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    • JunkhackerJ
      Junkhacker Developer
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      in theory, i bet you could make it a small NTFS partition instead of FAT32. then those pesky users wouldn’t be able to edit it’s contents from within Mac OS (read only NTFS suppport unless you install 3rd party software)
      but i really would prefer to find a solution that works “out of the box” without modifying systems first

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      • Wayne WorkmanW
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        [quote=“Junkhacker, post: 43993, member: 21583”]in theory, i bet you could make it a small NTFS partition instead of FAT32. then those pesky users wouldn’t be able to edit it’s contents from within Mac OS (read only NTFS suppport unless you install 3rd party software)
        but i really would prefer to find a solution that works “out of the box” without modifying systems first[/quote]

        I’m just not in love with the idea of using flash drives for this. I’m so sick of Ghost, and this reminds me of it. Clearly I’m going to try with a flash drive first, then I’m going to play around with making a actual partition for this on the Mac’s hard disk.

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        • JunkhackerJ
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          for me, this is only for “proof of concept” in getting ipxe to work on macs. my goal is to get an open source solution working with (and possibly integrated with) fog, that will respond to mac netboot requests and show up as a valid network boot option without need of modifying anything on the mac.

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          • Wayne WorkmanW
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            Well, what if the network boot option had the same file structure within it?

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            • JunkhackerJ
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              my understanding is that’s what i’ve got to do. a server needs to respond to the Macintosh’s netboot request with the location of a .dmg file that will contain the ipxe file (set up with the directory structure and bootx64.efi file mentioned) when mounted by the mac.

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                Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                Please follow this: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC[/url]

                I’ve got Mac OS X imaging up and running at our university! No USB sticks or CDROMs! I am working on the wiki as I find time to squeeze that in…

                Any comments are highly appreciated!

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                • JunkhackerJ
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                  these guys seem to have figured out how to do it with DNSMasq [url]http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2010q1/003638.html[/url]

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                  • Wayne WorkmanW
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                    [quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 44006, member: 28116”]Please follow this: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC[/url]

                    I’ve got Mac OS X imaging up and running at our university! No USB sticks or CDROMs! I am working on the wiki as I find time to squeeze that in…

                    Any comments are highly appreciated![/quote]

                    Pretty good beginnings there. So, that custom code inside of class “AppleNBI-i386” will only execute for Macs, I assume? And, what might a complete dhcpd.conf file look like? One that works for both Mac and PC?

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                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                      Interesting… looking for a full dhcpd.conf on the web I found this: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_your_FOG_server_to_backup_and_restore_Macintosh_computers[/url]

                      Does anyone know who wrote this?

                      @Junkhacker: Thanks for the link! I’ll read through it and add it to the wiki!

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                      • Wayne WorkmanW
                        Wayne Workman
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                        [quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 44015, member: 28116”]Interesting… looking for a full dhcpd.conf on the web I found this: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_your_FOG_server_to_backup_and_restore_Macintosh_computers[/url]

                        Does anyone know who wrote this?
                        [/quote]

                        According to the WiKi history, “FogFrog02” was the only person who ever made a change to that page, in April of 2012

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                        • S
                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                          Saw that… Does anyone know him/her? I also found a post (his/her only post!): [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-using-your-fog-server-to-backup-and-restore-macintosh-computers.625/[/url]

                          Should I merge those infos into “FOG on a MAC”?? I don’t like to have similar information in several different places in one wiki… makes it hard to keep it all up to date.

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                          • W
                            Wolfbane8653 Developer
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                            yes merge the information. then do a page insertion on the old page. This way both pages will have updated info

                            Edit:

                            See this page for what I mean…[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Multicast[/url]

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