No, no, sorry for not clarifying. It’s just an open question, because I’ll do it, but we don’t know if it would work or not. 😄

Thanks for clarifying George. I will do and test and if we encounter any error or problem, i will ask here for support. Thanks again!!! 🙂

Regards.

@astrugatch Good to hear! Thanks.

@toanns35 FOG 0.32 is more than 8 years old (!!) and shouldn’t be used anymore. Ask yourself, would you choose to install Windows 98 on current hardware? If you still want to use version 0.32 it’s up to you but we won’t give you any support on this. We are trying to improve FOG working on the most current version and help people to upgrade to recently new version.

FOG (1.5.7 as of now) definitely runs in VM. Though there are different technologies and I can’t speak for all of them. I use VirtualBox for testing, I know people running it in VMware while others have XenServer and Hyper-V. Search the forums or ask here if you have specific questions.

@toanns35 Welcome to the forums! Great you find this helpful. The search definitely does a great job.

FOG including the forums, wiki and so on are just as good as people help organizing it. We highly appreciate people engaging and actually need help to keep it all up to date. It might look like there are many people involved but at the moment it’s just a handful and way too less. See my signature… 🙂

@george1421 said in FAQ page in WIKI should be updated:

@Luc-Novales So let me understand even with the 486 kernel it does not boot, I would expect an error message as in the picture provided.

I made a report of actions in initial thread more adapted…
Black screen and blinking cursor after vesamenu

Thx,
Luc.

@brakcounty It contains all of the exportable items and more (like deployment history, inventory, snapin groups, and other things I can’t remember without looking). The fog database is everything except the raw image data stored in /images. With the metadata (mysql database) and the raw image files in /images you can rebuild your fog server from a fresh install.

@george1421 I confirm that exist powershell template :D:D:D .

@ayashkam You can do it, The automated snapin execution is basic for me, my images are living entities and my software requirements continously changes (Education environment with more than 250 different sites and more than 15.500 computers).

I have my image’s configured to install fogclient and start it on the first boot, you can do it with the unattended deployment procedures (setupcomplete.cmd) for example if you sysprep the images or use other ways like scheduling it at start up.

I download the installer with the postdownloadscript to ensure that the current version is installed. Take care because at the moment that you run the service the snapins start to be executed, you can have problems with another installations or the configuration can be disrupted by needed reboots. You know your systems and must take the cautions needed.

@sudburr Just so you’re aware - we are still working on the 1.5.x version of FOG. Long term aim is to finish that, merge all the things into the 1.6 branch (Tom does this every now and then with all the fixes we add in 1.5.x) but we’ll most certainly release one or two more 1.5.x versions before we call it “finished”.

What version of FOG?

The 500 error is from apache, you might want to inspect the apache error logs in /var/logs.

If you had ubuntu installed, I might think that ubuntu has applied a patch and secured the database, but you are using fedora so that’s probably not the issue. But again, check the apache error logs first.

@mike-S Your simple question has a lot of content behind it.

Fog does have a function to install applications or run programs on the target computer. Fog doesn’t care about applications or customization. That is up to the IT Tech to properly configure. Must windows application support MSI installation. This MSI installations support command line options to configure the application. Other applications (like adobe acrobat reader) have a customization program that creates a profile ini file that is used during application installation to configure the applications. MS Office has a similar configuration tool.

So can FOG deploy applications, yes. Can FOG deploy application customizations, yes (as long as the application has been preconfigured). Can FOG customize applications, No.

If you would have mentioned the application there may be instructions online about how to configure. If you want to google yourself, search for “Unattended install” and your application name.

You’re trying to pull something from the images folder over https, but https isn’t configured to serve that location.

Think more along the lines of /var/www/fog

@Junkhacker
Checking it out!

We had to move our workspace around the office…

Edit: We got sick interns, colleges on vacations 😞 having a hard time scraping time together.

@Chuck2000 Ok that’s probably the best solution especially with the newer hardware that is coming out. But some like to hold onto the old versions of fog for some reason. I guess if it isn’t broke don’t fix it.

@alexsanderngaongo Try connecting a dumb mini switch between that machine und your building switch. Quite often this makes a difference. From there we can start losging into what’s causing this.

@Derek-Newbold Good to know that php-fpm is installed and running! (Speaking of running processes, what does CPU and RAM usage look like (for processes such as apache, mysql, php-fpm, etc) when you try to do something that takes a long time for you?)

Odd that you’re experiencing performance issues despite this. Though number of clients could contribute to this.

If you have a bunch of hosts/clients, it’s also possible your database has grown quite a bit over time which can slow things down a bit.

@dangquan091

Sysprep your windows before capturing.

*Open CMD (As Administrator)
*Enter command: cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers
*Enter command: sysprep /oobe /generalize /shutdown

System will shutdown. DO NOT BOOT INTO WINDOWS! capture image!

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/sysprep-command-line-options

@Sebastian-Roth Thank you so much! we will work on it 🙂 i will report back asap.

There were some issues with NVME drives in the past that have since been resolved. I do recommend updating to the latest version for best results.

If it’s just SATA SSDs then it will function just as if it’s a spinning disk in how it’s treated in terms of image capture and deployment.

@johnny_verdane

Defogging: FOG does modify iPXE binaries by adding a boot script embedded into iPXE. That script is here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/master/src/ipxe/src/ipxescript Its used to chain to default.ipxe on the tftp server. If you look in that script on the fog server that is how it gets to boot.php. With iPXE boot loader you can transfer files over tftp, http(s), nfs with the way FOG has it compiled. FOG uses the http protocol to load FOS Linux because http is faster than tftp and is routable across subnets. But you don’t need http or apache to boot your only custom linux, tftp will work just fine. You could use the rom-o-matic site to build your custom iPXE binaries and not even need to setup that build environment for iPXE https://rom-o-matic.eu/ Just understand that you can use the FOG iPXE binaries too, you just need to add your iPXE code to default.ipxe in the tftpboot directory of your tftp server. Its just one less thing to mess with.

Security: One of the advantages of the buildroot approach is that since your OS will run out of memory its a bit stateless. If the running environment becomes compromised, when you stop the system or reboot the compromise will not be saved since everything runs out of RAM there is no persistence. Plus since the initrd is packed you can’t simply drop a file in its boot media. The bad guy would have to unpack the inits, make the modification and then repack the inits. While its not hard to do, its not easy either.

Anyway, it sounds like you have a fun and challenging project. I wish you the best.