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[quote=“marten, post: 26948, member: 23678”]Okay it turns out it’s not the server nor my configuration.

but the laptops I used as clients.
They are old Fujitsu esprimo’s they might not be fully supported for image deployment.
How ever I did manage to upload 1 image.

And I deployed the image on a Acer Aspire 5610 which worked fine, even though the bios isn’t supported by fog.
It can obtain a deployed image but it does get errors when trying to upload one.[/quote]

Those BIOS errors don’t mean diddly. FOG has the opportunity to use information from the BIOS for HOST Management and that is about it, that is not to say that there have not been times when a BIOS update has broken FOG or pxe booting capabilities…

Is there some kind of a watchdog setting on these machines? I had some Toshibas that gave me hell when imaging. I was in the similar boat as you my machine kept powering itself off and it turned out to be a BIOS Setting. So look for anything that would shut the machine off due to “inactivity”.

No fog can use its own storage, in my experience I have always used a DHCP server to dole ip addresses, I have never successfully used a static network. I set fog at a static ip address so it never changes, and you can set your machines at static ip addresses, but in my experience pxe booting, something needs to be giving addresses for the machines to have during the boot process.

If you are not interested in using a DHCP server, look into the dnsmasq option and server proxy ip addresses for the pxe boot process only.

IMHO I think it a better idea to use DHCP and just reserve your addresses to a MAC, but to each his own.