Posts made by comprx

Awesome, Keep this thread updated with your progress

I had looked into that but hadn’t figured out how to do it as automated as FOG can.

Well that stinks. Is there something else I can do? something like run a script that calls up and images using something like dd?

I really like using the PXE method to do things and I would like to stick with it as much as possible.

Yes they are random OEM machines. I honestly don’t care if the recovery partition is cloned. I don’t know if that helps. I just want to clone the main partition for later restoration if necessary.

I attempted to do this earlier today but I think I might be missing something.

I got to the step where it asks me for the administrator mysql password. I tried giving it my password but it wouldn’t work.

am I missing something? Has anyone made a tutorial for installing phpmyadmin with Fog?

Maybe fog installs mysql and apache outside the default areas phpmyadmin expects it?

That would make my week. I look forward to fog .33

I understood that I would have to make a custom PXE entry. I am just not at all familiar with how to make the scripting logic work.

I have read the wiki for both modifying the init.gz and pxe menu. Now I need to get some help with WHAT modifications to make.

Again I am hoping to make pxe boot and give the following options:

Take Image Now (Grabs an image of machine places it on Fog server)
Recover Image (Takes image from Fog server places it on machine)

The second option seems like I might be able to create a script similar to “quick image” but the first one escapes my abililities.
And I might have gotten the intent of “quick image” messed up.

[quote=“ssx4life, post: 672, member: 268”]In case anyone is running into trouble I’ve included a copy of my TFTPBOOT folder - [SIZE=4][B][url]http://www.mediafire.com/?1ps7ogj18abz93g[/url][/B][/SIZE] Feel free to play around with it and cut + paste items into your own fog server as you see fit. Just remember to back up your own files before hand! :)[/quote]

The file was removed. any chance of a reupload?

I run a small computer repair shop and I use Fog’s pxe menu to do various tasks (run diagnostics mostly)

I would really like to image client machines as a fall back before doing any work. The thing is, I don’t want to leave their machine.

My Idea is to boot into PXE, select “image this machine” and have it ask “image name?” I type it in and it reboots and just makes an image on the fog server in case I need it later.

Of course this means I need a reverse of this as well

“recover image” and it lists the images and I select one and it reboots and deploys the image.

I know fog is able to do all of this. I just want it all to be done from within the pxe menu so I don’t have to go back to the management machine and set up a host and image for this one time job.

How can this be done?

[quote=“Zardan, post: 4175, member: 185”]Yes you can use driver packs, you don’t need to specify which machine that uses which driver.
It works similar to when you manually install a driver and use “search for driver software in this location:”[/quote]

I understand how driver packs work, I was asking how to use them in a fog image

[QUOTE]they referred to that as a ‘golden image’ [/QUOTE]

Does anyone have success with these “golden” images? I read about them too and it looks like vista and 7 are essentially golden from the get go, but XP needs a few tweaks.

[QUOTE]Read up on sysprep, this will return windows to the setup stage where it can install all drivers automatically. [/QUOTE]

Does this mean that I will need to know which drivers each machine needs? because I won’t be doing that if that is the case. (I would rather just install them after the imaging if that is the case) Is there some way to use driverpacks ect?

I searched for this but couldn’t find anything. Technically this applies to vista and 7 as well, but I am pretty sure I have a work around for those if I cannot find an easier solution.

I want to make an xp image that I can then throw on any machine with any hardware. Is this possible?
I have a computer repair shop and this would make work much easier for the jobs requiring reinstalls

This way if a computer has a bad hard drive or something with windows XP, I just put in the new drive, boot FOG and grab the XP image. Obviously proper activation and other programs/drivers would be manually installed after the image is done, just wondering if anyone has had any success with a generalized xp image ? and if so how? can the concept be applied to vista/7/8?