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@MikeoftheLibrary After reading that, there’s another thing I forgot to mention. Each multicast session only goes as fast as the slowest host. So if one of them has bad RAM or a failing disk or bad patch cable, this would slow down every host in that multicast task. This could be your issue - and most likely is since you’re using business grade network equipment.

Also, you might look through the Wikipedia/Wikimedia tutorial on editing articles and using Transclusion to reduce data duplication. I think that’s still what they call it. We really need a wikipedia team of super documenting super heroes!

Thanks for letting us know, personally, I am like you, I don’t really use the Multicast features, just when someone says it’s not working so I can see what it is doing 🙂

Thanks for all the information it may help in finding the culprit and fixing it!

Of course if you troubleshoot further, feel free to leave some notes.

It was. Debian creates that line by default. I fooled around with the localhosts file and DHCP config in order to get the isolated network running and in the process changed the former. Perhaps I was telling the computer there was only one machine on the network? I don’t understand enough about computer networking and how a PHP script creates a magic packet to fully answer the question.

Curiously WOL still does not work for uploading images, but since our technician computers are within 20 feet of my desk that is not a big issue.

UPDATE: Well WOL worked once for an image upload. Still not going to worry much about it though.

Nevermind. I forgot to add next-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to the config file. The clients now PXE boot fine.

but if you’d like to contribute there is an official wiki that badly needs attention. just ask for credentials in this thread [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/requests-for-wiki-access-ask-here.3811/[/url]

I look forward to using the new version in the future. It sounds like it will be vastly superior to .32.

The problems with my drive are largely due to the fact that it’s an advanced format drive. Even the Windows 8 recovery partition won’t work because it was created on a non-AFD disk. Also my laptop is 64-bit but my desktop is 32-bit so I can’t simply create an install disk from the windows 8 installer. Ugh!

FOG, however, has performed very well. This little adventure has helped me test out version .33b so when we do upgrade I the server at work I know what to expect. At present my plan is to wait until it’s finalized. Since we have about four spare computers (and only need about that many images) at work recreating reference images is not much of an issue. My main concern is for the FOG database since rebuilding it would require going around to the public computers. Is it possible to copy the database, store it somewhere, and then put it back on the server when version .33 is installed? Or is the best way to upgrade simply to have two servers? Note that we do not have any FOG server as of yet, although I do not want our big Windows 7 roll out to be dependent on software which is still in Beta.

What sort of code change are we talking about? The feature would be nice, but is not critical.

Your default file (that’s the name sorry) is located at:
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

On the bottom line you should see:
[code]TIMEOUT 30[/code]
This means 3 seconds. Thirty seconds would be:
[code]TIMEOUT 300[/code]
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Mike,

As FOG is being installed, it uses the apt-get methods from Ubuntu, which I’d imagine to be the same as on Debian. Tomorrow, while I’m at work, I’ll boot my Debian System(s) up and attempt an install. The first install will be with the version I’ve been working with, and the second with be with 0.32 which I would recommend for your particular setup at this point in time. I hope to give you some insight and wish the best.