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@Quazz I just did that and the clone started; yet my concern is now this locks the OS on to this type and size of drive and they want to upgrade the hardware and this would also include the drive. How do i get around the issue of it only being able to restore on the same type and size drive?

So I have been using this with no issues and I got a box given to me that does boot and they want to update it’s hardware but they want me to FOG capture the image but every time I try I get this error. !

I am stumped does anyone have any pointers on how to get around this?

Never mind I have found the answer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSpGaeHlkoE
Made it so easy even a cave man could do it

Ok how do I do that?

SOOOOO I thought I ran out of space so I shut down the FOG VM and increased the size. After increasing the size I started it back up and I got to the Log in that displays the users names and after I log in I get the FOG background Blue wallpaper but that is it. SOOOO I shut it down and shrunk it back down and started it back up and got the same response. I am not sure what to do, I can not even ping the server. How do I get to the command line to check the IP address? How do I get the system back up, I just had completed a clone of our machines, and I am in a panic mode now. !!!

I think I ran out of space on a backup and after logging in I get a blue screen and not work space; I can get in by putty but I do not see the back up that I started to delete. I do see two files in /home/for UBUNTU.16.04_img and UBUNTU_16.04.img are these part of the system or can I delete them to regain some space?

I think I found them in the /images/dev folder but I am not sure
./images/dev/d8eb97b7bad7/d1p1.img
./images/dev/f04da292943e/d1p1.img
./images/dev/f04da292943e/d1p2.img

can I delete these files?

@george1421
Ok so things are working great here; Just thought I would give an update. Now is there instructions for multicasting to a group of devices at one time?

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Worked like a charm…being that this is a VM I may have to expand the drive for the images storage…is there anything I need to know before I break this ?

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No fog is not being used
This is a new server setup strictly for testing and R&D work
So how do I fix it?

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Not sure I have been playing with this for about a week now, so I should go to System Administration User Manager go to FOG account and change it to fog/password ???

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Ok I am seeing a new error
So when I made the image it gave me this sorry someone else took the photo …so if I am looking at this right the image never showed up on the server?
In side of the image folder I have a dev and a postdownloadscripts folders.

I had to delete all the images from the server I thought I was running out of space. So I cleared out all host and all images
So how do I reset the numbers where it is showing the image is #6

@george1421 Yes once the image is moved from the FOG server to the device it get sent to the end user somewhere and unless it breaks I will most likely never see the device again but the next device I will be using the same Network USB Dongle to build the next box. So is FOG going to freak out when is see the same USB NIC if I build a new image?

And I would really like instructions on converting the colnezilla image that I have moved over to the server into a FOG image.

@sebastian-roth Finding the onboard NIC is not an option the design on the board has it but the connector is not mounted to the board, and for this project it will not be installed for a security reason.

But for giggles I still want to know how to take the clonzilla image and convert it to FOG …being that I have already moved it to the server and to put the image on the box and re-cloning it is a bit of time loss. Not to mention how many different images I have already built; it would take me a week to start over.

@george1421 Ok I found one dongle that worked the one on the left (Black works for everything but this application)
The one on the right (White …FOG seams to love this one)
But I still need to know a few things!
If I clone one box using this dongle and I go and use the same dongle to push images to other devices is this going to be a problem?

Next I moved the Clonzilla image over to the FOG server now what do I need to do to compress it so that FOG can reuse t?

@george1421 No idea it does not match anything we have on the board or the USB dongle

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@george1421 Ok I don’t see a area to up load them?

@george1421 any chance on an email address so I can send a few picture of the screen shots so I don’t have to type all of this out?

Starting logging: ok
Populating /dev using udev: udevd[2795]: error creating epoll fd: function not implemented
done
Initializing random number generator… done
Starting eth0 interface and waiting for the link to come up
udhcp: starting, v1.26.2
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: sending discover
Either DHCP failed or we were unable to access 192.168.83.94/for//index.php for connection
No DHCP response on interface etho, skipping it.
Failed to get an IP via DHCP! Tried on interfaces(s): eth0
Please chaeck your network setup and try again!

Ok my first action: I updated the update the grub.conf first line to point to the FOG server 192.168.83.94
Don’t know if I need to change anything else?
I see that it is showing for eth0 a MAC of : 00:00:00:00:00:00 | 30:64:19:48:91
Yet that is not the MAC that is built on our board and it is not the MAC of the USB network dongle, we only have these two items (so where is it getting that MAC from?)
Option 7 error: loading the kernel
error: invalid magic number
booting iPXE…
Press any key to continue…

Option 8 error: chain loading the kernel.
error: cannot load image.
booting ipxe-efi…
Press any key to continue…

@george1421
Well as far as the boot device goes we develop specialized hardware; this new item uses a COM Express on the board with a 250gig solid state chip a the drive. We use a USB DVD drive to load everything from windows to red hat with no problems. Once the OS is up and running the network is fine but booting to the USB network device leave a lot to be desired. I have two or three different USB network device options in the parts box.

But I would really like instructions on the recapture and compression; it looks like the first test capture across the network is a bit slow and my time to babysit this process is limited with the amount meetings I have this week…if you have the time