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=== Troubleshooting an image push to a client ===

This process will '''wipe out''' whatever is currently present on the client computer.<br>
This tutorial is for FOG .30 pushing Windows XP and assumes that your primary disk is /dev/sda. '''Note that this process has not been tested on Windows 7.'''

<ol>
<li>In the management portal, start a debug task for the client computer in question. Allow the client to boot and at the bash prompt.</li>(Everything below is done within the bash prompt '''on the client's console'''.)
<li>From your client, mount the remote /images folder on your FOG server onto a local /images folder using nfs:<ul><li><tt>mkdir /images</tt> (type this on the client's keyboard, as explained above)</li>
<li><tt>mount -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images</tt> (where x.x.x.x is the server ip)<br>you may try also <tt>mount -t nfs -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images</tt></li></ul>
<li>Copy the master boot record to the first 512 bytes of the local disk. Take a look into <tt>/usr/local/fog/mbr/</tt> to determine the correct MBR for your system. This example uses XP:
<ul><li><tt>cd /images</tt></li>
<li><tt>dd if=/usr/share/fog/mbr/xp.mbr of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1</tt></li>(For previous versions, find the <tt>fog</tt> directory under:/usr/local/)</ul>
<li>Start fdisk and remove all previous partitions:<ul><li><tt>fdisk /dev/sda</tt> (Note there is no <tt>1</tt> at the end of the device name)</li>
<li>Press "d", then "Enter" - select a partition if prompted and repeat pressing "d"</li>
<li>Press "w", then "Enter" to save and exit fdisk</li></ul>
<li>Create a new partition:<ul><li>fdisk /dev/sda</li>
<li>Press "n", then "Enter"</li>
<li>Press "p", then "Enter"</li>
<li>Press "1", then "Enter"</li>
<li>Press "1", then "Enter" or just "Enter" to accept the default starting sector</li>
Note: Windows 7 users may want to create a 100M partition, then repeat these steps to create the system partition and assign the rest of the disk to the OS.
<li>Press "Enter" to accept the default ending sector</li>
<li>Press "t", then "Enter" to change the partition type</li>
<li>Press "7", then "Enter" for NTFS</li>
<li>Press "a", then "Enter" to toggle the bootable flag</li>
<li>Press "1", then "Enter"</li>
<li>Press "w", then "Enter" to save and exit fdisk</li></ul>
<li>Update the partition info:<ul><li><tt>partprobe</tt></li></ul>
<li>Use partimage to copy image from FOG server to local partition:<ul><li><tt>/usr/sbin/partimage restore /dev/sda1 /images/[imagename] '''-f3 -b'''</tt></li></ul>
<li>Use ntfsresize to expand partition:<ul><li><tt>/usr/sbin/ntfsresize /dev/sda1 '''-f -b -P'''</tt></li>(For previous versions, find sbin under: /usr/local/)</ul>
</ol>

An alternate way to do partimage (which gives more feedback) is to load the gui version of partimage with:<br><tt>/usr/sbin/partimage</tt>, then manually fill in the fields/choose options.

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 == Win 7 ==
-This process will wipe out whatever is currently present on the client computer.
+This process will '''wipe out''' whatever is currently present on the client computer.<br>
 This tutorial was created using SVN 3501 pushing Windows 7 and assumes that your primary disk is /dev/sda.
-In the management portal, start a debug task for the client computer in question. Allow the client to boot and at the bash prompt.
+<ol>
-(Everything below is done within the bash prompt on the client’s console.)
+<li>In the management portal, start a debug task for the client computer in question.   Allow the client to boot and at the bash prompt.</li>(Everything below is done within the bash prompt '''on the client's console'''.)
-From your client, mount the remote /images folder on your FOG server onto a local /images folder using nfs:
+<li>From your client, mount the remote /images folder on your FOG server onto a local /images folder using nfs:
-mkdir /images (type this on the client’s keyboard, as explained above)
+<ul><li><tt>mkdir /images</tt>  (type this on the client's keyboard, as explained above)</li>
-mount -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images (where x.x.x.x is the server ip)
+<li><tt>mount -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images</tt> (where x.x.x.x is the server ip)
-you may try also mount -t nfs -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images
+<br>you may try also <tt>mount -t nfs -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images</tt></li></ul>
+<li>Copy the master boot record to the first 512 bytes of the local disk.
-Copy the master boot record to the first 512 bytes of the local disk.
+<ul><li><tt>cd /images/$ImageFolder '''$ImageFolder is the folder of the image you want to push'''</tt></li>
-cd /images/$ImageFolder ($ImageFolder is the folder of the image you want to push)
+<li><tt> dd if=d1.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1</tt></li></ul>
-dd if=d1.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
+<li>Update the partition info:
+<ul><li><tt>partprobe</tt></li></ul>
-Update the partition info:
+<li>Use partclone to copy image from FOG server to local partition:
-partprobe
+<ul><li><tt>cat d1p1.img | pigz -d -c | partclone.restore -O /dev/sda1 -N -f -i</tt></li></ul>
+<ul><li><tt>cat d1p2.img | pigz -d -c | partclone.restore -O /dev/sda2 -N -f -i</tt></li></ul>
-Use partclone to copy image from FOG server to local partition:
+<li>Use ntfsresize to expand partition:
-cat d1p1.img | pigz -d -c | partclone.restore -O /dev/sda1 -N -f -i
+<ul><li><tt>ntfsresize /dev/sda1 '''-f -b -P'''</tt></li>
-cat d1p2.img | pigz -d -c | partclone.restore -O /dev/sda2 -N -f -i
+</ul><ul><li><tt>ntfsresize /dev/sda2 '''-f -b -P'''</tt></li></ul>
+</ol>

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	This process will '''wipe out''' whatever is currently present on the client computer.<br>		This process will '''wipe out''' whatever is currently present on the client computer.<br>

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	An alternate way to do partimage (which gives more feedback) is to load the gui version of partimage with:<br><tt>/usr/sbin/partimage</tt>, then manually fill in the fields/choose options.		An alternate way to do partimage (which gives more feedback) is to load the gui version of partimage with:<br><tt>/usr/sbin/partimage</tt>, then manually fill in the fields/choose options.
		+
		+	== Win 7 ==
		+
		+	This process will wipe out whatever is currently present on the client computer.
		+	This tutorial was created using SVN 3501 pushing Windows 7 and assumes that your primary disk is /dev/sda.
		+
		+	In the management portal, start a debug task for the client computer in question. Allow the client to boot and at the bash prompt.
		+	(Everything below is done within the bash prompt on the client’s console.)
		+	From your client, mount the remote /images folder on your FOG server onto a local /images folder using nfs:
		+	mkdir /images (type this on the client’s keyboard, as explained above)
		+	mount -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images (where x.x.x.x is the server ip)
		+	you may try also mount -t nfs -o nolock x.x.x.x:/images /images
		+
		+	Copy the master boot record to the first 512 bytes of the local disk.
		+	cd /images/$ImageFolder ($ImageFolder is the folder of the image you want to push)
		+	dd if=d1.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
		+
		+	Update the partition info:
		+	partprobe
		+
		+	Use partclone to copy image from FOG server to local partition:
		+	cat d1p1.img \| pigz -d -c \| partclone.restore -O /dev/sda1 -N -f -i
		+	cat d1p2.img \| pigz -d -c \| partclone.restore -O /dev/sda2 -N -f -i
		+
		+	Use ntfsresize to expand partition:
		+	ntfsresize /dev/sda1 -f -b -P
		+	ntfsresize /dev/sda2 -f -b -P

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