I work at a computer service company called Northlake IT in Slidell, Louisiana (Across the lake from New Orleans) and you don't want to be around the guys I work with when a much needed disk goes missing. So shortly after building the FOG server to decrease the amount of time it takes us to prepare workstations for our clients (which for 10 systems might have taken us 2 days to set up on a one-at-a-time basis decreased to about 10 minutes using multicasting), I eventually saw the potential for completely diskless booting of all our commonly used software. The guys I work with like norton ghost, and they were using a floppy to boot it with no network capabilities. Often computers don't have floppy drives, our ghost disk would go bad, we couldn't find the disk, we couldn't get the system to boot from an external floppy, or we had no more floppies to make a new disk. None of that is any longer a concern. We have greatly increased out productivity, and convenience. As of the creation of this video, over the network, we can boot unattended xp installations, xp vista and 7 recovery consoles, ghost 7.0 & 11.5 w/ network capabilities, acronis, dos, 2 builds of trinity rescue, ubuntu 8.04 & 9.10 livecds, and a winPE environment. If anyone needs a PXE bootable usb NIC for systems that are either too old or don't have a PXE bootable adapter check out argontechnology.com Hope you like the video, if anyone has any questions or would like a copy of an image I use, let me know!
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Custom PXE Boot Menu - FOG Project
Custom PXE Boot Menu - FOG Project Video Clips. Duration : 9.52 Mins.
I work at a computer service company called Northlake IT in Slidell, Louisiana (Across the lake from New Orleans) and you don't want to be around the guys I work with when a much needed disk goes missing. So shortly after building the FOG server to decrease the amount of time it takes us to prepare workstations for our clients (which for 10 systems might have taken us 2 days to set up on a one-at-a-time basis decreased to about 10 minutes using multicasting), I eventually saw the potential for completely diskless booting of all our commonly used software. The guys I work with like norton ghost, and they were using a floppy to boot it with no network capabilities. Often computers don't have floppy drives, our ghost disk would go bad, we couldn't find the disk, we couldn't get the system to boot from an external floppy, or we had no more floppies to make a new disk. None of that is any longer a concern. We have greatly increased out productivity, and convenience. As of the creation of this video, over the network, we can boot unattended xp installations, xp vista and 7 recovery consoles, ghost 7.0 & 11.5 w/ network capabilities, acronis, dos, 2 builds of trinity rescue, ubuntu 8.04 & 9.10 livecds, and a winPE environment. If anyone needs a PXE bootable usb NIC for systems that are either too old or don't have a PXE bootable adapter check out argontechnology.com Hope you like the video, if anyone has any questions or would like a copy of an image I use, let me know!
I work at a computer service company called Northlake IT in Slidell, Louisiana (Across the lake from New Orleans) and you don't want to be around the guys I work with when a much needed disk goes missing. So shortly after building the FOG server to decrease the amount of time it takes us to prepare workstations for our clients (which for 10 systems might have taken us 2 days to set up on a one-at-a-time basis decreased to about 10 minutes using multicasting), I eventually saw the potential for completely diskless booting of all our commonly used software. The guys I work with like norton ghost, and they were using a floppy to boot it with no network capabilities. Often computers don't have floppy drives, our ghost disk would go bad, we couldn't find the disk, we couldn't get the system to boot from an external floppy, or we had no more floppies to make a new disk. None of that is any longer a concern. We have greatly increased out productivity, and convenience. As of the creation of this video, over the network, we can boot unattended xp installations, xp vista and 7 recovery consoles, ghost 7.0 & 11.5 w/ network capabilities, acronis, dos, 2 builds of trinity rescue, ubuntu 8.04 & 9.10 livecds, and a winPE environment. If anyone needs a PXE bootable usb NIC for systems that are either too old or don't have a PXE bootable adapter check out argontechnology.com Hope you like the video, if anyone has any questions or would like a copy of an image I use, let me know!
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