I created a bootable Clonezilla-Live CD and I am trying to clone a Windows XP system onto a CD and then use that CD to copy the configuration to another PC. Here is what I do:
1. Boot from the Clonezilla-Live Cd.
2. Choose the option Clonezilla Live to RAM
3. Now I remove the Clonezilla Live CD and insert a blank CD
4. Choose English, Qwerty standard US American keyboard
5. Start Clonezilla
????????? here is where I get lost ?????????
6. I choose [] skip Skip, use existing /home/partimag
7. Choose Savedisk Save_client_entire_disk
8. Choose options: -q (entire NTFS), -c (wait for confirmation), -z3 (Use_lzo_compression)
9. Pick an image name
10. Pick disk to save [*] hda IC35L060AVV207-0
11. It now tells me:
Selected device [hda] found!
The selected devices: hda
Activating the partition info in /proc... done!
Selected device [hda1] found!
Selected device [hda2] found!
The selected devices: hda1 hda2
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The following step is to save to the harddisk/partition(s) "hda (hda1 hda2)" in this machine as image "/home/partimag/2007-04-24-17-img".
Are you sure you want to continue ? (y/N) y
********** HERE IT FAILS *************
31+1 records in
31+1 records out
... (33 MB) copied, 1.04688 seconds, 31.4 MB/s
Checking the disk space...
/home/partimag/2007-04-24-17-img/hda1.dd-img is incomplete! You have to increase the disk space, then start clonezilla save mode again.
Program terminated.
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HOW DO I GET IT TO CLONE TO THE CD DRIVE ??????
Thanks. R. Tanenbaum
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Well, when you choose
6. I choose [] skip Skip, use existing /home/partimag
it means you are using the memory-based /home/partimag. Unless you have a huge RAM, otherwise it won't be large enough to save an image of M$ Windows XP.
Clonezilla is not able to write the image directly to CD-R. Therefore you have to find a place, such as ssh server, samba server or another local disk to save the image. Then use mkisofs or similar tools to create or write the image to CD-R.
Sorry for lacking this function, it might be possible to add that, but seems not straightforward.
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Thank you. I see that I can write to a USB device, instead of trying to write to the CD-R directly. The drawback is that Clonezilla would use DD to write to the USB stick and it is only 256 MB. I will need to get a larger capacity stick. If I copy the image from the USB stick to a CD-R will I be able to use Clonezilla to restore from the CD-R or will I still need to restore from the USB stick?
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Well, usually clonezilla won't use dd to write the data, it will use ntfsclone or partimage to smartly save your Windows XP. But 256 MB is still not enough for M$ XP. It's recommended to save your XP image in ssh server or samba server.
You can use "ocs-iso" to make an iso file with image builtin, for more info, check http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
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I created a bootable Clonezilla-Live CD and I am trying to clone a Windows XP system onto a CD and then use that CD to copy the configuration to another PC. Here is what I do:
1. Boot from the Clonezilla-Live Cd.
2. Choose the option Clonezilla Live to RAM
3. Now I remove the Clonezilla Live CD and insert a blank CD
4. Choose English, Qwerty standard US American keyboard
5. Start Clonezilla
????????? here is where I get lost ?????????
6. I choose [] skip Skip, use existing /home/partimag
7. Choose Savedisk Save_client_entire_disk
8. Choose options: -q (entire NTFS), -c (wait for confirmation), -z3 (Use_lzo_compression)
9. Pick an image name
10. Pick disk to save [*] hda IC35L060AVV207-0
11. It now tells me:
Selected device [hda] found!
The selected devices: hda
Activating the partition info in /proc... done!
Selected device [hda1] found!
Selected device [hda2] found!
The selected devices: hda1 hda2
*********************************
The following step is to save to the harddisk/partition(s) "hda (hda1 hda2)" in this machine as image "/home/partimag/2007-04-24-17-img".
Are you sure you want to continue ? (y/N) y
********** HERE IT FAILS *************
31+1 records in
31+1 records out
... (33 MB) copied, 1.04688 seconds, 31.4 MB/s
Checking the disk space...
/home/partimag/2007-04-24-17-img/hda1.dd-img is incomplete! You have to increase the disk space, then start clonezilla save mode again.
Program terminated.
**********************************
HOW DO I GET IT TO CLONE TO THE CD DRIVE ??????
Thanks. R. Tanenbaum
Well, when you choose
6. I choose [] skip Skip, use existing /home/partimag
it means you are using the memory-based /home/partimag. Unless you have a huge RAM, otherwise it won't be large enough to save an image of M$ Windows XP.
Clonezilla is not able to write the image directly to CD-R. Therefore you have to find a place, such as ssh server, samba server or another local disk to save the image. Then use mkisofs or similar tools to create or write the image to CD-R.
Sorry for lacking this function, it might be possible to add that, but seems not straightforward.
Thank you. I see that I can write to a USB device, instead of trying to write to the CD-R directly. The drawback is that Clonezilla would use DD to write to the USB stick and it is only 256 MB. I will need to get a larger capacity stick. If I copy the image from the USB stick to a CD-R will I be able to use Clonezilla to restore from the CD-R or will I still need to restore from the USB stick?
Well, usually clonezilla won't use dd to write the data, it will use ntfsclone or partimage to smartly save your Windows XP. But 256 MB is still not enough for M$ XP. It's recommended to save your XP image in ssh server or samba server.
You can use "ocs-iso" to make an iso file with image builtin, for more info, check
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/