[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 44006, member: 28116”]Please follow this: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC[/url]

I’ve got Mac OS X imaging up and running at our university! No USB sticks or CDROMs! I am working on the wiki as I find time to squeeze that in…

Any comments are highly appreciated![/quote]

Pretty good beginnings there. So, that custom code inside of class “AppleNBI-i386” will only execute for Macs, I assume? And, what might a complete dhcpd.conf file look like? One that works for both Mac and PC?

[quote=“ChristianUOS, post: 44003, member: 28875”]Thanks Wyne Workman for your quick reply. I’ll try to setup a new machine with fedora 21 and the svn-Version 2922. Meanwhile I’ve updated to 3121 to see if it works. But I’m bounded to Windows Server 2012 as virtualization host. Because I’m the next few days out of office, I can not try this before Tuesday. Or should it also work with the SVN-Version 3121?

If someone have got addition information on how to troubleshoot the load balancing of storage nodes to improve unicast performance I would be very thankful.[/quote]

You could follow the Fedora 21 instructions but instead of using 2922, you could use 3121.

Please follow the instructions, even for installing Fedora 21 itself. There’s a custom configuration regarding the /images directory for it.

Well, what if the network boot option had the same file structure within it?

[url]http://emcosoftware.com/msi-package-builder[/url]

that’ll do it, but it’s not free. They have 3 different versions. The pro version will record all changes except for services and drivers. The enterprise version does everything.

IMO, it’s not worth two cents unless you get the enterprise version. Their “Pro” version of the software used to deploy Java with custom settings has caused me nothing but nightmares.

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 43993, member: 21583”]in theory, i bet you could make it a small NTFS partition instead of FAT32. then those pesky users wouldn’t be able to edit it’s contents from within Mac OS (read only NTFS suppport unless you install 3rd party software)
but i really would prefer to find a solution that works “out of the box” without modifying systems first[/quote]

I’m just not in love with the idea of using flash drives for this. I’m so sick of Ghost, and this reminds me of it. Clearly I’m going to try with a flash drive first, then I’m going to play around with making a actual partition for this on the Mac’s hard disk.

Brilliant. I must try this.

But, I have other questions…

WHAT IF…

we make a second partition on the mac, make it FAT32, and make this structure within there?

Could we simply choose to boot from that partition, and then it’ll do any scheduled tasks we had?

I can probably help with the multicasting aspects on Fedora FOG configuration, but for the storage nodes, someone else will need to hop in for that.

I’m actually the person that wrote: [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_(r2922)_Configuration_on_Fedora_21_Workstation_inside_Windows_Server_2012_Hyper-V_using_ProxyDHCP[/url]
Tom (the senior developer) and I worked together so he could integrate official Fedora 21 support for FOG.

Those steps are literally, step by step, every single thing I did to set FOG up in my environment, I’ve tested those steps probably 3 or 4 different times with various development revisions of FOG, perfecting those steps. To guarantee they work for you, you’ll have to follow, step by step, those instructions. Every step is important. You can deviate with some stuff, but for the majority, it needs to be the same.

Do you still have the FOG Fedora 21 machine set up? Did you run any of the troubleshooting commands towards the bottom of the instructions? What’s your compression settings for the images set to?

Also, a 34GB image size on the server is radically large. I can tell you that a 16GB image size on the server will deploy via unicast to 1 host on a 1Gbps network in about 8 minutes.

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 43984, member: 21583”]
[LIST]
[*]create the directory structure /EFI/boot/ on a FAT32 flash drive
[/LIST]
[/quote]When you say that, do you just mean to format a flash drive using FAT32, and then making a folder called EFI, and then one inside that called boot ?
That simple? Nothing else?

What options should be chosen for the “Image Type” and “partition”, generally? Assuming OSX.

For my environment, I do not use the FQDN for our domain name. For username, it’s just a regular old username, No slashes.

I’ve asked Tom about this before, and as he’s said here, I really think it’s an environment thing. Probably DNS related, actually. Our DNS service in my particular building needs some tuning but I just haven’t gotten around to it.

