First off let me say Clonezilla is a truly awesome product, it allows us to do cloning in ways previously unavailable without spending a truckload of money (ie for Symantec Ghost)!
The problem we are having is PXE is not a feasible option for booting the clients in our environment. We are attempting to use a Clonezilla live CD to boot the clients and then have them join a multicast session hosted on a DRBL server. We have successfully tested using PXE to multicast and using the live CD to mount the remote images via sshfs command and clone using unicast.
To make this product work in our environment optimally would be to use the following procedure:
1. Set DRBL server to start a multicast session using image X and configured for Y # of clients to connect
2. Have clients boot from CD/USB/RIS and connect to above session
3. Once Y limit is reached, DRBL will push the image to all clients in multicast fashion
4. Once complete, clients will either return to menu/prompt or reboot
So far, we have not been able to find any documentation on using a live CD to connect to a DRBL multicast session. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Well, please allow me to ask why PXE/Etherboot is not available for you ?
Once your DRBL server is ready, although your network card does not have PXE function, however if it is supported by Etherboot 5.4.3, you can just boot the Clonezilla Live CD 20070308 or later, and choose the etherboot to boot it.
OK, to answer your question, it's not automatic at all... well, you can do it by:
1. Set DRBL server (DRBL version 1.7.9 and Clonezilla version 2.1.2) to start a multicast session using image X and configured for Y # of clients to connect. You will find a file /tftpboot/nodes/$IP/etc/ocs/ocs-run.param. Replace $IP with anyone you have.
2. Have clients boot from CD/USB/RIS, mount DRBL server's $ocsroot (usually /home/partimag) as /home/partimag by
mount -t nfs $IP:$ocsroot /home/partimag
Then copy ocs-run.param to every client's /etc/ocs/
followed by run "/etc/rc1.d/S19ocs-run -p start"
3. Once Y limit is reached, DRBL will push the image to all clients in multicast fashion
4. Once complete, clients will either return to menu/prompt or reboot
The above is just an untested procedure, if any problem, please let us know.
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First off let me say Clonezilla is a truly awesome product, it allows us to do cloning in ways previously unavailable without spending a truckload of money (ie for Symantec Ghost)!
The problem we are having is PXE is not a feasible option for booting the clients in our environment. We are attempting to use a Clonezilla live CD to boot the clients and then have them join a multicast session hosted on a DRBL server. We have successfully tested using PXE to multicast and using the live CD to mount the remote images via sshfs command and clone using unicast.
To make this product work in our environment optimally would be to use the following procedure:
1. Set DRBL server to start a multicast session using image X and configured for Y # of clients to connect
2. Have clients boot from CD/USB/RIS and connect to above session
3. Once Y limit is reached, DRBL will push the image to all clients in multicast fashion
4. Once complete, clients will either return to menu/prompt or reboot
So far, we have not been able to find any documentation on using a live CD to connect to a DRBL multicast session. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Well, please allow me to ask why PXE/Etherboot is not available for you ?
Once your DRBL server is ready, although your network card does not have PXE function, however if it is supported by Etherboot 5.4.3, you can just boot the Clonezilla Live CD 20070308 or later, and choose the etherboot to boot it.
OK, to answer your question, it's not automatic at all... well, you can do it by:
1. Set DRBL server (DRBL version 1.7.9 and Clonezilla version 2.1.2) to start a multicast session using image X and configured for Y # of clients to connect. You will find a file /tftpboot/nodes/$IP/etc/ocs/ocs-run.param. Replace $IP with anyone you have.
2. Have clients boot from CD/USB/RIS, mount DRBL server's $ocsroot (usually /home/partimag) as /home/partimag by
mount -t nfs $IP:$ocsroot /home/partimag
Then copy ocs-run.param to every client's /etc/ocs/
followed by run "/etc/rc1.d/S19ocs-run -p start"
3. Once Y limit is reached, DRBL will push the image to all clients in multicast fashion
4. Once complete, clients will either return to menu/prompt or reboot
The above is just an untested procedure, if any problem, please let us know.