Posts made by waveydavey

@george1421 Any idea how to mark this post/topic solved ?

@george1421 Having spoken to a colleague yesterday evening we have come to the (not unsurprising) conclusion that life is too short to do battle with 20 old images that are very unlikely to be used much.
Four images of our most used builds should probably address 95% of our needs, so we will just grab those 4 machines, image them on to the new fog server, and commence from there. It’s really not worth losing sleep and brain cells to take the obscure images any further.

I now need to decide whether to drop the database and reinstall fog, or just delete all test images, and start with an empty set of images.

@george1421 Yes thanks, I am fine with mysql commands, been doing it for far too many years!

Just as an aside - do you know anything about the imageSize column ?

@george1421 Giving me rope could be dangerous

Ok, manually entering data with little knowledge did not work - Pxe image menu did not magically contain an extra entry, so I must have missed something.

I will try following your suggestions in some detail, and see what works.

I would like to say that I am very grateful for your generosity in helping me with this - it is very kind of you.

@george1421 To be honest, if I could see the export, I would use it. However, needs must when the devil drives, and all that. I cant see any other way available.

@george1421 Yeah, I can’t see export on 0.32 menus. I’ll maybe try entering just one image into images table, and see what happens. Worst case I can remove the row. I will restart fog server after insert, to avoid any in-memoy caching

@george1421 It now takes me to the menu ! Hooray !

Menu shows 3 images, which corresponds to 3 entries in images table. I have a big bunch of image folders from original server - can I copy them over and add matching entries into the images table ? (Effectively a manual import)
If I do this, are there other table updates I need to make ?
Most entries in images table seem straightforward, but imageSize looks a little strange - any docs on this ?

@george1421 DHCP Server is our Windows DC (unavoidably so), running Windows Server 2012R2
Yes, we will need to support UEFI devices too.

@george1421 What target to I need in DHCP 067 entry to be ? Current DHCP setup for fog is:
060 192.168.1.175 - PxeClient
066 192.168.1.175 - Boot Server host name
067 pxelinux.0 Bootfile name
(actually there are 2x 067 entries - the above on no policy, and ipxe7156.efi on EUFI policy)

How do I 1) make the Quick / Deploy image appear, and 2) update the menu with new images as they appear ?

@george1421 Original fog is 0.32. New build is 1.5.4, so quite substantially newer!

@george1421 Exactly that: we ship Entry Management systems for schools, all on exactly same spec of machine (with hardware and application software updates over time, so slightly different images of course). After image installation, that machine never interact with fog again.

I would appreciate being pointed at the right area of documentation if you know of it. Thanks for your help.

Our fog system was getting somewhat old, so I spun up a new server (Ubuntu 16.04LTS) and got going sticking Fog on it.

All seemed to be ok - I can register machines and images, set up MAC Addresses, and start up target machines to receive Tasked images on them.

However, further testing, and comparison with the original Fog system has highlighted a problem - there seems to be no menu of system images that can be imaged out to a candidate machine.

On the old system, each image made sits in /images, and when a target machine is PXE-booted to the fog box, they are (after a short while) presented with a menu to install an image, and a list of installation images to select. Selection if these then begins the image installation process.

It is my understanding that this menu sits in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default but this file is minimally small, and knows nothing of the images in the system.

Is there any process that automagically updates this file, or is it a manual thing I need to create ? (note I inherited this fog issue - I was never part of its original setup, so I am coming at it cold).

Is there any advice for debugging the pxeboot - menu process ? Any good sample menus ?

Thanks in advance
David