Free Opensource Ghost (FOG)

Hi TE,

Is anyone out here using FOG? I'm looking online and seeing these great reviews, but I'm not having much luck with it. I was trying to see if anyone else is using this. I don't have much experience with client imaging, so I figured I'm doing something wrong. Any thoughts on the product? Thanks!

-Peanut

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peanutnoggin

I've had some success with it... I was able to find the FOG User Guide which gives me enough info to get some imaging done... in case anyone is interested!

-Peanut

NightShade03

I used this a while back and had some mixed results. The setup is really easy and working with the system itself is a breeze. That being said, if something goes wrong you will really need to understand linux inside and out to troubleshooting this because of all the different technologies being used. When I was using it I was still learning much of command line tasks which made it difficult for me to troubleshoot. They combine PXE boot, DHCP, PHP, MySQL and some unique scripting to provide all the services needed to deploy a system.

If you do know what you are doing however the program is pretty good. I was working for a school district and I was able to image about 500 computers within a day. I'd say give it a try...you have nothing to lose and it sets up in about 10 mins.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Devilsbane

I've used it with much success. Luckily for me a friend did most of the setup as I'm not very good with installing unix apps. Once it was installed everything was really easy to manage.

katierose

It says this supports Vista. Is it safe to assume I can image some PC's with Windows 7 on it?

peanutnoggin

katierose wrote: »

It says this supports Vista. Is it safe to assume I can image some PC's with Windows 7 on it?

I'll be able to let you know shortly... I'm currently uploading a Windows 7 (trial version) image and I'm going to deploy it to a couple of virtual machines. I'll post back with my results.

katierose

Awesome!

peanutnoggin

Okay... I just finished deploying a Windows 7 image. The upload took rather long (45 minutes) for a 9GB image but I'm using a laptop (wifi) as my Fog Server and Virtual Machines (also on a laptop with Wifi). The download of the image went extremely quick (around 10 minutes).

I ran into a little trouble with the Windows 7 image though. Apparently there is a utility that you must run prior to uploading the image. I didn't see it until after my image was downloaded and bombed out on me. I'm now going to try the fix, upload the image again and see what I can come up with. Also keep in mind, I did not sysprep the Windows 7 image... according to the FOG User guide, it would be nice but it isn't a necessity... I'm going to test it for myself. Again... I'll post when I learn more.

-Peanut

katierose

I demand an update!

txtwista

I have FOG packed down if you still need help katierose

tpatt100

She hasn't posted here in almost two years I think she got it figured out.