Thanks Tom. Understood.
An Idea I had was programming this into the BIOS or requesting HP to make a BIOS/UFEI which has this feature of “channels”
Or using a boot file, such as with secure boot, but that would require HP or Dell or whichever PC manufacturer to make boot files for secure boot.
but this would be out of the scope of the project.
I do appreciate your input though.
Regards,
Matt
Thanks Tom.
I since went with 1.5.9 and was able to re-install the server with that, I did have to run the installer a few times to load all the missing packages.
I ended up putting the kernel, init files there manually. Then with the installer running and adding the --ignore fail switch installed the files that way.
Then I updated to the latest kernel in the FOG GUI so I have the latest kernel running as I need this for current HP Z2 G9 mini and small form factor computers.
This is running so I considered this solved.
Matt
Dear FOG developers.
Have been using FOG for years and sometimes we’ve had to re-image or newly purchased PCs that have multiple hard-drives installed (either SATA Hard-drives, SSDs or NVMe drives).
This has caused at times when imaging that a different drive than the one intended is imaged. As a work around we currently remove the drives we don’t need to image, image the PC and reinstall the drives.
Would like to see if there is a way to specify TFTP and PXE to image the correct drive for the OS as a feature.
We are currently using FOS Kernel 6.1.63, FOG 1.5.9 and is installed on Rocky Linux 8.9
Thanks,
Matt
@ FOG Project
I am new to the forums but not to using FOG.
Basically I had to re-install our master FOG server from scratch as the OS volume failed. The original master was on CentOS 7.7 I am now using Rocky Linux 8.9
I luckiliy have a backup of most images and the database.
Anyway, I first tried installing 1.5.10 first using git to download the install files and then ran the shell script. I chose the “master branch” as I usually don’t do the dev stuff as this will be a production server ( I do have a dev branch on a VM for testing
I have a proxy set up here which I did set up the server to go through the proxy. I later tried a line without any proxy and it made no difference.
The script first had an issue with the REMI repo so it would not download certain packages but the installer somehow did not fail and it go to the end.
I re-ran the script after moving the remi specific repos and all packages installed however the installer would hang on downloading the binaries (kernel, init and services files)
I tried what I found in the forums to use curl to download these manually and I would get a 3KB file for the zip and 3kb file for checksum which were both empty zip files that were corrupt.
the curl commands I tried:
curl -kOL http://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.10.zip
curl -kOL http://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.10.zip.sha256
Then I opened firefox and manually entered the URL and I got a webpage that had a nginx error in fedora on it.
So I then deleted the 1.5.10 foilder and downloaded the 1.5.9 tarball and ran the install script into the same problem with the binaries downloading.
I tried the curl commands this time and these worked.
curl -kOL http://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.9.zip
curl -kOL http://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.9.zip.sha256
and I was able to run the checksum and manually put the url to download the files manually using firefox both from the linux server and a windows server so the url doesn’t work.
The files download seemed to hang for a very long tim (like two hours) and nothing would happen.
So on the line with the proxy I ran the installer with the -X option added and running the export http:_proxy commands and it would finally error on the binaries failing to download. The installer finished and I was able to download the binaries manually otherwise.
Do I put these files in “/var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe” manually? or is there some other location needed for the server to work.
The error I ran into is new to 1.5.10 as I have used fog with a proxy connected or not for 10 years and never ran into the binaries fail;ing to download before
it seems the binaries.zip file for 1.5.10 is corrupt
Regards,
Matt
Dear Fog Project,
We have been using for for about 10 years and it is a great program. We recently had to rebuild a FOG server.
I have the same problem as the OP.
I am installing FOG on rocky linux version 8.9 as CentOS is now a rolling release distro.
The server in question has all packages (curl, bc, dhcp, mysql, php, etc) in the long list installed I tried on a line with no proxy and with some filtering and the results are the same.
I also tried version 1.5.9 and the FOG installer hangs on the “downloading binaries, init and client libraries” There is no output that shows any error and it doesn;t fail - it almost as if it is hanging on something at the other end.
On the same server I tried the following commands in the /root/fogproject/tmp directory (unless there is another location these should be installed in) when I was trying to install 1.5.10.
curl -kOL https://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.10.zip
curl -kOL https://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.10.zip.sha256
Both of these files are a 3 kb file which has nothing in it. I tried to download the files using that url in firefox and I get a nginix error.
so then I tried 1.5.9 which I suscessfuly installed 6 months ago on this same internet line. I get the same basic error on the installer but I can manually download the files and use the url in firefox.
curl -kOL https://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.9.zip
curl -kOL https://fogproject.org/binaries1.5.9.zip.sha256
These files are 64 MB.
I usually figure out these issues and can install FOG and get it working but this one has me stumped.
Best Regards,
Matt