I really need some help with the problem that I have now.. Here is the story…
I am working in a company that have multiple smaller office around the world.
And we have a PC that run on Win XP and Win 7 respectively which host certain application that are required for the business.
Currently we are preparing a System upgrade and application upgrade and standardizing the units.
All the site has the same model of PC. We are preparing a unit which has all the update and upgrade for the application which we have already tested.
We would like to use Clonezilla to image the HDD of the unit in the office and sent the image in a CD out to the smaller office where there can use the bootable Clonezilla CD and restore the image. But with minimal user interaction.
This way we can make sure that all restoration are done with out any human error. Since I am very new with Linux… need your help on how to automate this.
Basically. User insert the Clonezilla bootable CD. Enter 1 - 2 line then the process request for the image CD and completes the restore.
Any idea…
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Create a custom clonezilla, you can find the instructions on the site, or google for custom clonezilla script it comes right up.
In the custom script erase everything after the part where it says you can customize the script below, leaving only action_restore function and the call to action_restore in the main part.
Change all $targ_part to sdb2 change restoreparts to restoredisk, change the image name to your image name.
Create the custom script, partition a thumb drive with a 500 meg first partition and the rest on the second partition (I suggest a 16 gig thumb itll fit most images)
Put clonezilla on the first partition, your image on the second partition (you may need to use linux to load the image to the second partition as most windows systems will not recognize multiple partitions on a thumb drive).
Send the location the thumb drive, with instructions how to boot to it, have them hit enter on the clonezilla screen, and y when prompted, and they have your new image.
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Hi All,
I really need some help with the problem that I have now.. Here is the story…
I am working in a company that have multiple smaller office around the world.
And we have a PC that run on Win XP and Win 7 respectively which host certain application that are required for the business.
Currently we are preparing a System upgrade and application upgrade and standardizing the units.
All the site has the same model of PC. We are preparing a unit which has all the update and upgrade for the application which we have already tested.
We would like to use Clonezilla to image the HDD of the unit in the office and sent the image in a CD out to the smaller office where there can use the bootable Clonezilla CD and restore the image. But with minimal user interaction.
This way we can make sure that all restoration are done with out any human error. Since I am very new with Linux… need your help on how to automate this.
Basically. User insert the Clonezilla bootable CD. Enter 1 - 2 line then the process request for the image CD and completes the restore.
Any idea…
Create a custom clonezilla, you can find the instructions on the site, or google for custom clonezilla script it comes right up.
In the custom script erase everything after the part where it says you can customize the script below, leaving only action_restore function and the call to action_restore in the main part.
Change all $targ_part to sdb2 change restoreparts to restoredisk, change the image name to your image name.
Create the custom script, partition a thumb drive with a 500 meg first partition and the rest on the second partition (I suggest a 16 gig thumb itll fit most images)
Put clonezilla on the first partition, your image on the second partition (you may need to use linux to load the image to the second partition as most windows systems will not recognize multiple partitions on a thumb drive).
Send the location the thumb drive, with instructions how to boot to it, have them hit enter on the clonezilla screen, and y when prompted, and they have your new image.