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‎Prerequisites

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‎Installation

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	= Installation =		= Installation =

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 <pre>docker ps -l</pre>
- and look for the ID of the container you just exited from. Remember, that’s a lowercase L and NOT the number one
+and look for the ID of the container you just exited from. Remember, that’s a lowercase L and NOT the number one
 *Run
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 <pre>docker commit <container ID> grayda/fog</pre>
- (replace grayda/fog with your own image name)
+(replace grayda/fog with your own image name)
 This saves our changes to an image file, ready for packaging
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 <pre>docker save -o fog.tar.gz grayda/fog</pre>
- to save your image as a file. Again, replace grayda/fog with your image name
+to save your image as a file. Again, replace grayda/fog with your image name
 *Copy the file to your destination machine, then
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 <pre>docker load -i fog.tar.gz</pre>
- on there to load the image
+on there to load the image
 *When you’ve loaded the image to the destination machine, log in to the FOG management UI, go to FOG Configuration and change the necessary IP addresses in there. Also change /tftpboot/default.ipxe accordingly

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 <pre>ubuntu:latest</pre>
- for some reason (fails around the start of TFTP), so 12.04 preferred
+for some reason (fails around the start of TFTP), so 12.04 preferred
 Run a container with
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 <pre>wget -P /tmp http://liquidtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/project/freeghost/FOG/fog_1.2.0/fog_1.2.0.tar.gz</pre>
- to download the FOG archive
+to download the FOG archive
 *Run

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 <pre>mysqld &</pre>
- To run MySQL (as it won’t start via service for some reason)
+To run MySQL (as it won’t start via service for some reason)
 <pre>in.tftpd --listen --address 0.0.0.0:69 -s /tftpboot</pre>
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 <pre>/usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet</pre>
- for antivirus (if you use it)
+for antivirus (if you use it)
 <pre>rpcbind</pre>
- (for NFS support)
+(for NFS support)
 <pre>service nfs-kernel-server start</pre>
- (for NFS support)
+(for NFS support)
 *Press Ctrl+X to quit, then Y to save

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 *I may have messed up some steps along the way, or not done things correctly. I had to learn all about TFTPD, NFS and many other services, while overcoming hurdles such as
 <pre>various service [service name] start</pre>
- calls not working and days of research about running TFTP on boot2docker in Windows (long story short, doesn’t work. Prove me wrong though!)
 *I’ve been able to image one machine so far (a Dell Latitude E5500 with a bare-bones Windows 7 image) and I haven’t tried anything else (e.g. deploying the FOG service) so you might need to do more to get everything else running.
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 *Docker installed
 Run
 <pre>wget -qO- http://get.docker.com | sh</pre>
 Don’t install it via apt-get, as it’s an older version
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 Run:
 <pre>docker pull ubuntu:12.04</pre>
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 Run a container with
 <pre>docker run -it -p 212:212/udp -p 9098:9098 -p 21:21 -p 80:80 -p 69:69/udp -p 8099:8099 -p 2049:2049 -p 2049:2049/udp -p 111:111/udp -p 4045:4045/udp -p 4045:4045 -p 111:111 -p 34463:34463/udp -p 34463:34463 --privileged -e WEB_HOST_PORT=80 -v ~/fog/www:/transfer ubuntu:12.04</pre>
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 *Run
 <pre>apt-get update</pre>
 *Run
 <pre>apt-get install wget net-tools nano</pre>
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 *Run
 <pre>wget -P /tmp http://liquidtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/project/freeghost/FOG/fog_1.2.0/fog_1.2.0.tar.gz</pre>
   to download the FOG archive
 *Run
 <pre>tar -C /tmp/ -xzvf /tmp/fog_1.2.0.tar.gz</pre>
 to untar the archive to /tmp
 *Run
 <pre>cd /tmp/fog_1.2.0/bin/ && bash ./installfog.sh</pre>
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 *Run
 <pre>nano /etc/bash.bashrc</pre>
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 <pre>mysqld &</pre>
   To run MySQL (as it won’t start via service for some reason)
 <pre>in.tftpd --listen --address 0.0.0.0:69 -s /tftpboot</pre>
 (for the same reason as above)
 <pre>/usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet</pre>
   for antivirus (if you use it)
 <pre>rpcbind</pre>
   (for NFS support)
 <pre>service nfs-kernel-server start</pre>
   (for NFS support)
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 Go to the very bottom and add these lines:
 <pre>#(use the tab key to line up the entries, same as the other entries in the file)
 mountd 34463/tcp
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 *Run
 <pre>nano /tftpboot/default.ipxe</pre>
 *Change the final line (that starts with chain http://...) so that the IP address matches your host IP
 e.g.
 <pre>chain http://10.15.0.63/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params</pre>
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 *Type
 <pre>exit</pre>
 to exit from the container. This will shut it down
 *Run
 <pre>docker ps -l</pre>
   and look for the ID of the container you just exited from. Remember, that’s a lowercase L and NOT the number one
 *Run
 <pre>docker start <container ID></pre>
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 *Run
 <pre>docker ps</pre>
 to confirm that the container has started
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 *Run
 <pre>docker commit <container ID> grayda/fog</pre>
   (replace grayda/fog with your own image name)
 This saves our changes to an image file, ready for packaging
 *(Optional). If you need to move the image to another machine (e.g. you created this on Windows, but want to run it on Ubuntu),
-run
+*Run
 <pre>docker save -o fog.tar.gz grayda/fog</pre>
   to save your image as a file. Again, replace grayda/fog with your image name
 *Copy the file to your destination machine, then
 run
 <pre>docker load -i fog.tar.gz</pre>
   on there to load the image

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 *Run
 <pre>cd /tmp/fog_1.2.0/bin/ && bash ./installfog.sh</pre>
- to start the installation
 *Run through the installation and wait for it to finish

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 *Go to the very bottom and add these lines:
 <pre>service apache2 start</pre>
- to start Apache
+to start Apache
 <pre>mysqld &</pre>

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 *Delete the install directory and archive if you wish
-*Run <pre>nano /etc/bash.bashrc</pre>
+*Run
 *Go to the very bottom and add these lines:
-<pre>ervice apache2 start</pre>
+<pre>service apache2 start</pre>
   to start Apache

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 Instructions last updated 29/07/2015
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 Map the /var/fog/www/services/ipxe to a htdocs folder on your local machine so you can do dynamic boot menus that read from your own inventory system, or authenticate against your network or whatever you like
 Shove everything on a USB stick or Raspberry Pi to have a portable FOG system (which is what I plan to do, actually. Simple FOG on a stick!)