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[quote=“Sebastian M., post: 11128, member: 229”]Sorry, but can you write it in english, I think that the most people do not speak your language…[/quote]
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Bill, this is already technically standard. The PXE menu is nothing more than a text file. So all you are really doing is editing the text file to point to your ISO, and the programs to launch it.

Thinking about it more, this isn’t an issue with FOG, at this point of the imaging process, this is an error based on Partimage (if it is actually an error). I’m sure they don’t want you to stop in the middle of an upload/download so you don’t have a corrupt image. FOG may be getting switched to Partclone down the road anyways. So unfortunately, this I think, will be just how it’s going to be.

I think that the * is just a placeholder, but I could be wrong. Is there a reason that you would want to pause an upload/download?

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If all of your machines have a gig Ethernet port, you don’t need to worry about specific cables, they will auto negotiate. If you have 10/100 cards, then you will need the cross over cable. However, depending on how many machines you want to do. You might be better off getting a switch and multicasting the image to multiple machines at once. I don’t think you can straight up copy everything over, I don’t think MySQL likes it (haven’t tried in a while), but I know if you install FOG first, you can copy your images, database and configs over. There is a post floating around right now somewhere, I think from Chad-Bisd that explains the backup/restore procedure. But other than that, there shouldn’t be any problems.

[QUOTE]The problem is the version of PHP that is installed is much newer than the FOG code.

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/cannot-create-tasks-task-manager-blank.3823/[/url]

summary: a small amount of code used by FOG was deprecated when it was released and is now unsupported. In the file you need to replace all function calls that pass &$tmp with just $tmp. [/QUOTE]

That’s news to me Good to know.

For the TFTP problem try [B]sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/B] and see if that solves your problem

you don’t need that beefy of a laptop, mostly just drive space. Although we have it running in a VM, it’s just using 1 core of a Xeon E7 with 2 GB of RAM and we have had no problems with imaging. Drive speed and the cache play a big role in FOG. My server at home runs FOG on 1 core of an i7 with 1 gig of RAM, and I can image test machines (7GB) in about 5 minutes. Not blazing fast, but fast enough. So in theory, as long as the VM is setup in bridged network mode, I don’t see why it shouldn’t work. But personally i’ve always been a fan of plugging everything into a switch for stuff like that.

that would be the index.php located in /var/www/fog/management, I guess how big is that file on your machine? I don’t know why the button wouldn’t be showing up

So I think what’s happening is that part image through PM is not liking the multiple partitions of the multiple OS’s since this is being installed on the first partition of the drive. You could try making each individual partition and copying the individual OS’s and seeing if that works, but at that point in time, it might be worth it to just get FOG working in a VM

But when I did my testing, and what I wrote everything up on, it’s was just Windows XP, I didn’t try Windows 7 with it yet.

Step 4 would be where the problem is, you should have a button that says upload image that you need to click.

ah ok, now we are getting it figured out. Like Chad-Bisd said, the question at the end is if you want to push and existing image to a machine. So to upload a machine, make sure you have one ready that you want to image. Then log into the web interface and go to Host Management > List All Hosts > Select the machine that you’ve registered and want to upload > Make sure your image is selected > Basic Tasks > Upload image. Then PXE boot the machine and it’ll upload your image.

Your image from FOG should already have all this stored and should overwrite the MBR putting the partitions on the disk. All partition information is stored in the first 512 bytes of the drive

If you use Ubuntu, I think all you need is mounter-gtk, gparted, and partimage.

I’m sure it can be done, but I did all this testing/documenting this morning, so I haven’t looked into scripts for it. Maybe this afternoon i’ll take a look into it if time allows.

Can you confirm that you actually uploaded an image to FOG? looks like everything in the debug is ok, at least from what I can see, but i’m by no means the best at deciphering it all, but it all looks ok. Can you try uploading another image and see if it shows up in the /images folder?

Seeing your note from above, all of my images are NTFS resizeable as well and this is what works when I tried it.

[SIZE=4][B]Prepping to image a computer with Parted Magic[/B][/SIZE]

1. Load PartedMagic, make sure your USB drive is plugged in

2. Go to “Start” > System Tools > Mount Devices or click the HDD icon (Which if you hover over it, should say Mount Devices) next to the “Start” button

3. Mount the drive that has your image currently stored on it. Make a note of the media/xxx (where xxx should say something like sdb1) this should be able to be determined by the size of your drive

[SIZE=4][B]Preparing Partition Image[/B][/SIZE]

1. Go to “Start” > System Tools > Partition Image

2. Under *Partition to save/restore select the drive in your computer

3. Hit Tab to go to different sections in the program, so hit Tab to move the cursor to *Image file to create/use. Here, enter /media/xxx/YourImage

4. Hit Tab again to move to Action to be done, hit the down arrow key so “Restore partition from and image file” is selected, and hit the space bar. You should see the “*” move to this. Once this is done hit F5

[B][SIZE=4]Imaging[/SIZE][/B]

1. Leave all the defaults on the options page, just hit F5

2. Hit Enter at the NTFS is experimental

3. Hit Tab then Enter at the NTFS informations screen

4. Verify that the information is correct and hit Enter to start the imaging

5. Wait…and wait some more

[SIZE=4][B]Cleanup[/B][/SIZE]

1. Go into Partition Editor

2. Make sure your PC/laptop hard drive is selected

3. Go to the Partition menu and select the item “Check”

4. Apply this to the drive (this forces the drive to check for the resize)

5. Restart and Enjoy.

Short answer yes it works, when I get a little more time i’ll post up the instructions on how to restore the image, from a USB flash/hard drive, using parted magic.

Going to be a slow day with our massive snow storm coming I’ll see what I can come up with.

It might be a permission issue. From that last pic, your management password is set to password. Did you just change that for the pic, or did you actually change it on the server. There are a few spots you would need to check to make sure the right passwords are in the right config files. Also, if it is a permission issue, you can always try chmodding the folder/image to something like 777.

If there isn’t an image there, I would check your “test” image from the “Image Management” portion of FOG. This should tell you right where you image is stored, and if need-be, you can move the image to the /images folder.