Hi!
When using Clonezilla live as lite-server, some of the clients when booting over PXE
showing this message unable to find target hard drive "sda"!! , while some of them OK.
I know about cnvt-ocs-dev command but if I will use it another clients will not recieve the image right?
Do I have option for Clonezilla to ignore the namings of disks on clients?
The actual disks that it find is nvme.. something.
I'm trying to clone Windows 10 image.. clients have only one disk.. Why I just can't clone to whatever disk it have the sda sdb like image-to-disk.
Can I drop to a shell and force linux to rename nvme to sda to proceed with cloning?
Frankly for me it was odd when I saw first time Clonezilla asking in lite-server mode what target drive I want to overwrite on client... It work OK on similar hardware but with a mizture of SSD/NVME/HDD and so on.. Is there a point to ask what disk You want to override on client? like "sda"? How do I know what it will be named?
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Okay.
My colleagues just replaced SSDs with identical ones.
I want to ask a generic question.
We work in college - and that means we do a lot of imaging and cloning ( especially in summer).
The preferable way is - multicast via lite-server ( just easier in our environment ) clients boot via PXE
lite-server start its own dhpcd. We clone only Windows 10 images if it does matter.
So, my goal is following:
1. Capture the image from reference machine
2. Clone it over network to clients regardless of the hardware. It is always one physical disk ( but it can be either SSD or HDD or NVME or whatever ).
Suppose it's not possible: Let's say we have 10 PCs with one drive and 10 PCs with another - Clonezilla says - no..
Okay, so what will be my strategy - to rename the drive name in that image with cnvt-ocs-dev for 10PCs and then rename it back for another 10PCs ?
Maybe there is some advanced parameters when capturing image - Maybe we need clone device to device? or save partitions instead of saving disk image.
Or I taking it wrong?
Please explain if You are an expert in Clonezilla - we will learn quick just give us right directions.
Another Question: Can I resize partitions of saved image with GParted? And save it as second image?
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
Or I taking it wrong?
Please explain if You are an expert in Clonezilla - we will learn quick just give us right directions.
Another Question: Can I resize partiotions of saved image with GParted? And save it as second image?
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
Last edit: vdoro2 2022-07-11
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"Okay, so what will be my strategy - to rename the drive name in that image with cnvt-ocs-dev for 10PCs and then rename it back for another 10PCs ?" -> Yes, you can do in this way. However, SSD and HDD could have the same naming style, like /dev/sda, NVME device will has device name like /dev/nvme0n1.
Hence multicast mode can not do this. It can only be used for the same destination disk name, like all of the 10 PCs have the name /dev/sda. You can not mixed /dev/sda and /dev/nvme0n1 in your 10 PCs.
"Another Question: Can I resize partitions of saved image with GParted? And save it as second image?" -> The image is saved in the special format. Hence you can not resize it using GParted.
For the reference machine, you can take the smallest disk as the golden image, and when restoring, use the expert mode and choose the option "-k1".
Some references for you: https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/26_resize.faq#26_resize.faq https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/12_lite_server_BT_from_dev
Steven
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Hi!
When using Clonezilla live as lite-server, some of the clients when booting over PXE
showing this message unable to find target hard drive "sda"!! , while some of them OK.
I know about
cnvt-ocs-devcommand but if I will use it another clients will not recieve the image right?Do I have option for Clonezilla to ignore the namings of disks on clients?
The actual disks that it find is nvme.. something.
I'm trying to clone Windows 10 image.. clients have only one disk.. Why I just can't clone to whatever disk it have the sda sdb like image-to-disk.
Can I drop to a shell and force linux to rename nvme to sda to proceed with cloning?
Frankly for me it was odd when I saw first time Clonezilla asking in lite-server mode what target drive I want to overwrite on client... It work OK on similar hardware but with a mizture of SSD/NVME/HDD and so on.. Is there a point to ask what disk You want to override on client? like "sda"? How do I know what it will be named?
Okay.
My colleagues just replaced SSDs with identical ones.
I want to ask a generic question.
We work in college - and that means we do a lot of imaging and cloning ( especially in summer).
The preferable way is - multicast via lite-server ( just easier in our environment ) clients boot via PXE
lite-server start its own dhpcd. We clone only Windows 10 images if it does matter.
So, my goal is following:
1. Capture the image from reference machine
2. Clone it over network to clients regardless of the hardware. It is always one physical disk ( but it can be either SSD or HDD or NVME or whatever ).
Suppose it's not possible: Let's say we have 10 PCs with one drive and 10 PCs with another - Clonezilla says - no..
Okay, so what will be my strategy - to rename the drive name in that image with cnvt-ocs-dev for 10PCs and then rename it back for another 10PCs ?
Maybe there is some advanced parameters when capturing image - Maybe we need clone device to device? or save partitions instead of saving disk image.
Or I taking it wrong?
Please explain if You are an expert in Clonezilla - we will learn quick just give us right directions.
Another Question: Can I resize partitions of saved image with GParted? And save it as second image?
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
Or I taking it wrong?
Please explain if You are an expert in Clonezilla - we will learn quick just give us right directions.
Another Question: Can I resize partiotions of saved image with GParted? And save it as second image?
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
Last edit: vdoro2 2022-07-11
"Okay, so what will be my strategy - to rename the drive name in that image with cnvt-ocs-dev for 10PCs and then rename it back for another 10PCs ?" -> Yes, you can do in this way. However, SSD and HDD could have the same naming style, like /dev/sda, NVME device will has device name like /dev/nvme0n1.
Hence multicast mode can not do this. It can only be used for the same destination disk name, like all of the 10 PCs have the name /dev/sda. You can not mixed /dev/sda and /dev/nvme0n1 in your 10 PCs.
"Another Question: Can I resize partitions of saved image with GParted? And save it as second image?" -> The image is saved in the special format. Hence you can not resize it using GParted.
For the reference machine, you can take the smallest disk as the golden image, and when restoring, use the expert mode and choose the option "-k1".
Some references for you:
https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/26_resize.faq#26_resize.faq
https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/12_lite_server_BT_from_dev
Steven
Thank You very much for clarification.