Posts made by nerdstburns

So I currently have my PCs set to boot from the Network first, this way if there are any pending fog tasks they will occur during startup or reboot, otherwise they will continue to the disk. Is there a way to have an image deploy every time the computer boots or restarts?

Hello,

Another location of ours was having issues capturing images because their storage was near full (they were deleting images from the web interface but not the server). I logged into the server and ran the following:

sudo -i
cd /images/
ls
rm -rf ImageName

It shows 1TB of free space on the web interface now, but when they try to capture an image they receive an error:

“Failed to complete capture (savePartition)
Args Passed: /dev/sda4 1 /images/309c23adb7ae all
Exit code: 1
Maybe check the fog server to ensure disk space is good to go?”

Is the another step I am missing?

Those are all enabled on the firewall and still having the same problem occurs. All PCs are UEFI enabled in the BIOS.

@george1421 will I have problems updating to a stable version if I have 1.5.9RC2? I followed the steps on the Wiki to download the stable version on another server and it gave me 1.5.9RC2. Also, just to confirm, is this what you are suggesting:

cd /root/fogproject
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh

Thanks for your help!

Hello,

I am trying to set up my network using separate VLANs for Gamers and Admins. My Fog server is on the Admin VLAN and the computers are on the Gamer VLAN. I can ping the fog server from the Gamer VLAN with no problem. My firewall is set up with ipxe.efi and the computers have network stack enabled and Network Boot as the first option. When I start the computers though they will search IPv4 and IPv6 for a long time and then just boot to the drive. When I disable the VLAN for the fog server so it is open to the entire network it works. Is there a setting in fog I need to adjust or does anyone know if I need to adjust the VLAN or Firewall settings? We use Unifi switches and all our other servers on the Admin VLAN have no problem communicating with the Gamer VLAN.

Hello,

I am curious on the easiest way to update to the latest version of the Fog master branch. I reviewed another forum discussion here, but I am a bit confused since I don’t work in Linux frequently…Can I just rerun the installation:

sudo -i
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git
cd /root/fogproject/bin
./installfog.sh

or can I just copy the “upgrade to the latest trunk” method found here, and just replace “dev-branch” with “master” as shown below:

cd /root/fogproject
git checkout master
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh

Any suggestions for a novice like me would be much appreciated!

What are the minimum CPU, RAM, and Storage specs that fog can operate on? What is the recommended specs for handling unicast images on up to 100-200 computers with a queue size of 6-12 PCs at a time?

@george1421 so far it’s only 2 out of the 12 I’ve done. If I hit boot from hard disk it will go to the drive, but otherwise nothing happens. Tried it multiple times.

@george1421 if you can post a link that would be great.

Also, I noticed some of the PCs don’t time out, they just sit at the fog screen until you hit “boot from hard disk.” Any idea how to fix that?

@george1421 changing the boot loader on the DHCP server to ipxe.efi fixed it. Thank you so much!

@george1421 ok so I changed to UEFI boot and enabled network stack. Now the network boot option appears in the boot menu and it looks like it’s gonna happen but I don’t see a fog screen and it skips directly to the SSD even though an image is scheduled.

@george1421 it’s a custom build with an MSI motherboard. Looking at the BIOS settings it says “Boot mode select = LEGACY+UEFI” but there is an alternate option for UEFI only. The only thing is that when I select that my PXE boot option disappears.

I have played around with both (went through each one and powered on the computer, but it still brings me to a black screen)

Hello, I know this topic has probably been brought up before, but I am still not able to resolve this issue. Currently I have PXE as the default boot option in my BIOS. This works great for easily capturing and deploying images (especially with the Wake-On-LAN feature), but when I do not have an image to capture or deploy Fog will not exit to my SSD. I tried adjusting all the Boot Exit options in the Fog Configuration Settings, but no luck. I have over 100 computers on a LAN and I would like to boot all of them at the click of a button and have them complete a Fog task or skip to the internal drive of the computer if no task is present. These computers are fairly new (2018). Can anyone point me in the right direction?