@Scott-Rollins said:

Just started with FOG and currently loving it but…

Is there a way to edit the menu so that I can pick a image to load?

I ask this because I have to image about 10 different dell optiplex models. Right now I have a “current” image i use for all new pcs that come in and need to get staged then installed, but we have a pile of older ones I wipe then image. The current ones get a quick reg, then reboot and gest imaged and i love that, but I was wondering if it was possible to boot to a menu where I could select the image from a list of available images. Right now i need to quick reg the old pc, then log into fog, find it in the host list, change its default image reboot old mahcine. I would love to do it all from the client itself.

Thank you!

Since you just started with FOG I understand the confusion…
What you need to do is Perform full host registration and the 2nd input asks which image to specify and from there you can type “?” to see the list and their id numbers.

than at the end will ask if you want to image the machine now just yep Y and when it reboots make sure to Network boot again and it will start the imaging.

Another options is to use the groups.
Do the same setup but when it ask for a group just type ? and find a group you have made and than continue. Once complete just select NO to image machine and once it has rebooted turn the machine off. now you can start a Multicast for that group and now when you network boot it will start the imaging…

So I did my own testing and I don’t find there to be much difference for downloading, but compression level does seem to increase uploading time significantly. If interested, my post is titled more compression testing.

@sagar

When the forums were updated, not all formatting carried over correctly.

You can find good documentation in our WiKi on installing FOG.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Installing_FOG

Tom has pointed out that my Ubuntu stuff for RPC / portmap is very wrong/old…

I am not a Ubuntu person. Whoever has editing permissions and knows Ubuntu, have at it.

Fog like basic network.
Fog with another DHCP server.

I’ll do the same for the Troubleshoot TFTP article.

We use our own DNS to create:

a uniquely named static Host (A) record for the Fog server’s IP address in the Forward Lookup Zone of the DNS

… then add the following command during configuration of the server post-Fog install:

if [ -f /var/www/html/index.html ]; then mv -u /var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/index.html.old; fi

From then on it’s just: xyzfog/

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_TFTP[/url]

Cleaned up [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Use_FOG_with_FreeNAS[/url] to keep with some formatting guideslines. Let me know if I messed anything up.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 45876, member: 7271”]Can you try 3279?[/quote]
I installed 3279 and at least the error didn’t reappeared. Can’t tell if it fixed it as I fixed it with enabling mcrypt odule as I wrote before…

If your not running SVN running fixparts on the pc before uploading may fix your issue.

For Debian/Ubuntu:
[CODE] sudo apt-get install binutils-dev[/CODE]

[B]Would you please edit the post and remove the “on RH” in the code box… I am sure a lot of people don’t understand that this is not part of the command![/B]

For the record,

If it wasn’t for the developmental versions, FOG wouldn’t work in my environment at all.

And, from what I’ve seen, it’s really stable.

Tom primarily focuses on the imaging features in FOG (who would have guessed??) and makes sure that it works for all sorts of hardware. This is understandable, because he is only one man, and fog has a lot of razzle dazzle plugins and other features that aren’t specific to Imaging -> Naming -> Joining to domain

And, of course, all I do with fog is: Image -> Name -> Join to domain… and FOG is really good at that.

yes merge the information. then do a page insertion on the old page. This way both pages will have updated info

Edit:

See this page for what I mean…[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Multicast[/url]

[quote=“PaganLinuxGeek, post: 42774, member: 2226”]Already considered that. It’s not an option on this device. 😕 I have a raspberry PI running on the home lan that could handle dhcp as it’s always on.[/quote]

Install FOG with DHCP anyways, then disconnect from that modem/router thing. Use a cross over cable to connect directly to the target machine.

Thank you very much for your job, Liam!

Now I am working in my Final Project of Technical Computer Science Career.

This document will help me much more reading a lot of documents 🙂

If I have any questions, can I use this same thread to ask? Thanks in advance,

T. Capablo.

yes, the server is dhcp. i tried another switch , same resaults , i will test some more options, and update in the coming days.
thanks

FOG and Windows 8/8.1 can work with the UEFI default of 4 partitions (Partition 1 usually being the Protective MBR, Partition 2 being the Recovery, Partition 3 being whatever it is microsoft decided it to be, and Partition 4 being the main data partition) This is what is typical of a default Windows 8/8.1 install with UEFI enabled. Yes, the file system is also structured in GPT which also should work fine. Under the Default Windows 8/8.1 setup, with UEFI enabled, the only requirement before an imaging task occurs is to disable Secure boot, and re-enable it once the imaging task is complete.

Maybe you could try the latest and greatest in SVN to see if it may help you with the default partitioning scheme done by the Lenovo installation disks? I’ve try to make as dynamic as possible and rely purely on the disk layout scheme over specifically telling the HDD where and what partitions to place.

After some playing around I got the error to go away but now the only thing that comes up on the screen is a hyperlink to tightvnc.com. I have no clue on what to look at next to get this to work.