Troubleshooting an image push to a client
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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.