Clonezilla / Discussion / Clonezilla live: Creating Clonezilla from Scratch

v3gard - 2011-09-13

I want to create a live CD based on Debian Live with Clonezilla installed. I've already read the documentation at http://clonezilla.org/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php, but it does not describe my use case really well.

First of all, I want to create my live CD using the tools provided by Debian Live (lb config, lb build), and I want to configure the chroot environment to my liking.

Then, once the chroot-environment is set up, I want to apply/install the necessary Clonezilla utilities to my chroot environment. If I can configure Debian Live to install these utilities automatically from the Debian Live config files (i.e. that Clonezilla is installed when I run 'lb build'), that would be the better option.

The reason I ask this, is that I want a simple way to maintain and update my live CDs at a later time. The steps explained at http://clonezilla.org/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php seems much more complicated as I first would have to create a Debian Live ISO (using the create-debian-live script), and then apply the Clonezilla utilities to this ISO using the ocs-gen-iso script. These steps also leaves me with an ISO, when I would rather like to end up with a chroot-environment. This way, I can create an ISO from my chroot-environment whenever I like.

This must be possible in some way, but it does not seem to be documented anywhere.

Thanks for reading.

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Steven Shiau - 2011-09-15

What http://clonezilla.org/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php describes is a general case. Since we have some patches of live-build/live-boot especially for Clonezilla live, that's why it's more complicated. Especially the Debian Sid changes all the time, it makes this kind of creation more complex…
Anyway, here the environment I created Clonezilla live:
1. Debian Squeeze, with live-build 2.0.12-2.drbl2 and cdebootstrap 0.5.7 installed.
2. Drbl 1.10.41-1drbl and clonezilla 2.3.63-1drbl installed
3. The script for me to create Clonezilla live 1.2.10-* is:
#!/bin/bash
ver=$1
dist="sid"
k_ver="3.0.0-1"
extra_pkgs="firmware-linux-free zfs-fuse live-boot=2.0.15-1.drbl5 live-boot-initramfs-tools=2.0.15-1.drbl5 live-config=2.0.15-1.drbl1 live-config-sysvinit=2.0.15-1.drbl1"
echo "Extra pkgs: $extra_pkgs"
extra_opt=""
&& exit 1
&& k_opt="-k $k_ver"
arch_cpu="686-pae 486 amd64"
for i in $arch_cpu; do
# The created clonezilla live is like: clonezilla-live-1.2.5-4-i686
case "$i" in
486|686*) shown_arch=i${i};; # i486, i686
*) shown_arch=${i};; # amd64
esac
time /opt/drbl/sbin/create-debian-live -o -a "$extra_pkgs" -f $i -l e -b unstable -d $dist -m http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian -s http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian-security -g http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core $k_opt -i ${ver}-$shown_arch $extra_opt
done

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Nicholas A. Schembri - 2021-05-23

thank you for the great project.

I like to see the original build process for the clonezilla live alternative from scratch.
I understand you have a process to publish a new image weekly, but I'm working from the live usb boot device. It's better to track your changes then create a new distro.

I'm thinking about merging netboot-cd with the clonezilla live usb and virtualbox running from ram.

At this point, I'm using clonezilla-live as a staging point. I boot hardware into clonezilla-live. I login with my the root ssh key and restore the cloned image. I sometimes boot the live centos image and do an install over vnc. When the customer has a network that Is not accessible, I will map the physical hardware and install into a vm.

clonezilla is almost a boot loader for me.

Thank you for your time,
Nick

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Steven Shiau - 2021-05-26

Thanks for your feedback.
Did you check this?
https://clonezilla.org/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php

Steven

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- Nicholas A. Schembri - 2021-05-26
  
  That will not work for me. I want to rebuild from sid. They want me to use
  netinstall from the Debian repo. I have to account for every change and
  edit. It sucks. I have the your image all setup but can't use it at work.
  
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  Thanks for your feedback.
  Did you check this?
  https://clonezilla.org/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php
  
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Steven Shiau - 2021-05-26

What did you meant by "not work"? The same method works for rebuilding from Debian Sid. We use the same method to create Clonezilla live. The doc might be a little out-of-date, but still it should work. I will find some time to update the docs.
BTW, there is an easier way to do that, you can also try it:
https://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/81_add_prog_in_filesystem-squashfs.faq#81_add_prog_in_filesystem-squashfs.faq

Steven

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- Nicholas A. Schembri - 2021-06-02
  
  I have been asked to start over and run debootstrap to build the image. I
  have to add each package or script from the debian or ubuntu repo. If I
  want to use the boot disk I must build if from the repo packages. I love
  using your fat 32 usb drive. I just can't download the zip.
  
  Can you tell me how to build it from scratch?
  
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Steven Shiau - 2021-06-02

OK, so the key point is you can not download Clonezilla live iso or zip and start working on that.
In that case, you first need to have a Debian system, if you can not, then nothing will work.
Anyway, once you have a running Debian system, say Buster, then you can follow
https://clonezilla.org/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php
In Step 7, add
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core drbl unstable
Then continue the steps. If you encounter some packages are missing, just install them by "sudo apt-get install... "

Steven

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