You are most welcome. It is great getting contacted from all over the world about my videos and keeps me pushing forward. And please, you can address me as Jeremy. I'm not sure I'm old enough to be called Sir.
You could run Fog off a USB disk I suppose. This is not a scenario I have tested. You may want to check the Fog forums for a more definitive answer. You did not state what your use case is for doing this. If you are going to use it on the same machine and it's going to have the same IP address, it should be fine. If you're planning to use it on multiple machines, you will likely have issues, and Clonezilla Server may be a better fit.
Hi Jeremy, thanks for the video. A quick question about your deployment of a single image to multiple machines, how did you get around the issues of IP conflict? Did you use dynamic IP on each of the machines or is this an issue multicast itself can handle?
Step 1: read the fog documentation If your router doesn't have the correct options, you need to get a different router (something better than consumer "gaming" routers). Another option you would have is to build the fog server on a machine that has two network cards. One will go to the existing router so you can do updates. The second would go to a switch, and you would enable the PXE boot / tftp on the second network card. Please keep in mind that I am not the author of FOG. You can find more community support on: 1 The FOG Forums 2 Spice works 3 Reddit
How do I push out an image remotely? I want to be able to put 8 computers in a group and reimage them from using the fog server. Without touching the computer except for registering and inventorying them.
That's what this video was all about. What exactly do you want to do differently? You could enable Wake-on-LAN. That will require additional setup on each computer. You could have them automatically shutdown after the imaging process is completed. Set this in FOG. I used virtual machines in this video for ease of demonstration. Ideally, your physical machines would be setup on the same switch or at least a VLAN used for imaging. Also, some machines have various limitations imposed on them by their manufacturers in relation to how you can set this up. I would recommend spending some time with the FOG documentation. You can also head over to the FOG Forums and ask this question. forums.fogproject.org/
Hi Jeremy, i have to install linux on multiple computers in a lab connected via ethernet to switch. However i want to create one of them as image deployer and win 10pro is installed over it and i have made a aio boot extraction on usb flash drive. It has a tiny pxe server option in it. Is that will serve my purpose? Or i have to look some another way!
I would imagine that could work in the scenario you have outlined. For a small lab, PXE might be overkill. It may be easier to use CloneZilla/RescueZilla with the images for Win10 being stored on a shared network drive or NAS. I would be interested in hearing more about this USB based PXE solution you have. Is this something you custom developed?
Ok, so you're doing a Network Install of Windows 10. Honestly, I'd look at FOG. There is documentation out there to guide through adding ISO images to the PXE menu so you'd have the ability to do the network install of Windows 10 and do image capture an deployment once you have a Sysprepped Windows image. Of course, this depends on having the proper licensing to do that. Without a site or similar license, you'd have to stick to the network install method if you want to stay legal. In all hosesty, if it's less than say 15 machines I'd just make multiple USB drives with a tool like Ventoy where you can drop unmodified Windows or Linux ISO images on it and move from machine to machine to do the installs. I'm a big fan of not making things more complicated than they really need to be.
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You are most welcome. It is great getting contacted from all over the world about my videos and keeps me pushing forward. And please, you can address me as Jeremy. I'm not sure I'm old enough to be called Sir.
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Will multicast work if you boot FOG from a USB disk, or does this only work if you use IPX?
You could run Fog off a USB disk I suppose. This is not a scenario I have tested. You may want to check the Fog forums for a more definitive answer.
You did not state what your use case is for doing this. If you are going to use it on the same machine and it's going to have the same IP address, it should be fine. If you're planning to use it on multiple machines, you will likely have issues, and Clonezilla Server may be a better fit.
Hi Jeremy, thanks for the video.
A quick question about your deployment of a single image to multiple machines, how did you get around the issues of IP conflict? Did you use dynamic IP on each of the machines or is this an issue multicast itself can handle?
Great question. Multicast handles that. I've never had issues with ip conflicts, and my home network is only a /24.
thanks for you contribution
You're welcome.
I dont have DHCP advanced option so I cant continue with Client ipxe boot :( what should I do ?
Step 1: read the fog documentation
If your router doesn't have the correct options, you need to get a different router (something better than consumer "gaming" routers).
Another option you would have is to build the fog server on a machine that has two network cards. One will go to the existing router so you can do updates. The second would go to a switch, and you would enable the PXE boot / tftp on the second network card.
Please keep in mind that I am not the author of FOG. You can find more community support on:
1 The FOG Forums
2 Spice works
3 Reddit
How do I push out an image remotely? I want to be able to put 8 computers in a group and reimage them from using the fog server. Without touching the computer except for registering and inventorying them.
That's what this video was all about. What exactly do you want to do differently?
You could enable Wake-on-LAN. That will require additional setup on each computer.
You could have them automatically shutdown after the imaging process is completed. Set this in FOG.
I used virtual machines in this video for ease of demonstration. Ideally, your physical machines would be setup on the same switch or at least a VLAN used for imaging. Also, some machines have various limitations imposed on them by their manufacturers in relation to how you can set this up.
I would recommend spending some time with the FOG documentation. You can also head over to the FOG Forums and ask this question. forums.fogproject.org/
Hi Jeremy, i have to install linux on multiple computers in a lab connected via ethernet to switch. However i want to create one of them as image deployer and win 10pro is installed over it and i have made a aio boot extraction on usb flash drive. It has a tiny pxe server option in it. Is that will serve my purpose? Or i have to look some another way!
I would imagine that could work in the scenario you have outlined.
For a small lab, PXE might be overkill. It may be easier to use CloneZilla/RescueZilla with the images for Win10 being stored on a shared network drive or NAS.
I would be interested in hearing more about this USB based PXE solution you have. Is this something you custom developed?
@@Practical-IT th-cam.com/video/0Zrl-K0aXPQ/w-d-xo.html i followed this video but i have to install Linux.
Ok, so you're doing a Network Install of Windows 10. Honestly, I'd look at FOG. There is documentation out there to guide through adding ISO images to the PXE menu so you'd have the ability to do the network install of Windows 10 and do image capture an deployment once you have a Sysprepped Windows image. Of course, this depends on having the proper licensing to do that. Without a site or similar license, you'd have to stick to the network install method if you want to stay legal.
In all hosesty, if it's less than say 15 machines I'd just make multiple USB drives with a tool like Ventoy where you can drop unmodified Windows or Linux ISO images on it and move from machine to machine to do the installs. I'm a big fan of not making things more complicated than they really need to be.