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FOG Integration in LTSP Menu #595

Closed renatogfilhinho closed 3 weeks ago

renatogfilhinho commented 3 weeks ago

How can we help you?

Hello my friends, is it possible to create an entry in the LTSP menu pointing to Fog? Today, LTSP is working smoothly and I would like to include Fog on another server, but using LTSP.

mastacontrola commented 3 weeks ago

I'm just being honest here, but I don't know what LTSP is?

darksidemilk commented 3 weeks ago

I had to look it up too. It's a separate pxe boot menu it looks like https://ltsp.org/ I've never used it. I imagine there will be a wait to add a chainload pxe command to get to the fog boot menu but I don't know anything about how to configure that system

renatogfilhinho commented 3 weeks ago

LTSP is a terminal server service for Linux, very good by the way, I've been using it for a while. It allows stations without a hard drive to access the system via the network.

darksidemilk commented 3 weeks ago

It seems like LTSP either uses ipxe or can boot from LTSP to ipxe, you can chainload the fog pxe menu from pxe. I just don't know enough about the LTSP config to say where to put such a thing.

renatogfilhinho commented 3 weeks ago

Yes, the idea is to boot via pxe, go to LTSP and the Boot Menu, and choose FOG.

darksidemilk commented 3 weeks ago

I don't have an instance of LTSP setup so I can't test this, but I imagine you should be able to add a menu entry in LTSP that does a custom ipxe command? And you can do a chain command like this one

chain http://<fog-server-ip>/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php

You might need params though, you could try just copying the whole contents of /tftpboot/default.ipxe from your fog server, which is where I took that snippet from.

mastacontrola commented 3 weeks ago

I'm really confused on what exactly is being asked here.

  1. Are you asking us to add/figure out how to add LTSP to FOG's boot menu?
  2. Are you asking us how we might add FOG's boot abilities into LTSP?

If it's the 1st one, I'm sure we could figure that part out though it would be incredibly low on the list of things at this point in time. Not that it couldn't be done and once figured out just post what you find either here or on the forums. (Note, this change/request could be done without a developement process as you can create your own iPXE menu's in FOG.

If it's the 2nd one, I'm afraid that's not something we can do. First, even though it may use iPXE as a base line, how their binaries are compiled and built may not have all the requirements rely on. Second, we don't control the development or requests for LTSP.

renatogfilhinho commented 3 weeks ago

I thank everyone for their extreme attention and time.