With the increased prevalence of Macs with Apple Silicon, Windows for ARM, Raspberry Pis, etc. it would be very useful to have Clonezilla that can run on these devices and the ARM64 / Aarch64 architecture.
There were some previous threads and even testing releases but those downloads do not appear to be available.
If it's possible to take a regular Debian Live image and (easily) convert it to Clonezilla through chroot and running some apt commands, how would that go?
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I've been testing the experimental images above for a few months. Using a Lenovo Thinkpad and an HP Omnibook - none of the images have booted successfully for me yet. Just tried again with images dated today (1/7/25) still no joy
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That's why Clonezilla live arm version is still in experimental branch.
Arm architecture is actually too diverse... Not to mention the boot loader...
Some of the versions we have tested actually work on NVidia Grace/Hopper system.
As for Apple M2, well, still the Linux kernel from Debian has some issues...
Not to mention other ARM CPUs...
Steven
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With the increased prevalence of Macs with Apple Silicon, Windows for ARM, Raspberry Pis, etc. it would be very useful to have Clonezilla that can run on these devices and the ARM64 / Aarch64 architecture.
There were some previous threads and even testing releases but those downloads do not appear to be available.
If it's possible to take a regular Debian Live image and (easily) convert it to Clonezilla through chroot and running some apt commands, how would that go?
I found some experimental images on the NCHC repository:
https://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/experimental/arm/
I've been testing the experimental images above for a few months. Using a Lenovo Thinkpad and an HP Omnibook - none of the images have booted successfully for me yet. Just tried again with images dated today (1/7/25) still no joy
That's why Clonezilla live arm version is still in experimental branch.
Arm architecture is actually too diverse... Not to mention the boot loader...
Some of the versions we have tested actually work on NVidia Grace/Hopper system.
As for Apple M2, well, still the Linux kernel from Debian has some issues...
Not to mention other ARM CPUs...
Steven