https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a727a8/fog_appreciation_post/

@Jbob said:

Tom is just … Tom.

that’s like saying: Superman is just … Superman.

trunk 7609? is there a reason you upgraded to a release that’s almost 2 months old? i think this has been fixed already.

@wanderson fog 0.32 was released in 2011. i’m afraid none of us know how to support it. it may be time to upgrade or migrate to a new install of fog. there have been far more than enough improvements to be worth it. your existing images will be compatible with the latest version of fog (as legacy images. if you migrate to a new server instead of upgrading a few setting will need to be set to recognize them properly, but they will work)

don’t forget to get the proper licensing. you can’t capture an OEM image and redeploy it to other computers and be in compliance with Microsoft’s licensing. you’ll need a volume license.
once you have an imaging server, you’ll find yourself using it a lot more than you think. user has a virus? a few hours to repair, or a few minutes to reimage, etc.

@VincentJ default compression level is 6. testing found that it had the best compression/performance ratio for us. i don’t think many people change it.

@Junkhacker to clarify, your new “default” menu item would contain something like this:

iseq ${serial} <labSerial1> &&  goto chainboot ||
iseq ${serial} <labSerial2> &&  goto chainboot ||
goto fog.local

:chainboot
set net0/next-server <otherPXEbootServerIP> && set filename <whateverFile> && chain 
tftp://<otherPXEbootServerIP>/<whateverFile> ||
exit

@dwagner sounds like you need to recreate the /images/dev/postinitscripts directory, and it’s contents, a single file named “fog.postinit” with the contents

#!/bin/bash
## This file serves as a starting point to call your custom pre-imaging/post init loading scripts.
## <SCRIPTNAME> should be changed to the script you're planning to use.
## Syntax of post init scripts are
#. ${postinitpath}<SCRIPTNAME>

permissions 777
also, you’ll need to create an empty file named “.mntcheck” in /images/dev too, if you haven’t

@george1421 this one? https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9396/stopping-web-service-failed/8?page=1

ok, here are my pseudo scientific results:

pigz vs pzstd (parallel implementation of zstandard, experimental)
tests were performed using a windows 7 image
(larger of 2 partitions only)
uncompressed image file size:34650439624

(de)compression tests were performed as closely as i could to emulate fog’s operation methods (without doing too much work :P). files were cat-ed from a mounted nfs share and piped into the programs, with results saved to an SSD. test machine was running Lubuntu instead of a custom FOS init, because i’m lazy.

pigz -6 compression
duration: 6:06
file size: 17548659028

pigz -6 decompression
duration: 6:00

pzstd default (3?) compression
duration: 5:16
file size: 16967988207

pzstd decompression default compression file
duration: 3:17

pzstd -6 compression
duration: 6:11
file size: 16247155611

pzstd decompression -6 compression file
duration: 3:16

pzstd -9 compression
duration: 10:00
file size: 16084180231

pzstd decompression -9 compression file
duration: 3:21

Edited to add zst compression level 6

@zfeng in a postdownload script, so that it will run when the imaging process completes but before the imaging task completes

@zfeng you could do something like wget -o /root/script.sh <address>/script.sh; echo “Computer=$hostname /root/script.sh” > <drive mount point>/etc/init.d/oneshot.sh

something like that.

@zfeng it sounds like George’s method of creating a file in /etc/init.d on the target disk would work well for you. you can find info on creating postdownload scripts by searching on the forums

@zfeng this is very vague

@zfeng if you give some more info on what the script is actually doing, we might be able to help you find the best solution faster

@zfeng variables such as the host name are available for use scripting within FOS. this info comes from the host’s profile that gets created when you register a host with FOG.

or run the script with the fog client as a snapin

@george1421 one option for eliminating the network card as the source of the problem (not completely, but mostly) is to boot with a usb adapter plugged in as well, both plugged into the network, and after ipxe loads unplug the network from the built in adapter.

@george1421 i’m thinking we could have an “unregistered host” host and have it auto-register and auto-remove when the tasking was created/finished. that would also allow us to have a task to track in the gui.

just chiming in to say that i would also like this feature