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One detail that I left out was that the fog images files were saved on the open partition of the 5tb drive I assigned them too as pointed out by @george1421.

I admit i was a bit confused at first by what he was saying as i wanted to mount the images to a specific folder on the drive (secondary) and then i realized that i needed to partition the drive as the new fog destination needed its own space. I then create space on the drive by partitioning the drive and mounting the second partition as a files storage for whatever i like while the fog partition would stay hidden.

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Thank you guys this thread is solved, success!!!

@Wayne-Workman Here is an updated working centos boot code that works for using your own downloaded repo as well as the online repo.

I downloaded my own repo using command <wget -r -l 0 ./LOCAL-DIR WEBSITE-URL> in Ubuntu.
once downloaded
I then copied the repo from my home directory to the /bootimgs folder.
I then modified the boot code originally provided by @george1421 from:
:centos
initrd http://${fog-ip}/bootimgs/centos/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
chain http://${fog-ip}/bootimgs/centos/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img method=http://${fog-ip}/bootimgs/centos/ devfs=nomount ip=dhcp
boot || goto MENU

to

initrd http://${fog-ip}/bootimgs/centos/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
chain http://${fog-ip}/bootimgs/centos/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img root=live:http://${fog-ip}/bootimgs/centos/LiveOS/squashfs.img ip=dhcp repo=http://192.168.1.109/bootimgs/centosrepo/mirror.nodeshosting.com/centos/7.2.1511/os/x86_64 splash quiet – || read void
boot || goto MENU

the end result is that now I have my own home repo that works even if my machine is not connected to the internet. I assume this is good for corporate or environments where the admin is not wanting to use much data from or restrict the net.

it also makes short work of the install time.

I hope this makes someone’s life a bit more easier

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@dureal99d Really nice, thank you!!

@Tom-Elliott / @Wayne-Workman OK everything is working fine now. thank you fog team for the help. according to @Tom-Elliott it was because the tftp folder was misdirected. I’m not really sure how that occurred but he fixed it. also @Wayne-Workman the revert to kernel 4.7.0 fixed the messages issue. but being as I’m informed its not really an error ill just later revert to kernel 4.7.1 and downgrade the messaging

@Wayne-Workman Ok.

That what i did and then i re-ran the installer and it worked. Thank You!!

@Wayne-Workman Yes fog is working fine, I use plex as a media server on the same system. I use it so I can use the xbox in my room to view many media I have on my drives.

I simply used the gui to set the permissions on the drive.

I had this issue too
I ran ./installfog.sh -K to fix it
I am running CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511

Awesome, thanks @Wayne-Workman 🙂

I did just setup something like this last friday. Its documented in the first link Wayne posted (it did take a bit of noodling to figure this one out). The key/trick is to use a bind-mount (like a super-duper symbolic link). You can’t use symbolic links because NFS can’t share them and/or NFS doesn’t have the concept of share aliases. The bind-mounts NFS can follow and share. If you use the bind mount then you don’t have to do anything FOG since fog still sees the /images folder, the OS redirects access to the mounted directory.

The only caveat I have to say about my setup is that I have not uploaded an image yet to this setup. I can affirm that the download works as advertised.

@Wayne-Workman no it wouldn’t matter. Beyond that the links go into mobile not the reverse so this would not have any impact unless you were going into mobile.

@george1421 said:

ou have done all of that, but are getting an apache error in

i will do so, in just a few

Ok so here is the result, I got it working thanks to a person on this forum named aaoyagi.

When I followed his instructions my Linux distros booted without fail via my fog server over the network!!!

In case anybody wants the steps:

First in your /etc/exports add this line:
/var/www/fog/iso/15.04_64 *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure)

Then restart your nfs server. If you’re running Ubuntu it’s sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart

Next, extract the Ubuntu iso to a direcotry named 15.04_64 in your /var/www/fog/iso directory.

In your Advanced menu use this:
:MENU
menu
item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
item ubuntu15.04_64 Boot Ubuntu 15.04
item return return to previous menu
:ubuntu15.04_64
set path /fog/iso/15.04_64
set nfs_path /var/www/fog/ISO/15.04_64
kernel http://${fog-ip}${path}/casper/vmlinuz.efi || read void
initrd http://${fog-ip}${path}/casper/initrd.lz || read void
imgargs vmlinuz.efi root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:${nfs_path} ip=dhcp splash quiet – || read void
boot || read void
goto start

Hopefully it works for you too. You don’t have to set the variables. I just did it that way in case I ever have to change where the iso directory lives.