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@jms FOS is based on buildroot. Building your own custom init is definitely possible but we don’t have a nice wiki article on this.

On the other hand it’s all available in a script. Clone a copy of the FOS repo and run the build script:

git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fos cd fos ./build.sh -fn -a x64

Make sure you have enough of disk space available (roughly 7 GB as it downloads and compiles a huge amount of code) and lots of CPU power and RAM. On our designated compile workhorse it takes more than an hour to build. On my laptop it’s more like 8 hours.

@Sebastian-Roth Yes it is working now - thank you !!

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks that all makes sense.

Thanks Sebastian — from my point of view I could still get rid of TFTP by recognizing either UEFI HTTP Boot (physical hardware) or existing iPXE ROM (in my Nutanix VM) vi DHCP headers (vendor class / user class) and in either case chainload the FOG iPXE binary (with “params” enabled) via HTTP and eventually perhaps HTTPS.

This should be pretty straightforward, I’ll see if I can work it out and I’ll post back - may be worth a wiki article.

Now … the next item to tackle would be replacing FTP (vsftpd) with SFTP 🙂

Feel free to close this thread if it’s no longer appropriate as a “feature request”.

@Sebastian-Roth Yes your fix does indeed resolve the issue for me – thank you sir !!!