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• General

  General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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  @vtl.victor I am not saying it’s impossible to do. It just needs work and we don’t seem to find the time to work on this. Your quickest way to achieve what you want is capture/deploy an image at your FOG network site. Don’t let the deployed host boot into the OS (add kernel parameter shutdown=1 to that host). Then boot that same host up with Clonezilla (for example) and for taking a backup that can be deployed at an offline site on USB - no FOG server needed there - just the Clonezilla boot media and image on portable drive. (cross references: 1, 2, 3)

  If that’s not what you want you need to dive into the details. Just quoting Junkhacker’s postfrom another topic here:

  FOG image capture and deploy are multi-step processes. each are several commands that rely on scripts and programs in the FOG OS (FOS) and change based on what options you have selected. FOG images are not designed to be used stand alone. Using FOG images without a FOG server will require steps that were expected to be automated and there really isn’t a quick way around it.

  So if you or anyone else is keen, you want to start looking at the commands to do this here:

  Clear old partition table: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/blob/master/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh#L2012 Apply new partition table: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/blob/master/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh#L2041 Loop to do the restore: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/blob/master/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh#L2376 Finally call partclone deploy the image files one by one: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/blob/master/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh#L760 Restore UUID information: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/blob/master/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/usr/share/fog/lib/partition-funcs.sh#L25 Possibly more things I have missed…

  And that’s just the simple case without resizing partitions!

  It’s all open source, it’s all yours!

• Feature Request

  Request a new feature to be implemented.
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  Hi,

  I have seen that BitTorrent is not working currently. I might have an easy way to make it work.

  BitTorrent has a not very well known feature : local peer discovery. With local peer discovery and webseeding, you don’t even need a tracker server.

  Here is how I use it to distribute large files on my network.

  I have a web server which host the file (big.iso here) and a metalink file like this :

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/"> <files> <file name="big.iso"> <resources> <url type="http">http://file-server/big.iso</url> <url type="bittorrent">http://file-server/big.iso.torrent</url> </resources> </file> </files> </metalink>

  on the clients I run

  aria2c.exe --bt-enable-lpd=true --enable-dht=false --bt-exclude-tracker='*' --seed-time=0 http://file-server/big.iso.metalink

  I create the torrent file and metalink file with a these bash functions :

  function mk_torrent { print_info "Creating torrent file for $1" transmission-create "$1" chmod a+r "$1.torrent" } function mk_metalink { file_url="$REPO/$1" torrent_url="$REPO/$1.torrent" print_info "Checking URLs" wget --spider "$file_url" "$torrent_url" || \ ( print_error "Can't access file(s) via HTTP." && exit 1 ) print_info "Creating metalink file for $1" cat > "$1.metalink" <<EOL <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/"> <files> <file name="$1"> <resources> <url type="http">$REPO/$1</url> <url type="bittorrent">$REPO/$1.torrent</url> </resources> </file> </files> </metalink> EOL }

  I’m not a FOG user (yet) and I don’t know how easy it would be to implement this. I hope it helps anyway.

• Bug Reports

  Report a bug with FOG.
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  @colej Which version of FOG do you use?