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    • RE: fog iso booting

      I have just close my post for similar issue. however in my case I want to actually boot clients using FOG boot services for dban ISO
      which WiKi says is possible. I could not make it work as described in WiKi but I use this
      post to make it boot as if ISO was a real CD. that is what you want to do a install of OS, right?

      this definitely works.
      the basic steps (and please read the linked thread fully) are

      #1. create a directory in “/var/www/html/” to hold the ISOs [NOTE] : the final location depends on your server OS. since I use Debian 9 I have the “/var/www/html/” check to make sure you have the base folder. as the linked post implies some setups will only have “/var/www/” as base folder so that is what you need to use.
      I simply did “md /var/www/html/iso”

      #2. place the ISO file(s) into the new folder you created in step #1.

      #3. make sure that the new folder and all files in it is owned by fog user and fog group
      “chown -R fog.fog <your folder name here>”

      #4. using Fog WebUI, create new menu item using parameter “initrd http://${fog-ip}/<your folder name here>/<Your ISO file name here>.iso chain memdisk iso raw”

      done. works well. for simple ISO booting.

      PS>> one thing though, this is for booting directly from ISO.
      there are several threads here and on WiKi dedicated to adding specific OS install options to FOG like Windows PE
      or such.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: Problem setting up DBAN menu item.

      @tom-elliott well, i am not sure how to post this. so here we go.

      this is my option parameters in WebUI.
      kernel ${boot-url}/dban/dban.bzi nuke="dwipe" silent vga=785 boot || goto MENU

      I have followed the how-to on WiKi and also try to move the /dban folder to “var/www” instead of “/var/www/html/”
      and mount it there.
      this is the mounted dir.
      even though I run “chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/dban” it’s still show root as owner

      fogadmin@FogDeb:/var/www/dban$ ls -l
      total 15971
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root      853 Jun  4  2015 about.txt
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16318688 Jun  4  2015 dban.bzi
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    24576 Jun  4  2015 isolinux.bin
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Jun  4  2015 isolinux.cat
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root     4160 Jun  4  2015 isolinux.cfg
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root     1026 Jun  4  2015 quick.txt
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root      390 Jun  4  2015 raid.txt
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root      762 Jun  4  2015 warning.txt
      
      

      Kernel Versions
      DefaultMember FOG Version: (1.4.4)
      bzImage Version: 4.11.0
      bzImage32 Version: 4.11.0

      and I am not using UEFI boot. also I can boot from ISO directly as in attach ISO to VM and boot. so it is compatible.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: Problem setting up DBAN menu item.

      @george1421 Hi there, I never said anything bad about FOG.
      I also understand that it is an extra feature, even though I believe it should be a totally viable feature/option for FOG.
      it is after all a very nice and useful PXE boot server, and that is what PXE boot servers do, boot special images over network.
      but since there is a how-to to do just what I want to do right on the FOG server WiKi, anyone would assume that the option should work as described. I am not the first person who need this and probably will not be the last one.
      all I ask is if anybody have managed to make this work, to help me do the same.

      posted in FOG Problems
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      vl1969
    • RE: Problem setting up DBAN menu item.

      ok, I have managed to make it work for me using post here

      this seems to be a good method for ISO booting. not native to FOG but it works;
      you can not run dban in autowipe mode, at least I didn’t find how to do that, but for me it is not important for me right now.
      so I guess we can close the thread as solved.

      posted in FOG Problems
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      vl1969
    • Problem setting up DBAN menu item.

      Hello.
      I have this interesting issue. I am trying to setup a FOG server to be able to image some PCs and also to wipe some PCs as well.
      I have FOG running on Hyper-V VM just fine. I have uploaded an image from one HOST just fine and even have imaged several test VMs and hardware PCs ok too.

      now I want to setup a PXE item for DBAN ISO so I can boot and wipe some computers when needed.
      I follow the directions on WiKi here
      as well as several HOW-TOs I found. I can see the dban folder in “/var/www/html/” like “/var/www/html/dban”
      when mounted I can see the files. the ISO is “/iso/dban.iso”
      I created the Menu Item on the webUI. but
      if I navigate to http://my-ip/dban it drops me to http://my-ip/fog/management page. nothing I have tried fixes the issue. thus the menu item simply ignored and drop me back to main menu.
      anyone here can help me ?

      thanks

      EDIT 1 :

      found this thread here
      but still could not solve the issue on my server.

      my install is

      Linux FogDeb 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5 (2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
      Debian 9
      Fog 1.4.4

      normal stuff works I just can not make an ISO boot option.
      Dban is the first thing I need but I might need to have a Windows 10 ISO as well so would like to solve the problem.

      posted in FOG Problems
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      vl1969