I’d actually tried Yumi but must have only used the Syslinux ISO access. It worked with the GRUB access. Thanks.

Probably not worth it to use PXE if I can’t use the router’s DHCP.

Thanks.

Yep, it’s a home network.

Thanks, it seems to be working that far with the DHCP on Ubuntu. I guess now to work out how to get it to do what I want.

Oh, it’s a Netgear CG3100D-2 with an integral cable modem.

As far as I can see there is no option in the router for this. Should I then disable the DHCP on the router and use the FOG DHCP?

I’m using FOG 1.2.0 and the DHCP is supplied by the primary router.

Probably a stupid question, but I’m having real difficulty figuring out what is going wrong.

I’ve tried installing fog on a Ubuntu 14.10 64 bit installation and everything seems fine. I can create the images, define the hosts, I’ve gotten the hostnames to resolve by adding them to /etc/hosts (otherwise I get “can’t resolve hostname” errors). I’ve got upload image tasks set up. The problem is that when I boot the respective clients they just sit there in the PXE screen with DHCP. <more dots added as time goes on>. There seems to be something really obvious I’m missing.

Reading that Ubuntu 14.04 isn’t recommended, I’ve tried the same thing on Ubuntu 12.04.5 32 bit and get the same outcome.

I’ve tried giving the clients static IP in the router’s DHCP table. I’ve tried taking the secondary router out of the equation (I have two routers in my house). Nothing seems to work.

One more thing. All I really want is to be able to PXE boot from ISO files I’ve downloaded from the internet rather than image a machine. Particularly because I’m trying to load an OS onto a netbook and for some reason imaging the ISO onto a USB is proving problematic (Rufus doesn’t recognise the ISO for example.) Perhaps FOG isn’t for me?