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FOG uses [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/’]Partimage[/URL] for the actual image creation/deployment, which creates an image of the drive at the sector level, meaning there is no “filesystem” that can be modified. There was [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=309’]talk in the Partimage forums[/URL] a while back about trying to write a block device driver that would allow you to mount your Partimage image files and modify them, but Partimage files are compressed internally (as in Partimage compresses the stream of sectors while writing the image file), so you would also have to decompress the image file before you could even mount it, at which point you’re basically deploying the image. So the only real option is to deploy the image to a computer, make whatever changes and then upload the image again.

Not currently.

Good luck! Sorry for the wall of text.

If you feel like getting in to it, in order to get the boot package to get sent to the right location, you could take a look at the following lines (for example, inside function createInventoryPackage() in functions.include.php):

[php]
$ftp = ftp_connect(getSetting( $conn, “FOG_TFTP_HOST” ));
$ftp_loginres = ftp_login($ftp, getSetting( $conn, “FOG_TFTP_FTP_USERNAME” ), getSetting( $conn, “FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD” ));
[/php]

If you feel like getting in to a more “correct” way of doing this, I think the issue with getting the boot files pushed to the correct locations is that $conn is (correctly) looking at the master node since that’s where MySQL lives, so the “FOG_TFTP_HOST” information it receives are the master node settings. I [I]think[/I]. I’m not positive on that. I was thinking of switching it so it gets its information from the config.php file located on the service, but there are a [I]lot[/I] of calls to the MySQL based getSetting function. It might take a lot of changes to rework that.

If you chain load them it should clear up the boot loop. I have a batch of dells that would boot loop on me till I just chain loaded all my FOG computers and now no problems.

Hi,

Well no side effect at this moment 😉

Yes, the only one I have now is the PXE boot that is a bit slow, of course, my Optiplex 390 is 30km away from the FOG server, with a tiny VPN between both sites.
But no other effect.