Article under construction. Written for FOG Trunk, which will be the future 1.3.0 release.

Notes:

set a hostname, recommeded name is fog-server, however you can set this as anything you want.

set a username, recommended name is YOUR first name, or "tech". Do not use "fog"!

Set a password for this account.

verify password.

Encryption - optional, but not recommended.

Set a timezone because FOG Scheduled Tasks are dependent on the system time being correct.

Partitioning

no automatic updates (optional).

set "standard system utilities" to not be installed (optional, but this tutorial is aimed to be as minimal as possible).

set "OpenSSH server" to be installed (optional but required for remote management. Can be installed later).

Extra steps for Ubuntu 16

Two bumps in the road, of which the forums and wiki covered. I’ll try to unify some instructions in the Ubuntu Server article.

Basics are exactly what has already been posted in the forums and wiki.

php_ver='7.0' php_verAdds='-7.0' ./installfog.sh

When the installer asks you to update the database, there’s 1 extra step. (in another SSH session) Go to mysql and modify the password setting with:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '';

Then you go to the web interface and update the DB as normal, come back to the installer and complete it as usual.