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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla not working or HD failure?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

That was my guess only, basically from the experience I have.  I think 
it's very likely... But it does not mean it must (100%) have bad blocks.
Anyway, it's recommended to get a new hard drive.

Steven.

Uriel Avalos wrote:
> Bad blocks?? Going a little off topic here, does that mean that I have to get a new hard drive? Or is there a fix?
>
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:30:28 +0800
> Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>
>   
>> Uriel Avalos wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm trying to backup a system over Samba. It's a linux box using ext3
>>> I've tried it several times and each time it gets to about 8% done, I
>>> start getting errors like this:
>>>
>>> hda: possible failed opcode: 0xc8
>>> dma_instr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
>>> hda: task_pio_intr: status=0x49 { DriveReady DataRequest Error }
>>> io_all: errno = Input/output error(5)
>>>   
>>>       
>> Basically this kind of error message means that your hard drive has 
>> hardware problem.... Like bad blocks... I have put a Q&A here:
>> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/83_rescue_mode_for_clonezilla.faq#83_rescue_mode_for_clonezilla.faq
>> Please refer to that.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Steven.
>>     
>>> I checked the hard drive with fsck and it's fine. I hasn't given my any
>>> trouble either. Ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla not working or HD failure?

[Uriel A. <ams...@ya...>]

Bad blocks?? Going a little off topic here, does that mean that I have to get a new hard drive? Or is there a fix?

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:30:28 +0800
Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Uriel Avalos wrote:
> > I'm trying to backup a system over Samba. It's a linux box using ext3
> > I've tried it several times and each time it gets to about 8% done, I
> > start getting errors like this:
> >
> > hda: possible failed opcode: 0xc8
> > dma_instr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
> > hda: task_pio_intr: status=0x49 { DriveReady DataRequest Error }
> > io_all: errno = Input/output error(5)
> >   
> Basically this kind of error message means that your hard drive has 
> hardware problem.... Like bad blocks... I have put a Q&A here:
> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/83_rescue_mode_for_clonezilla.faq#83_rescue_mode_for_clonezilla.faq
> Please refer to that.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Steven.
> > I checked the hard drive with fsck and it's fine. I hasn't given my any
> > trouble either. Ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Xen support and VPS image copy

[Shameem A. <sha...@ya...>]

Hello Steven,

This is not that much relevant question.  

xen is a vps software.

Regards,
Shameem
 
--- On Tue, 12/22/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:

> From: Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>
> Subject: Re: Xen support and VPS image copy
> To: "Shameem Ahamed" <sha...@ya...>
> Cc: clo...@li...
> Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 7:28 PM
> 
> 
> Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> > Hello Steven,
> > 
> > Can we just restore the Clonezilla image without
> booting in to the Clonezilla image.  
> > I just checked documents for the partclone. Can we use
> partclone directly on the Client machine to restore the
> image of one disk partition to a SAN partition.
> >   
> If the destination partitions is not mounted, yes, you can
> use partclone to clone that directly. //NOTE// All the data
> on the destination partition will be overwritten.
> > One more doubt i have is, Clonezilla supports xen
> images ?.   
> What did you mean by "xen images"?
> 
> Steven.
> > Regards,
> > Shameem
> > 
> > 
> >         
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla not working or HD failure?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Uriel Avalos wrote:
> I'm trying to backup a system over Samba. It's a linux box using ext3
> I've tried it several times and each time it gets to about 8% done, I
> start getting errors like this:
>
> hda: possible failed opcode: 0xc8
> dma_instr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
> hda: task_pio_intr: status=0x49 { DriveReady DataRequest Error }
> io_all: errno = Input/output error(5)
>   
Basically this kind of error message means that your hard drive has 
hardware problem.... Like bad blocks... I have put a Q&A here:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/83_rescue_mode_for_clonezilla.faq#83_rescue_mode_for_clonezilla.faq
Please refer to that.

Good luck!

Steven.
> I checked the hard drive with fsck and it's fine. I hasn't given my any
> trouble either. Ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla not working or HD failure?

[Uriel A. <ams...@ya...>]

OK thanks. But what's "smart utilities"? Is that part of clonezilla? or
do I get that somewhere else? A quick google search didn't turn
anything up...

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:27:29 -0500
"Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp."
<bco...@in...> wrote:

> On 12/25/2009 10:14 PM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> > hda: task_pio_intr: status=0x49 { DriveReady DataRequest Error }
> 
> This looks like a failing hard drive.  Boot with a Live CD, and check 
> the drive with Smart utilities.
> 
> - Bob Coffman

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Problems with live-getty and live-netdev

