Posts made by Jaymes Driver

Have you tried setting up DNSMasq? I would give it a shot and see if it can get the pxe file where it needs to. Look up the settings for using fog with and unmodified dhcp server, I was able to get my pxe client on some units but not others. Setting up Proxydhcp fixed the issue.

Yes dnsmasq works with ubuntu 11.10, and any ubuntu revision.

Awesome, Noted for future attempts! Thanks for letting us know it worked!~

To downgrade GRUB2 to GRUB:

This works only when your boot is not broken!!!

Open a terminal.

Optional: Make backup copies of the main GRUB 2 directories and files.
sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.old

sudo cp -R /etc/grub.d /etc/grub.d.old

sudo cp -R /boot/grub /boot/grub.old

[B]Remove GRUB 2[/B]
sudo apt-get purge grub-pc

The system will be unbootable until another bootloader is installed!!! DO NOT REBOOT!

[B]Install GRUB 0.97[/B]
sudo apt-get install grub

We still have to create the [B]menu.lst[/B] and [B]stage1/stage2[/B]
sudo grub-install /dev/sdX
Choose the correct device (sda, sdb, etc), normally the one on which Ubuntu is installed.

sudo update-grub

Tab to “Yes” when prompted.
Reboot

Clean and upload again.

Okay good I was just trying to make sure the fog server was working as expected.

You can try the setting “Multipartition (all Disks)” this will capture all the disks and all the partitions for transfer, try to push your image again. If this fails, we will try to revert grub.

Have you deployed to these machines in the past?

Is the image not deploying? or is it not loading your pxe boot screen?

I’ve not deployed a linux image yet but I will help troubleshoot as best I can.

Just let me know in full detail what you are doing to deploy your image, I’m sure we can work through it together.

I agree, the VOIP system would normally cause some issues. You can try adjusting the settings to get your server to be seen again, or you can set up the proxyDHCP service with dnsmasq, it has been beneficial in my environment when we had trouble communicating to my fog server.

I was able to ping my tftp server, and pull the pxe file from the command line, but something in my network prevented the entire file from reaching it’s destination. Setting up the dnsmasq helped to resolve the issue.

Thanks so much, enjoy your FOG server

Good Deal, sorry I was buys with a server yesterday and did not get a chance to leave a recommendation, I see you have found the path I would have sent you down anyway

If you don’t mind, would you tell us which kernel you used to get these units to function properly?

Run compatability test.

From the fog PXE boot menu, you will see:

Boot from hard disk
Run memtest86
Quick host registration and Inventroy
Perform full host registration and Inventory
Quick Image
Client system information
Debug Mode

A. Choose Client System Information

B. Your computer will load another menu and it will look like this:

1.) Reboot
2.) IP Information
3.) Partition Information
4.) Check FOG compatability
5.) Ping a Host
6.) Display MAC Address
7.) Show DMI Information

C. Type 4 and press Enter

Dammit Tom, you’re awesome.

I got some new server hardware today, I’m going to set up a 0.33b server and start merging my images, I’m excited to get this out of the VM and on a real box! Wish me luck

Don’t get me wrong, I am proud of your accomplishments, I just want to fully understand the concept, with so many conspiring minds here that ultimately want to best operating safest server, I want to understand the process so we can make it more secure.

Told ya he’d get it

My point exactly Tom.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 17976, member: 7271”]See,

Jaymes et al.,

While I agree with the security aspect of it, with this being open as it is and the possibility of chainloading for gpxe and ipxe, I think having an openly (internet) accessible fog server is kind of a good idea. It would allow, potentially, a cloud based site for known working images for upload/download points, and relieve the strain of some sites requiring multiple fog servers for their setups. Point thru http/ftp dns names and have them image.

Just my two cents I guess.[/quote]

See this sounds to me more like the work of two servers, one that is public and communicates to the other non public server in your corporation.

Like I said I need detailed information on how this is going to be achieved before I’m jumping on this wagon.

