I have a "weird" question: I repair and recover PCs and I have been using "hundreds" of linux bootable rescue tools, but Clonezilla became my swiss knife since many PCs requires bothering workarounds to disable secure-boot, because Clonezilla (and all Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distros too of courese) is the only one i can run without any switch (especially on some newer PCs whose secure-boot is locked or hard to unlock). I use it not only for cloning and imaging the standard way: from the command line I use dd, ddrescue, testdisk/photorec, parted, cfdisk, smartmontools, badblocks etc... In a word: my office in my pocket! :-)
Well, using clonezilla the way I do most of the times, I don't really need a wifi connection, but I can connect it any way using the same command you use for Ubuntu... The only think I would like to do is to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file just once and, if it's possible, to make the "chmod 0600" and " networking restart" persistent too.
Ok, it's not a great issue, but i would like to know id there's a way to get wifi with less "editing" at every restart.
Thank you in advance,
Bert
Last edit: Bertrando 2016-10-09
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Clonezilla live comes with package "wirelss-tools", so you can use iwconfig, iwlist... to configure the wifi in the command line prompt: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
Steven
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Unfortunately, nmtui, nmcli, and other necessary commands do not appear to reside in the Live distribution so that article is not optimal. I highly recommend this HOW-TO article:
Command nmtui and nmcli do exist in Clonezilla live >= 2.6.1-25 or 20190420-disco. Just remember to start the NetworkManager service first by running "sudo service networkManager start"
Please give it a try.
Steven
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Oh, see, and I was looking for the same thing - some way to disable wifi because it's just more hours of needless radiation while I am not using it, but using a local device. I thought maybe at the screen that says "Start Clonezilla Live" and "Start Command Promt", that there could be an option: Wifi is disabled, click to enable and Wifi is enabled, click to disable. Not my favourite to have to do it at the command prompt, but I will take what I can get.
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Hello (sorry for my bad English),
I have a "weird" question: I repair and recover PCs and I have been using "hundreds" of linux bootable rescue tools, but Clonezilla became my swiss knife since many PCs requires bothering workarounds to disable secure-boot, because Clonezilla (and all Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distros too of courese) is the only one i can run without any switch (especially on some newer PCs whose secure-boot is locked or hard to unlock). I use it not only for cloning and imaging the standard way: from the command line I use dd, ddrescue, testdisk/photorec, parted, cfdisk, smartmontools, badblocks etc... In a word: my office in my pocket! :-)
Well, using clonezilla the way I do most of the times, I don't really need a wifi connection, but I can connect it any way using the same command you use for Ubuntu... The only think I would like to do is to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file just once and, if it's possible, to make the "chmod 0600" and " networking restart" persistent too.
Ok, it's not a great issue, but i would like to know id there's a way to get wifi with less "editing" at every restart.
Thank you in advance,
Bert
Last edit: Bertrando 2016-10-09
Clonezilla live comes with package "wirelss-tools", so you can use iwconfig, iwlist... to configure the wifi in the command line prompt:
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
Steven
Thank you Steven!
Bertrando, were you able to set up wifi in Clonezilla? Can you share your solution?
Just google "Ubuntu wifi command line", then you can find many, e.g.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/461825/how-to-connect-to-wifi-from-the-command-line
Steven
Unfortunately, nmtui, nmcli, and other necessary commands do not appear to reside in the Live distribution so that article is not optimal. I highly recommend this HOW-TO article:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318539
It will show how to use wireless with the native binaries available in Clonezilla Live.
Last edit: Skye 2019-04-25
Command nmtui and nmcli do exist in Clonezilla live >= 2.6.1-25 or 20190420-disco. Just remember to start the NetworkManager service first by running "sudo service networkManager start"
Please give it a try.
Steven
Oh, see, and I was looking for the same thing - some way to disable wifi because it's just more hours of needless radiation while I am not using it, but using a local device. I thought maybe at the screen that says "Start Clonezilla Live" and "Start Command Promt", that there could be an option: Wifi is disabled, click to enable and Wifi is enabled, click to disable. Not my favourite to have to do it at the command prompt, but I will take what I can get.