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Santiago Bruno wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>   
>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Thanks for the bug reports. I reply your question sin the following.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using
>>>>>>> PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console
>>>>>>> using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do
>>>>>>> so.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command
>>>>>>> line but I'm having a strange problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla,
>>>>>>> there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes
>>>>>>> to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two
>>>>>>> different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start
>>>>>>> cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the
>>>>>>> end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they
>>>>>>> are two different processes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> How did you configure your clonezilla live ? Please show us the config
>>>>>> files, e.g. syslinux.cfg... So it's easier for me to reproduce the
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> then we can fix this problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Well, I'm using some custom scripts, but now I reduced the
>>>>> configuration to try to use a script that does not exists to see if
>>>>> the problem still happened so it could be easier to reproduce.
>>>>>
>>>>> The pxe file for the machine would be like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> default Clonezilla
>>>>> label Clonezilla
>>>>> kernel /clonezilla/vmlinuz
>>>>> append initrd=/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-getty
>>>>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 union=aufs noswap noprompt nosplash
>>>>> live-netdev="eth1"
>>>>> fetch=tftp://<SERVER_IP>/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
>>>>> ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> ocs_live_run="/blablablabla"
>>>>>
>>>>> and what happens when booting is the following.
>>>>>
>>>>> VGA starts displaying the pxe boot, "Decompressing Linux..."
>>>>> decompressing the initrd, and the last lines are
>>>>> "Ready
>>>>> Probing EDD (...) ok"
>>>>>
>>>>> It stops there, and then, text starts coming out through ttyS0
>>>>> instead. squashfs is decompressed, init starts, I can see that it
>>>>> tries to set up eth0 through dhcp because I see some "DHCPDISCOVER..."
>>>>> lines until it times out.
>>>>> Then I think it sets up eth1 very fast and then the problem starts.
>>>>> I think it is when the ocs scripts begin executing.
>>>>> The VGA changes from the typical console text to another font,
>>>>> probably a framebuffer, and some scripts begin executing both in tty1
>>>>> and ttyS0
>>>>> obviously they fail inmediately because there is no blablablabla
>>>>> script, but I get the prompt to select what to do next in both
>>>>> terminals and they are different processes.
>>>>> If I type "tty" one gives /dev/tty1 and the other /dev/ttyS0.
>>>>> I would expect that everything happens in ttyS0 if I specified
>>>>> console=ttyS0 on the command line, or to have an option to do that. Is
>>>>> it possible? I would expect in that case to keep tty1 blocked or in a
>>>>> login prompt.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Yes. Here I think the best solution is in your customized script, add one
>>>> line in the beginning:
>>>> ================================
>>>> [ "$(tty)" != "/dev/ttyS0" ] && exit 1
>>>> ================================
>>>>
>>>> Then the rest of your script will only be run in the /dev/ttyS0.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>         
>>> Yes, I considered implementing exactly that workaround. The only
>>> problem is that I will be using the script as part of a bigger system
>>> with an user interface where the user may choose to redirect the
>>> output or not. So I will have two different customized scripts, one
>>> for redirecting and another for not redirecting, and selecting which
>>> script to use through the generated pxe config file.
>>> I thought of reporting the problem so I had to work less :P
>>> But this should work.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Santiago.
>>>       
>> Another possibility is we can implement another ocs option to force
>> $ocs_live_run to be run in specific tty, e.g. ttyS0. Now it will be run in
>> tty1 and ttyS0.
>> E.g. with boot parameter
>> ocs_live_tty="/dev/ttyS0"
>> then the $ocs_live_run will be run in ttyS0 only. Not in tty1.
>>
>> This should work. Or maybe you have better idea?
>>     
>
> That would be something nice to have. I have no other idea. But I
> don´t know how complicated it will be to implement it. I can live with
> the workaround you suggested ;)
> But let me know if you implement it in some future release or if I can
> help in some way, like testing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santiago.
>   
I have uploaded Clonezilla live 1.2.3-21 in the testing branch. A boot 
parameter "ocs_live_run_tty" was added for this purpose. Please refer to
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/fine-print.php?path=./99_Misc/00_live-initramfs-manual.doc#00_live-initramfs-manual.doc
for how to use it.

Please let us know the results if you test that.
Thanks.

Steven.

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[Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla not working or HD failure?

[Uriel A. <ams...@ya...>]

I'm trying to backup a system over Samba. It's a linux box using ext3
I've tried it several times and each time it gets to about 8% done, I
start getting errors like this:

hda: possible failed opcode: 0xc8
dma_instr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_pio_intr: status=0x49 { DriveReady DataRequest Error }
io_all: errno = Input/output error(5)

I checked the hard drive with fsck and it's fine. I hasn't given my any
trouble either. Ideas?

