@wayne-workman
YOU ARE THE MAN!

@george1421

See all of these laptops are EXACTLY the same. They actually are dog slow Core2Duo laptops that I got for nothing (120x @ $5ea.) So i’m my limit is actually table space and the extra 16port gigabit switch I had. So, I can do about 15 at a time.

The goal is to hook them up and let them go to town so that I can spend time with my family instead of fiddling around with the laptops. Though, the fam has been helping me with setting all the bios settings.

@george1421

See all of these laptops are EXACTLY the same. They actually are dog slow Core2Duo laptops that I got for nothing (120x @ $5ea.) So i’m my limit is actually table space and the extra 16port gigabit switch I had. So, I can do about 15 at a time.

The goal is to hook them up and let them go to town so that I can spend time with my family instead of fiddling around with the laptops. Though, the fam has been helping me with setting all the bios settings.

@george1421

I did not know it would be that easy to create a menu item that easily.

The whole multicast reason is so that it will image all the laptop at the same time at the same speed. ~1Gbps or 100Mbps.

did some snooping around and I did happen to find this set of code:

{
    $Send['joinsession'] = array(
        'cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386',
        'echo -n Please enter the session name to join > ',
        'read sessname',
        'params',
        'param mac0 ${net0/mac}',
        'param arch ${arch}',
        'param platform ${platform}',
        'param sessname ${sessname}',
        'isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme',
        'isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme',
        ':bootme',
        "chain -ar $this->_booturl/ipxe/boot.php##params",
    );
    $this->_parseMe($Send);
}

Found this in bootmenu.class.php
Not sure if there is anything in there that might help.
Maybe change/add ‘param sessname ${sessname}’, to the fog.multi?

Alright… I was actually able to get past the login portion and it skipped the registration automatically somehow. Here is my code…

params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username user
param password user
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme

Now, it is requesting the name of the multicast name. I tried changing the following but it did not work.

param sessionJoin 1
to
param sessionJoin cast

“cast” is the name of the session

Now… how do I bypass the username/password (or how to have it automatically enter it for the client) and skip registration? I’m just trying to image these guys so I can get ready to sell them.

@wayne-workman
YOU ARE THE MAN!

I cannot seem to find a method for doing what I need to do.

I have about 120PCs (laptops) that I have setup for Networking Booking.
I have already captured and image and imaging a device works flawlessly

But I cannot find ANY documentation on skipping registration and having a host join a multicast session. How do I achieve this?

The following link explains how to bypass registering a host but this was back in 0.32!
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_FOG_Bypass_Host_Registration

I just need the laptops to get to the PXE boot screen and join a multicast session. The only thing I would like to do is power the power button. Does FOG have this capability.