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Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.1-25) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.1-25) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES

  • The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Apr/20).
  • Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.41-2.
  • Partclone was updated to 0.2.60.drbl1.
  • The package drbl was updated to 2.3.28-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.3.40-drbl1.
  • Sample file "custom-ocs-1" was updated.
  • A Dialog menu is used in the final action of Clonezilla live.
  • The MAC address of a network card will be shown when configuring the network settings.... read more
Posted by Steven Shiau 2 days ago

Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.1-7) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.1-7) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.

*** ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES ***
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/14).
* Partclone was updated to 0.2.59.
* Clonezilla is now able to image Minix.
* Program keyutils was added. Thanks to Joe M. for this suggestion.
* Command grub-install is no longer run for grub1 on an ext4 file system when grub-install is from Debian. This prevents a potential indefinite hang.
* A prompt about skipping re-installing grub 1 in ocs-functions was improved.
* For imaging/cloning partition mode, "-g auto" is no longer turned on by default. While it's still on for the imaging/cloning disk mode.
* The progress bar for resize2fs was turned on when resizing the ext file system to fit the partition size.
*** BUG FIXES ***
* Bugs where ocs-onthefly failed to use the "-k1" option and where ocs-tux-postprocess did not search LV were fixed.
* A bug where there was no ocs-update-syslinux process in ocs-onthefly was fixed.

Posted by Steven Shiau 2013-03-19

Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.0-26) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.0-26) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.
*** ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES ***
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is
based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Feb/26).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.39-1.
* Multipath devices, e.g. /dev/cciss/c0d0, are now supported natively. No
more linking them to /dev/sd[a-z]. Therefore now LVM on cciss device are
supported. Thanks to the patch files from Miracle Linux.
* A "blkdev.list" info file was added in the image dir.
* Xen disk (/dev/xvd[a-z]) was added as a supported device.
* Three log files, /var/log/clonezilla.log, /var/log/ocs-netcfg.log, and /
var/log/ocs-mount.log are used to save the logs.
* Language file ca_ES, de_DE, es_ES, it_IT, fr_FR, ja_JP.UTF-8, zh_CN and
zh_TW were updated. Thanks to René Mérou, Michael Vinzenz, Alex
Ibáñez López, Gianfranco Gentili, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira
YOSHIYAMA, and Zhiqiang Zhang.
* Package partclone was updated to 0.2.58.drbl1. An issue with imaging JFS
partitions larger than 50 GB has been fixed.
* Adding "-m 1024" option to partclone. This should increase the imaging
efficiency. Thanks to Ingo Wolf Wolf _at_ gmx de> for this suggestion.
* An option -srel|--save-restore-error-log to force saving error log in the
image dir was added in ocs-sr and drbl-ocs. By default, we do not save
that in the image directory when restoring. Only when saving it will be
saved in the image dir.
* Package udisks was added the packages list for Clonezilla live. Thanks to
fusi1939 for this suggestion.
* Pacakge extlinux was added. Therefore makeboot.sh can now make a USB
flash flash drive with NTFS, ext2/3/4, and btrfs bootable.
*** BUG FIXES ***
* A bug where makeboot.sh failed to deal with path names containing white
space was fixed
* Boot parameter containing "$" character did not work for ocs related
parameters. Thanks to kuen-shieh yang for reporting this issue.

Posted by Steven Shiau 2013-02-27

Stable Clonezilla live (2.0.1-15) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.0.1-15) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.
*** ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES ***
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Dec/17).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.35-1.
* Module floppy was listed in the blacklist. The floppy is normally useless but if it exists, it might cause the disk detection delay. If floppy is required, a user still can run "modprobe floppy" to load it.
* Catalan language was added. Thanks to René Mérou and Innocent De Marchi.
* Language file de_DE, it_IT, fr_FR, ja_JP.UTF-8, zh_CN and zh_TW were updated. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Gianfranco Gentili, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira YOSHIYAMA, and Zhiqiang Zhang.... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2012-12-18

Stable Clonezilla live (2.0.1-5) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.0.1-5) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.
*** ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES ***
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Nov/26).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.32-1.
* Package drbl was updated to 2.1.34-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.1.22-drbl1. The new paths for the files in these two packages are in /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/share/drbl/sbin, and /usr/share/drbl/bin. No more under /opt/drbl/. Hence, the new pre-run and post-run paths are /usr/share/drbl/prerun/ocs/ and /usr/share/drbl/postrun/ocs/, respectively.
* A KMS mode was added in the boot menu.
* Partclone was updated to 0.2.56.
* Packages tcplay and mpg123 were added.
* Boot parameter "ocs_lang" is now replaced by "locales" from live-config.
* Boot parameter "ocs_live_keymap" is now replaced by "keyboard-layouts" from live-config.
* Boot parameters "echo_ocs_prerun" and "echo_ocs_postrun" were added. This can be used to disable echoing the ocs_prerun and ocs_postrun command.
* An option to use "autohostname" to create the image name was added. Thanks to tererecool (David Bauer) for this idea.
* The command to save an image will be saved in the image dir as file Info-saved-by-cmd.txt.
* Another partition table file, e.g. sda-pt.parted.compact, will be saved in image dir when saving an image. It's easier for human to read.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter "config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been changed. The new format is:
ip=**[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER] [,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]]***::
e.g.
ip=eth0:192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0:192.168.100.254:8.8.8.8,eth1:
192.168.101.1:255.255.255.0::... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2012-11-27