Thanks

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Problems with live-getty and live-netdev

[Santiago B. <san...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>
>
> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Thanks for the bug reports. I reply your question sin the following.
>>>>>
>>>>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using
>>>>>> PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console
>>>>>> using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do
>>>>>> so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command
>>>>>> line but I'm having a strange problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla,
>>>>>> there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes
>>>>>> to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two
>>>>>> different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start
>>>>>> cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the
>>>>>> end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they
>>>>>> are two different processes.
>>>>>>
>>>>> How did you configure your clonezilla live ? Please show us the config
>>>>> files, e.g. syslinux.cfg... So it's easier for me to reproduce the
>>>>> problem
>>>>> then we can fix this problem.
>>>>>
>>>> Well, I'm using some custom scripts, but now I reduced the
>>>> configuration to try to use a script that does not exists to see if
>>>> the problem still happened so it could be easier to reproduce.
>>>>
>>>> The pxe file for the machine would be like this:
>>>>
>>>> default Clonezilla
>>>> label Clonezilla
>>>> kernel /clonezilla/vmlinuz
>>>> append initrd=/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-getty
>>>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 union=aufs noswap noprompt nosplash
>>>> live-netdev="eth1"
>>>> fetch=tftp://<SERVER_IP>/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
>>>> ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> ocs_live_run="/blablablabla"
>>>>
>>>> and what happens when booting is the following.
>>>>
>>>> VGA starts displaying the pxe boot, "Decompressing Linux..."
>>>> decompressing the initrd, and the last lines are
>>>> "Ready
>>>> Probing EDD (...) ok"
>>>>
>>>> It stops there, and then, text starts coming out through ttyS0
>>>> instead. squashfs is decompressed, init starts, I can see that it
>>>> tries to set up eth0 through dhcp because I see some "DHCPDISCOVER..."
>>>> lines until it times out.
>>>> Then I think it sets up eth1 very fast and then the problem starts.
>>>> I think it is when the ocs scripts begin executing.
>>>> The VGA changes from the typical console text to another font,
>>>> probably a framebuffer, and some scripts begin executing both in tty1
>>>> and ttyS0
>>>> obviously they fail inmediately because there is no blablablabla
>>>> script, but I get the prompt to select what to do next in both
>>>> terminals and they are different processes.
>>>> If I type "tty" one gives /dev/tty1 and the other /dev/ttyS0.
>>>> I would expect that everything happens in ttyS0 if I specified
>>>> console=ttyS0 on the command line, or to have an option to do that. Is
>>>> it possible? I would expect in that case to keep tty1 blocked or in a
>>>> login prompt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes. Here I think the best solution is in your customized script, add one
>>> line in the beginning:
>>> ================================
>>> [ "$(tty)" != "/dev/ttyS0" ] && exit 1
>>> ================================
>>>
>>> Then the rest of your script will only be run in the /dev/ttyS0.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Yes, I considered implementing exactly that workaround. The only
>> problem is that I will be using the script as part of a bigger system
>> with an user interface where the user may choose to redirect the
>> output or not. So I will have two different customized scripts, one
>> for redirecting and another for not redirecting, and selecting which
>> script to use through the generated pxe config file.
>> I thought of reporting the problem so I had to work less :P
>> But this should work.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Santiago.
>
> Another possibility is we can implement another ocs option to force
> $ocs_live_run to be run in specific tty, e.g. ttyS0. Now it will be run in
> tty1 and ttyS0.
> E.g. with boot parameter
> ocs_live_tty="/dev/ttyS0"
> then the $ocs_live_run will be run in ttyS0 only. Not in tty1.
>
> This should work. Or maybe you have better idea?

That would be something nice to have. I have no other idea. But I
don´t know how complicated it will be to implement it. I can live with
the workaround you suggested ;)
But let me know if you implement it in some future release or if I can
help in some way, like testing.

Cheers,

Santiago.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Problems with live-getty and live-netdev

