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Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.2-43) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.2-43) 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/Aug/19).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.10.7-1.
* The package drbl was updated to 2.4.28-drbl, and clonezilla was updated to 3.5.17-drbl1.
* Package syslinux was updated to 5.10.
* Gdisk was updated to 0.8.7-1.
* SD card device (/dev/mmcblk0) cloning or imaging is supported.
* Program ocs-expand-mbr-pt will keep linux swap partition size. Thanks to Fabien Voland for this suggestion.
* The dir /EFI-imgs in live CD/USB was moved under the dir /EFI/, and was renamed as images (so now it's /EFI/images/).
* An option "sec=ntlm" was added in prep-ocsroot. Thanks to Jack and Dave Higton for reporting this issue.
* Default DNS server 8.8.8.8 is used in ocs-live-netcfg.
* A program update-nvram-efi-boot-entry was added for updating the booting device in EFI NVRAM. Thanks to Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail com), Laszlo Ersek (lacos at caesar elte hu) and Peter Sun (PeterSun at ememory com tw) for reporting this issue.
* An option "-iefi" was added in in the restoring dialog menu.
* File containing the output of "efibootmgr -v" will be saved as efi-nvram.data in image dir.
* Language files 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, Juan Ramón Martínez, Gianfranco Gentili, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira YOSHIYAMA, and Zhiqiang Zhang.... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2013-08-27

Stable Clonezilla live (2.1.2-20) Released

This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.2-20) 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/Jul/03).
* Linux kernel was updated to 3.9.8-1.
* Partclone was updated to 0.2.66.drbl1. A better disk cache
mechanism was used.
* The package drbl was updated to 2.4.18-drbl1, and clonezilla was
updated to 3.5.1-drbl1.
* The disk size info will be shown when selecting the images during
restoring.
* A summary of ocs-chkimg will be shown after image is checked.
Thanks to Elke Moritz for this suggestion.
* Package syslinux was updated to 5.01.
* Packages lziprecover, nwipe and efibootmgr were added.
* With the option "-k1" and "-icds" enabled, if the used data blocks
are within the partition boundary, it's possible larger partition could
be cloned to smaller one.... read more

Posted by Steven Shiau 2013-07-09

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 2013-04-30

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