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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. | ||
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| + | == Win 7 == | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | <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. | ||
| + | <ul><li><tt>cd /images/$ImageFolder '''$ImageFolder is the folder of the image you want to push'''</tt></li> | ||
| + | <li><tt> dd if=d1.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1</tt></li></ul> | ||
| + | <li>Update the partition info: | ||
| + | <ul><li><tt>partprobe</tt></li></ul> | ||
| + | <li>Use partclone to copy image from FOG server to local partition: | ||
| + | <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> | ||
| + | <li>Use ntfsresize to expand partition: | ||
| + | <ul><li><tt>ntfsresize /dev/sda1 '''-f -b -P'''</tt></li> | ||
| + | </ul><ul><li><tt>ntfsresize /dev/sda2 '''-f -b -P'''</tt></li></ul> | ||
| + | </ol> | ||
Latest revision as of 13:19, 23 June 2015
Troubleshooting an image push to a client
This process will wipe out whatever is currently present on the client computer.
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.
- 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. Take a look into /usr/local/fog/mbr/ to determine the correct MBR for your system. This example uses XP:
- cd /images
- dd if=/usr/share/fog/mbr/xp.mbr of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1 (For previous versions, find the fog directory under:/usr/local/)
- Start fdisk and remove all previous partitions:
- fdisk /dev/sda (Note there is no 1 at the end of the device name)
- Press "d", then "Enter" - select a partition if prompted and repeat pressing "d"
- Press "w", then "Enter" to save and exit fdisk
- Create a new partition:
- fdisk /dev/sda
- Press "n", then "Enter"
- Press "p", then "Enter"
- Press "1", then "Enter"
- Press "1", then "Enter" or just "Enter" to accept the default starting sector
- Press "Enter" to accept the default ending sector
- Press "t", then "Enter" to change the partition type
- Press "7", then "Enter" for NTFS
- Press "a", then "Enter" to toggle the bootable flag
- Press "1", then "Enter"
- Press "w", then "Enter" to save and exit fdisk
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.
- Update the partition info:
- partprobe
- Use partimage to copy image from FOG server to local partition:
- /usr/sbin/partimage restore /dev/sda1 /images/[imagename] -f3 -b
- Use ntfsresize to expand partition:
- /usr/sbin/ntfsresize /dev/sda1 -f -b -P (For previous versions, find sbin under: /usr/local/)
An alternate way to do partimage (which gives more feedback) is to load the gui version of partimage with:
/usr/sbin/partimage, 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
