Re: [Clonezilla-live] 'Upgrade' windows systems with clonezilla?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

The solution for MS Windows is always "FAT", and it's a black box so
it's not easy to modify that under GNU/Linux.

Steven.
On 02/14/2015 08:10 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Yes, setting the network up on windows at first boot is what I want to
> do.   Drbl-winroll does look like it may do it.  Installing a copy of
> cygwin for that seems like overkill though.   I was hoping to find a
> way to do it in a batch file of native windows commands - but anything
> is better than nothing.
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>> Yes, what I mentioned is run under GNU/Linux.
>> If what you need is to configure the network after restored MS windows
>> boots, I believe you could use DRBL-Winroll to do that:
>> http://drbl-winroll.org/
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> On 2015年02月12日 00:20, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Thanks for the response, but these run in the context of the linux
>>> clonezilla-live system don't they?   I was hoping someone would have
>>> examples or pointers to documentation showing how to set the IP,
>>> netmask and gateway on the freshly cloned disk with a windows 2008 OS,
>>> and in particular how to tie them to the correct NIC where the machine
>>> may have several.   Or, if this can't be done from a linux script, is
>>> there some way to include a program that runs at first boot on a
>>> windows image?  (And in that case I still need to find the commands to
>>> make the settings in a script).
>>>
>>> -Les
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>>> Yes, you can run your own script before and after Clonezilla job is run.
>>>> The boot parameters you can use are ocs_prerun* and ocs_postrun*:
>>>> http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc
>>>> Just place your script in the appropriate path and use that parameters
>>>> to run it. You should be able to make it.
>>>>
>>>> Steven.
>>>>
>>>> On 1/29/2015 AM 12:32, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>> We will need to upgrade a large number of windows 2003 servers to 2008
>>>>> or 2012 in the near future.  Most of these are headless and have
>>>>> multiple network connections. I know I can build a usb disk/key that
>>>>> will install a standard image with clonezilla, but is there a way to
>>>>> also:
>>>>>   a) run a script on the machine before rebooting that gathers the
>>>>> hostname and NIC/IP settings - and maybe a few other things and write
>>>>> to the USB device.
>>>>> and
>>>>>    b) after the newly cloned image comes up, have it run a matching
>>>>> script to recreate the original settings?
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone done something like this already?   Alternatively, we might
>>>>> pre-build a database of all the MAC addresses and IP's and include
>>>>> that in the installed image so a script could get it back on the
>>>>> network to do the rest of the work.
>>>>>
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