Posts made by Matt Harding

My 100MB/s equates to 6GB/min. Think thats down to the raid setup etc but still good enough for now. When I install the newer version on a fresh server I’ll do some tuning and tweaking on switches etc. Junkhacker’s 6.5GB/min is quite nice and on a gigabit network you wont be pushing past around 6.7GB/min including overheads so thats quite a decent figure.

I’ve noticed also that a number of people are suggesting Debian 7.x so I’m downloading 7.6 as I write. I’ll give this a go. Realistically I’d love for fog to be installable on something like Free or OpenBSD at some point in the future.

Anyhow, I’ll try Debian 7.6 in work when I get back on tuesday and see how it performs. I’ll be setting up mdadm raid5 on 5x2TB WD-Red’s as thats whats available to me as a server for now. Once I know its all working well I’ll throw it on the vmware platform perhaps.

Well, I’m after stability more than anything and then speed. What kinds of speeds have you guys achieved while imaging?

I was managing around 100MB/s with fog 0.32 over Gbit lan. Quite nice really, I’m able to put 2 OS’s on the target machine and join one of them to the domain controller, plus send out packages in under 10 mins. As it should be! The main college network is using SCCM to deliver images to machines, so its currently being shown up badly by the seperate computer science network that I’m managing.

Ok guys, I sincerely apologise if this has at all been covered already in some form but having been away from the forum in any serious capacity for quite some time now (months!) I’ve been wondering… I’m still running Fog 0.32 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 as I found back when I set it up that it was the best distro version to use for my personal preferences… I guess what I’m asking now, is what experience have you guys had with the 1.x.x version and which Ubuntu would you recommend… if indeed you’d recommend Ubuntu. I’m more comfortable with it than CentOS etc etc and would rather stick with it, but I’m looking to roll out the new version on a test server before integrating it into the main network. 0.32 has been fast, and stable, which are the two main things I really care about.

To simplify… what Ubuntu distro would experienced users recommend and are there any pitfalls on the way with the new version tree?

I take it there is no knowledge or fix for this then? I cant be the only one to ever have seen this problem surely?

Sorry, should have added basic details!

Fog 0.32 running on ubuntu 8.04

ok… this one speaks for itself once you take a look at my screenshot…

Can anyone explain why this has happened, what I can do to fix it, and if it’s a known bug or something else?

Anyone with anything similar or the same??

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You’ve kind of got a Prince Harry thing going on there with your pic mate

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 11998, member: 18”]We just assume everyone lives in the USA unless otherwise noted. I mean, we did split Asia into two parts just so we could be the center of the map…[/quote]

From Britain, we’re the centre You guys appear on the far left of the map… and if you think about it, the Greenwich Meridian is 0 latitude making us the centre by default

Hi guys, just wondering if its possible to boot from a linux PXE server to a menu that defaults to booting fog, but gives the option to boot from SCCM if I so wish on given machines?

So the menu would be for example:

1. FOG (default after a few seconds)
2. SCCM (affectionaly known in our workplace as SCUM)

We have both environments and one guy insists on continually changing the dhcp scope on given vlans to accomodate these 2 servers.

From personal experience in work… avoid Toshiba laptops like the plague. Cheap tacky, and if you want to get WoL working, forget it. Our department was budgeted a small amount to buy 300… they went with C660’s, MUCH to my dismay and expressed objections… we have other models too and they’re mostly all the same… AVOID!

What if you do? Could you just modify it to read “[I][SIZE=12px]start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE==eth0)” or am I way out?[/SIZE][/I]

I only ask as I’ve been using 10.04 server for ages and would like to use 12.04 but when I’ve tried in the past I had this exact tftp issue. That was some time ago now though[I][SIZE=12px].[/SIZE][/I]

You can do this as the last thing on sysprep if you wish with diskpart and a tiny script file that contains the following…

select volume=f
assign letter=z

This supposes the drive letter you want to change is f:
Change accordingly

Save that to a text file or any name you wish then run c:\Windows\System32\diskpart /s <script filename>

It would be nice to have the current logged on user on the host management screen. The information could easily be picked up by fog client and fed to the server I would think?

I was just thinking it would be nice to be able to inject commands in the same way you do plugins to groups of machines via the fog client plugin as a simple alternative to messing in group policy.

What I would like to see is the ability when installing the FOG client on your target image, to specify a time in seconds that you want the interval to be for checking in for tasks.

The current wait is far too long imho but I appreciate that it was probably done so that on large network structures it’s keeping traffic to a minimal. On small networks though it could be a lot quicker with no worry of extra traffic etc etc… Thoughts?

I have no particular use for this in the work environment as we use roaming profiles here but this sounds very positive for maybe home or small office setups… something that should be looked at in more depth definately. It sounds like it would be a marvelous option to have from the web control panel. Good work.

Just out of curiosity if you have the time to spare to test more, zero fill the hard disk before you try to deploy an image… if you have a linux machine and a usb caddy available, plug it into usb and fill the device using dd.

eg if the device came up as /dev/sdc you’d do:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

Try that and then stick the drive back in and give it a go. I’ve had a similar problem before due to a drive I was using being in a raid array previously. I’m sure thats not whats happened here but sometimes information in certain areas of a drive being corrupt can affect bios interraction with the device during detection phase… etc etc.

I may be way out with this so dont shoot me if it doesnt help… I just wanted to throw it in as its a possibility.

I’ve had this problem before in the early days of me trying to deploy snapins and get my head around it… easy enough to fix if it’s the same problem I had with my snapins…

When you install the FOG service it installs itself and runs as a local system account… for some reason this doesnt work for me for everything… I just changed the user to local administrator on the service before I imaged… see the posted pic. Try that and see if it starts working.

Incidentally, is this the only snapin you’ve made that you’re struggling with or do they all do this?

Hope this helps anyhow.

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Absolutely. I’ve learned a lot from people on this forum and got some really decent ideas and concepts from here too… I believe you get out of a community what you give to it. I’m not sure if everything I’ve written is helpful but I’ve had a few likes, I’ve had a few thankyou’s from people, and I’ve thanked many more myself. There’s hope alright Waldo129, but you have to bear in mind we’re living in a very selfish world nowadays… dont let it put you off, there’s plenty of decent worthwhile people on this forum…

I find I dont usually stay around after a few months if I dont feel welcome, and I’ve been here now since early last summer… well worth it!

ok, finally got around to doing this… Brilliant… thanks a lot… works a treat.