Seems like I am stuck in a similar place. At this point I can image and deploy from fog, but after that I cannot get the computer to boot from the hard drive without manually going to each computer and changing the boot order in the bios.

You can do this as the last thing on sysprep if you wish with diskpart and a tiny script file that contains the following…

select volume=f
assign letter=z

This supposes the drive letter you want to change is f:
Change accordingly 😉

Save that to a text file or any name you wish then run c:\Windows\System32\diskpart /s <script filename>

Sorry! I forgot to mention that it belongs in the groups section of the file. Glad to see y’all got it working in the end.

[quote=“Tim Jackson, post: 11199, member: 3381”]How did you get on with this? I have my Macs able to Netboot from my FOG server but need to get a method to apply images from inside the Netboot image…
cheers
timjak[/quote]

Well, I didn’t… I wrote a script to do it in Ubuntu, and will wait for partclone support in FOG… I don’t know where I put the script, but it was mainly backuping/restoring the GPT table (using gdisk, iirc), and then using the partclone hfs+ backup/restore utility for the partitions…

(Sorry, I don’t check the forums often enough… :D)

[quote=“ZeroSkillz, post: 11092, member: 3464”]Thank you this was very helpful.[/quote]

no problem.

enjoy

cant use description field, but why didn’t I think of the IP field haha thanks

Thanks for the info!

I’ll certainly use those commands for now. Maybe sometime in the future this could be added to FOG. Until then, this helps immensely.

Thanks again chad-bisd!

FOG uses [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/’]Partimage[/URL] for the actual image creation/deployment, which creates an image of the drive at the sector level, meaning there is no “filesystem” that can be modified. There was [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=309’]talk in the Partimage forums[/URL] a while back about trying to write a block device driver that would allow you to mount your Partimage image files and modify them, but Partimage files are compressed internally (as in Partimage compresses the stream of sectors while writing the image file), so you would also have to decompress the image file before you could even mount it, at which point you’re basically deploying the image. So the only real option is to deploy the image to a computer, make whatever changes and then upload the image again.

I really like the idea, but seeing as the devs seem to be pretty busy and Fog seems to be a ‘side project’ for them personally I’d rather see them focus on stuff that can’t easily be done elsewhere (because as you say Webmin is ok for DHCP and isn’t too hard to install). Just my 2c…