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.
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.
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.