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Santiago Bruno wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>
>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Thanks for the bug reports. I reply your question sin the following.
>>>>
>>>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using
>>>>> PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console
>>>>> using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do
>>>>> so.
>>>>>
>>>>> I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command
>>>>> line but I'm having a strange problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla,
>>>>> there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes
>>>>> to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two
>>>>> different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start
>>>>> cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the
>>>>> end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they
>>>>> are two different processes.
>>>>>
>>>> How did you configure your clonezilla live ? Please show us the config
>>>> files, e.g. syslinux.cfg... So it's easier for me to reproduce the
>>>> problem
>>>> then we can fix this problem.
>>>>
>>> Well, I'm using some custom scripts, but now I reduced the
>>> configuration to try to use a script that does not exists to see if
>>> the problem still happened so it could be easier to reproduce.
>>>
>>> The pxe file for the machine would be like this:
>>>
>>> default Clonezilla
>>> label Clonezilla
>>> kernel /clonezilla/vmlinuz
>>> append initrd=/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-getty
>>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 union=aufs noswap noprompt nosplash
>>> live-netdev="eth1"
>>> fetch=tftp://<SERVER_IP>/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
>>> ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8"
>>> ocs_live_run="/blablablabla"
>>>
>>> and what happens when booting is the following.
>>>
>>> VGA starts displaying the pxe boot, "Decompressing Linux..."
>>> decompressing the initrd, and the last lines are
>>> "Ready
>>> Probing EDD (...) ok"
>>>
>>> It stops there, and then, text starts coming out through ttyS0
>>> instead. squashfs is decompressed, init starts, I can see that it
>>> tries to set up eth0 through dhcp because I see some "DHCPDISCOVER..."
>>> lines until it times out.
>>> Then I think it sets up eth1 very fast and then the problem starts.
>>> I think it is when the ocs scripts begin executing.
>>> The VGA changes from the typical console text to another font,
>>> probably a framebuffer, and some scripts begin executing both in tty1
>>> and ttyS0
>>> obviously they fail inmediately because there is no blablablabla
>>> script, but I get the prompt to select what to do next in both
>>> terminals and they are different processes.
>>> If I type "tty" one gives /dev/tty1 and the other /dev/ttyS0.
>>> I would expect that everything happens in ttyS0 if I specified
>>> console=ttyS0 on the command line, or to have an option to do that. Is
>>> it possible? I would expect in that case to keep tty1 blocked or in a
>>> login prompt.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes. Here I think the best solution is in your customized script, add one
>> line in the beginning:
>> ================================
>> [ "$(tty)" != "/dev/ttyS0" ] && exit 1
>> ================================
>>
>> Then the rest of your script will only be run in the /dev/ttyS0.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
> 
> Yes, I considered implementing exactly that workaround. The only
> problem is that I will be using the script as part of a bigger system
> with an user interface where the user may choose to redirect the
> output or not. So I will have two different customized scripts, one
> for redirecting and another for not redirecting, and selecting which
> script to use through the generated pxe config file.
> I thought of reporting the problem so I had to work less :P
> But this should work.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Santiago.
Another possibility is we can implement another ocs option to force 
$ocs_live_run to be run in specific tty, e.g. ttyS0. Now it will be run 
in tty1 and ttyS0.
E.g. with boot parameter
ocs_live_tty="/dev/ttyS0"
then the $ocs_live_run will be run in ttyS0 only. Not in tty1.

This should work. Or maybe you have better idea?

Regards,
Steven.

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Problems with live-getty and live-netdev

[Santiago B. <san...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>
>
> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Thanks for the bug reports. I reply your question sin the following.
>>>
>>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using
>>>> PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console
>>>> using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do
>>>> so.
>>>>
>>>> I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command
>>>> line but I'm having a strange problem.
>>>>
>>>> When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla,
>>>> there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes
>>>> to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two
>>>> different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start
>>>> cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the
>>>> end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they
>>>> are two different processes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How did you configure your clonezilla live ? Please show us the config
>>> files, e.g. syslinux.cfg... So it's easier for me to reproduce the
>>> problem
>>> then we can fix this problem.
>>>
>>
>> Well, I'm using some custom scripts, but now I reduced the
>> configuration to try to use a script that does not exists to see if
>> the problem still happened so it could be easier to reproduce.
>>
>> The pxe file for the machine would be like this:
>>
>> default Clonezilla
>> label Clonezilla
>> kernel /clonezilla/vmlinuz
>> append initrd=/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-getty
>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 union=aufs noswap noprompt nosplash
>> live-netdev="eth1"
>> fetch=tftp://<SERVER_IP>/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
>> ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8"
>> ocs_live_run="/blablablabla"
>>
>> and what happens when booting is the following.
>>
>> VGA starts displaying the pxe boot, "Decompressing Linux..."
>> decompressing the initrd, and the last lines are
>> "Ready
>> Probing EDD (...) ok"
>>
>> It stops there, and then, text starts coming out through ttyS0
>> instead. squashfs is decompressed, init starts, I can see that it
>> tries to set up eth0 through dhcp because I see some "DHCPDISCOVER..."
>> lines until it times out.
>> Then I think it sets up eth1 very fast and then the problem starts.
>> I think it is when the ocs scripts begin executing.
>> The VGA changes from the typical console text to another font,
>> probably a framebuffer, and some scripts begin executing both in tty1
>> and ttyS0
>> obviously they fail inmediately because there is no blablablabla
>> script, but I get the prompt to select what to do next in both
>> terminals and they are different processes.
>> If I type "tty" one gives /dev/tty1 and the other /dev/ttyS0.
>> I would expect that everything happens in ttyS0 if I specified
>> console=ttyS0 on the command line, or to have an option to do that. Is
>> it possible? I would expect in that case to keep tty1 blocked or in a
>> login prompt.
>>
>>
>
> Yes. Here I think the best solution is in your customized script, add one
> line in the beginning:
> ================================
> [ "$(tty)" != "/dev/ttyS0" ] && exit 1
> ================================
>
> Then the rest of your script will only be run in the /dev/ttyS0.
>
> Hope this helps.

Yes, I considered implementing exactly that workaround. The only
problem is that I will be using the script as part of a bigger system
with an user interface where the user may choose to redirect the
output or not. So I will have two different customized scripts, one
for redirecting and another for not redirecting, and selecting which
script to use through the generated pxe config file.
I thought of reporting the problem so I had to work less :P
But this should work.

Thank you!