Stable Clonezilla live (1.2.12-67) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.12-67) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Jun/20).
- Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.20-1.
- Package drbl was updated to 1.12.14-1drbl, and package clonezilla was updated to 2.5.42-1drbl.
- Partclone was updated to 0.2.49.
- Gdisk was updated to 0.8.5-1.1drbl.
- Booting on uEFI machine via CD is supported in this release.
- Package ddrescue was removed because it's no more in Debian Sid, and we already have gddrescue. Ref: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677101
- //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter "config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
- //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been changed. The new format is:
- ip=**[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER] [,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]]***::
- e.g.
- ip=eth0:192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0:192.168.100.254:8.8.8.8,eth1:192.168.101.1:255.255.255.0:: ... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2012-06-27

Stable Clonezilla live (1.2.12-60) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.12-60) includes major enhancements and minor bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES

* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/May/25).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.18-1.
* Package drbl was updated to 1.12.9-1drbl, and package clonezilla was updated to 2.5.36-1drbl.
* Partclone was updated to 0.2.48.
* Gdisk was updated to 0.8.4-1.1drbl.
* Allowing to enter command line prompt to create partition table when blank destination disk is found in restoreparts mode.
* Package vlan was added. Thanks to ggarland for this suggestion.
* An option to use "autohostname" to create the image name was added. Thanks to David Bauer (tererecool) for this idea.
* File system vmfs5 support was enabled again.
* Language files en_US, de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, ja_JP, zh_CN, and zh_TW were updated. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Alex Ibanez Lopez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Gianfranco Gentili, Akira YOSHIYAMA, and Zhiqiang Zhang.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter "config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been changed. The new format is:
* ip=**[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER] [,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]]***::
* e.g.
* ip=eth0:192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0:192.168.100.254:8.8.8.8,eth1:192.168.101.1:255.255.255.0::
*
BUG FIXES... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2012-05-30

Stable Clonezilla live (1.2.12-37) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.12-37) includes major enhancements and major bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES

* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Mar/25).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.12-1.
* Partclone-utils was updated to 0.1.3.
* Gdisk was updated to 0.8.2.
* The image of a partition saved by dd is no longer treated as a broken one in ocs-chkimg.
* The grub1 on ext4 warning will be shown again if grub1 is not run successfully.
* An option was added to start over while keeping the mounted image repository.
* An option -fsck-src-part-y was added so that fsck can be run automatically when saving and image. Thanks to imayneed for this suggestion.
* A reserved name "all" of ocs-sr is used for finding all the devices in the system or in the image. Thanks to matthiaswe for this idea.
* Package dnsutils was added.
* Language files it_IT, de_DE and fr_FR were updated. Thanks to Gianfranco Gentili, Michael Vinzenz, and Jean-Francois Nifenecker.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter "config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been changed. The new format is:
ip=**[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER] [,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]]***::
e.g.... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2012-03-28

Stable Clonezilla live (1.2.12-10) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.12-10) includes major enhancements and major bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES
* The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Jan/27).
* The Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.1-2.
* Partclone was updated to version 0.2.45.
* Syslinux was updated to 4.0.5.
* A better mechanism was implemented in ocs-update-syslinux. Only when the files to be updated are found on the system "syslinux -i" will be run.
* A better mechanism was implemented to keep the MS Windows boot reserved partition size when option "-k1" is chosen.
* A better mechanism to deal with UFS partition in a GPT table when saving FreeBSD 9.0.
* An option to use "autoname" to create the image name was added. Thanks to encephalophone (Mike) for the patch.
* An option (-icds, --ignore-chk-dsk-size-pt) to skip checking skip checking destination disk size before creating the partition table on it
was added. Thanks to Sartoratti Lorenzo for reporting this issue.
* Option -z7|--lrzip-compress was added for Clonezilla to use lrzip to compress image.
* VMFS3 and VMFS5 support are separated, no more mixed because partclone.fstype from 0.2.45 now can tell them. Since vmfs5 support is still buggy, disable it in drbl-ocs.conf.
* A mechanism was added to avoid saving an image for an unmatched GPT and MBR partition table disk.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter
"config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been
changed. The new format is:
ip=**[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]
[,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]]***::
e.g.
ip=eth0:192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0:192.168.100.254:8.8.8.8,eth1:192.168.101.1:255.255.255.0::... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2012-01-30

Stable Clonezilla live (1.2.11-23) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.11-23) includes major enhancements and major bug fixes.
ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES

The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2011/Nov/28).
Linux kernel was updated to version 3.1.1-1.
Partclone was updated to version 0.2.38.
Gdisk was updated to 0.8.1.
A new mode "1-2-mdisks" (one image to be restored to multiple disks) was added in Clonezilla main menu. This is useful for creating massive USB flash drives. Check this: http://drbl.sourceforge.net/screenshot/?in_path=/12_Alvin_Su_Taiwan
This release supports VMFS5 imaging and cloning.
An option "-pa|--postaction" was added to ocs-onthefly; it can be assigned to reboot or shut down the machine after cloning. Thanks to flyfoxuk for this idea.
The option to fsck the source partition will be shown in beginner mode.
The grub2 for EFI booting was improved. Now it is able to boot a Mac machine from a USB flash drive with the MBR partition table.
The package cpufrequtils was added.
The volume name of DOS and NTFS partitions on destination disk will be shown before restoring.
Restore related menu, i.e. restoredisk or restoreparts, will only be shown when images exist in image repository.
//NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter "config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
//NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been changed. The new format is:
ip=**[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER] [,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]]***::
e.g.
ip=eth0:192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0:192.168.100.254:8.8.8.8,eth1:192.168.101.1:255.255.255.0:: ... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2011-11-28