@george1421 :

Thanks for mentioning the gzip/compression settings of the image in the FOG console. I would never have thought they were a cause of one of my issues. So zstd is the preferred compression method for the images?

@george1421 :

Ok, I adjusted my image settings and restarted the capture process. This time it is behaving as it “should”. At least everything seems to be optimal on the capture process.

@george1421 :

Sorry for the late reply. Other work kept me busy. I will verify the image settings and make the adjustments you mentioned and will try again. It will be Monday before I will likely get the results for you.

@scott-lynch :

Here is the error.

At this point I need to get to my doctor appointment. Thanks for your help.

@george1421 :

Capture task started and client booted to FOS, selected option 1, and it is currently resizing the filesystem. So far, everything looks optimal. It didn’t even hiccup on the call to DHCP for an IP Address. I think the issue with it “failing” had to do with the client sending 4 requests for an IP address.

However, the client just threw a garbled error message. I’ll try and upload a picture. One sec.

@george1421 :

No problem. I will start a task and do as you say on booting the client.

@scott-lynch :

I am about to leave for the day. Doc appointment. I will continue in the morning. Is there a dictionary of commands for the fos boot system somewhere I can look at to familiarize myself with the next bit of testing?

@george1421 :

ip link show gives:

eth0: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 3c:18:a0:0c:d6:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

The network connection looks sound. (Besides, with the trouble I went through to find a usb-to-ethernet adapter that the computer would recognize during boot, it better work… LOL)

@george1421 :

I don’t think there is a need, I ran the ifconfig command and it shows that eth0 has an IP address and the link is up. No idea why it would say it failed to get an IP address. Regardless, it seems to be okay.

So, to begin the debug process, since I am NOT having an issue with eth0, I use the command ‘fog’ to start an image capture?

@george1421 :

I updated the grub.cfg with my server’s IP address and booted the client. It loaded to the DHCP testing, still threw a could not get IP address from DHCP on the 4th query of eth0, but loaded to the FOG splash screen when I hit the key to continue.