Posts made by Kiweegie

Hi Alan

I’ve always found it easier to start with a basic LAMP stack (including Apache, MySQL etc already) from the base installation of Ubuntu. That way you get all the apps you need with all the dependencies already taken care of.

So you can either do a fresh install, or from a command prompt do:

$ sudo tasksel

pick LAMP instalation from the list (doing this from memory) and I’d also recommend putting in OpenSSH so you can use Putty or other SSH client of choice to access the terminal of the fogserver remotely - it will be a huge timesaver.

Once done update and upgrade Ubuntu to get latest versions of everything

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Then re-run your fog install if required.

You’re may best to just reinstall Ubuntu with LAMP etc from scratch rather than trying to sort everything out - the install is pretty quick. I’ve done an idiots guide to installing both Ubuntu and Fog I’d be happy to send you if needed. I once knew nothing about Linux or Fog server but the helpful folks here and elsewhere put me on the right track and have done the guide to help the others in my team at work hwo have little to no Linux experience.

Regards, Tom

Abraham, thanks for the heads up on what worked for you. I didn’t see your response in the thread til I’d posted my own fix. If I hadn’t sorted something with the kernel version then your suggestion would most lkely have been next on the agenda…

Does anyone else know how to edit a post title to show “resolved” or similar to help out others searching for actual fixes or to avoid wasting other users time from looking into already solved threads?

As good as these and other forums are I wish there was a way to collate all the useful knowledge here into an easily searchable knowledge base rather than having to search through loads of potentially unhelpful posts…

Hey Joshua

Well having ruled out permissions issues and other reasons for the specific error I tried looking at things a little more objectively. I’m using 0.32 which came out a while ago and the machines I’m trying to upload an image from are Lenovo Edge 71 models with a BIOS date of Apr12. So I thought perhaps its a driver support issue… I upgraded to the latest kernel version (3.3.3 core) and lo and behold uploading of images worked!

So perhaps if you or others are having same issues and you’ve ruled out the permissions issues as I had, then perhaps a newer (or perhaps older) kernel version may do the trick.

Regards, Tom

Hi all

long time user of fog (since 0.26) and its really come on in leaps and bounds particularly with the new interface.

We’re close to rolling out new hardware (Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 71) running core i5, 4GB RAM and Windows 7 Pro 64bit. So far so ordinary…

Got the reference machine delivered yesterday and all the apps have been installed and build basically prepped. I went to take a pre-sysprep image and got the error in the subject line.

Bit of google and forum searches took me to this page which hits the exact error on the head:

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Images_Directory_Permissions[/url]

However giving fog user ownership and full permission to the /images directory and subcontents made no difference. I also removed any temp images/renamed etc per option 2 in this post but neither worked.

I checked the machine on the known good hardware list and there is one working Edge 71 there albeit not my exact model.

I have changed BIOS setting on the reference machine so Sata reads as IDE not AHCI (tried both), I also tried 32-bit instead and got same error.

I’ve tried amending image definition from multi partition to single partition - no difference.

I’m running 0.32 version of Fog. In case its important the image is being uploaded to a storage server - can anyone suggest anything else I can try?

Also on a side note can anyone tell me a definitive answer as to the correct image type for Windows 7? I assume multi partition as Windows sticks in the 100MB reserved system partition but in some forum posts I’ve seen people suggesting to use Single Partition.