Confused. Kinda new to clonezilla and have some questions and looking for guidence

[Russ]

Hello all,
I have used clonezilla as a usb only solution where I have the image store locally on the USB. I image one or two PCs at a time as needed. Great stuff!

However, we are about to deploy 125 laptops and I need to image them all. I have a VM that is acting as an NFS and I can push/pull images to it without issue from the USB device on our company network.

I'm wondering if I can get some direction on what would be considered the best solution to image these units.

• is an NFS/USB solution the right way to go over the network and image 125 units??
• Im not a programmer but have been using the co-pilot AI to help automate the menu inputs so I dont have to configure each USB manually (not working so well, cant get it to work at all)
• Looked at the server lite options but I dont see what the advantage is over an NFS as I have a pretty robust windows server and it still requires USB.
• looked at PXE but if I read it correctly, it requires its own dhcp server and I cant have that on our network as we already have a domain controller doing that.

any insight or direction would be greatly appreciated.

[Steven Shiau]

I suggest you can use Clonezilla lite server:
https://clonezilla.org///fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server
You can try the multicast mode or BT mode.
If all of them are identical, you can have a template machine ready. Use it as the Clonezilla lite server, and use BT mode directly reading the data from its hard drive. i.e., try this one:
https://clonezilla.org///fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/12_lite_server_BT_from_dev

Steven