Posts made by Jaymes Driver

Agreed normally I use a Multi Partition for any windows 7 Installation.

Please try changing you image type in the FOG Web GUI and upload your image again.

I have a few walk throughs from my journeys into Sysprep, if you are interested just let me know and I will get them to you.

Yes, You can interchange kernels with FOG versions

Tom is fast at making kernels!!! He’ll get you working

Your information is too vague for someone to help you.

Please be specific. Are you wanting to image some machines as Ubuntu and some machines as Windows?

Are you trying to set up an Ubuntu server to image Windows?

Are you trying to set up Multiple Operating Systems on one machine (Multiboot) with Ubuntu and Linux?

What server do you have set up?

I want to warn you a head of time that FOG 0.32 does not play nicely with Multiboot linux systems. You should look into the FOG 0.33b Tom works on as he has been working to resolve the issue but this is NOT the main focus of the project, but I imagine we will get it working shortly.

I have many walkthroughs on this site, and in the wiki that explain very plainly how to image a machine and set up a fog server from start to finish, it mainly focuses on Windows 7 but can be applied to Windows XP.

Please provide more details so I can assist you.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 22563, member: 7271”]What do you mean? It shows the start date of the job. Though there could be some delay in the task it shouldn’t be too far off of an accurate picture of when the job happened. I will be adding searching based on image name in the near future though.[/quote]

Hmm maybe we aren’t on the same page… I don’t mean an active task, I mean a task that is already completed. I don’t see that information (I am only accessing 0.32 at the moment though.) When I search the Task Management it will display all the hosts in sequential number order, regardless of last time I imaged, or image used.

Sometimes I upload a few images, Student Summer, and Student Winter. Student Winter being the image I blast on them all right before State testing time.

To be specific I have a lab in room 406 used by students in my Redding building. They live under the naming convention “RS406-*” I re-imaged RS406-18 three days ago, when I look in the Task managment, I do not see this host listed at the top even though it was the most recent task. If I enter “RS406” and search all the hosts are displayed RS406-1 all the way to RS406-32 in numerical order.

I would instead like to be displayed with something to the affect of
[code]
Host Name MAC Deploy Image Used Upload Date Imaged Advanced
RS406-18 00:24:21:xx:xx:xx Student Winter 02/03/2014
[/code]
NOW I do NOT think this is a make or break feature, definitely a Luxury

Definitely not a concerning piece, or an important piece. Maybe if things get slow one day

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 22561, member: 7271”]What about the task management page? It now supports searching and should show the time it was performed. It sorts by the id of the task number in desc order so the host on top was the most recent task.[/quote]

Yes but it doesn’t list the date so I don’t know if i has my “most recent” image on it already or not

I like that pmonstad. I too have my curiosities as to when a machine is imaged. Sometimes I have a machine go down mid year and it gets my updated image, I would like to not image him again if possible. If I had a section of the GUI that output the last time I imaged the guy, I would know to skip it and keep on trucking.

Set up a virtual machine and play with sysprep a bit, you will learn the ins and the outs fast. The hardest part of sysprep is learning to set up your answer file correctly. (Use snapshots and revert back to them, I hate to admit it but I doubt you get it right on the first try). If I remember correctly, it took me a good 3 weeks of fiddling to find the right set up.

A number of us here use sysprep so if you get stuck just holler we will do out best to help you.

The nice part is (i noticed in your other thread you spoke of using different images) once you get the answer file set up, you can re-use it in each of your windows 7 images

[quote=“G4Bb, post: 22534, member: 22058”]Hi everyone,

I have a fog server working on a 150 Go HDD, and there’s only 10 Go left. So I have another HDD here with 250 Go, that i’d like to add to the server. Not switching images from the first to the second one, I want to work with both (uploading and deploying images), and obviously was wondering if this was possible. I’ve read some thread talking about creating a new storage group with a new storage node and then change some config files but this wasn’t exactly to work with both HDD. So, is that possible ?

Thanks ![/quote]

I’ve never used the “Image Store” section of the FOG web GUI, but I imagine with the proper information you can set up another image store group and node through the GUI.

