View source for Build FOG file system with BuildRoot

In order for the FOG Client to boot on the hosts, it requires a kernel and a filesystem image containing its filesystem. Buildroot helps building the toolchain (uclibc) and generate that image with busybox and all the packages we need.
This page will tell you how to build the filesystem on your own from SVN.

== Debian 7 ==

=== Debian update ===
 
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade

=== install all essential package ===

 sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libqt4-dev bison flex gettext texinfo zlib1g-dev uuid-dev ncurses-dev unzip libpci-dev libssl-dev


=== Download the relevant FOG source ===

 svn checkout https://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeghost/trunk/src fogsrc


=== Download Buildroot ===
 
 wget http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/buildroot-2014.08.tar.bz2
 tar xjf buildroot-2014.08.tar.bz2

=== Copy source to Buildroot ===

 cp -r fogsvn/buildroot/* buildroot-2014.08/
 cd buildroot-2014.08
 mv fog.buildroot.config.32 .config # or config.64 for 64 bits

=== build FOG file system ===
 make menuconfig
 # This will download all the required packages from their sources, it's around 300 MB
 make source
 # All packages are now in buildroot-2014.08/dl/ So we compile:
 make
 # Here is our init.xz
 cp output/images/rootfs.ext2.xz init.xz

 copy init.xz to your FOG server /tftpboot/fog/images/init_32.xz (or init.xz for 64 bits)