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    • Tom ElliottT
      Tom Elliott
      last edited by

      You’ll have to manually set this up.

      What I mean is you’ll need to, probably, create a script on the key to setup the storage, type,

      Maybe follow a similar process for the Menu so you can just make a choice of upload/download etc… The FOG GUI will not be of help here, so you’ll always have to boot to a specific menu option. The GUI will only be useful in the creation of the Task so this works properly. It will also only be useful for the management of the images.

      Something along the lines of:
      [code]
      LABEL fog.upload
      kernel fog/kernel/bzImage
      APPEND initrd=fog/images/init.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns=10.10.10.1 mac=00:1e:ec:e3:dd:1b ftp=10.0.7.1 storage=10.0.7.1:/data/fogstorage/images/dev/ storageip=10.0.7.1 web=10.0.7.1/fog/ osid=5 loglevel=4 consoleblank=0 irqpoll chkdsk=0 img=win7activatedsysprepgen imgType=n imgid=6 PIGZ_COMP=-9 hostname=testname pct=5 ignorepg=1 type=up
      MENU LABEL Image Upload
      TEXT HELP
      Upload Image to server.
      ENDTEXT
      LABEL fog.download
      kernel fog/kernel/bzImage
      APPEND initrd=fog/images/init.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns=10.10.10.1 mac=00:1e:ec:e3:dd:1b ftp=10.0.7.1 storage=10.0.7.1:/data/fogstorage/images/dev/ storageip=10.0.7.1 web=10.0.7.1/fog/ osid=5 loglevel=4 consoleblank=0 irqpoll chkdsk=0 img=win7activatedsysprepgen imgType=n imgid=6 PIGZ_COMP=-9 hostname=testname pct=5 ignorepg=1 type=down
      MENU LABEL Image Download
      TEXT HELP
      Download image from Server to host.
      ENDTEXT
      [/code]

      Change all the IP’s to there respective values:
      dns
      ftp
      storage
      storageip
      web

      Change the hostname to what you want the hostname to be.

      Change the imageName to what you want it to be.

      Change the imgType to:

      n = single disk resizable
      mps = multipart single disk non-resizable
      mpa = multipart all disk non-resizable
      dd = raw.

      Make sure the imgid matches that of a valid image.
      Make sure the img matches the name of a valid image.

      Change the MAC address to that of your client to be imaged.

      It’s not pretty, but it is doable.

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      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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      • V
        Valden
        last edited by

        Thank you it works :D, but how can I do for an iso file ?

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        • Tom ElliottT
          Tom Elliott
          last edited by

          You’ll have to have the ISO file available on the usb key.

          To work it properly you could create a menu entry like:
          [code]DEFAULT fog.memtest
          LABEL fog.win7
          kernel fog/kernel/memdisk
          append iso initrd=win7.iso raw
          MENU LABEL Windows 7
          TEXT HELP
          Boot the Windows 7 ISO from this menu. Needs lots of RAM and time behind to wait for Please Press any key to boot from…
          ENDTEXT
          [/code]

          Of course add as many entries as needed and change the files as needed. the initrd will need the actual location. Just like the kernel is calling. So if you place the ISO in fog/win7.iso your initrd command will be: initrd=fog/win7.iso

          Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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          • Jaymes DriverJ
            Jaymes Driver Developer
            last edited by

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            • V
              Valden
              last edited by

              Does it works only on the usb key ? Is it possible to put a network path to the initrd ?

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              • Jaymes DriverJ
                Jaymes Driver Developer
                last edited by

                [quote=“Valden, post: 22694, member: 21858”]Does it works only on the usb key ? Is it possible to put a network path to the initrd ?[/quote]

                only one way to find out!

                It depends on your network, if it is ANYTHING like my network (I work in education), it will be troublesome. We make every user authenticate, if you do not authenticate you only get public rights. So you need to understand your network environment.

                From what I gather you are a student correct? I do not allow my students open space to store files and information on my server… you will need to check with your local IT department to find a place to put your files for access, possibly even create a special user and password.

                THAT BEING SAID. I have written scripts in the past to authenticate to a network storage drive on windows, so the task is possible, it’s just a matter of learning to write a script that can authenticate itself to a user, whose home directory is the storage space of the iso image.

                I would use something like
                [code]
                append iso initrd=10.x.x.x/path/to/FILENAME.iso
                [/code]

                where 10.x.x.x is the IP address of the server, you may have to syntax it another way to get it to see the server too, this is only an example, and not a working one.

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                • V
                  Valden
                  last edited by

                  It’s just for a school research project, I don’t use the university servers. I’ve made a virtual machine for my fog server and I have a phisical computer for the USB boot. I had already set up a fog server, but that was without that USB system as my teacher wants.
                  And for the kernel line ? Is there differents kinds of kernel ? because I saw memdisk vmlinuz …

                  Sorry for my english, I’m french

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                  • Jaymes DriverJ
                    Jaymes Driver Developer
                    last edited by

                    vmlinuz is just an “executable” of the linux kernel, for lack of a better way to describe it.

                    In that case, give it a go! Since you aren’t needing anything specific from the IT department, and everything is housed on machines you manage, set up a shared space, save your image there and find the right syntax to get it to load via the “USB FOG Server”.

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                    • V
                      Valden
                      last edited by

                      Thanks you very much for the help !

                      For the OS deployment the the problem is solved. But for iso file, my path /tftboot/ has already all permissions, Should I configure a samba shared space?

                      But I don’t understand one thing, I can deploy OS without problemes, therefore I wonder why I can’t do the same with iso files ? I think I miss something…

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                      • Tom ElliottT
                        Tom Elliott
                        last edited by

                        I’m glad we could be of some help but I would think it would work better to boot the ISO off of the USB as during the initial load you don’t have access to the network so loading items from the network would be impossible. I don’t even think pxe can load the ISO from a network location.

                        Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                        Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott
                          last edited by

                          The reason fog works is it’s already loaded the networking and is its own system before fog loads. During initial load though, it’s loading directly off of the USB.

                          Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                          Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                          • V
                            Valden
                            last edited by

                            Do you think, that is possible to download the usb image directly into the ram with tftp ?

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                            • Jaymes DriverJ
                              Jaymes Driver Developer
                              last edited by

                              [quote=“Valden, post: 22881, member: 21858”]Do you think, that is possible to download the usb image directly into the ram with tftp ?[/quote]

                              It may be possible to load with tftp, but you have to make sure that enough ram is available for the image though…

                              FOG isn’t designed to handle ISO image files.

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