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  Useful Scripts
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  We have created a dedicated repository for community scripts: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-community-scripts. All scripts in this repository are under the MIT license, and contain a brief README describing basic usage.

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  Organizations Using FOG
  • Tom Elliott

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  Organization Name: Vistex, Inc.
  Location: Corporate Office - Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA
  Approximate Number of systems: 1600 laptops/75 desktops
  How long: Since 2017
  12 Satellite Offices Worldwide each running a FOG server locally (VM)

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  Requests for Wiki Access <--- ASK HERE
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  @Greg-Plamondon We are moving to read the docs. Would you be interested to help with this? https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/

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  Please do not cross post on multiple forums with the same question
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  This seems to [url=https://www.gclubtg.com/]gclub[/url] be happening more often lately [url=https://www.sbobet168.com/]sbobet[/url] than in the past.

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  Windows 11/Future for Us
  • fry_p

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  @fry_p for assurance, FOG still works with windows 11 and it also works on hardware devices that are NOT supported by Microsoft, your image will still deploy, complete and be functional on these devices albeit out of support from a Microsoft perspective but if secure boot becomes compulsory for all your devices then yes, you have to consider the challenges in managing your own secureboot PKI for FOG but Windows 11 should not be a reason to consider an alternative.

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  Boot in SERGEI using FOG
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  @mikael1909 While I haven’t tried these specific boot disks. I don’t read russian at all, but it looks like these boot images are windows pe based. You should be able to get them to boot.

  What have you tried so far?

  What errors do you see? If you post a picture of the error it might help debug the problem.

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  "Bulk" capture
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  @george1421 thanks for the quick answer.

  I’m aware that the power of FOG is in the multicast deploy. But I have to say that I tested it with 25-30 capture tasks in parallel, and if you have the hardware+infrastucture, it works like a charm
  I already have the registrations, image definitions, groups etc., but I won’t do it on scheduled basis, only on manual basis.
  My only problem is the lot of clicks which I have to do, if I want to do it manually:) That’s why I asked this question here.

  I will have a look at the Powershell API, it will probably/hopefully solve my problem

  Thanks!

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  Active Tasks Progress Bar Data
  • Eruthon

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  Yepp, I have the same problem, I see the status only after a few minutes, when the text gets “streched”. If there is a solution, it would be nice to know:)

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  When and Image is captured multiple times, does it overwrite the previous capture? Or is there a way to access captures from different dates?
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  We have an “easy” solution for this. We are using a NAS (a Syno in our case) to store the images, and we enabled the recycle bin. When the image is overwritten by FOG, the old one goes in to the recycle bin of the Syno (#recycle). Depending on the filestore size(we have around 32TB), number of hosts, size of the images and the size of the recycle bin, you can have the “history” for a few days.
  The images are renamed in the #recycle of the Syno(e.g. d1p4_1.img or d1p4_5.img) and if you need an older image, you just copy it back, and rename it.(e.g. d1p4.img )
  We can go back in this way, for 5-6 copies, in your case it would be 5-6 days.
  I hope it helps.

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  Boot from hard drive if connection to fog server fails
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  @brakcounty Well done!!

  Where I also see value in this is if someone wanted to hard drive boot into iPXE then from iPXE into the hard drive or FOG without using PXE booting. Instead of a usb drive, everything could happen off the efi partition on the local hard drive. It would not solve the secure boot part of it, but its an option.

  Also lets say someone wanted to setup a preboot menu (such as for dual booting) using refind. Your idea could be tweaked slightly to boot into refind menu manager and then pick to boot windows, linux or something else from the refind menu. There are a number of options this method opens up. Again, well done!

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  FOG on VirtualMachine - IMAGES on real harddisk
  • lakk

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  Hi,

  i have FOG 1.5.0 running on an ESX Host and a Storage Node on a bare metal machine.
  Works like a charm since years.

