Trying to clone a 12.5 GB Win7 image to 4-8 computers at once at my school. To avoid conflict with the school DHCP server and therefore "job control disabled," I set the Cloenzilla server to have the static IP 192.168.100.1, with all other options default. That solved that problem, PXE boot computers and they start imaging. Fine. They transfer the data and settle at 3.3-3.5 GB/min. Fine. Then they get to 91.88% data and start filling in the non-data blocks, and the speed gets slower and slower and slower. Then they get to 50.00% overall and they stop. They never get past 50%. In the meantime, however, the speed continues to decline steadily to below 1 GB/min.
The image is saved to USB hard drive. I'm using the machine that served as the source for the image as the server. I've tried switching machines, using IP 192.168.100.254, resaving the image with a slightly different release....
Trying to restore the image directly from the USB drive using Clonezilla Live yields similar results.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is copying the image to the local hard drive of the computer I'm using as the server. Otherwise, what could possibly be going wrong? Just a hardware incompatability?
I've had great luck with Clonezilla in a couple types of desktops and a few types of laptops and have found it to be quite reliable once I get past initial glitches, up until now!
Last edit: EricG1793 2013-10-03
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I gave up on trying to do the job with those computers. Perhaps it's the hardware, perhaps Clonezilla simply will not work on the school network, period. I ended up installing Windows to the 8 that failed mid-way imaging by hand. The network admin is working on getting Altiris and/or Windows Deployment running for those computers.
On the plus side, I used Clonezilla to reimage 8 Acer D270 netbooks on Friday, and will do it to 42 more next week, and perhaps 75 Acer D250 netbooks after that. I had to try a second switch because the clients were getting to the point that they waited for the multicast imaging process to begin, but it never did. I guess multicasting is disabled on that first switch? Got another switch and it worked perfectly as usual. I did have the switch isolated this time. CLonezilla is my friend again. :D
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This is driving me insane!!!
Trying to clone a 12.5 GB Win7 image to 4-8 computers at once at my school. To avoid conflict with the school DHCP server and therefore "job control disabled," I set the Cloenzilla server to have the static IP 192.168.100.1, with all other options default. That solved that problem, PXE boot computers and they start imaging. Fine. They transfer the data and settle at 3.3-3.5 GB/min. Fine. Then they get to 91.88% data and start filling in the non-data blocks, and the speed gets slower and slower and slower. Then they get to 50.00% overall and they stop. They never get past 50%. In the meantime, however, the speed continues to decline steadily to below 1 GB/min.
The image is saved to USB hard drive. I'm using the machine that served as the source for the image as the server. I've tried switching machines, using IP 192.168.100.254, resaving the image with a slightly different release....
Intel motherboards, Core 2 Duo @ 2.9 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Seagate Barracuda 750 GB 7200 RPM HDDs, Intel desktop boards.
Trying to restore the image directly from the USB drive using Clonezilla Live yields similar results.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is copying the image to the local hard drive of the computer I'm using as the server. Otherwise, what could possibly be going wrong? Just a hardware incompatability?
I've had great luck with Clonezilla in a couple types of desktops and a few types of laptops and have found it to be quite reliable once I get past initial glitches, up until now!
Last edit: EricG1793 2013-10-03
I gave up on trying to do the job with those computers. Perhaps it's the hardware, perhaps Clonezilla simply will not work on the school network, period. I ended up installing Windows to the 8 that failed mid-way imaging by hand. The network admin is working on getting Altiris and/or Windows Deployment running for those computers.
On the plus side, I used Clonezilla to reimage 8 Acer D270 netbooks on Friday, and will do it to 42 more next week, and perhaps 75 Acer D250 netbooks after that. I had to try a second switch because the clients were getting to the point that they waited for the multicast imaging process to begin, but it never did. I guess multicasting is disabled on that first switch? Got another switch and it worked perfectly as usual. I did have the switch isolated this time. CLonezilla is my friend again. :D
Last edit: EricG1793 2013-10-06
Thanks for sharing those experiences with us. Sorry that Clonezilla drove you insane. :)
Steven.