Santiago.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Problems with live-getty and live-netdev

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Santiago Bruno wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the bug reports. I reply your question sin the following.
>>
>> Santiago Bruno wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use Clonezilla live in a machine that will boot using
>>> PXE through its interface eth1. This machine can redirect the console
>>> using Serial over Lan with its own hardware and is configured to do
>>> so.
>>>
>>> I added live-getty and console=ttyS0,115200n8 to the kernel command
>>> line but I'm having a strange problem.
>>>
>>> When I'm looking at the serial console, after booting clonezilla,
>>> there is output at the console as expected, but some output also goes
>>> to the VGA. And it's not the same output. Is like there are two
>>> different clonezilla instances in tty1 and ttyS0. They even start
>>> cloning the same partitions at diferent times messing all up. At the
>>> end one can go to the command line on both consoles and evidently they
>>> are two different processes.
>>>       
>> How did you configure your clonezilla live ? Please show us the config
>> files, e.g. syslinux.cfg... So it's easier for me to reproduce the problem
>> then we can fix this problem.
>>     
>
> Well, I'm using some custom scripts, but now I reduced the
> configuration to try to use a script that does not exists to see if
> the problem still happened so it could be easier to reproduce.
>
> The pxe file for the machine would be like this:
>
> default Clonezilla
> label Clonezilla
> kernel /clonezilla/vmlinuz
> append initrd=/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live live-getty
> console=ttyS0,115200n8 union=aufs noswap noprompt nosplash
> live-netdev="eth1"
> fetch=tftp://<SERVER_IP>/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
> ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8"
> ocs_live_run="/blablablabla"
>
> and what happens when booting is the following.
>
> VGA starts displaying the pxe boot, "Decompressing Linux..."
> decompressing the initrd, and the last lines are
> "Ready
> Probing EDD (...) ok"
>
> It stops there, and then, text starts coming out through ttyS0
> instead. squashfs is decompressed, init starts, I can see that it
> tries to set up eth0 through dhcp because I see some "DHCPDISCOVER..."
> lines until it times out.
> Then I think it sets up eth1 very fast and then the problem starts.
> I think it is when the ocs scripts begin executing.
> The VGA changes from the typical console text to another font,
> probably a framebuffer, and some scripts begin executing both in tty1
> and ttyS0
> obviously they fail inmediately because there is no blablablabla
> script, but I get the prompt to select what to do next in both
> terminals and they are different processes.
> If I type "tty" one gives /dev/tty1 and the other /dev/ttyS0.
> I would expect that everything happens in ttyS0 if I specified
> console=ttyS0 on the command line, or to have an option to do that. Is
> it possible? I would expect in that case to keep tty1 blocked or in a
> login prompt.
>
>   
Yes. Here I think the best solution is in your customized script, add 
one line in the beginning:
================================
[ "$(tty)" != "/dev/ttyS0" ] && exit 1
================================

Then the rest of your script will only be run in the /dev/ttyS0.

Hope this helps.

Steven.

>   
>>> I hope I had explained the problem clearly. Is there a way to avoid
>>> this? To make clonezilla run just in one console?
>>>
>>> May be this is caused because of the uncommon scenario in which I'm
>>> running clonezilla, because I couldn't find much information about
>>> this problem on the net.
>>>
>>> I used clonezilla-live-1.2.2-31 for this test.
>>>
>>> So I tried with clonezilla-live-1.2.3-15 and the ubuntu based, but
>>> there I had another problem. The live-netdev="eth1" is apparently
>>> ignored. While running the initrd the ipconfig command tries to
>>> configure eth0 using dhcp and does never time out.
>>>       
>> The live-netdev bug has been fixed in Clonezilla live 1.2.3-18. Please give
>> it a try.
>>     
>
> It is working fine now. Thanks a lot!
>
> Santiago.
>   

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Xen support and VPS image copy

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> Can we just restore the Clonezilla image without booting in to the Clonezilla image.  
>
> I just checked documents for the partclone. Can we use partclone directly on the Client machine to restore the image of one disk partition to a SAN partition.
>   
If the destination partitions is not mounted, yes, you can use partclone 
to clone that directly. //NOTE// All the data on the destination 
partition will be overwritten.
> One more doubt i have is, Clonezilla supports xen images ?. 
>   
What did you mean by "xen images"?

Steven.
> Regards,
> Shameem
>
>
>       
>   

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> It did work for me.
>
> I added the entry ocs_daemonoff="iscsid", and it worked for me.
>   
Something weird... I checked Clonezilla live 20091214-karmic and 
1.2.3-18, the iscsi service is not on by default... How come it will be 
automatically started there?
> Just out of curiosity, how can i disable a service while booting ? (othe than daemonoff technique.).
>   
You can follow this to modify the filesystem.squashfs (root filesystem 
of Clonezilla live):
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/81_add_prog_in_filesystem-squashfs.faq#81_add_prog_in_filesystem-squashfs.faq

