Posts made by rbasart

@Tom-Elliott That did it. Thanks Tom!

@Tom-Elliott I’ll do that.

From https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/latest/download I downloaded fog_1.4.1.tar.gz to my home folder, then extracted it there. Then I logged into a console as root, changed to my home folder/fog_1.4.1/bin/ then ./installfog.sh and followed the onscreen instructions including updating my database.

Running Version: 242610
You are not running the most current version of FOG!
You are currently running version: 242610
Latest stable version is 1.4.1
Latest svn version is 6070
Latest git version is 1.4.1

Why is the Dash Board telling me that I am not running the most current version of FOG? I just downloaded it and installed it.

@Avaryan I’m thinking I need the wimboot stuff to make my Mobscene boot. What did you do to get wimboot installed?

@loosus456 I don’t like the large F as much as Toms smaller one. It’s too overwhelming.

@Wayne-Workman http://forum.kanka.net/showthread.php?943763-mOBSCENE21-s-Multi-Boot-USB-v3-0-8GB-amp-16GB is an older version but it’s a pretty good description. I have v6.0 but I think there is a v7.0 out there. The only way I have ever found to get it is via torrents because the full package is so large.

I was going to upload the readme.txt that comes with it, but the site won’t let me and the text is way to long to c/p.

@Wayne-Workman Mobscene is a bootable USB tool that includes Bart, UBCD, HBCD, Kaspersky Rescue Disc, ERD, various Live OSs, installers for pretty much every Windows there is and a whole slew of other tools. It comes in three flavors depending on how big the USB drive is. I could get all of the benefits that it offers by just booting to different .iso images, but then my menu would be huge.

I was able to get going a bit with this by pointing the menu selection to the grldr, but then I got a memdisk bootstrap too large error. I was thinking about trying the wimboot command, but I need to figure out how it works first.

I was able to get UBCD added to the Fog menu and working, but it’s just an ISO. Would anyone have any ideas on getting Mobscene to work from the menu? I’m thinking that I will just call the grldr from the menu and that might work. I’m going to test it after I get it all copied to the server.

Organization Name: CemenTech, Inc.
Location: Indianola, IA
Approximate Number of Systems: ~100
How Long: 1 year … and loving it!

I just love coming to work at a company where the previous IT guy had his head firmly implanted in his sphincter!!! Because of his poor documentation or lack thereof in some cases, I had assigned the same IP as a switch on the network to the Linux box. I don’t know how Fog was working at all but it was getting by just enough to screw with a lot of people! Once I found out the duplicate IP situation and changed the IP of the switch, everything started working exactly as it should! Thanks to everyone for their help, especially Tom!

Another twist to the mystery. I tried to boot an HP EliteBook to Fog and got to the menu, but when I choose either the Full or the Quick, it starts to go, but then restarts the laptop. Any ideas?

So, thanks to Tom, we’re getting closer anyway. After a fresh install and a few tweaks, we are back to where this thread started but, it did work on a Lenovo laptop. Still not the Dell that I’m really shooting for.

@kibade There is no .fogsettings there for me.

@Tom-Elliott Tom thanks for the pointer, but it’s still not flying. At the end of the install, where it’s updating the database it fails. Everything else is okay. I did do a “service mysqld status” command and it comes back running, but I still get the “Your database connection appears to be invalid.” page.

Per a suggestion here, I updated to version 1.3.4 to see if that would solve the problem, but now I’m stuck with a whole new issue.

Database Schema Installer / Updater
Your database connection appears to be invalid. FOG is unable to communicate with the database. There are many reasons why this could be the case. Please check your credentials in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php. Also confirm that the database is indeed running. If credentials are correct, and if the Database service is running, check to ensure your filesystem has enough space.

To top it off, when I try to restart mysql, it comes back as an unrecognized service.

@george1421 Choosing the Client System Information (Compatibility) option produces the same result. bzImage… OK and init.xz… OK

@george1421 Yep undionly.kpxe and 10.1.1.26 is the IP address of that box.

The PC is in legacy mode and the legacy option ROMs are enabled. Secure boot is disabled. The drive is in AHCI mode and is a 500GB mechanical SATA Toshiba mo01acf050. The UEFI is not enabled in the PXE boot network stack.

I have in my tftpboot directory intel, ipxe, realtek and undionly files with .kkpxe, kpxe and pxe extensions. I have tried all of them with no success. The only thing I can say for sure is that the intel series doesn’t work at all. All of the rest at least get me to the menu, but the result after that is the same.