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2008-05-21
2013-04-05
  • Maureen McDonald

    I am mildly familiar with unix and new to linux.  therefore, some of the instructions I don't understand. 

    For instance, in the clonezilla instructions it says to log in as root to mount a drive.  I type login and get a message saying you must exec login from the lowest level sh.  Not sure what this means. 

    I'm not asking for a linux lesson, but can anyone point me to a free online source or quick reference that could help me out?

    thanks alot,

    Maureen

     
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2008-05-21

      Did you mean "Clonezilla live" or "Clonezilla server edtion" ? Where is the instructions "it says to log in as root to mount a drive." you read ? Please show exactly the place so that we can improve that.

       
      • Maureen McDonald

        Sorry for not being more clear. 

        I am using Clonezilla live.  I follow the instructions at Clonezilla.org and the part I am referring to is where it says expert mode and "If you want to MANUALLY mount clonezilla image home (/home/partimag), follow this:"

        Forgive me please I made a mistake in the first post.
        The reason I got to this part is because I get a message saying that no unmounted disks are found.  At a command prompt I am trying to logon as sudo su to use umount to unmount /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 or both.  Also, I tried to  use fdisk to create a second partition.  I change the display/entry units and take the defaults for an extended partition.  I then try umount again and when I go back through clonezilla and choose the disk partition to disk partition option it tells me again that no unmounted disks are found.

        I hope this is not too dumb of a question.  If it takes up too much of your time, never mind but thank you for all your efforts!

        Thanks again,

        Maureen

         
        • Steven Shiau

          Steven Shiau - 2008-05-24

          The partition clonezilla wants to save must be unmounted, since clonezilla will "image" it based on used blocks.
          As for /home/partimag, it's for you to save the image, so you can mount another device or network filesystem as /home/partimag.
          Hope this makes sense for you.

           

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