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The best way I found is to export the appliance, unfortunately. Unless you only want to make copies in which case cloning would be the best solution.

I use an external drive to store all my Virtual Images on so I don’t actually “export” them I just set up the appliance with the current files at my other locations. This allows me to have the same image and upload to the different servers (I chose stand alone servers instead of Nodes… not really sure why, I was just new at setting FOG up and I never re did the set up I know it’s going to change when I upgrade to 0.33 version but for now I just have multiple servers.)

I am partial to the snapshots feature. That and I use fairly antiquated technology, the ones that are on the phase out, for my imaging so I never had a GOOD server to build ESXi on, so the bad taste left in my mouth may be my own fault, but I never had good luck with VMWare.

Very nice script!

Just an update everyone,

After hour and hours of research, I have found a way to convert a system GPT partition to MBR without losing data. I compiled a crude walkthrew for everyone.

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[][FONT=Calibri]Boot your Fedora 16 Live media (I used Ubuntu and replaced yum with apt-get) and wait for your session to start. If you’re having troubles booting, press Tab at the boot loader screen and try booting with the [SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco]nomodeset[/FONT][/SIZE] parameter added.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Depending on your graphics card, you’ll either be presented with the new Gnome 3 Shell or with the traditional interface. Start a terminal session by putting your mouse in the top right corner of the screen and typing “terminal” in the search (Gnome Shell) or by selecting Applications > System Tools > Terminal (traditional interface)[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Install gdisk:[/FONT]
[SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco][FONT=Calibri]su -
yum -y install gdisk[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
[FONT=Calibri]This may take a few moments.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Make a backup of your current GPT scheme:[/FONT]
[SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco][FONT=Calibri]gdisk -b sda-preconvert.gpt /dev/sda[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
[][FONT=Calibri]Now we will attempt to convert your GPT disk layout to MS-DOS/MBR. Start gdisk:[/FONT]
[SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco][FONT=Calibri]gdisk /dev/sda[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
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You should be prompted with:[/FONT]
[SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco][FONT=Calibri]Command (? for help):[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
[][FONT=Calibri]Press [SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco]r[/FONT][/SIZE] to start recovery/transformation.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Press [SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco]g[/FONT][/SIZE] to convert GPT to MBR.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Press [SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco]p[/FONT][/SIZE] to preview the converted MBR partition table.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Make any modification necessary to the partition layout. See Rod Smith’s [URL=‘http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html#gpt2mbr’][COLOR=#047ac6]Converting to or from GPT[/COLOR][/URL] page for more details on this.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]When you’re happy with the MS-DOS/MBR layout, press [SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco]w[/FONT][/SIZE] to write changes to the disk.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Shutdown Fedora 16 and boot from the Windows 7 installation media[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Enter your language & keyboard layout and then select the option to repair your computer in the bottom left corner.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]From the available options, select Startup Repair. Windows will ask for a reboot.[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Follow the previous three steps again to boot the Windows 7 installation and run startup repair[/FONT]
[][FONT=Calibri]Once again, boot the Windows 7 installation media but this time opt to open a command prompt instead of choosing startup repair. Type:[/FONT]
[SIZE=12px][FONT=Monaco][FONT=Calibri]bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
[][FONT=Calibri]Close the command prompt and run Startup Repair one last time.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=14px]Some noted they were successful with skipping the 2nd and 3rd startup repair in the windows 7 install disk. I did all steps. The Rebuildbcd and fixboot threw me an error. That’s when i discovered the next steps necessary.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=14px][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[COLOR=#000000][SIZE=14px][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Calibri]THEN…[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
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[SIZE=15px][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]1: Boot into gparted[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=15px][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]2: Right click on partition with windows[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=15px][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]3: Flag as boot[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=15px][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]4: Run windows recovery to fix any other errors (using startup repair, and sometimes when it scans for OS’s it repairs automatically) Run windows recovery startup repair twice.[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
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[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=15px]I followed each step listed in order and was able to [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=15px]successfully[/SIZE][/COLOR][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=15px] complete this operation. UEFI is here to stay so I hope that .33 supports GPT partitions and UEFI,[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
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[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 12587, member: 3582”]What recommendation did you try?

Did you add the delay to the init.d file or did you change the way the job starts? I would like to find out if the “[I][SIZE=12px]start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)” [/SIZE][/I][SIZE=12px]works or not :)[/SIZE][/quote]

Worked for me. I’m soo glad I found this thread. Using Xubuntu 12.04.3 LTS + FOG 0.32