Steven.
>
> I have am using remote boot using PXE. I have created a a clonezilla image dir in PXE server, and the client server directly boots the Clonezilla kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Shameem
>
>
> --- On Sun, 12/20/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>
>> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems
>> To: "Shameem Ahamed" <sha...@ya...>
>> Cc: clo...@li...
>> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 7:59 PM
>>
>>
>> Shameem Ahamed wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello Steven,
>>>
>>> I am able to get the NIC cards up with the clonezilla
>>>       
>> image based on the 2.6.31 karmic kernels.  But using
>> that ubuntu based kernel, i am stuck on the iscsi initiator
>> service  (iscsid)
>>     
>>> Clonezilla was trying to make the service up with no
>>>       
>> success.  Any workaround for this. Can we disable a
>> function from running?.
>>     
>>> ocs_daemonoff or something like that ?.
>>>    
>>>       
>> I doubt ocs_daemonoff will work. Since it's after all the
>> services are started. You can give it a try and let me know
>> the results.
>> BTW, I think maybe it's a good idea to disable iscsi
>> service by default since it's not a required one. Let me
>> know if you need that and I will do this in the next
>> release.
>>
>> Steven.
>>     
>>> Regards,
>>> Shameem
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>    
>>>       
>>>> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme
>>>>         
>> II problems
>>     
>>>> To: clo...@li...
>>>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 9:06 PM
>>>> If i want to create custom clonezilla
>>>> image, how can i add these drivers in to the new
>>>>         
>> image.
>>     
>>>> In the faq, you didn't mention about adding custom
>>>>         
>> packages
>>     
>>>> to the custom Clonezilla live.
>>>>
>>>> When i tried create-debian-live --help, it shows
>>>>         
>> the option
>>     
>>>> --packages to add new packages.  Can you
>>>>         
>> please explain
>>     
>>>> this briefly ?. Can i specify 
>>>> create-debian-live -l e -b stable -k
>>>>         
>> 2.6.30-backports.1-486
>>     
>>>> -i customized -a bnx2-driver
>>>>
>>>> where bnx2-driver is the custom build driver for
>>>>         
>> the
>>     
>>>> BCM5708
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Shameem
>>>>
>>>> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>>>>> Subject: [Clonezilla-live] (no subject)
>>>>> To: clo...@li...
>>>>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 8:23 PM
>>>>> Hi Steven,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to create an image of my new
>>>>>           
>> machine. It
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> has
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> the 
>>>>> Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 GB Ethernet
>>>>>           
>> Card
>>     
>>>>> when i am booting to Clonezilla live image, it
>>>>>           
>> is
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> stuck on
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> "Warning: waiting for ethernet cards up.... If
>>>>>           
>> this
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> fails,
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> maybe the ethernet card in not supported by
>>>>>           
>> the
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> kernel
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> 2.6.30-backports.1-486"
>>>>>
>>>>> I have checked one of your earlier reply to
>>>>>           
>> such a
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> problem
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> and it seems like i need to put the module for
>>>>>           
>> the NIC
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> card
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> in to Clonezilla live. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Will this work for me ? Will this give a
>>>>>           
>> permanent
>>     
>>>>> solution?. If you have anymore suggestions
>>>>>           
>> please let
>>     
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>> me
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Shameem
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?

[Uriel A. <ams...@ya...>]

Thanks all for the replies. While I don't have an external USB drive, I do have an XP netbook. I was able to make a backup of my Vista laptop in a few minutes via Samba in Clonezilla. The process was surpringly painless and easy. It was also fast! (I believe under a half an hour or better for a 10 GB backup.) I used a crossover ethernet cable to connect the two laptops then enabled internet connection sharing on the netbook. For some reason, DCHP didn't work so I had to use static IPs. 

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:49:44 -0600
Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote:

> Did you miss where I said that would work?
> 
> Uriel Avalos wrote:
> > What's with making me buy a USB drive? Last I recall, Linux and open source is about choice ... 
> > Sheesh ... let's try to stick to the topic. Digging around the docs, yes it seems that I can backup to my netbook via Samba...
> > 
> > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:37 -0600
> > Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote:
> > 
> >> Uriel Avalos wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I had considered that but it does not seem to be practical in my case. I'll probably be backing up a clean Win XP install (with programs), so I'll need what ...6GBs? A 6GB USB drive runs at $20 + shipping. $20+ vs 2 or 3 blank DVDs ... the blank DVDs win :-)
> >> But a USB drive is reusable and a handy thing to keep around.  Used 
> >> DVD's, not so much.
> >>
> >>> So back to my original questions... See below...
> >>>
> >>> Another alternative is to use networking --- copy the image to my netbook. That's possible right? The only catch is that it uses NTFS partitions *and* I encrypted the drive... still possible?
> >> Yes, just share a directory where you can store images.  The livecd boot 
> >> will give you a chance to connect to remote storage via nfs, ssh, or 
> >> windows file sharing.  You may have to hand configure IP addresses if 
> >> you can't plug the systems into a DHCP-managed network, though.
> >>
> >> -- 
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> >>     les...@gm...
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 


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[Clonezilla-live] Xen support and VPS image copy

[Shameem A. <sha...@ya...>]

Hello Steven,

Can we just restore the Clonezilla image without booting in to the Clonezilla image.  

