Posts made by Jaymes Driver

Keep us posted on your journeys, I love to hear about all the cool stuff fog can do for FREE that other softwares can’t

I use start up scripts to active my Windows and my services. I set up my programs to install silently and I use a file to answer the questions. This could include your key to your program. I don’t know that this is the proper way to handle the situation, but I get pretty inventive with what I know how to do.

You need to be good at scripting before you attempt this.

[quote=“cenzo188, post: 23414, member: 22421”]I see. I’ve been reading about the whole “dhcp snooping” thing and dhcp protection, it seems that’s what’s going on here. Especially since Cisco Catalyst switches like these have that ability built-in.
I’ve found myself a switch and it should arrive in a couple of days. Hopefully that’ll make things run a little bit smoother.
The question is, now, is there any way for me to re-enable the disabled ports on that switch? I’m guessing it would require somebody authorized to log in and reset something, but if there’s some easier way I’d love to hear it.[/quote]

Yes and it’s quite cumbersome, not to stray to far from topic here but Cisco also has an AMAZING way of getting more money out of you after purchasing one of these EXPENSIVE swtiches… I can’t even edit or disable the services because my switch was purchased on by a contractor and currently isn’t assigned to MY service contract…

Cisco switches require specific software and license in order to edit the settings. there are some free tools, but you will find they do not let you mange the way you want or need to. Sorry I do not have any expertise on re-enabling these ports, but I am interested to see how you accomplish this, I am STILL trying to rectify the issue so that I can log in an mange them!!!

FYI I use the Cisco 2960s here I prefer the cheapy Dlinks… at least I can edit them with an ip[ address and I don’t need special software! I use the DGS-1248-T when I have a choice <.<

Thank for letting us know, I lost internet while trying to get caught up on these posts O.o

That sounds like it can be very tedious, glad you found a work around for you… but personally I aim to fix issues so that when I deploy I don’t have to touch 200+ machines.

I have found that the 13.10 Ubuntu revision has issues when installing fog.

I had to manually restart the Mysql and apache2 services after a complete install (the install reported no errors, however when trying to access the Web GUI or the database I received error messages).

After manually enabling the service I was able to use the server.

I Would still spend some time trying to troubleshoot the issue incase you can get it working, or incase the issue actually lies else where, Lee’s troubleshooting steps are recommended.

In the even that you are unsuccessful, if you’re not opposed, a complete wipe and re-install would not be a bad idea. After completing the ./installfog.sh type
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sudo service mysql restart
sudo service apache2 restart
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The proxyDHCP service added from the dnsmasq, only doles out ip addresses when booting the pxe information. Any ip address given to the machine is temporary and will be removed when it moves from the pxe boot screen, i hope this will help to appease the higher ups.

Tom is correct, there currently aren’t any downloads for a USB version of FOG, however Tom and I recently helped someone to do something similar… [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-image-choice-with-usb.10015/[/url]

He wanted do do EVERYTHING from the usb drive almost like the usb drive was a mobile fog server. I feel it’s better to have a server as you can store a number of images and revisions of those images and you can deploy/revert to them at any time, I only feel a USB option would be acceptable if you had only one make an model of a machine, or a golden image for ALL machines in your area.

I personally, don’t feel that the USB option is that good of an option… if I want to carry a device with me I would go back to using clonezilla.

[quote=“MikeoftheLibrary, post: 23398, member: 20568”]Ah ok. So on an ordinary day speeds will be comparable to what .32 can do? My initial concern was that partclone was slower than partimage.[/quote]

Yes 0.33b will be just as fast, if not FASTER than 0.32.

Tom is currently working on the iPXE system and I believe with it comes HTTP which is a hell of a lot faster than the FTP method we are currently using.

Tom even took the time to add in the ability to change the image compression and this in turn should help with both upload and download speed.

Sorry you are having issues with your drive. I actually set up a second box for my 0.33b, because 0.33b isn’t a direct drop in replacement for 0.32.

This way I still have my old images on my 0.32 server and I can start pushing my new images to BOTH until 0.33b is actively ready for my environment. Right now I have it separate from my network so I can test it and ti capabilities.

Tom is always showing off

Thanks for the step by step tom I know this will help others.

It doesn’t matter where you mount the image, on the fog server on a laptop, on a desktop; but yes it needs to be done in linux.

Just to note the FASTEST way to image is with a virtual machine, you can take what are called snapshots that save the state so you can return to them later. I do so after installing windows, installing updates, adding software, and right before sysprep incase I have issues, or like you, had an issue with the unattend.xml file.

This way you don’t have to fumble around and try to fix an issue an have to make a whole new image, or mount and fix and upload, instead you just load up your snapshot, make your fix, upload the image again.

Nope it’s still heavily in the beta phase, I bet when we do have an idea we will post it on the forums or on the main site letting everyone know we are close. There is a thread you are more than welcome to monitor it can be located here ->[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/latest-fog-0-33b.6476/[/url]

If it is the kernel from Tom’s Website it is the version I mentioned, thank you for letting us know it works!

Version 3.13.4

If you don’t mind my asking, which kernel did you use? Tom Elliot keeps some kernels up to date, I think the latest he has out was the 3.13.4

If you let me know which kernel you used, I can post the fix on the wiki.

I would use the DNSmasq service (works as a temp dhcp server during PXE boot ONLY) and I would adjust the menu so that there is are options to boot to various PXE servers you have access to.

Something else to look into would be an ip Helper, but I’ve only used them to get PXE into buildings that don’t have a PXE server on site. I don’t know that this would do what you want it to, but it wouldn’t hurt to look into it.

Thanks heimer14!

That link will definitely be useful!

I would stick it in here and test it on a machine.

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<RegisteredOwner>Naylor</RegisteredOwner>
<RegisteredOrganization>Naylor</RegisteredOrganization>
<TimeZone>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone>
<ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
<ComputerName>*</ComputerName>
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You will want it in the section that is answering the OOBE questions and assigning your serial

In my unattend.xml it is the FIRST instance of Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup

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<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE” 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”>
<SetupUILanguage>
<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
</SetupUILanguage>
<InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
<UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
</component>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-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”>
<UserData>
<AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
</UserData>
<EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
<EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass=“specialize”>
<component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Deployment” 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”>
<RunAsynchronous>
<RunAsynchronousCommand wcm:action=“add”>
<Description>De-activate EnableLUA</Description>
<Order>1</Order>
<Path>cmd /c reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f</Path>
</RunAsynchronousCommand>
</RunAsynchronous>
</component>
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THIS is the portion that gives the computer it’s name

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<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”>
<ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
<ComputerName>*</ComputerName>
<RegisteredOrganization>SCSC</RegisteredOrganization>
<RegisteredOwner>SCSC</RegisteredOwner>
<ProductKey> This is a GENERIC key, I activate at Setupcomplete.CMD to my KMS server.</ProductKey>
<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
<TimeZone>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone>
</component>
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under component name=“Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup”

add

<ComputerName>*</ComputerName>

Wow that is odd, glad you got it sorted and your back up and running, good luck!

Quick question, what OS are you running?

I found that the latest Ubuntu 13.10, I had to manually restart the services after installation of FOG, I restarted the mysql and apache2 services and I was able to communicate with my web gui. (no errors were ever reported.) but I was unable to access the web page.

May be something to think about.