I would like to customize CloneZilla for some "no so technical users"
So, instead of going through all of the menus, where you enter your server name/IP, where would I configure CloneZilla to read in these parameters? I have begun in investigate this, but time constraints are against me at this point.
Can someone point me in the proper direction?
Thanks
Glen
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About "enter your server name/IP", if you mean to buitin the command in clonezilla live, yes, that's possible.
If you mean to put the param before running clonezilla live, no, it's not available now. However, we will think about how to implement that in a general way.
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I think that a probable solution would be to pass parameters such as:
1. server name / IP
2. directory where cloned images exist
3. default parameters to write the image back to the disk.
Let me describe the scenario for you a little:
We are the engineering group and we are the ones that do all of the technical stuff. We have a 'manufacturing' division that will be taking these images and placing them onto hardware. That is all that they need to do, we are doing all of the leg-work , so to speak.
Is there no way to pass these parameters to ocs-live or ocs-live-menu so that the user starts up CloneZilla ( in my case , network booting using PXE) and it will go to a prompt for user id / password and then bring up the images menu?
Thanks in advance for your help , once again!
Glen
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Oops... Maybe I was wrong before. I thought you were asking about "Clonezilla live", not Clonezilla (comes with DRBL). If it's clonezilla, I think maybe it's easyier to do what you want. Which one are you asking ?
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So you mean the clonezilla image is not in DRBL server ? Or do you have any reason that you need user to enter username and password ?
If the image is in the DRBL server, and you want to do some access control, you can make it like (if you are using DRBL 1.7.11-24 and clonezilla 2.1.5-20, please upgrade to DRBL 1.7.11-25 and clonezilla 2.1.5-21):
1. In drbl server, switch the mode by
/opt/drbl/sbin/dcs -> clonezilla-start -> select-in-client
2. Use /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-pxelinux-passwd to set the password of PXE boot menu
Ex.
/opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-pxelinux-passwd -e
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Hi Everyone;
I would like to customize CloneZilla for some "no so technical users"
So, instead of going through all of the menus, where you enter your server name/IP, where would I configure CloneZilla to read in these parameters? I have begun in investigate this, but time constraints are against me at this point.
Can someone point me in the proper direction?
Thanks
Glen
About "enter your server name/IP", if you mean to buitin the command in clonezilla live, yes, that's possible.
If you mean to put the param before running clonezilla live, no, it's not available now. However, we will think about how to implement that in a general way.
Hi Steven;
Thanks for replying - I appreciate it.
I think that a probable solution would be to pass parameters such as:
1. server name / IP
2. directory where cloned images exist
3. default parameters to write the image back to the disk.
Let me describe the scenario for you a little:
We are the engineering group and we are the ones that do all of the technical stuff. We have a 'manufacturing' division that will be taking these images and placing them onto hardware. That is all that they need to do, we are doing all of the leg-work , so to speak.
Is there no way to pass these parameters to ocs-live or ocs-live-menu so that the user starts up CloneZilla ( in my case , network booting using PXE) and it will go to a prompt for user id / password and then bring up the images menu?
Thanks in advance for your help , once again!
Glen
Oops... Maybe I was wrong before. I thought you were asking about "Clonezilla live", not Clonezilla (comes with DRBL). If it's clonezilla, I think maybe it's easyier to do what you want. Which one are you asking ?
Hi Steven;
Thanks again for responding - yes Clonezilla with DRBL -
PXE boot
Run Clonezilla DRBL to push / pull images to the systems.
Making sure we are on the same "page" so to speak.
( sorry , my Mandarin is non-existent - however, your English is probably better than mine!)
Thanks again!
Glen
So you mean the clonezilla image is not in DRBL server ? Or do you have any reason that you need user to enter username and password ?
If the image is in the DRBL server, and you want to do some access control, you can make it like (if you are using DRBL 1.7.11-24 and clonezilla 2.1.5-20, please upgrade to DRBL 1.7.11-25 and clonezilla 2.1.5-21):
1. In drbl server, switch the mode by
/opt/drbl/sbin/dcs -> clonezilla-start -> select-in-client
2. Use /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-pxelinux-passwd to set the password of PXE boot menu
Ex.
/opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-pxelinux-passwd -e