Another option is from the Linux install…

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Find device name
[code]
sudo dmesg
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or
[code]
sudo fdisk -l[/code]

partition disk on /dev/sdb

(NOTE THE LINES UNDER THE FOLLOWING COMMAND ARE THE VARIABLES TO BE RETURNED)
[code]sudo fdisk /dev/sdb <enter>
n
p
l
<enter>
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t
83
w[/code]

format filesystem
[code]sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1[/code]

make new /images directory
[code] sudo mkdir /images[/code]

mount new harddirve /dev/sdb1 to /images
[code] sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /images[/code]

change permissions
[code] sudo chmod -R 777 /images[/code]

auto mount the new hard drive use UUID
[code] sudo blkid[/code]

[code] sudo vlm /etc/fstab[/code]

UUID=<UUID_of_you_nw_partition> /images ext4 errors=remount=ro 0 1
reboot

<SOURCE>
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-install-a-second-drive-and-store-images-there.25/#post-67[/url]

Found this too, don’t know if it will work for you or not… [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-add-a-second-hard-drive-to-fog-server.4383/[/url]

You could always use Acronis to load an image on a machine (register it to FOG and load your image from Acronis) but BEFORE booting the OS (that way you won’t have to sysprep again), upload the image to FOG. This would make an exact copy of your current set up and load it to the FOG server in a format it can understand.

I realize that this is very cumbersome if you have multiple images, but it is a work around

Ahh good point I didn’t tell them when to run the FogPrep OOPS

You made a mistake. There is no Fog 0.32b, do you mean Fog 0.33b?

Tom keeps an up-to-date kernel, since he spends so much time working on FOG 0.33b you can download the file here - > [url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url]

Please back up your current /bzImage just in case.

FogPrep was used in the earlier versions of FOG and before windows 7 was worked into FOG as being accepted as an image type.

FogPrep assists in removing some of the information that can cause issues while uploading. It is not longer REQUIRED, but it will not hurt to run it.

Sysprep is a process (I’m going to say this and catch flak for it) that is necessary to remove the unique identifiers of your image so it can be generalized and uploaded. (Just do it, sure it’s a pain to set up an answer file but once you get it working you will sing praises that you took the time to set it up and you can deploy an entire building untouched.)

Note that these two process are different. It is confusing because they used the word “FogPrep” and it closely resembles SysPrep, they DO NOT replace one another but were a tool to use WITH each other.

Once again the tweaks that FogPrep performs are no longer required, but it will not break anything if you use it either.

Another option is to install the DNSMasq service for proxy dhcp. If you are absolutely positive that all the ip addresses are the same and all the next-server information is correct, the proxydhcp service has saved many of us a lot of trouble. you can install it and see if it has any affect. it is a “pseudo” dhcp server that only operates while pxe booting and will be ignored by your normal network.

Right, that’s what I’m trying to help you nail down, those missing pieces and to get them jiving.

Did your CentOS install go through well? Is it working?

Because I agree with you, some fundamental pieces seem to be a little difficult to acquire. I’m still working on getting the apache stuff working, I was going to tackle php and things like that today to try to get the web interface working, if time allows

Running the installer again would allow you to “upgrade” your current set up. All current images, folders, and image stores will remain and so will your database. The only thing that will change would be config files like you are talking about editing manually.

The ONLY instance where a FOG installation will be “deleted” and a new installed, is if you manually rename or remove the folders.

THAT BEING SAID. When your DC went down, did you also change your information to point to your new fog IP address? (Option 66, also called next-server)

Which Linux version do you have fog installed on? Also what VERSION of fog , I will assume 0.32 but please confirm this for me!

Did you check to make sure that the TFTP service is actually running and serving? you can test this from the command line of a working station on the same network.

From your FOG server test out tftp
[code]tftp -v X.X.X.X -c get pxelinux.0[/code]
or run this command on a windows box
[code]tftp x.x.x.x get pxelinux.0[/code]

Let me know what the output is

I, unfortunately, had many things to do this weekend and the opportunity did not present itself.

That being said, I will be on site with my virtual server tomorrow and I can plug away again

I want to give your script a run and see how she fairs.

download the latest revision, navigate to the “bin” folder via command line

/home/USER/Desktop/fog_0.33b/bin

and run sudo ./installfog.sh

part of the installation script looks for existing installs and runs the update.

If you wanted to run a full clean install, you would need to remove (or rename) the folders fog uses in the file system, then run the installer again.

it’s okay if we beat our head against the wall long enough Tom normally solves it

on a side note I finally got apache working again… time to break some more things maybe MYSQL is next :rolleyes: