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  @Tom-Elliott I really appreciate that you are putting effort into providing more frequent releases, which makes it easier for everyone to deploy new security fixes in time. Keep up the good work!

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  @Tom-Elliott said in Wiping Drive via PXE menu:

  As for the RAMDISK size within the gui, 256000 (256~ MB) should be plenty big enough to house the initrd file, but 512000 is fine as well. We have a default set of 275000 for some time now, so if you upgraded from a very old version of fog that might explain this particular issue or are you saying this needs even more room now?

  I am using a recent version of FOG installed in May or June 2026. It looks like even more room is required now as I needed to change rhe argument ramdisk_size=256000 to something larger (I used 512000).

  The original suggested PXE menu entry suggestion included “imgfetch init.xz”. I left it out and it still started the wipe fine. I am assuming this line is not required?

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  @Valer Thanks for the report and the writeup, that’s a good catch. You’re right about the cause. Debian 13 dropped the sysv-rc-conf package since it’s fully on systemd now, so the installer chokes trying to apt-get it. We never actually use that tool on a systemd system anyway, it only ever got called on the old non-systemd paths, so it was just dead weight on Trixie.

  I pushed a fix to working-1.6. It leaves the package off the list on Debian 13 and up, and it also strips it out of a cached .fogsettings so an in-place upgrade doesn’t drag it back in. Older Debian keeps installing it like before so nothing changes there.

  If you want to get moving before you pull the update, you can either grab the latest working-1.6 and rerun the installer, or just open /opt/fog/.fogsettings and delete sysv-rc-conf from the packages line, then run the installer again. Either one gets you past it.

  Let me know if you hit anything else on Trixie.