Awesome info Dustin! We use static IPs on our printers, but we have quite a few HP 4000 series printers, so this is good to know. Good find.

I’m installing fog on a workstation to use as a server. I’m having problems setting up a static IP. I have a workstation that i will be using as a server to re-image about 30 laptops. Computer is connected to the local network such as veh.local domain. when i install Linux my internet connection lets me get to the internet, however when i try to configure my connection setting to a static IP, I’m no longer able to get into the internet. The connection reminds connected connected but when i open my Firefox browser the internet does not work. The Question is how do you properly configure a STATIC IP and if possible ,how would i be able to find my proper IP sub-mask and gateway to enter correctly. PLEASE HELP CLARIFY THIS PROCEDURE. Currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with fog 0.32. internet connection is needed to download actual fog .032 after Linux install. what I’m i doing wrong ??? PLEASE HELP.

[quote=“xNRSVx, post: 9911, member: 3028”]I’ve been using FOG .32 for just about 2 weeks now, and absolutely love it. I’d like to integrate images for Apple computers (both Intel and PowerPC hardware), but don’t wish to setup DeployStudio or NetRestore; I’d prefer to utilize the bootable factory image that you’d normally get on DVD or through the app store (the .DMG file). My FOG server is running on an isolated network, and I believe is setup to be the DHCP. Would it be possible to setup FOG in such a way that I could NetBoot the Apple units directly to the server, customize the PXE menu, and simply add an option pointing to a DMG file (similar to adding ISOs with the “raw” flag)?[/quote]

You can incorporate clonezilla with FOG to image your MAC systems, in order to do this follow the instruction on the link provided below:
and as far as PXE booting MAC systems are concerned you can also do that as well. You need to create a CD/DVD image of gPXE-1.0.1+ and boot your MAC systems from the CD/DVD and then it will boot from your current PXE.

[url]http://www.clonezilla.org/livepxe.php[/url]

[quote=“william.nunn, post: 11251, member: 939”]We are currently looking for a solution to image our Imac 20’s. I can the IMac’s to gpxe but I can’t get them to do anything past the fog screen. I was wondering what kernel you were using and what method you was using to image your MACS off of the fog server?[/quot

Once you get the gPXE-1.0.1+ CD/DVD image then you can incorporate that with Clonezilla Live for PXE to image your MAC systems.
The following post will do the trick :

[url]http://www.clonezilla.org/livepxe.php[/url][/quote]

I did some firewall configs a while back and posted them [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/firewall-config.27/#post-75’]here[/URL]. They’re far from perfect, but they might help point you in the right direction.

[quote=“Mark Playford, post: 10120, member: 498”]
Change “TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD” and “TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD” to be the same as the fog user
[/quote]

Mark, that is the same variable… I believe what you meant was:

[QUOTE]
Change “TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD” and “STORAGE_FTP_PASSWORD” to be the same as the fog user
[/QUOTE]

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 10634, member: 18”]When you install FOG on Centos, which OS do you choose? I don’t know the package manager that it’s trying to use or where it’s getting its packages.[/quote]

I choose 1 for Red Hat.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 10634, member: 18”]You might try installing UDPCast manually using your package manager, or just downloading it from the udpcast website and compiling it on your own, or getting a binary and see if it works on your version of Linux. If you can get udpcast setup, you can comment out the lines in the installer scripts that are trying to get it from the package manager.[/quote]

I was able to get a binary of a newer version (20080914) but couldn’t find one for 20071228 that would run on centos 4. I installed it, then commented out the line in the install script for udpcast and now the install fails on the FOGMulticastManager. Documentation said this might happen and to just rerun the install again and it should work but it fails everytime.

Thanks for trying to help by the way. Really appreciate it.

At this point FOG doesn’t have any support for Linux beyond imaging.

I’m an idiot, I found
I have not stopped the service Selinux
sorry and thank you for your help

[CODE]append root=/dev/nfs initrd=/ubuntu/12.10/casper/initrd.lz boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.0.3:/ubuntu/12.10[/CODE]

Your append line should look like this. Note the “root=/dev/nfs”
you will need to test if you still need your “initrd=” line because it is in the append line.

Have you tried Ubuntu 10.10 or less because I have seen post of people saying they had issues but not sure if it was imaging. So one image uploads fine but the other two crap out at different points but never fully upload? Have you thought of trying a different
kernel for the PXE upload and download part…You can find the useful information on this front by contacting [URL=‘https://www.ibremarketing.com/’]IBRemarketing[/URL] people.

Yep, this ([url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/Kernels/[/url]) was my answer. I simply ran the update from within the fog server web admin page and my Dell Latitude e6530 was able to boot and register.

I’m still curious about building kernels with new drivers but at least i can learn that without pressure of getting this laptop going.

[quote=“teampouce, post: 276, member: 139”]Dear all,

I resolve my problem by myself :

chown -R fog:root /tftpboot

Thanks[/quote]

Worked great, thanks!

My Virtual PC setup:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (all updates) and fog 0.32
~I uninstalled all the bloat stuff from Ubuntu and then installed Flash and Java6JDK. Otherwise nothing else is on machine except system packages and FOG.~
Running in HyperV on windows server 2008 R2 Standard
1 vCPU
512 MB ram
120GB HDD (I will only have 3 images total)

You have to have the permissions set right.

Use chown and possibly chmod to fix this.

SOLVED !
Indeed, to reply to your message, I stayed connected to internet during the installation of Fog, and disconnected as soon as possible. I ran the installation twice in fact (once while connected, the other time disconnected).

Anyway, here’s the cause of the problem -which makes me feel dumb…
The person who worked before I came configured a 066 option in the extended field.
I didn’t knew anything about that ; I did my configuration in the main DHCP field.
His PXE came first and the PXE was done on a server (still in use) that no longer hosts a up to date PXE.
…
Thank you for your support. Now It’s (at least) time for fun !! 🙂

/tftpboot is on the server and contains the pxe boot file, the menu and menu processor files. I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, as you don’t have to put anything in there to make the clients boot to PXE.

The clients have to have a network card which support PXE booting, and it usually has to be enabled in the BIOS, or a key hit during boot, such as F12.

[quote=“Hunter, post: 9658, member: 1221”]Apparently Fog doesn’t recognize the SWAP file. (See these posts: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/cant-upload-linux-image-caixa-magica-16.503/[/url] & [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/deploying-linux.3776/[/url] ) I would like to learn more about how you are or intend to deploy Linux, as I am working on a similar project.[/quote]

Hi Hunter,

The swap partition still there on a primary partition but is not activated because of the UUID on fstab. There is a way to activate it but do this on several machines will become unproductive, so the steps that I’ve mentioned I think are the best way to make the swap working.

What exactly you need to know about linux deploying?

how many times are you going to post this request? The FOG kernel is built for FOG and is not a general use kernel. As the developers config and compile a new kernel, they put it on sourceforge when it’s ready. The volunteers in the community also custom compile FOG kernels, but they are not official FOG kernels and most likely will never make it on FOG’s sourceforge kernels page.

You can always try the wiki article on compiling a custom kernel, or post the specifics about the machine you are having issues with and see if someone can help by providing or compiling a custom kernel for you.