[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 26866, member: 7271”]Fog does clean the drives first. But only on the download task. Creating the initial image is completely up to you. I wouldn’t have the “FOGGIEST” of idea’s on what it is you’re planning to do to actually have FOG create the image for you. I hope this makes sense.

If you’re trying to make an MBR style OS on a disk that originally in GPT format, you have to make sure all is well.

Converting from GPT to MBR has some quirks. Converting from MBR to GPT is fairly easy with some minor modifications. FOG wouldn’t have any interaction in this process.

The reason why this is all important to know is because, if GPT is “present” on the Disk, FOG 1.0.0 will create a backup of the GPT partitioning table. GPT is present in many cases if you don’t properly wipe the drive and partitioning tables prior, especially if your OS came preinstalled with UEFI enabled on the system.[/quote]

I redid the test in a virtual machine. Still not working. The same result. Please check the pictures. I can’t figure what am I doing wrong…

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[quote=“falko, post: 26949, member: 48”]you mean adding an ISO to the Boot menu?[/quote]

I would be interested in knowing how to do that as well

It’s MBR. As for the hard drive, no, I did not clean it before. I was under the impression FOG will do that for me. I have 10 computers, on which I want to deploy Windows today, Ubuntu tomorrow, then Windows again, and so on. Going with a live cd at every computer would defeat the purpose of using FOG…
Given the above, I feel I missed a feature/option somewhere, that might clean the hdd for me, in which case, I must beg forgiveness for my ignorance and ask where can I find that.

Has anyone been able to clone a linux client? I’ve been trying for some time now with no luck. When I select Multiple disks for the image type, I don’t get any error, but PartClone doesn’t even start. When I select single disk multiple partitions, it complains about the partitioning layout of the destination and exits. Unfortunately DD isn’t really an option since the HDD is 80GB, but the Ubuntu partitions (including swap) are 12GB.

Tom, issue in [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/latest-fog-1-0-0.10417/#post-26547[/url] is still persisting.
Did you manage to take a look over it? I really need to be able to clone this Ubuntu 14.04 client, and I can’t find a way to achieve this…

I still can’t find a way to wrap my head around this, but maybe these make any sense for you since they seem to report the same error:
[url]http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1966148.html[/url]
[url]http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2122496.html[/url]

While I don’t really know what is happening behind, I’m just wondering: would sfdisk be able to save the day ?
([FONT=verdana][COLOR=#000000]sfdisk -d /dev/sda > parts_sda.txt then [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=verdana][COLOR=#000000]sfdisk -d /dev/sda < parts_sda.txt[/COLOR][/FONT] )

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 26564, member: 7271”]The OS Type is used during the imaging process, but really only needed between Linux and Windows. Other is for some other type of OS. Linux tells the system that it needs to backup and restore the GRUB and MBR. Windows (any) tells the system, in Single Disk Resizable, how to create the partition tables and how to restore the MBR/partition tables.

I realize this is confusion.

Windows 2000/XP Single Disk Resizable Imaging Upload resizes the partition (there’s only one usually) before uploading.
Windows 2000/XP Single Disk Resizable Imaging Download uses the present winxp.mbr file to restore the drive, and expands the drive to it’s full size.
Windows Vista Single Disk Resizable Imaging Upload resizes the ntfs partition before uploading.
Windows Vista Single Disk Resizable Imaging Download uses the present winvista.mbr file to restore the partitions on the hard-drive. Expands the Main partition to the full size.
Windows 7 Single Disk Resizable Imaging Upload resizes the ntfs partitions before uploading.
Windows 7 Single Disk Resizable Imaging Download uses the win7.mbr file to restore the partitions to the hard drive. It assumes the partitions are: 1st 100MB and 2nd Whatever size (70GB I think). Then expands the 2nd partition after imaging completes.
Linux Multipart All or Single upload runs the same as Multipart works on Windows Vista/XP/7/8 except it copies the MBR AND GRUB during the upload process. Same on in reverse for download.[/quote]

So if I want to image a dual boot (Windows + Linux) drive, I should use Linux or Other, right?

Maybe I missed some readme or something, but what changes when I select the Operating system of an image? For instance, how is Win7 different from Win8, Linux or Other?

I think this should answer your question better than I could…In short: nothing happens

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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 26535, member: 7271”]When you installed Ubuntu 14.04, did it install as EFI or MBR? Also, what’s the size of the d1.mbr for this particular image?

I ask for size because it’s the “size” of the mbr file that determines if it’s an MBR or GPT type of MBR. From what I can tell, this is a multicast deploy with a linux OSID.

I don’t have an easy method to check if the mbr is GPT or mbr, so I’ve used file sizes to make this determination.

The steps that make an mbr, or gpt backup are:
On upload, it runs gdisk -l /dev/sda and searches for the gpt: present line. If it’s not present, it does a normal dd backup of the mbr, or in the case of linux, it copies all the data from 1 to the 63 sector at 512 bytes each sector. So the “filesize” is: 32256 bytes, but is still of MBR type. This was just a guess, but may be inaccurate for Ubuntu.

My guess to the error you’re seeing is because of this. Maybe MBR Ubuntu 14.04 is actually larger so the deploy action is writing the d1.mbr as GPT structured rather than MBR?[/quote]

Well…
[CODE]# ls -lah
total 1.3G
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K May 3 16:14 .
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4.0K May 3 16:18 …
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32K May 3 15:58 d1.mbr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.3G May 3 16:14 d1p1.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 125 May 3 16:14 d1p2.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59M May 3 16:18 d1p5.img
[/CODE]

[CODE]# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8

Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
[/CODE]

Is there any way in which I can get around this?

Already encountered the first problem…
Any hint please?

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Tom, as promised in the previous thread, I am coming back with feedback about Win8.1.
Disclaimer: yesterday I was in the lab I have at work, while today I virtualized everything; however, the errors were the same.

Possible bug: FOGMulticastManager still isn’t starting properly, I had to start it manually.
Win8.1 worked like a charm with “Multiple partition image - single disk”, after I started FOGMulticastManager manually.

Now I will try to replace Windows 8.1 with Ubuntu 14.04. Will come back with updates.
Just out of my curiosity, what is “Other (99)” for ? How is it different from Windows 8 or Linux?

This is quickly turning into my favourite open source project!