Thank you Sebastian for the advice. Actually, in my case, imaging (not installing) can be a solution.

I just need specific values for each hostgroup (like specific site parameters) or for each host (for chaning the ip address, hostname…).
But as I know, it can’t be done with Fog for now, because there is no linux client yet.
I already found the FAI project, but i can’t deal with remote sites with this solution. If you know other projects, please let me know!

Anyway, thank you very much for your help and for the amazing job you’ve done on the FOG Project!

Martin

EDIT: I found here that we can execute post-deploy script with environment variable. It can be a solution, but i can’t find any documentation on the subject. Any help?

Thank you very much for the reply Wayne,

I have to say that this plugin is the answer to all my fears about this project.
And also, you’re right, 1 min to deploy a client is huge compared to a netinstall, even with apt-cacher-ng it takes about 30 min to do everything i need…

I’ll give it a try !

Ps: Do you know what “in the future” means for the linux FOG client? Weeks, months, years?

Thank you

Hello everyone,

I need to deploy linux on clients located in 4 different sites.
For now, i’m using a PXE/TFTP/DHCP server by site. Each client boot over network on the PXE server of his site, get a debian netinstall and run a preseed script.
The problem is, it’s ok for now with 4 sites to manage, but it will be a nightmare with some more.

I found the FOG project very interesting, but i have some questions:

• Networking (source https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fog_deployment_nodes)
  In my case, i need a “master fog” in my “master site” and one “node fog” on all other sites.
  I understand that the master fog communicate with all nodes. But i’m not sure about clients, do they communicate with their node or directly with the master fog? Because our site-to-mastersite link is really poor.

• Preseed
  Actually, a client install debian from a netinstall (to have a basic system) and then execute a preseed script (for all specifics parameters). Is it possible to keep this method with Fog? Or is there an other way?

Thank you for the reply

Martin