  Best Regards X23

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  Restore BIOS W10 image onto UEFI machine
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  @danboid said in Restore BIOS W10 image onto UEFI machine:

  First, why is there so little content on the FOG wiki FAQ page?

  Would you be keen to help work on the documentation?

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  USB Boot method: Make FOG serve ipxe files via http instead of tftp
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  @george1421 I just tested it out on a PC outside of our IT vlan with success. I hard coded it already, but I have a habit of not disclosing our IP addresses even if they’re private. I get the Press ESC to show the menu option for one second, then it boots to the hard drive. Now I took the modified bootx64.efi from my usb drive and copied it to the Windows EFI partition, replacing the existing one (renamed the old to bootx64.efi.bak), made sure that the UEFI is pointing to the file, and now the PC boots the fog process without USB.

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  EFI PXE Boot Setup and Questions
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  @george1421 well, I am excited to say that it is working. I literally just readded what was already added, and re-tested. Could have been gremlins or lack of sleep, whatever the case, I am about to capture my image, and do a test deploy. I will ping you back shortly and you can close this as solved I do believe.

  Thank you so much for the assistance. Ping me anytime you need a tester.

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  Linux mdraid RAID-10 with FOG?
  • danboid

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  @danboid said in Linux mdraid RAID-10 with FOG?:

  software RAID built into the Linux kernel

  These are the words I was looking for to give a direction. mdraid can be used for more than just the intel fake raid as you referenced previously.

  Yes FOS linux (the engine that interacts with the target computer to capture and deploy images) can interact with a software raid.

  the same rules for FOG imaging as with clonezilla. If the software raid doesn’t exist you must create it before you can image it. You could test to see if it exists in a FOG post init script, If your deployment mode is download then you could create a bash script to create the array. Post init scripts are executed just after the FOS OS inits and before any imaging begins. The tutorial you referenced before lays out all of the bits you need, just in this case you are not setting up the intel fake raid configuration.

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  Move partitions on GPT layouts - need people to test
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  @sebastian-roth it’s working thank you !!

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  translate
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  @pep Any news on this?

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  deleting fog image error
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  @sebastian-roth 1.5.9. What is also strange about how FOG behaves across subnets is the USB boot method. I’ve explained in another post about how booting from USB on the same subnet and/or same switch stack on my floor will not prompt me to enter the tftp server but booting from a completely different vlan or subnet physically outside of our own network will prompt for it. See this line in the ipxescript:

  :setserv echo -n Please enter tftp server: && read next-server && goto netboot || goto setserv

  I tried changing it to and this time it configures net0 then does nothing and the PC returned to it’s own (Dell) boot menu:

  :setserv set next-server 10.x.x.x && goto netboot || goto serserv

  I know this is off OP but it seems related to different subnet behavior in FOG.

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  Offline install or setup DHCP later
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  @jmeyer Having a FOG server with a dual nic is a standard and supported configuration for installing FOG.

  There are a few things you need to know/do before installing FOG.

  Know the linux kernel names of your network interfaces. You can see this by using the following command ip a s Identify the name of your business network interface and your imaging network interface. Document these names. Make sure your imaging network interface is configured for a static IP address. FOG does not like having the imaging network interface IP address changing once FOG is installed. Make sure your business network interface has a default route defined so that it can get to the internet. Confirm that your fog server has internet access. Make sure your imaging network interface does not have a default route defined.

  Now use the git method to download the installer files onto your FOG server.

  Install FOG. During the installation process you will be prompted for the linux name of your imaging network interface. Key that in when requested. You will also be prompted to if you want to install a dhcp server. Answer yes to this. The fog installer will only bind the dhcp server to the imaging network interface leaving your business network interface alone during the installation of FOG. There will be no conflicts on the business side since fog will only focus on the interface you said that is your imaging network.

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  Can a FOG Server setup as a Storage Node serve tftp files?
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  @brakcounty said in Can a FOG Server setup as a Storage Node serve tftp files?:

  I could always do a mysqldump export and import from the primary fog server to the secondary right?

  Sure thing!