It is a good idea to create master images on “tiny” drives and have either a script resize the final (or OOBE in windows do it). I always create my golden images in a VM with jsust enough HDD space to do what I want (I expand the drive if the image gets bigger). That way you can use whatever size final drive you like.

You can always script extra partition creation too. I have a script that resizes and creates an extra partition and moves a folder into that partition for my W7 images. That way I can use smaller drives as appropriate.

It seems my old kk20 account was deleted for being a “spammer”. Great as I had quite a few fixes posted under that username (from when I installed fog) and had never spammed in my life… oh well.

anyway I am revisiting this as I have moved my FOG to a new server and came up with the same error, luckily someone had “quoted” my original fix so I could look in the post_stage2.php file for changes I made (and I had commented them! yey!). Here is the change I made to post_stage2.php

this line:

[B]$dest = $noderoot . $_GET[“to”];[/B]

I changed to

[B] $dest = “/raid6/data/FOG/” . $_GET[“to”];[/B]

It seemed that the $noderoot was somehow incorrect for me. No idea why as it was only the final FTP that failed for me. Anyway, after hard coding my FTP location (not ideal but I needed a quick fix rather than a debug) this works fine for me and has done for years.

for information, /raid6/data/FOG is my listed NFS share in FOG (which also has FTP share enabled in openfiler). I have no idea why the $noderoot does not work yet everything else does. Anyway, that single change in post_stage2.php fixed my final FTP issue (so no more manual image moving necessary!)

I have a toshiba right here, i’ll download that one now and report back in 5 mins
That file is 2 meg smaller than the one I tried so heres hoping.

edit:

that one works fine. Takes the same amount of time to perform a network action. Seemed to hang on “compatibility” but has started imaging ok.

Thank you both.

We had a delivery of toshiba satellite pro c50-a-1e2 laptops. These have atheros AR8171 LAN too. I tried your bzImageALLNET Tom but it didnt work - it hung and never recovered after booting the kernel on the client (left it 30 minutes). Normal 3.8.8 wouldnt detect the card.

The one done by ExcelGroup does work but takes about 2 minutes to get any sort of network information out of fog (such as fog compatibility or to start cloning). Not a problem as I had resorted to “donor machine” cloning the hard drives.

Ironically enough I was coming to the boards to see how to incorporate drivers into the kernel…