Posts made by Kevin

What are your drive speeds that you’re running from? The disk speed will really effect the performance of FOG. We run ESXi and have no problems with imaging speeds either with upload or download. We run our servers with NIC teaming, and run 15k rpm drives in some sort of RAID (I think 5, but not certain).

Sorry, I was thinking something else, is it a physical box or a VM? If it’s a VM you can always take a snapshot and try. I generally have not have many issues with upgrading an OS, mainly with going to Ubuntu 12.xx, there are tftp issues, this however is solved by using the sleep command and restarting the tftp server.

However, you wont need to upgrade if you don’t have to. It depends on your environment. We get fined if we are not running supported OS’s, which is why we upgraded to the next LTS. However, the way I look at Ubuntu:

Regular releases are for desktops.

LTS releases are geared more for server installs with a GUI - what I would recommend for most users on FOG who use Ubuntu.

Server releases are only for server installs, all command line, no GUI. It’s extremely fast, extremely efficient, and most importantly, extremely reliable. From a cold boot, I have FOG loaded and ready to go in 20 seconds or less.

Paul, have you tried a different kernel? Sounds like the driver for your Lenovo might not be in the kernel you are using.

I would strongly recommend Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This will be supported for 5 years. Although you won’t have the latest greatest features, you’d be much better off having an OS that is stable and is guaranteed support for a long while. This wiki page shows what changes and what does not, [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrading_the_FOG_Server[/url]

What OS are you trying to deploy and what type of image did you select? If you selected NTFS re-sizable, you shouldn’t have any problems.

Actually Jay_S_FogUser I want to clarify:

1. FOG is still active, however, there are really only 3 developers, 1 of which stepped back for a bit. But FOG is still alive and being actively modded and developed.
2. Every program has issues, if you come across some, please post them in the Bug forums and we’ll try to get them sorted out.
3. FOG works with up to Windows 8 and ext3 filesystems. It is being looked at to switch to partclone for the core imaging system.
4. Yes, the best way to learn is to do it yourself. However, I’m currently putting something together to help new users get into FOG, I’m hoping to have it ready within the next few weeks.
5. Chuck, the creator of FOG posted this today, please have a read: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-status.4515/[/url]

FOG will not be able to image iPad’s. If 50 are going to be in one spot, Apple Configurator works well. However, if you need to manage them and they are spread out, you really need to look into an MDM solution, either paid such as AirWatch or a Mac server tools MDM solution.

Chad-bisd, you actually helped me with this one a ways back before I got involved with SQL for work

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/modifying-image-ids.408/#post-1776[/url]

Paul,

Do you have the FOG client installed, and enabled the hostname changer? You may need to modify the .ini file from this to fine tune the client a bit to your liking.

From other post, you can try this to see if it fixes it. I personally have not tried it, but looks like you are having the same problems as the blank task creation page. Make sure you backup your file before you try this!

sudo gedit [B][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]/var/www/fog/management/lib/FOGCore.class.php[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333] [/COLOR][/FONT]
Search Menu > Replace
Search for: &$tmp
Replace with: $tmp
Replace All
Save
Close
Then try again

Imaging itself stays the same speed. However, if you have an ISO, say UltimatebootCD which is over 500 MB, using Gpxelinux will load this significantly faster than over TFTP. Literally, it’ll go from minutes to seconds.

Natively, no you can’t do this. However, FOG is built on PartImage 0.6.9. If you download the software, [url]http://www.partimage.org/Download[/url], you can put that on a flash drive, and as long as you grab your image from /images on your FOG server, you should be able to accomplish the same task.

Did you update the BIOS on the laptop? Our laptops (Latitudes) were very picky about the BIOS, if it was revisions 01 or 02, it was almost guaranteed to fail when trying to image.

Especially with a new batch of hardware that’s causing problems, have you updated the BIOS on them, also, have you tried a different kernel? 3.6.9 seemed to work with our Dell’s really well.

If you setup an image in FOG, use partimage to install it on a computer, then when you restart the machine you upload it to FOG right away, that should work. Or, this should be possible with a “tweak”. If you install .32 bypass you would need to enter the following, of course, changing for your environment. This will allow you to image right from the FOG PXE menu:

[CODE]LABEL XP Domain Image
menu passwd xxx (if you want to password protect your menu item where xxx is your password. Recommended so that random users can’t reimage machines!)
kernel fog/kernel/bzImage
append initrd=fog/images/bypass.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns=YOURDNSSERVER type=down img=YOURIMAGE ftp=FOGSERVERIP storage=FOGSERVERIP:/images/ web=FOGSERVERIP/fog/ osid=1 imgType=n loglevel=4 sessionPwd= consoleblank=0[/CODE]

Where the /images/ is where your current image is stored. FOG is built off of PartImage so any that you have will work.

glad to hear you got it working for you

[SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]Donna, unfortunately, at this time there is no official FOG training, just a bunch of willing people to help you on the forums if you come across problems. Lots of people on the forums are very knowledgeable when it comes to Linux and FOG itself. A lot of people like Fedora/CentOS for their base install, I personally use Ubuntu Desktop/Server for my installs depending on the factors.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]That being said, i’ve found that it’s much easier to run programs through a batch file rather than trying to get a program to install right from the executable. However, I personally prefer scripts for any automation just because I know exactly what’s going to happen, and if it fails, I’ll know exactly where to begin to look. The one drawback to the current system is that it doesn’t always detect when one application is done installing before it tries to install the next, so at times, it will fail.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]A neat feature that we use to great extents at work is the ability to boot ISO’s right from the FOG menu. We had DBAN, Parted Magic, Diagnostic CD’s, Pre Boot Environments etc all at our fingertips without having to lug around CD’s or flash drives. I also modified the .32 kernel code to be able to image machines without them checking in with FOG. So if you were at a workstation, you’d boot to FOG, select the image you wanted from the FOG menu, hit enter and it’s on it’s way. You didn’t need to set anything up on the web interface, you just selected it and off it went. The fact that you can boot into an antivirus is just that much better as well.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]FOG .33 is in the works, and is a major rewrite of the code, but should be a more modular project to make it easier for others to write add-on’s for it. However, try to find sometime to work with FOG, it’s already pretty user friendly, but don’t hesitate to ask questions on the forums. You’ll get responses very quickly, and everyone is always willing to help![/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

What kind of capabilities are you looking to utilize? Features built into FOG and the FOG client or something more?

Have you tried a different kernel? i’ve had real good luck with 3.6.9. But that was with all Dell’s.