Sadly the resizable download doesn’t work on nvme drives. mps and mpa do work though.
Posts made by JJ Fullmer
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RE: New Inits
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RE: HP Z640 - NVME PCI-E Drive
@Arrowhead-IT ummmm, I just did another test to be more thorough and discovered a problem.
After mps successfully downloaded I tried downloading a resizable image and it failed to recreate the partition table.
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RE: HP Z640 - NVME PCI-E Drive
I have returned from holiday and just tested out the latest inits.
All seems to be working perfectly.
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RE: Cortana/Windows Search breaks in default profile
@Wayne-Workman
Well it’s not technically a fog issue, but it is an imaging issue and I figured that my fellow image making peers might have some thoughts. I would love to see your documentation on that process -
Cortana/Windows Search breaks in default profile
So I am working on a new windows 10 image and I’m making my default profile.
My method involves making a new profile with a name like “loading” (Because the name of the copied profile pops up briefly while a new user logs in the first time) and then customizing a profile to my heart’s content. Customizing things like desktop background, taskbar pins, adding a start menu toolbar with an organized programs menu. Making a customized start menu pin layout and various other things like bookmarks in browsers and such.Once customized I go to regedit and navigate to hklm/software/microsoft/windowsNT/currentVersion/ProfileList
Then I edit the value of the default profile path to the path of the customized user.
Then I sign out and sign into an administrator account
Then I go to win+x then Y to get to the system properties and click the advanced settings button on the left.
I go to user profiles and select the default profile and hit “copy to”
I make sure “everyone” is permitted to use and then copy it to the C:\Users\Default.
Then I put the registry value of default profile path back to its default.
Then I copy a careful selection of files from the appdata/local folder of the customized profile to C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local
I haven’t fully documented what does and doesn’t break things in there, but it takes great care. But if I don’t do that I lose things like win+x or right clicking the start menu.This method is actually easier than it sounds and I have had more success with it than with sysprep. Plus you can just copy your working default profile folder to a network drive to fix things later. This has worked for windows 7 and 8 and almost for 10.
Here’s the problem now.
On the original profile I copy from the cortana/start menu search is all configured and works as it should. But any new profile I make the search button/cortana button just does nothing. If you start typing with the start menu up, nothing. It is still possible to search if you open the search application from the shortcut here “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs” but nothing else brings up the search in the easy way that it should.I’m still trying a few things and I’m sorry if that is more information than you needed. But I figured there was a chance to someone else out there is having this problem or maybe has been successful with a different method of making default profiles.
Please and thank you
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RE: problem updating to trunk. Stopping web service......failed!
Maybe try the commands Tom suggested again? I did them out of order on accident since I was having the same problem and it worked for me.
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge sudo rm -rf /etc/php5 sudo rm -rf /etc/apt-get/sources.d/*ondrej* sudo apt-get purge php5* sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Then I reran the installer and all was well with the world. Maybe trying it again is worth a shot
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RE: MSI Silent install
@Jbob oh sorry, that was kind of vague.
It starts and all that but it doesn’t seem to do anything when I set the client to a task on the server.
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RE: MSI Silent install
@Jbob said:
@Arrowhead-IT what issues are you experiencing with including the client in the image? Its actually safer / more secure to install the client into the image rather than after imaging completes.
The client just plain doesn’t work when I include it in the image. Maybe I’m missing something, and I’m still doing testing. This is a new setup. At my old job I used to always include it in the image, but it had sporadic success rates too. I find that a fresh install always seems to work. Also, I love that I can install the client and it adds itself if the client isn’t already in fog. I figured that functionality meant that I should install it individually.
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RE: MSI Silent install
Although I imagine you figured this out by now, I also wanted to do this and found this post. I figured this is as good a spot as any to post it.
I’ve noticed that the service works better when it’s installed on each computer after imaging rather than trying to include it as part of an image.
So the idea of this script is to download the latest version and install it silently right after imaging, so I would suggest adding it as a snapin that you put on all clients. The only change you should need to make is changing the fogip variable to your fog server ip.@ECHO off set fogip=192.168.100.100 echo "downloading latest client..." powershell -Command "wget http://%fogip%/fog.client/download.php?newclient -OutFile C:\FOGService.msi;" echo "installing client..." msiexec /i C:\FOGService.msi /quiet WEBADDRESS=%fogip% echo "starting service..." net start FOGService echo "Done!" exit
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
@kbramhall said:
@Arrowhead-IT As we’re troubleshooting I’m thinking it is definitely something with our internal networking configuration. The DNS servers we are using include google’s 4.2.2.2 and an internal DNS server.
Isn’t google dns server 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 ?
And if you’re using public dns’s maybe try opendns and see if that makes a difference
208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222When you say internal network config, do you mean at the network infrastructure level or with the FOG server OS?
If you think its the local network, do you have any other cent OS boxes, and if so are they able to install the packages?@kbramhall said:
@Tom-Elliott Hey Tom, we are not dead set to use 1.2.0 we just figured we’d download the latest from the FOG project website
Welcome to Fog, where if Tom were to release every stable release of the development branch it would be worse than Ccleaner updates.
