The FOG Project is a software project that implements FOG (
Free and Open-source
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Ghost
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), a
software tool
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that can deploy
disk images
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of
Microsoft Windows
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and
Linux
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using the
Preboot Execution Environment
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. It makes use of
TFTP
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, the
Apache webserver
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and
iPXE
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The configuration tool developed by the FOG Project makes it possible to do remote system administration of the computers in a network. FOG depends on
Partclone
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to copy the disk image.
See also
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Windows Deployment Services
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Clonezilla
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