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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 29142, member: 7271”]Why is there a partition on the same disk that is your “local backup”?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the “local backup” on a separate disk?[/quote]

I agree, the process of backups were created before I was hired on…currently using Ghost 2003 boot up disc and creating images on 2nd partition. Our systems are loaded with Operating systems dating back to XP -> Windows 8.1, along with different languages of each…so you can imagine how many images are is stored. We do not use volume licenses…each image is retail.

No Problems deleting the partition. restored just fine.

Read the proxyDHCP article on the wiki. If you still have questions, I’ll be glad to answer them.

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 9242, member: 2”]Have you tried:
[CODE]sudo stop tftpd-hpa
sudo start tftpd-hpa[/CODE][/quote]

Yes, no luck

I think you have a valid argument for your boss to change his opinion about volume licenses. 125 images per computer must be hard to manage no matter where you store them.

I think I understand what you mean.

Load up the old machine the way you want the first image. Register it with the FOG server. Go into the FOG webui, create the image definition, go to the hosts and associate the host record with the image record. Perform and upload task.

Create a new image record for your second image. Setup the computer the way you want for the second image. Go into FOG and set the upload task so it creates the second image.

Create a new image definition in fog, change the host record to associate to the new image, setup the computer the way you want, upload the image.

One computer, multiple images.

Thanks Catsrules,
I figured it out…the files were there already, but since I’ve been switching back and forth to a live network and an isolated network. I’ve been using two network connections with different settings…long story short, I just restarted the machine :oops:

[quote=“buckITall, post: 1521, member: 101”]
As for the 1st question…looks like it might not work since all HD are different sizes as well. That’s ok it shouldn’t take too long to create images…(job security) ;)[/quote]

Yeah if i have different size drives, I use the smallest drive use all of the space. Then on the bigger drives set it up exactly like the smaller drive, leaving the extra space unallocated

But it sucks because you loose that extra space on the bigger drives.

Not unless they have a VPN setup on their router to connect to your place of employment.

Hi, i have tried it with the Win8 dev preview its the same as win7. have not had a problem with it.

I did not install DHCP service on the FOG server and correctly pointed to the DHCP server on a different subnet. The firewalls, ufw and SELinux are both off, I’m out of ideas. Now learning how to use and read wireshark to help understand where the file is getting blocked. Not looking forward to re-installing again…even thou it was pretty easy.
If anyone has ideas or guess that would be great, otherwise I’ll post any findings if I find them.

If your systems are outdated and do not support PXE boot on BIOS you can still boot them via PXE by using RBFG bootdisk. RBFG stands for Remote Boot Floppy Generator which creates the capability for those clients that natively do not support boot via PXE.
In order to create this bootdisk, either you need to have a Windows 2000 Server Disk or if you do not have one then follow the instruction on this site: [url]http://registration.argontechnology.com/rbfg/index.shtml[/url]

Hope it helps you.

Thanks for the reply, I’m using my home environment for testing since i’m pretty new with Ubuntu, but I’ll look into Clonezilla afterwards. As for the router I just bought a new one from D-link…I’ve never had a bad one in the past and didn’t realize the one I got can not use DD-WRT without risk.

OK one last question that will clear up my confusion----noob–>😕
If I setup FOG to run with MAC filtration
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide#Integrating_FOG_Server_with_Existing_Network_Systems_in_non_intrusive_mode_using_MAC_filtration[/url]

The instructions state “[FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]This allows clients to get IP addresses on the network and connect to the FOG server”[/COLOR][/FONT]. Then to turn off and configure FOG’s DHCP and turn back on. Won’t there be a conflict later on between Windows DHCP server and FOG’s after I turn it on? Is there a step missing on this page to still update the Windows Server with the PXE forwarding?
Damn I’m such a newbie