@Wayne-Workman

Thanks for Your reply. Like I said, I know next to nothing when it comes to Linux, or Fog, for that matter.
So, if I understand you correctly, I open terminal, enter the first command string to stop DHCP. Then type in second command string and I’m assuming I type in the new information for eth0 exactly as shown(except with a static address that fits within my new network). This may sound really stupid; but, how do I get from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line?

What about which versions Linux and Fog work best for Windows 10?

I’ve using Fog 0.32 on Ubuntu 11.10 since it was first released and I’ve got one last project that i need to get done by next Wednesday. Of course my server is wanting to die on me, now of all times.

First things first. How do I convert my current Fog server from being a DHCP server hading out addresses in the 192.168.6.xxx range to just having a static 192.168.2.10 address. The 192.168.2.10 address is the address is the address that I’ve assigned to “Wired Network 1” up on the task bar. and it that is the address range of my other functioning DHCP network.

Finally, what recomendations can you guys give me, as far Linux & and Fog versions go.I talking about about setting up a new network for cloning Windows 7 & Windows 10.

Oh, and by the way, I’m not a Linux guru at all!

Thanks For all Your Help.
Ken

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 25225, member: 3582”]Then you undo your command
[code]
mv bzImage bzImage.orig.2014APR01
[/code]
which backed up your current bzImage to bzImage.orig.2014APR01.

So first back up your new kernel
[code]
mv bzImage bzImage.new.2014APR10
[/code]
then run this command
[code]
mv bzImage.orig.2014APR01 bzImage
[/code]
and all will be well.[/quote]

Thanks,
As soon as i get a break in the workflow i’ll give this a shot!

K

Just playing the devils advocate here. You state that it “will work on many systems” and I won’t dispute that; but, what if it doesn’t work on all of the different HP models that I have to work with? Just trying to find out what step to take to revert to the previous, or at the moment, current kernel before going forward. I’ve been working on computers for long enough to know that the unexpected often jumps up and bites you in the butt. As soon as I know how to return to the original kernel, I’ll use your kernel.

Thanks
K

I take it the mv command is similar to a Windows “rename” command. After imaging with your kernel, how do I get back to my normal imaging solution?

Let me start by saying I’m the noobs noob. I downloaded and installed ubuntu 11.10 and Fog 0.32 a couple of years ago and have never had any major problems whatsoever, until now. I have about 150 various HP desktops and latops that I use Fog image creation and deployment on right out of the box so I haven’t had a need to learn any linux. The problem is this. I have 14 Hp Elitebook 8530w that I image very often but I have 1 that I cannot image at all. It freezes at some point during the pxe boot and then after about 30 seconds the screen goes to a complete random color blur. I think that I might might need to tweek the boot file but I have no idea what where or how. Help

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 4941, member: 18”]play around with the trying to guess the root password.

Try things like “password”, “fog”, and if you just can’t guess the root password. there is a way you can take the MySQL database offline and reset the root password.[/quote]

I have tried every [U]known[/U] password that the person who set this system up has used for other things that required passwords as well as all the common generic passwords such as ‘password’ ‘pw’ ‘abc123’ etc… nothing seems to work. How do I take the Mysql database offline and reset the root password?

Also there is no preupgrade backup of the file system.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 4818, member: 18”]try this from a terminal:
[CODE]user@fog:~$ mysql -u root[/CODE]

If you get a prompt like: “mysql>” then your root user has no password.

If you get an error saying “ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)” then your MySQL root user now has a password. Remember what you set it to, or figure it out. Then update /var/www/fog/commons/config.php and /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php with the MySQL root user password.[/quote]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]MYSQL -U ROOT -P RETURNS:[/COLOR][/FONT]

[I][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]enter password:[/COLOR][/FONT][/I]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]If I enter a password that I think might be correct, RETURNS:[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]error 1045 (28000): access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’(using password:[/COLOR][/FONT][U][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]YES[/COLOR][/FONT][/U][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000])[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]If I do not enter a password, RETURNS:[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]error 1045 (28000): access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’(using password:[/COLOR][/FONT][U][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]NO[/COLOR][/FONT][/U][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000])[/COLOR][/FONT]

If type in “NULL” as a password, RETURNS:

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]error 1045 (28000): access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’(using password:[/COLOR][/FONT][U][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]YES[/COLOR][/FONT][/U][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000])[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]In both /var/www/fog/commons/config.php and /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php define[/COLOR][/FONT] (“MYSQL_PASSWORD”, “”); Since I’ve noticed a couple of differences between the 2 versions of Ubuntu, I thought that maybe the new version might only recognize “NULL” and not “”, but sincetrying to use that as a password returned (using password:YES) then “” is still “” and not “NULL”.

At the moment I have two different FOG servers that get used for different stuff and they are never used at the same time. Anyway server one is running ver. 029 and server two is running ver. 32. I hate the way that the ver 32 server displays inventory items. For instance when you select HOSTS, LIST ALL HOSTS, they are listed in the order that they were registered with that server not by any other selectable sort criteria. I like the ver 29 lists for HOSTS, LIST ALL HOSTS,HOSTNAMEs are listed as one would assume, alpha-numerically. Can this be corrected with a patch? If there was one and only feature that could be added or changed it would be the ability to delete image name and be able to recover the image #. I have about 150+ pcs that fall into 8 different models and each model has 2 images, a default image and a Backup of that image. That would be 16 different images. The problem is that we get a lot of requests for different software builds. The new build might get rolled out on three different models and that would be another 3 images. These new build request happen all the time, such that my image library grows by about 1-2 new images per week. Once the client is thru with their requested build, I no longer need that image but even when I delete the image name, the image number is still unavailable. It would be sweet if there were a couple of options for reclaiming those numbers and or re-sorting the number list to keep the schema populated by the lowest contiguous numbers.

Can I get that after lunch?

/var/www/fog/commons/config.php has this entry: define (“MYSQL_PASSWORD”, “”);

the exact msg that comes up in Firefox whenever I attempt to start fog is:

“unable to connect to database
Msg: Failed to connect to server:localhost server returned:access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)”

After looking over the threads and thinking about the whole Ubuntu upgrade process (I was never asked to supply any “keyboard” input, just accept or reject defaults) it would seem to me that during the Upgrade Ubuntu changed the “permissions” or path for the database. Does that sound right? if so how can I change the permissions and where to change them?