1.2.0 was the last time something was labeled stable. I use the trunk in production and rarely have any issues, and you get new features all the time! And if there ever is a problem it’s fixed in a snap. Only issue with your configuration and the trunk is that you wouldn’t have internet, so you wouldn’t be able to install and updates. Which overall would be fine, I’m one of the crazies on the bit torrent sync to the source files because I can’t wait the 20 seconds it takes Tom to hit the commit button.Anyway to install the trunk you’ll need git, svn, or btsync. Git is probably the easiest, svn is on sourceforge.net and they’ve gone down like 5 times in the last 3 months. There’s instructions on the wiki here https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
@kbramhall said:
@Tom-Elliott I attempted to go through the installer and saying no to DHCP and DNS but if failed to install tftp-server this time. Attached is the foginstall.log file.0_1450298881023_foginstall.log
I took a look at the install log and noticed this bit
../lib/redhat/functions.sh: line 1: n#: command not found
I’ve seen that before. You need to both make sure that you’re running as the root user and make sure you’re running the install script from the bin folder.
i.e. cd into where you downloaded/untarred the fog installer and thencd bin ./installfog.sh
I figured out when making the automated update scripts that you can’t run it with the full path like
/home/fog/installFoder/bin/installfog.sh
because it use the trailing … to get to some included scripts. So you have to start the script from its happy home.Also, what happens when you try to install the packages that failed manually?
I would try them one at a time. It looks like these ones…yum install tftp-server yum install xinetd yum install vsftpd yum install gcc yum install gcc-c++ yum install lftp
And I just had another thought, are you sure the firewall is completely disabled? I just remembered a recent experience where a fresh install cent OS wouldn’t do internet things until I flushed the iptables.
Which if memory serves isiptables -F or iptables -f
Hopefully something there helps
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
@Wayne-Workman said:
@Arrowhead-IT said:
Just so you know. The reason I chose not to use DHCP with FOG is because I had the mistaken assumption that FOG would automatically manage it in some way, or that the gui would have some control over it. It does not, you’ll be doing a bunch of manual configuration.
I guess now is as good a time as ever to say I’m working on an add-on that does just this.
@Wayne-Workman ooooh! I like that idea!
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
@kbramhall Considering that you only just set this up, maybe it’s worth trying a different distro. I’ve had better experiences with ubuntu server and fog then cent OS. But I am more familiar with debian so I might be biased.
But maybe it’s an issue with the OS install.
What happens when you runyum update
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If that doesn’t seem to connect to anything, then
What does your resolv.conf say?cat /etc/resolv.conf
Might be a dns server thing. That’s sometimes the issue when you can’t seem to install a package
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
@george1421 said:
ok then lets confirm a few things.
You want FOG to be the dhcp server for your subnet?
Just so you know. The reason I chose not to use DHCP with FOG is because I had the mistaken assumption that FOG would automatically manage it in some way, or that the gui would have some control over it. It does not, you’ll be doing a bunch of manual configuration. It added some small configuration and did get it passing out ip addresses, which may be enough for you. But just be aware that you’ll likely have to do some more manual configuration of the DHCP. Not that that is all that hard nor undocumented on the internet, just wanted to make sure you’re aware.
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
@kbramhall
I’m not 100% sure if the package is the same in redhat as it is in debian, but in debian its
sudo apt-get isc-dhcp-serverso maybe try
yum install isc-dhcp-server
I’ve had a problem where it wasn’t installing the dhcp package on debian too on a test DHCP style install a couple weeks ago and installing the package manually fixed the problem for me. But then I ended up not using the DHCP on fog.
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RE: Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!
what dhcp package are you trying to install with yum?
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RE: HP Z640 - NVME PCI-E Drive
@Tom-Elliott said:
32 bit Init: https://mastacontrola.com/init_32.xz
64 bit Init: https://mastacontrola.com/init.xzJust in case someone else is reading this and having the same problem and is new to fog and ipxe and what not…
To test out this fix do this…cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe sudo mv init.xz init.bck sudo mv init_32.xz init_32.bck wget https://mastacontrola.com/init.xz --no-check-certificate && wget https://mastacontrola.com/init_32.xz --no-check-certificate sudo chmod -R 775 ./
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RE: m.2 PCIe SSD not recognised in FOG
@Tom-Elliott is on top of this problem
Check out this forum post https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6315/hp-z640-nvme-pci-e-drive/37
I’m posting my results of testing on the /dev/nvme0n1 type drives with his current inits found here32 bit Init: https://mastacontrola.com/init_32.xz
64 bit Init: https://mastacontrola.com/init.xzTo use them do the following
cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe sudo mv init.xz init.bck sudo mv init_32.xz init_32.bck wget https://mastacontrola.com/init.xz --no-check-certificate && wget https://mastacontrola.com/init_32.xz --no-check-certificate sudo chmod -R 775 ./
Granted by the time dell gets you a replacement it might already be tested enough and the fix will just be in the latest trunk. But that’s what to do in case anyone else is looking.
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RE: HP Z640 - NVME PCI-E Drive
@Tom-Elliott
Ok I will test every which way just for funzies and report back by editing this postI won’t test the multiple disk images because I only have one disk in there right now. But I can add in a drive that would get recognized as /dev/sda and make sure it can image that combination if you want.
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