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@george1421 Great, I appreciate all of the info again!

@george1421 Sorry, there was some confusion. We were trying to capture from the pxe boot menu. We are able to deploy.

@george1421 said in Capture and Deploy Question!:

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1. (addendum) You can deploy from the iPXE menu if you don’t ever plan on fog managing the system post imaging. All history of fog imaging that machine after deployment will be gone. You might use this feature of you are an OEM remanufacturer where you will never see the system again after imaging.

How would I go about enabling this feature?

@george1421 said in Capture and Deploy Question!:

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3. Yes it exists on the fog server in this path /var/www/html/fog/client

Thanks much!

1. Thanks! That’s what I was finding, but maybe I misunderstood the Wiki while following it.

2. Understood. Thanks!

3. We are running 1.4.4. It sits at connecting for probably 10 seconds and then gives a browser error that it’s timed out. Is the smart installer located somewhere in the FOG file directory that we can just pull it from?

We recently installed FOG on a dedicated device and have successfully used it to capture and deploy a simple image for a laptop. I have two (probably simple) questions.

1. We can’t seem to be able to capture directly from the PXE menu. How do we enable this?

2. When we deploy our image (Windows 10 install, fully updated and full of our software that we need), it seems to take a very long time at the “Getting Ready” screen. We let it run for over an hour or two and left it overnight. It was done when we came back in the next morning. Has anyone seen this and know how to lower this time? It has an SSD, so I don’t think it’s a disk bottleneck.

Edit: 3. We can’t seem to download the client within “Client Management”. When we click the link for the smart installer, it seems to time out.

Thank you!