Well, the NBP file did change, and the file size changed… It is indeed getting ipxe.efi

I’m not entirely sure where to go from here.

Someone else with more experience might need to pick this up (pretty much everyone else here has more experience than me, lol).

maybe re-read through that thread for the Surface Pro 3’s.

Hopefully someone will hop in here to help.

You can also do this as root.

[CODE]su root[/CODE]
enter your password.
[CODE]apt-get install gedit[/CODE]
[CODE]gedit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf[/CODE]

Use sudo with Gedit. The post above describes this.

Gedit is a GUI based text editor.

[CODE]sudo apt-get install gedit[/CODE]

[CODE]sudo gedit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf[/CODE]

[quote=“FSIT, post: 43924, member: 29030”]Browsing around I found what I believe to be the FOG DHCP settings file in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
There’s no /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample for me to have examples, but it’s a little bit of progress.

[CODE]# DHCP Server Configuration file.

see

This file was created by FOG

use-host-decl-names on;
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
next-server 10.10.10.10;

subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
range dynamic-bootp 10.10.10.10 10.10.10.254;
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;

option domain-name-servers x.x.x.x;

    option routers      10.10.10.1;
    filename "undionly.kpxe";

}
[/CODE][/quote]

Oh, that’s great!
So, according to that file, all you have to do is change the value of
[CODE]filename “undionly.kpxe”;[/CODE]

to:
[CODE]filename “ipxe.efi”;[/CODE]

[quote=“FSIT, post: 43923, member: 29030”]Sadly there’s only Windows, Novell & Mac server settings on that page.[/quote]

Oh I didn’t even see that line. I am sorry. I looked up some stuff on Ubuntu DHCP and found this:

/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Inside of there, you might find something that looks like this:

[CODE]ddns-update-style none;
option domain-name “example.org”;
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
log-facility local7;
subnet 192.168.100.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.100.100 192.168.100.200;
}[/CODE]

I think that all you need to do is add this line between/around the other “option” lines in there:

[CODE]option bootfile-name “ipxe.efi”;[/CODE]

You can edit that file like this, probably:

[CODE]sudo apt-get install gedit[/CODE]
[CODE]sudo gedit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf[/CODE]

Resources used:

[url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/gedit[/url]
[url]http://askubuntu.com/questions/162695/setup-dhcp-server-for-lan-party[/url]
[url]http://www.ipamworldwide.com/dhcp-options/isc-dhcpv4-options.html[/url]
[url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131666[/url]

[quote=“FSIT, post: 43920, member: 29030”]When installing FOG it asked me if it wanted to provide DHCP and I said yes, which would make me thing that FOG is providing DHCP services and not Kubuntu. Where do I find any of FOG’s DHCP server settings?[/quote]

So, if you’re running DHCP on your FOG server, then this is it I think: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Linux_Server_DHCP[/url]

I don’t use FOG for DHCP so, I wouldn’t be able to verify that. BUT, it’s probably accurate.

Let us know.

Option 067 on your DHCP server will allow you to change the boot file to ipxe.efi

I think you did the rest correctly, you were just missing that one part.

That should point it to the right spot. See what that does, let us know what happens.

Just right click on that “Scope Options” in there, it’ll let you configure option 067. You also need option 066 configured normally, have you done that?

[IMG]http://s29.postimg.org/5r44bl26f/DHCP_options.png[/IMG]

Read through this thread: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/surface-pro-3-pxe.11410/[/url]

That’s dealing with surface pro 3, but it might give you some ideas on getting these Elitepad tablets to work.

Let us know how it goes, ask more questions too if you need.

I agree that your best bet to speed up your uploads is a more beefy laptop.

If it’s that critical, go all the way, put in the best processor money can buy, solid state drive obviously too.

[quote=“geicos, post: 43844, member: 28277”]Hi,

I think it is necessary to Building a custom undionly.kpxe file .
See: [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Building_undionly.kpxe[/url]
Change in config/console.h :
define KEYBOARD_MAP us
to
define KEYBOARD_MAP fr

But I have a compilation error at the end of the procedure.[/quote]

Can you post the error?