I wan to deploy an image to 10 identical laptops. I am a school teacher and recently bought 10 Toshiba laptops for my Computing department, to be used stand alone. They are all the same model and came pre-installed with Windows 7. Windows 8.1 Pro was supplied on a disc. On one machine, I have replaced Win 7 with Win 8, installed Windows updates, installed various versions of Visual Studio Express 2013, replaced McAfee antivirus with Avast, installed Chrome, plus various other configuration changes which have made this machine exactly as I want it. Needless to say, this took a LONG time. I now want the other machines to be identical. Can I use Clonezilla to make a CD (or set of CDs) that I can use to re-image the other machines. If so, what are the steps? Are there any potential problems? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I wan to deploy an image to 10 identical laptops. I am a school teacher and recently bought 10 Toshiba laptops for my Computing department, to be used stand alone. They are all the same model and came pre-installed with Windows 7. Windows 8.1 Pro was supplied on a disc. On one machine, I have replaced Win 7 with Win 8, installed Windows updates, installed various versions of Visual Studio Express 2013, replaced McAfee antivirus with Avast, installed Chrome, plus various other configuration changes which have made this machine exactly as I want it. Needless to say, this took a LONG time. I now want the other machines to be identical. Can I use Clonezilla to make a CD (or set of CDs) that I can use to re-image the other machines. If so, what are the steps? Are there any potential problems? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You can refer to:
http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/04_Create_Recovery_Clonezilla
"potential problems?" -> The restored machine fails to boot. You might use the Windows CD to fix that.
Steven.