Posts made by depdesu

[quote=“fogfan, post: 10419, member: 3298”]I’ve got about 20+ 7010’s to image as well I can just can’t seem to get them to work. Been at it for about 3 day now. I updated them to the latest BIOS and re-installed FOG about 6 times lol

Ubuntu 10.04
FOG .32
3.6.9 Kernel

What BIOS settings, version, etc. and server settings did you use depdesu? I would love to get these working like you! Feel like I’m losing my mind lol[/quote]

I stopped using the newest kernel and went down to the latest KS (Kitchen sink) one. I feel for you spending 3 days trying to get fog to work, I’ve been there. I have to install over a hundred of these machines during spring break and will probably just end up using clonezilla again to save time and heartache.

Edit the image, tftpboot/fog/bg.png to change the background of the pxe menu.

I finally imaged a few of my Optiplex 7010s. While clonezilla is a lot easier and more straightforward, I look forward to using some of Fog’s features, especially the domain join and hostname changer. My problem was a networking issue which prevented the hosts on my vlan from getting bootp traffic. For some reason, any host connected directly to my core switch wouldnt boot to pxe, while PCs connected from core switch > room switch, could. A quick fix was to enable spanning-tree portfast but I’m still looking for the exact cause and best solution.

Fog is awesome, thank you

Disregard everything I said, as I’m still trying to pinpoint the problem. As of right now FOG can only connect to virtual machines running on my personal PC and nothing else.

I just received over 100+ Optiplex 7010 for work and I’ve been trying to image them for a few days now.

Coming from clonezilla, I was really hoping that the Intel linux driver I installed to my clonezilla server for the Dell 790s would work for the 7010s. I was wrong. After absolutely destroying my clonezilla ubuntu machine trying to get it to work I decided to start new with CentOS and FOG. I’ve spend the last 2 days trying to get it to work but without any luck. The Ethernet controller on the 7010 is the “Intel 82579 Gigabit Ethernet Controller” and you can get the linux drivers for that. Now getting FOG to use those drivers is another problem in itself.

Currently, I can get the fog pxe menu on both virtualbox and vmware workstation VMs but I can’t get any of my Dells to PXE boot. I’m using CentOS 6.3, Windows server 2012(dhcp), and latest FOG.