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@arnaudrigole I have some methods documented.

using lftp:
lftp -c 'open x.x.x.x; user UserGoesHere PasswordHere; mirror -e /images/TheImagePath /images/TheImagePath; quit'

using NFS:
mount x.x.x.x:/<remote directory> <local directory>
cp -R /mbimages/Optiplex9020UEFI /images/Optiplex9020UEFI
umount <local directory>

Using Samba:
mkdir /tempMount
mount -t cifs //x.x.x.x/ShareNameGoesHere /tempMount -o username=YourUsernameGoesHere -o password=YourPasswordGoesHere,noexec
cp -r /tempMount/ImageNameHere /images/ImageNameHere
umount /tempMount

using SCP:
scp -r /images/ImageNameHere root@x.x.x.x:/images/ImageNameHere

using rsync:
rsync -a /images/ImageNameHere root@x.x.x.x:/images/ImageNameHere

wiki worthy

I just started seeing this today when accessing my home fog server. Everything still works fine, just thought I’d share.

@Merom Well, the error says Login incorrect. So your password or username is incorrect, or it could be permissions or incorrect interface as well.

Make sure your browser isn’t doing any auto-fill stuff when entering the passwords. Use incognito/privacy mode if you need. The steps you’ve found are the steps for changing the passwords for FTP.

@Tom-Elliott #wiki worthy

@prestop sudo apt-get install subversion

Then rerun that command below.

Actually - I made some changes to it. here:
cd ~;mkdir svn;cd svn;svn checkout -r5428 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk ;cd trunk/bin;sudo ./installfog.sh

We need to know your OS distribution & version and fog version to give you the best advice.

@prestop at one point, it will ask you to update the db.

Go to the web interface and click the update button. It’ll be center page.

Then come back to the installer and continue.

After it’s done… just try it out.

@zionda said in Help with Mass Hard drive cloning station:

@george1421

Well actually maybe you guys have a diffrent idea

We are installing each time different images to diffrerent schools in our region

We sometimes needs to install 500-800 pcs all exact same pc model and specs and all of them with the exact same image

We use pxe boot to image each pc but i cant find an effective way to so it in mass installation since we have limited space and few technicians and im trying to make the imaging process more effective

Would love to know if you have any suggestions on how to handle mass installations (i tought making a duplicator and just mass install the hdds and assemble onto the pcs will be faster, specially when sometimes there is an Hdd upgrade than we already have the hdds outside the pc)

Any best practice will be helpful

FOG can do this job natively, as @george1421 already said. FOG uses PXE, that’s just one aspect of how it works. Now, before you think that FOG is anything like GHOST, stop. Because GHOST vs FOG is not even a competition. FOG vs WDS is not a competition. Comparing these would be like comparing a lame horse to a new motorcycle. These other solutions don’t come close to FOG’s speed nor it’s functionality, or support for that matter.

The way you are wanting to do this (in your OP) is a bad idea and we aren’t going to help with it, it’s also not best practice and would be super labor intensive and lack all the great features that you don’t know about yet which FOG offers as standard, supported features.

If you want to setup a P.O.C. for FOG, we can assist - you can see how it works, we can go from there. This is what I would suggest. Instead of getting caught up with a billion questions here in a thread without actually trying it out. With our help, and this being your first experience, you can probably have a P.O.C. setup and functional in a couple hours. We have plenty of guides for you to work from, also. I recommend this one: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7 You will need to modify your DHCP server during setup, notes on that are here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

@Junkhacker https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_FTP#Credentials_.2F_Passwords

@zionda I answered these questions in my below post. I hold firmly that you don’t yet understand what FOG offers, and still suggest setting up a POC before asking more questions that aren’t related to setting up the POC. None of us here are salesmen, we’re volunteers. Four days have gone by now in this thread, you could have had a POC setup in a few hours and answered many of your questions on your own.

@Sebastian-Roth I agree. But I also don’t have access to my building’s switches to fix multicast.

Nothing you should know other than you’ll be pleasantly surprised when your knowledge about Ubuntu directly applies to Debian while also having fewer problems too.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Location_Plugin

I’m working on CLI for fog - I’m using the API as the backend. It’s nowhere near done, probably some several months out.

@adukes40 All questions - Yes. Correct.

Only one “top dog” server, configure all your fog clients to point to it.

Also, this is probably a good time to get your feet wet in FOG Trunk if you’re going to build a new server, as the location plugin’s abilities are expanded in fog trunk, and with the big performance improvements and functionality of the new client, UEFI support, Windows 10 Support, and other numerous reasons.

Plus, that video applies to fog trunk.

Trunk is developmental. Bugs come and go, but we are here for you. Just report and work with us. Look through the forums for examples of our efforts.

@tom-elliott said in Do you have to image over the network to use fog?:

Technically yes. But fog is not designed for this.

Said the senior developer who knows ‘it’s possible’.

@keith75140 I say don’t even try because that’d be sort of like trying to build a house using an F-16 jet fighter instead of a general contractor…

If you want to image without networking, Clonezilla is the right tool for that.

@MrSmith912 I have seen this before, with same type of network adapter. Is the target host and server on the same broadcast domain? Broadcast domain is a network term, if you don’t immediately know what it is, Google it.

I keep wondering why you want to use these difficult distributions. What’s wrong with Debian?

Just throwing these links out there if it might help.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_Downloading_-_Multicast
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Multicast

@andreiv There are other function libraries in there too, like this one: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/working/src/buildroot/package/fog/scripts/usr/share/fog/lib/partition-funcs.sh

Might be best to just look through all of these files to figure out what you want:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/working/src/buildroot/package/fog/scripts/usr/share/fog/lib