Posts made by forte647

I understand that, but nothing else in this subnet, building, or organization is ever going to netboot. So I’m confident that I won’t be deploying out to machines that aren’t supposed to be imaged.

I’d like an option on the boot menu that would would auto reg, add to a group, and then wait for multicast all in one option from the boot menu, or just bypass the group and reg and just flag it to receive an image via a multicast push. Is that or something similar to that possible to do? The goal is to not have a machine register, restart into windows or whatever leftover are on the drive I want to image, and then need to be turned off or rebooted again.

And while those features are nice, and I would consider using the hostnaming and domain joining but we start up scripts that do that for us already.

Hello, everyone. I found a guide here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Bypass_Host_Registration on how to multicast without the need to register hosts first, but the guide is for an older version and I am using 1.2.0. Many of the described files are different, called something different, or in another location.

Here’s my situation:

I have a bench of laptops I’d like to multicast blast an image out to. Anything could be on the hard drives already, an OS, some corrupt OS data, whatever. So sometimes when after I quick register a host, it restarts and starts booting into a Windows which gets pretty annoying. I’d like to have it setup in a way where after I netboot, it will hang and wait for an image without the need to register to a group or anything. And then when I have my bench of machines hanging and waiting I can hit a button and multicast the image out. I’m only dealing with one image at a time and one “type” of laptop at a time.

Any help or insight would be much appreciated.