I just checked documents for the partclone. Can we use partclone directly on the Client machine to restore the image of one disk partition to a SAN partition.

One more doubt i have is, Clonezilla supports xen images ?. 

Regards,
Shameem


      

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems

[Shameem A. <sha...@ya...>]

Hello Steven,

It did work for me.

I added the entry ocs_daemonoff="iscsid", and it worked for me.

Just out of curiosity, how can i disable a service while booting ? (othe than daemonoff technique.).


I have am using remote boot using PXE. I have created a a clonezilla image dir in PXE server, and the client server directly boots the Clonezilla kernel.

Regards,
Shameem


--- On Sun, 12/20/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:

> From: Steven Shiau <st...@nc...>
> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems
> To: "Shameem Ahamed" <sha...@ya...>
> Cc: clo...@li...
> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 7:59 PM
> 
> 
> Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> > Hello Steven,
> > 
> > I am able to get the NIC cards up with the clonezilla
> image based on the 2.6.31 karmic kernels.  But using
> that ubuntu based kernel, i am stuck on the iscsi initiator
> service  (iscsid)
> > 
> > Clonezilla was trying to make the service up with no
> success.  Any workaround for this. Can we disable a
> function from running?.
> > 
> > ocs_daemonoff or something like that ?.
> >   
> I doubt ocs_daemonoff will work. Since it's after all the
> services are started. You can give it a try and let me know
> the results.
> BTW, I think maybe it's a good idea to disable iscsi
> service by default since it's not a required one. Let me
> know if you need that and I will do this in the next
> release.
> 
> Steven.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Shameem
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> >> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme
> II problems
> >> To: clo...@li...
> >> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 9:06 PM
> >> If i want to create custom clonezilla
> >> image, how can i add these drivers in to the new
> image.
> >> 
> >> In the faq, you didn't mention about adding custom
> packages
> >> to the custom Clonezilla live.
> >> 
> >> When i tried create-debian-live --help, it shows
> the option
> >> --packages to add new packages.  Can you
> please explain
> >> this briefly ?. Can i specify 
> >> create-debian-live -l e -b stable -k
> 2.6.30-backports.1-486
> >> -i customized -a bnx2-driver
> >> 
> >> where bnx2-driver is the custom build driver for
> the
> >> BCM5708
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Shameem
> >> 
> >> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>     
> >>> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> >>> Subject: [Clonezilla-live] (no subject)
> >>> To: clo...@li...
> >>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 8:23 PM
> >>> Hi Steven,
> >>> 
> >>> I am trying to create an image of my new
> machine. It
> >>>       
> >> has
> >>     
> >>> the 
> >>> Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 GB Ethernet
> Card
> >>> 
> >>> when i am booting to Clonezilla live image, it
> is
> >>>       
> >> stuck on
> >>     
> >>> "Warning: waiting for ethernet cards up.... If
> this
> >>>       
> >> fails,
> >>     
> >>> maybe the ethernet card in not supported by
> the
> >>>       
> >> kernel
> >>     
> >>> 2.6.30-backports.1-486"
> >>> 
> >>> I have checked one of your earlier reply to
> such a
> >>>       
> >> problem
> >>     
> >>> and it seems like i need to put the module for
> the NIC
> >>>       
> >> card
> >>     
> >>> in to Clonezilla live. 
> >>> 
> >>> Will this work for me ? Will this give a
> permanent
> >>> solution?. If you have anymore suggestions
> please let
> >>>       
> >> me
> >>     
> >>> know.
> >>> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Shameem
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>       
> >>> 
> >>>       
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> I am able to get the NIC cards up with the clonezilla image based on the 2.6.31 karmic kernels.  But using that ubuntu based kernel, i am stuck on the iscsi initiator service  (iscsid)
>
> Clonezilla was trying to make the service up with no success.  
> Any workaround for this. Can we disable a function from running?.
>
> ocs_daemonoff or something like that ?.
>   
I doubt ocs_daemonoff will work. Since it's after all the services are 
started. You can give it a try and let me know the results.
BTW, I think maybe it's a good idea to disable iscsi service by default 
since it's not a required one. Let me know if you need that and I will 
do this in the next release.

