I bolded the important parts, funny they are included in your text file and the wiki… That 10.0.0.10 is what you want to change to your fog server ip address, or something similar.

to further test the issue. Turn the machine off, let cron tab start, then when the machine recieves it’s shutdown command, pull the network cable. If the problem is OS/ BIOS related, then the machine will power on without a network connection, and it is not a problem of WOL.

If the solution above results in the machine powering back on without network connection:
Check BIOS settings, look for the Event wake up timer and see what it is set to. Then set it to OS if it currently isn’t.

You may need to disable some of the “last state” options to OFF.

I don’t know that this will solve the issue, but it has been beneficial for me on one particular model.

[quote=“purpleturtle99, post: 33418, member: 23775”]Here is the config file. Am I right by saying that in this file:

The boot filename, Server name, Server Ip Address

dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,fog,192.168.1.101

undionly.kpxe is the filename it looking for ? Can’t install Wireshark…BTW[/quote]

Did you set up a symlink for the file undionly.kpxe to appear as undionly.0?

you can also try removing the fog from the middle of dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,fog,192.168.1.101, I know I had to in order to get dnsmasq to resolve properly.

Also why can you not use wireshark? you don’t HAVE to install it on the fogserver, actually it would be recommended to put it in on a laptop and test in various places as switches change because some settings in managed switches causes problems with receiving the boot file.

[quote=“theleftfoot, post: 33383, member: 24165”]thanks man!

fog sad that the disk is damaged…

cheers raffa[/quote]

Darn nothing I can do for that

Can you set up a test 0.32 server and test your image upload and deploy to verify that it still operates as expected?

I have reason to believe this is a driver issue and not something the FOG can help with, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to help you solve it

That is part of sysprepping the image, if instead of entering audit mode and you continued to the OS and set up your image, you would not be faced with the OOBE process again. Of course your image would not be so accepting of new hardware either.

This is something that needs to be discussed on a windows forum, particularly one dealing in Sysprep. This is not something that FOG can help with, nor is it a problem with FOG. This is the PURPOSE of syprep generalize and OOBE.

[quote=“generallee989, post: 33317, member: 25002”]would you recommend using Ubuntu 14.04?[/quote]

I would [U][B]NOT[/B][/U] recommend using Ubuntu 14.04

Comment or remove the call from the installer script and run it again, if you have in fact installed mysql on your own, it is required!

The guide I posted doesn’t care what version of FOG you are using.

[quote=“Felipo, post: 33305, member: 25115”]Hello everyone!

I’m trying everything that i’ve found on the web, but i cant make the Dell Vostro 5470 work with FOG when instaled with Windows 7.

With the default kernel, goes to the “usind disk /dev/sda1” and then stop. when you hit “enter”, it says “unable to find partition” and reboots.

Already tried a few different types of Image on fog server and i’ve tried those kernels (both of this topic). unlucky so far.

any more tips?
thanks![/quote]

Give this a shot and try to image the machine again.

You need a partition on the disk before you try to clone anything to it.

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/quick-format-to-ntfs-with-fog-for-noobs.10349/[/url]

Try this :
[code]
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart
[/code]

It is common for the tftpd-hpa service to fail to start correctly on Ubuntu 12.04, try the command and see if your machines can connect

Are you using your fog server as a dhcp server?