It’s great that it’s done, but simply directly updating would work too. Backups are always recommended, but such complex steps are not necessary.

@VincentJ So this kinda died.

I was so busy this week… it’s just madness at work and I’ve been spending every spare second I have trying to rebuild my win 7 SOE with a new way to manage drivers (I’m going to make a new thread for win 7 deployment, or maybe update my old one, and maybe a win 10 guide too).

Anyway I’m not really sure what the upshot of this thread was. But I will make a virtual appliance, at some stage. Honestly work is just so busy and shows no signs of slowing up… we have to replace our entire core and edge network (which is huge) plus new core server infrastructure at two main sites all this year… on top of just trying to keep everything running and setting up new businesses everywhere…

Ah thank you! Also, yes I realize I am on the bleeding edge of FOG and I do expect bugs. Been on Trunk for 2 weeks, flawless so far.

Thanks!

@ITCC Are those the absolute-exact logs on your system? If not, please post your logs.

@Wayne-Workman

Ubuntu 14.04

| version_compile_os | debian-linux-gnu | | wait_timeout | 28800

@Jbob Thanks for your detailed answer. I agree that string filtering the MACs on the client is not wise! Shouldn’t do that. Detecting physical devices only sounds like a way better approach. See what you can do if you find the time and let me know if I can give you a hand.

@Sebastian-Roth
this is quite a challenge ahaha I don’t have enough knowledge in lvm management but I can take a look at it definitely 😉

Anyway thank you for your time and effort.

@Wayne-Workman YUP.

@Sebastian-Roth said:

Removed from wiki as I don’t feel like anyone really cares about running FOG on a Mac OS X server…

And I feel free and open work should be run on a free and open operating system. Just my thoughts on the matter.

@Junkhacker What if a regular image was decompressed & then mounted on the FOG server, and then it’s raw data sent out via a torrent task ?

I still think that sticking the standard partition data at the end of the drive is perfectly acceptable. Torrent task type is made to overcome network issues, not HDD issues.

@Wayne-Workman
Yes, after open all ports, it works

@Tom-Elliott This could be needed for security purposes. A wipe will make sure the entire disk is over written before putting down an image. With just re-writing the image you can’t ensure that forensic tools won’t be able to recover old files. I can see what he is asking for, maybe if there was a way to modify the download task to do a normal or full wipe then download to give assurance that all data has been over written at least once. This should be able to be accomplished a couple of ways, either one have the fog inits run a normal wipe then run the download, or possibly with the a hooks you could have it auto create a deploy after the wipe finishes so when the client reboots it will pull the image automatically.

the firewalld configuration no longer works on Fedora 21.

The commands succeed, but at least http is blocked still.

@Jean-Jacques-Morda said:

In my case, i have severals DHCP on my network and this script (i suppose) make the ipxe boot taking the wrong dhcp server and trying to boot on it. You can see here the dhcp is swapping between 172.31.43.1 and 172.31.37.252. Each time i restart the fog isc dhcp server, it took the good one but each time i reboot the client, 1/2 chance the iPxe took the wrong one because my other dhcp is responding. Is that strange ?

If you already have another DHCP service, configure that one and turn fog’s DHCP off - or - turn off the other DHCP service, and just use FOG’s DHCP.

If you don’t have split-scope configured correctly, you cannot run two DHCP services on the same broadcast domain anyways. You’ll have IP conflicts like crazy.

@Arrowhead-IT It’s definitely worked for test VM’s that are used for image testing, but it’s also a more general comment for ESXi in general. Worth checking your server guests to ensure they’re all on vmxnet3.

@Wayne-Workman
thank you very much.

@Arrowhead-IT I figure that I should report that in my recent testing with the latest client I have not had any problems with the client being installed as part of the image. It works as it should. I intend to use the script I posted here as a gpo script to add all the active directory computers on my network to fog in one quick click.

@Wayne-Workman thaks.