[quote=“drjam, post: 17974, member: 16842”]dang, some good points.
with that in mind then:

internal use app
has large buttons
simple use only
View all hosts
view all images
Upload Image
Deploy Image

my app would have maybe 4 buttons as above.
So i could be working on a new machine and image it there, and not have to runover to a workstation or my main pc to do this.[/quote]

This sounds to me like a simple page linking back to FOG, this could be achieved by making a page on your public site accessible to the FOG internal site, of course authentication should ALWAYS be used.

When it comes down to it, the IP address of every machine is different, the app is going to need a way to input the server ip address, and it should be able to be changed easily. I manage multiple sites, while I can have storage nodes etc, I choose the option of full fledged servers per site. Everything installed in each building is a derivative of my “golden image” with the specifics of the building sown in. So if the ip address is an ip address to your building(s) how are you going to get it outside so that the app can talk to it?

I usually have a small tablet of some sort in my hands and I can always just hop on the wifi and hit the server ip and do what I need to, I’m still failing to see the benefits of having an app installed on my phone. Maybe I just don’t understand this completely.

[quote=“VincentJ, post: 17966, member: 8935”]Hopefully android can get something like this too[/quote]

I disagree, I don’t see a need to access via an app. You can access the server by IP address in a browser bar on any piece of equipment with a web browser connected to your network.

I fail to see where this would be anymore beneficial than the Web GUI, which would be easy to reconfigure to be “prettier” and “easier to use” if you took the time.

Your server should not be accessible to the outside world. If you were to set up a cloud management, then access would need to be available.

I’m happy to see people taking a notice in FOG an coming with new desires, but I think this is a disaster waiting to happen. And that’s my two cents

Maybe I don’t understand how you are going to make this available to be used with the server, perhaps some detailed explanation would be beneficial.

I’m not bashing anyone or attacking anyone, I just would not like for my server to be “live” I prefer having it safe here behind my walls.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 17959, member: 7271”]From what I could tell looking into this, it’s not using crontab or at to create scheduled jobs, but rather using the scheduletask service to check the database for specifics. I’ll try to look into it this weekend, but no gaurantees.[/quote]

Aka there will probably be a million updates this weekend and this may be one of them

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Adding_Storage_to_a_FOG_Server[/url]

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You’ll now need to extend the guest operating system’s partition as if you were enlarging a partition on a real hard disk in a physical computer. You can’t enlarge the partition while the guest operating system is running, just as you can’t enlarge your running on your computer.

You can use a GParted live CD to resize your virtual machine’s partition - simply boot the GParted ISO image in your virtual machine and you’ll be taken to the GParted partition editor in a live Linux environment. GParted will be able to enlarge the partition on the virtual hard disk.

Once GParted is booted, right-click the partition you want to enlarge and select Resize/Move.

Specify a new size for the partition - for example, drag the slider all the way to the right to use all the available space for the partition. Click the Resize/Move button after you’ve specified the space you want to use.

Finally, click the Apply button to apply After the resize operation completes, restart your virtual machine and remove the GParted ISO file.

Note that there are easier ways to get more storage - you can add a second virtual hard disk to your virtual machine from its settings window. You can access the other hard disk’s contents on a separate partition – for example, if you’re using a Windows virtual machine, the other virtual hard disk will be accessible at a different drive letter inside your virtual machine

To upgrade Fog:

It is highly recommended that you backup your data before you perform the upgrade.
Upgrading from one version of FOG to a newer version is as easy as running the installer for the new version of FOG. It will update your system while leaving your data in place.
Remember install settings are in <install directory>/fog/.fogsettings. If anything has changed since the last install make updates to .fosettings before running the install.
FOG will NOT modify:
Any modified reports
Image Files
All database settings
FOG WILL modify:
Any Custom changes to php/init.gz file.
Any changes to dhcpd.conf.
Any changes to /etc/xinetd.d/tftp.
Any changes to /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.
Any changes to /etc/exports.
Any changes to php config files on /var/www/fog and /opt/fog