Posts made by Matt Harding

Did you get anywhere with this project? I’m a slackware fan at heart but I’ve always used ubuntu for fog. Short of it was that I never had the time to properly play at adapting things to work on slack etc. Would be good to know if was done by anyone.

Brian just to let you know, I’m all good now, solved my issue… it was a very silly and embarassing thing to do but I used the wrong distro/unattended combo. Used a 64bit windows and did a 32bit unattend.xml!

Anyhow, all is good now. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on here, work has me doing all kinds of crazy projects in the run up to Christmas.

Here’s what I get…

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Its the bit with Windows System Image Manager I’m struggling with. sysprep doesnt seem to want to work after I make my unattend.xml file. I followed the instructions in part 2 of your guide and it just wouldnt work for me. I did wonder, when you are filling in password details in the file, do you need to have set the same password in windows for the Administrator account? Do I need to have pre-enabled the account too? It might sound daft if you’re used to doing it but I dont know if the actual sysprepping of the machine enables the account or if that information is just there to make sure it stays enabled during the build process later.

I’ve been trying to follow the part of the guide that shows the sysprep procedure but it’s somewhat incomplete from what I can make out. Do you have a template that I could alter thats more or less ready made or a reference website that I could use to educate myself on the procedure a bit better? I have everything working, have been using fog for ages now, half a year or something like that. I just cant quite get the sysprep bit to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t think you’ll inspire too much help from a community you’ve just joined with this kind of attitude mate. However, I shall try to help anyhow since I actually care about this community.

The password on boot is not set by default. I’m guessing when you went through the fog settings on the web interface you specified password(s) for the PXE menu. Perhaps go and remove those once you find out the web address.

As for the IP address not being set, if it’s still on DHCP you can look at your dhcp server to find out what current leases it has. If your DHCP server allows you to do this. Also, I’m not sure what you mean by “how am I to startup the server again”. Is it a VM? Please give as many details as possible so people can help you out.

Funny enough I was just thinking about this problem.

Unfortunately for me I have a list of jobs as long as my arm and I have news that I’m now being asked to go for a week to our sister college 30 miles down the road to work with another guy on imaging with SCCM. Looks like there may be opportunities to show them what fog can do. Anyhow, short of it is, I haven’t had anywhere near the time I thought I’d have to look at my own projects yet this week or last. And its not looking so favourable for me timewise for a couple of weeks. I promise I will post what I find, but it wont be for a couple of weeks… much to my dismay!

Sorry mate. Will contribute as soon as I can.

Sorry, ignore my last question, I see the link now. Sun shining in my eyes, couldn’t see the difference in colour on the link

From what I can guess from your post and the quoted text, you’ve run out of space right? Therefore, what I would do would be move the existing files from /images, mount the new drive to /images, and copy them back over, thus you’d be using the new drive instead for all of them and the subfolders thing… no need for that.

Where is the quote from btw?

Something perhaps to do with fixed lease addresses and corresponding DNS entries on the windows side perhaps? Just a thought.

1> As far as I know only the full disk wipe.
2> Check out Capone. [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Capone[/url]

Edit: Just thought, you might actually mean that you want to register the mac at the client computer. All you do in that case is choose quick or full registration from the PXE boot menu on the client PC

Sure thing mate. I’ve unfortunately run into another problem with a seperate server failure this week that somewhat sidetracked the project for half of this week… so I’ll be looking at the fog node late monday or tuesday. I’ll write back how I get on

Well, since I’ve now built the machine ready to go I am going to have to go and experiment. I had hoped to save myself a little time drawing on the experiences of the community, but I can’t really afford to wait any longer. Thanks for the views.

Not having used FOG to deploy another OS apart from windows, I can at least confirm for you that if you choose multiple partition single disk, it will back up the MBR and restore it too. What I use is 1 Windows 7 64bit OS that joins our domain, and a second Windows 7 32bit that is standalone and I use the multi partition single disk option myself for this.

I also know that if you have just one copy of windows on a drive that the single partition option will do the same, even though windows 7 usually installs a 100meg partition at the start of the disk, this is included in that option.

As for the virus stuff, there is actually an option under task management to set a client pc scanning for viruses using clamAV. When you et it off to scan it reboots the pc, starts in clamav mode and goes looking on the internet for the latest signatures which it downloads and uses on the fly.

Hope this helps.

I have to be honest, I’m really not sure why that has happened. I suspect that its stuck trying to query the database or something like that. Really not sure though.

Just so you know though golpemortal, most of the people on this forum are professional IT folk who usually reply to posts when they get chance during daytime work hours. It can be minutes, or sometimes days before you get responses

Hopefully someone here will have a good idea what this problem is. Personally I haven’t had anything like this before so I’d hate to go beyond speculation.

Hi guys. I’ve got a working environment that requires expansion and I wish to roll out a fog storage node now. However, I’m a bit reluctant to do so without some advice from more experienced users as my first atempt many months ago went wrong.

I’ve gained a LOT more experience in FOG now and I’m sure I could fix any issues that arise given installation problems, yet I prefer to take advice first from a community I’ve come to love and depend on.

I’m running my main and currently only fog server on ubuntu 10.04 LTS smoothly and without incident. Last time I tried a storage node, I used the same OS and it caused me no end of trouble. I’m using fog 0.32 also.

Anyone care to share what OS they’re using for their storage nodes? And… if its different to the fogserver OS used, why etc?

Because my FOG server runs in virtualbox the method I use is before I do changes, I use a snapshot of the machine, and I will periodically export the whole machine to an NFS share on another server on the network. Don’t know if this is particularly helpful to you but it might give the simple idea to someone else who comes here looking at this thread who does use a VM

Can you maybe take a screenshot? I suspect it’s saying the task is started, but perhaps you are confusing the lack of activity with the client computer doing nothing?

If that’s the case there could be a number of reasons for that. Perhaps you arent using fog client in the OS you want to upload… or maybe the machine is switched off and Wake on LAN isnt enabled in the BIOS. Please provide more details and if possible a screenshot would be good

Oh… and welcome to the community

Another idea would be to run Fog under virtualbox on the dcc machine. I’d recommend having at least 4gig ram spare on the machine if you choose to do this though.

Check Andyroo54’s tutorial here: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-make-a-simple-snapin-start-to-finish.304/[/url]

The example snapin is Adobe Reader X

Where his example scripts call for “REGEDIT /S” though, I would recommend instead using “REG IMPORT” but maybe that’s just me. “REGEDIT /S” just didn’t work for me so I used REG instead.