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CloneZilla USB: Can I store image and software on the same USB drive?

Clonezilla live
Jonathan
2014-03-31
2014-05-31

  • Jonathan

    Jonathan - 2014-03-31

    Hi,

    I have been working on a way of allowing us to image new PCs, to avoid having individually remove all the bundled software and install the Windows Updates. I have it all working and now I want to try and make it as usable as possible.

    Currently I am using two USB drives when imaging a PC. I have bootable Clonezilla on one USB drive which the PC boots to and runs Clonezilla. Then when I run Clonezilla Live, I connect a second USB drive which stores the image.

    When I created the bootable Clonezilla USB drive, I noticed that it did not wipe the files I had stored on the drive. I was wondering is it possible to create the bootable clonezilla USB drive, and then copy the image file on to the same USB drive.. Then use this single drive for imaging? Is there any reason why I should not do this?

    thanks,

     

  • Jonathan

    Jonathan - 2014-05-28

    Okay, I've bought a 64Gb USB drive with the hope of putting both the image and the bootable Clonezilla software on the same drive. I used Rufus (ISO to USB tool) to put the Bootable DRBL Live / Clonezilla on this USB drive... this process completed successfully, and I then created an images folder on the USB drive, and copied my image to this drive.

    With my new PC, I booted to the USB drive and successfully loaded the DRBL Live. When I got to the desktop graphical interface, I double clicked on Clonezilla Live. Everything goes fine until the point at which you have to Mount CloneZilla Image Directory.. I choose "local_dev use local device (E.g.: hard drive, USB drive)"... It then says:

    "If you want to use USB device as a Clonezilla image repository, please

    • Insert USB device into this machine now
    • Wait about 5 secs
    • Press Enter Key
      so that the OS can detect the USB device and later we can mount it as /home/partimage."

    I click Enter and it then proceeds to list ONLY the partitions on the hard drive (that I am re-imaging) but NOT the USB drive partition.. When I open GParted, the USB Drive is listed as /dev/sdb but has a locked symbol beside it... It seems as if the partition that I am booting from is locked, making it unavailable as the partition which houses the Clonezilla image. Is there any way that I can get around this?

     

    Last edit: Jonathan 2014-05-28

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