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I put in a shebang. It should work now, please re-download the install file.

It’s easier to update /opt/fog/.fogsettings and set bldhcp to 1 and dodhcp to Y, and then re-run the installer. The installer will build the correct config file for you and setup the service. More information about the settings file is here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=.fogsettings

@george1421 This is just a very bad guess since I can’t test this at all.

net0.dhcp/43:hex = 6010B080FAAAA03C0A802C8C0A80368C0A8016600 net0.dhcp/60:string = PXEClient

I’m more confident that net0.dhcp/60:string = PXEClient will work than the the option 43 one.

net0.dhcp/43:hex = 6010B080FAAAA03C0A802C8C0A80368C0A8016600 net0.dhcp/60:string = PXEClient set altiris-server:ipv4 10.96.50.15 set net0/next-server ${altiris-server} cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x64 || set arch x86pc iseq ${platform} efi && set plat efi || set plat 0 chain -ar tftp://${altiris-server}/BStrap\\${arch}\\BStrap.${plat} boot || goto MENU

@fredlwal You could go under the host you’re working with, then to basic tasks, then click advanced. That gives you a drop down menu where you should see fast or full/normal wipe towards the bottom.

@fredlwal any news on this?

Here is one way to go about it.

Acquire a usb flash drive that is at least 4MB in size (yes I said only 4MB, larger will work but we only need 4MB of space). Format that usb flash drive - fat32. You can do this on a windows box or a linux box. The format must be fat32. On that newly formatted flash drive create the following path \EFI\BOOT (case should not be important, but use all caps as I posted). Now you will need 2 of the iPXE files from the fog server. Copy /tftpboot/ipxe.efi to \EFI\BOOT as BOOTX64.EFI Copy /tftpboot/i386-efi/ipxe.efi to \EFI\BOOT as BOOTIA32.EFI Eject the usb flash drive and then attempt to boot this Dell laptop device from the usb drive using the device’s boot menu.

Taken from here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7435/uefi-pxe-boot-asus-t100-tablet/79

What we will be doing is bypassing the on board pxe roms and loading iPXE right from usb flash drive. Understand this method will only work if iPXE has the drivers built in for this usb network adapter. If this route won’t work for us we have one more last chance option.

@Quazz @Tom-Elliott I set the task to capture and the progress bar on the desktop computer goes all the way though
Upgrading to the latest ver worked.

Thanks

Can you continue here please? https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9517/mysql

This is older but it’s still accurate:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

Also, @george1421 and @Jaymes-Driver thanks for picking this thread up, that’s team work. 🙂

Although older, I can confirm the Dell Poweredge R410 runs CentOS 7 just fine. It runs VMs like a champ using the Linux kernel’s built-in virtualization capabilities.

See my post here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9437/upgrading-fog-on-a-standalone-network

@fredlwal

Do you have a webfilter appliance?

You may have to add launchpad.net to the whitelist, or the bypass list so that the traffic is not monitored?

We filter all traffic anything ssl gets decrypted and sent down to the client (basically a man in the middle) and I had to add the url to the bypass list so the traffic is not decrypted.

I could get to the website fine, but I saw issues with adding the repository. (I even added the repo to the sources.list which helped some but not completely.)

@fredlwal What do you mean?

When you create a definition, it just creates a reference point FOG will use to access the image.

Typically, people create the definition, assign the definition to a host, and then tell that host to perform a capture task. As the host is in the tasking, the image is being captured on the server. This step is unnecessary if you copied the image from another location.

The definition can be associated to any host though. It will use this definition during deploy tasks too.

@fredlwal Why did you enable it? It should remain disabled.

sudo ufw disable

@fredlwal Most probably a FTP credentials problem: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_FTP

@fredlwal You will need to help us understand a bit more about your network. How is the network (distant) different than the network in the building you are?

Is there a router or firewall that isolates your building network from the rest of the network?

@fredlwal said:

@Wayne-Workman said:

undionly.k

So for option 67 do I still have to copy /tftpboot file undionly.kkpxe or just type that in the string value?

Just type in undionly.kkpxe for option 067 and the FOG server’s IP for 066. You don’t need to copy anything.

@fredlwal said:

@Wayne-Workman and does this have to be placed on all dhcp servers at each building?

Only on the ones you want to use with FOG. If you have slow WAN speeds, you might want to setup a storage node at each location and setup the Location plugin.

@fredlwal said:

when I ran fog, I see it is asking for please boot windows fsck.

I’m familiar with this error.

It’s caused by one of two things.

The dirty bit is set on the OS partition. This means there are updates pending or you improperly shutdown the system. Either way, you need to fix those things. If you can’t do them by installing updates and shutting down properly, then you’ll need to run a chkdsk /F on the OS.

Hibernation is enabled, and a hibernation file exists on the HDD. You’ll need to disable hibernation and remove the hibernation file.

Here’s a WiKi article section to help you with those things:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_8_UEFI_Imaging_Tips#Windows_8_and_8.1_Imaging_Problems

Unetbootin:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ - download it for whichever OS you’re currently using.

iPXE iso:

http://ipxe.org/download

OR as an alternative, you can use the Clonezilla live CD iso and choose the network boot option (which chains iPXE) – that’s located below:

http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=stable

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_TFTP[/url]