Posts made by kylian

@george1421 hello am am back home and gave this a try
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12796/installing-dnsmasq-on-your-fog-server
but for some reason it just timesout and does not seem to give a IP address
sudo systemctl status dnsmasq says it is all runing the output of this is as followed

● dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-10-12 20:39:52 UTC; 6s ago
    Process: 52409 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 52413 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 52433 ExecStartPost=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-start-resolvconf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 52432 (dnsmasq)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 6837)
     Memory: 1.9M
     CGroup: /system.slice/dnsmasq.service
             └─52432 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -7 /etc/dnsmasq.d,.dpkg-dist,.dpkg-old,.dpkg-ne>

Oct 12 20:39:52 optiplex-pxe systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server...
Oct 12 20:39:52 optiplex-pxe dnsmasq[52409]: dnsmasq: syntax check OK.
Oct 12 20:39:52 optiplex-pxe dnsmasq[52432]: started, version 2.80 DNS disabled
Oct 12 20:39:52 optiplex-pxe dnsmasq[52432]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conn>
Oct 12 20:39:52 optiplex-pxe dnsmasq-dhcp[52432]: DHCP, proxy on subnet 172.16.120.200
Oct 12 20:39:52 optiplex-pxe systemd[1]: Started dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
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Edit. i found out how to fix it.
in your tutorial it says

dhcp-range=<fog_server_IP>,proxy

in my case i changed this to

dhcp-range=172.16.120.10,172.16.120.199

@george1421 ah oke. I will go for the dnsmasq then as it wouldnt effect my home network as it is a dedicated pxe vlan i made. I just disable the dhcp server in the router then.

@george1421 my device is a usg pro 4

Hello i am trying to ipxe boot a laptop all goes well untill i get the error PXE-E23 client recieved tftp error
What i also notice is
NBP filename is ipxe.efiij while it is clearly set as ipxe.efi in my dhcp server for what ever reason it ads the ij at the end

This is what it says on the client directly after i select network boot.

start PXE over IPv4
station IP address is 172.16.120.11
server IP address is 172.16.120.200
NBP filename is ipxe.efiij
NBP filesize is 0 bytes
PXE-E23: Client received tftp error from server

is there any more configuration i have to do besides setting ipxe.efi in the dhcp options from my dhcp server (USG pro 4 is the dhcp server) ?

@george1421 alride thanks for the help. i will get to work then

@Sebastian-Roth oke i will do that the laptop was just installed so it dosnt matter much it needs a reinstall.
Also does btrsf work? i like it a lot for the snapshots

@george1421 al ride thanks for all help then all my questions are pretty much answered.
PS love fog project so far also a great community by the looks of it

@Sebastian-Roth

label: dos
label-id: 0x4ba3741d
device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors
sector-size: 512

/dev/sda1 : start=        2048, size=     2097152, type=83, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start=     2099200, size=  1463048192, type=8e

thats the output. but wen going to disks i see it is setup as LVM2 so thats the problem i supose (also 750gb thought this laptop was 2tb my bad)

@Sebastian-Roth will do wen the capture is done in a litle bit. (already started it about 3 hours ago)

@Sebastian-Roth thanks for the reply thats great to hear. what i though was you could capture the image but only deploy it on the same machine because of the hardware.
what i meant by the capture only the minimum of the storage that is used like 8 gb does the partitioning need to have all unused space marked as unused currently it is just a normal install and the 2TB is mostly allocated to the home folder (i could shrink that down to the minimum really easily so that is no problem)

@george1421 oke thanks for the reply this makes things a bit more clear. about the second part. wen i capture a image from a laptop with a full arch install can i then deploy that later on different PCs/laptops. that way i could just use a vm and setup all linux distros i want and how i want them to be out of the box basically and load them on to other machines after i have captured there images?

Hello i have a few questions which i couldn’t find a answer to while searching around.
First can i use Fog to deploy netboot images? i have been looking for a clear way to have a library of images ready to be deployed (i know ISO are possible but that’s a bit more complicated and required a good chunk of system memory) i have a lot of computers i use and different laptops and different operating systems many linux distros windows and some other tools.
Also is it possible to capture a minimum image instead of a large system image. what i mean by that is for example i have a arch linux install with a few installed packages and a desktop and user configured that has a disk of 2TB. now i wish to capture a image and don’t want the full 2tb to be captured only the minimum of storage that is used like 8gb. so i can also deploy my arch install on basically any PC that supports pxe and have my software ready to use. so capturing a image and deploying on a difrent system is that possibly to?

sorry if this seems a bit all over the place. if some thing is not clear just let me know. thanks in advance

PS. hope this is the right place to ask this if not i will move it to where it shut be. (verry new here)