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Provisioning Raspberry Pis with FOG

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    danteHaversham
    last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:12 PM

    Hey guys,

    I am wondering, if anybody has experience in provisioning Raspberry Pis with FOG.
    There’s only little information about this topic, when searching with Google.
    Most of the content I found is about installing a Fog Server on a Raspberry Pi.

    So if there’s anybody with experience in this topic, please let me know 🙂

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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      george1421 Moderator
      last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:21 PM

      So just for clarity, you want to deploy an image to a Pi?

      This is something I don’t know is if you can pxe boot the Pis. Can you confirm if you can pxe boot them.

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        Junkhacker Developer
        last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:27 PM

        you can not boot ipxe on a pi.

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          george1421 Moderator @Junkhacker
          last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:28 PM

          @junkhacker Excellent, so then we can boot via USB into FOG??

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            Junkhacker Developer @george1421
            last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:29 PM

            @george1421 the raspberry pi only supports booting from SD card.

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              george1421 Moderator @Junkhacker
              last edited by george1421 Dec 14, 2017, 8:31 AM Dec 14, 2017, 2:31 PM

              @junkhacker well that is not helpful (the Pi not you). I do have a pi 2 running fog but its been several years since I set it up. I do remember copying the image file from my linux system to the micro sd card to load the OS. I never checked to see if the Pi could pxe or usb boot.

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                danteHaversham @Junkhacker
                last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:32 PM

                @junkhacker That’s not the case - it’s possible to boot the Pi via network.

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                  Junkhacker Developer @danteHaversham
                  last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:33 PM

                  @dantehaversham without a bootloader on a SD card? i’d love to see proof of this.

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                    george1421 Moderator @danteHaversham
                    last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:34 PM

                    @dantehaversham Excellent can you show us the setting in the firmware. Also we probably should understand what Pi you are using.

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                      george1421 Moderator @george1421
                      last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:35 PM

                      @george1421 I was personally thinking that it should support network booting, because I have seen projects where they created a supercomputer out of Pi nodes. But I never looked into the mechanics of the super computer.

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                        danteHaversham @Junkhacker
                        last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:38 PM

                        @junkhacker My Pi downloads the bootloader via TFTP and then mounts the OS via NFS. So no SD-Card needed. But I’m looking for a solution to provide the Rasp-Image to SD-Cards via network. So I thought maybe FOG could solve my problem

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                          Junkhacker Developer @danteHaversham
                          last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:40 PM

                          @dantehaversham perhaps my information about the pi is outdated, but how do you choose the boot volume? there is no cmos or bios like system on a pi, is there?

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                            danteHaversham @george1421
                            last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:44 PM

                            @george1421 Yep - but you have to do a little reconfiguration.

                            https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/net.md

                            The process of making a Pi bootable via network is well documentated.

                            I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

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                              Junkhacker Developer @danteHaversham
                              last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:46 PM

                              @dantehaversham ah, just looked it up as well. it’s model pi 3 only. looks like i need to buy some more pi lol

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                                danteHaversham @Junkhacker
                                last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:48 PM

                                @junkhacker yes - with model 3 it’s possible without having a sd-card in use.

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                                  Junkhacker Developer @danteHaversham
                                  last edited by Junkhacker Dec 14, 2017, 8:52 AM Dec 14, 2017, 2:51 PM

                                  @dantehaversham just read some of the documentation on network booting the pi. it should be possible to get this working with fog, actually. with exceptions. it would be able to push images down, but without the finesse that we do on PCs. the ipxe menu systems and dynamic configuration parts wouldn’t work.

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                                    george1421 Moderator @danteHaversham
                                    last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:53 PM

                                    @dantehaversham OK now that we know the Pi3 can pxe boot. What I want you to do is this.

                                    1. Manually register the hardware mac of the network adapter.
                                    2. Schedule a debug deploy or capture task. It doesn’t matter which because we are going into debug mode. When you schedule the task be sure to check the debug check box.
                                    3. PXE boot the Pi3.
                                    4. After a few key presses on the pi’s keyboard you will be dropped to a linux command prompt.
                                    5. At the linux command prompt we need to collect a few bits of into.

                                    Data to collect

                                    1. ip addr show ensure the Pi is getting an IP address in FOS
                                    2. lsblk collect what FOS sees for disks

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                                      Wayne Workman
                                      last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:54 PM

                                      I think all the PXE binaries and FOS need compiled for ARM for this to work??

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                                        george1421 Moderator @Wayne Workman
                                        last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:55 PM

                                        @wayne-workman Ugh, good point. I was only thinking ia86 compatible.

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                                          Wayne Workman @george1421
                                          last edited by Dec 14, 2017, 2:56 PM

                                          @george1421 Right, and then there’s the problem of DHCP giving out the right binary, and that binary requesting the right kernel and init.

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