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    • RE: Diskless boot windows XP image

      thanks for info and a great project.
      i think it has a great potential to grow.
      i’ve forgotten the things we have done 5 years ago and looked for the same solution but more managable.
      we have used iSCSI and later AOE to boot windows diskless PCs over ethernet.
      iSCSI had many issues on booting and work stability: each PC should have its own image and locks it while usage. if some packet loss occures PC hangs because the driver tries to keep connection alive and fails on packet loss (like HDD loss). It had great issue on client count same time booting: if more than 10 - other failed to boot because of timeouts etc…
      AoE worked perfectly with one image for all clients and without hangs on packet loss.
      Also Windows need one small tool from Windows Embedded called FBWF (File Base Write Filter) to make the bootable disk read only caching file changes on bootable disk to memory untill the next reboot (very great tool to keep system partition virus clean even on local PCs). Page file must be off and RAM should be 2+ Gb to handle RAM bootable partition (500-800Mb) and other running programs.
      So the most powerfull profit was to get bootable Windows partition over network with network mounted work read-write partiion.

      I hope sometimes you will include this functionality in your project to make it really powerfull solution to do whatever any one needs to create and maintain large amount of client PCs.

      posted in Tutorials
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      MaxBasmanov
    • RE: Diskless boot windows XP image

      ok. i also have an iso copy of that boot partition (that thinks its a hard drive).
      is it possible to boot it over network?

      posted in Tutorials
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      MaxBasmanov
    • RE: Diskless boot windows XP image

      i fact i need the following: boot from network 10 diskless same make and model nettops
      i have made all needed procedures with the image for it could boot from CD, USB, RAM etc. connected the host with image to FOG and uploaded the image.
      now i need to boot 10 same nettops without HDD with this image over network.
      how can i do that? or i can only clone that image to 10 HDDs and boot localy?

      posted in Tutorials
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      MaxBasmanov
    • RE: Diskless boot windows XP image

      as i googled i have seen that fog on 0.32 had ability to boot diskless terminals over tftp

      posted in Tutorials
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      MaxBasmanov
    • Diskless boot windows XP image

      I have installed FOG 1.1.1 on Ubuntu Server 14.x
      have configured everything
      have booted terminal client and uploaded disk image from client

      now i need to boot 10 terminlas without HDD over network with tat image.
      i got:
      d1p1.img
      d1.img
      also got memdisk.

      files are located: /images, /tftpboot, var/[url=“http://www”]www[/url]…
      main menu contains “Hard disk boot” and it starts

      What should i do to make :

      1. diskless boot with 10 terminals
      2. remove of “hard disk load” from main boot menu on client and insert the own bootable devis (prepared image)

      thanks

      posted in Tutorials
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      MaxBasmanov
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