Steven.
>
> Regards,
> Shameem
>
>
> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems
>> To: clo...@li...
>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 9:06 PM
>> If i want to create custom clonezilla
>> image, how can i add these drivers in to the new image.
>>
>> In the faq, you didn't mention about adding custom packages
>> to the custom Clonezilla live.
>>
>> When i tried create-debian-live --help, it shows the option
>> --packages to add new packages.  Can you please explain
>> this briefly ?. Can i specify 
>>
>> create-debian-live -l e -b stable -k 2.6.30-backports.1-486
>> -i customized -a bnx2-driver
>>
>> where bnx2-driver is the custom build driver for the
>> BCM5708
>>
>> Regards
>> Shameem
>>
>> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>>> Subject: [Clonezilla-live] (no subject)
>>> To: clo...@li...
>>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 8:23 PM
>>> Hi Steven,
>>>
>>> I am trying to create an image of my new machine. It
>>>       
>> has
>>     
>>> the 
>>>
>>> Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 GB Ethernet Card
>>>
>>> when i am booting to Clonezilla live image, it is
>>>       
>> stuck on
>>     
>>> "Warning: waiting for ethernet cards up.... If this
>>>       
>> fails,
>>     
>>> maybe the ethernet card in not supported by the
>>>       
>> kernel
>>     
>>> 2.6.30-backports.1-486"
>>>
>>> I have checked one of your earlier reply to such a
>>>       
>> problem
>>     
>>> and it seems like i need to put the module for the NIC
>>>       
>> card
>>     
>>> in to Clonezilla live. 
>>>
>>>
>>> Will this work for me ? Will this give a permanent
>>> solution?. If you have anymore suggestions please let
>>>       
>> me
>>     
>>> know.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Shameem
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Uriel Avalos wrote:
> Hi I am looking to create an image backup of my system to a DVD. However, suppose that the ISO won't fit on the DVD.
>
> (1) What software do I use to break up the ISO? (ex: tar) Or can Clonezilla do this for me via some wizard?
> (2) Can Clonezilla restore from spanned media? Or do I need to first rejoin the spanned pieces?
>   
This is still a limitation for Clonezilla, i.e. it can not handle 
spanned DVDs, and yes, you have to first rejoin the spanned pieces.

Steven.

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> If i want to create custom clonezilla image, how can i add these drivers in to the new image.
>
> In the faq, you didn't mention about adding custom packages to the custom Clonezilla live.
>
> When i tried create-debian-live --help, it shows the option --packages to add new packages.  Can you please explain this briefly ?. Can i specify 
>
>   
That means if the driver is a package in Debian repository, you can 
specify that.
> create-debian-live -l e -b stable -k 2.6.30-backports.1-486 -i customized -a bnx2-driver
>   
I remember for kernel 2.6.30-backports, bnx2 need firmware, too. 
Therefore it might be something like:

create-debian-live -l e -b unstable -a firmware-bnx2 -c "main non-free" 
-i customized

Anyway, you have to be familiar with Debian repository, and the kernel 
modules packages for this. I suggest that you give Clonezilla live 
testing or alternative (i.e. 1.2.3-18 or 20091214-karmic) a try. It's 
easier to make this.

Regards,
Steven.
> where bnx2-driver is the custom build driver for the BCM5708
>
> Regards
> Shameem
>
> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
>> Subject: [Clonezilla-live] (no subject)
>> To: clo...@li...
>> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 8:23 PM
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> I am trying to create an image of my new machine. It has
>> the 
>>
>> Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 GB Ethernet Card
>>
>> when i am booting to Clonezilla live image, it is stuck on
>>
>>
>> "Warning: waiting for ethernet cards up.... If this fails,
>> maybe the ethernet card in not supported by the kernel
>> 2.6.30-backports.1-486"
>>
>> I have checked one of your earlier reply to such a problem
>> and it seems like i need to put the module for the NIC card
>> in to Clonezilla live. 
>>
>>
>> Will this work for me ? Will this give a permanent
>> solution?. If you have anymore suggestions please let me
>> know.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shameem
>>
>>
>>       
>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] (no subject)

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Shameem,

Did you give Clonezilla live 1.2.3-18 or Ubuntu-based (20091214-karmic) 
a try?
Both of them comes with newer kernel, so your network card might be 
supported.

Steven.

Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> I am trying to create an image of my new machine. It has the 
>
> Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 GB Ethernet Card
>
> when i am booting to Clonezilla live image, it is stuck on 
>
> "Warning: waiting for ethernet cards up.... If this fails, maybe the ethernet card in not supported by the kernel 2.6.30-backports.1-486"
>
> I have checked one of your earlier reply to such a problem and it seems like i need to put the module for the NIC card in to Clonezilla live. 
>
>
> Will this work for me ? Will this give a permanent solution?. If you have anymore suggestions please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Shameem
>
>
>       
>   

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems

[Shameem A. <sha...@ya...>]

Hello Steven,

I am able to get the NIC cards up with the clonezilla image based on the 2.6.31 karmic kernels.  But using that ubuntu based kernel, i am stuck on the iscsi initiator service  (iscsid)

Clonezilla was trying to make the service up with no success.  
Any workaround for this. Can we disable a function from running?.

ocs_daemonoff or something like that ?.


Regards,
Shameem


--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...> wrote:

> From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Broadcom NetExtreme II problems
> To: clo...@li...
> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 9:06 PM
> If i want to create custom clonezilla
> image, how can i add these drivers in to the new image.
> 
> In the faq, you didn't mention about adding custom packages
> to the custom Clonezilla live.
> 
> When i tried create-debian-live --help, it shows the option
> --packages to add new packages.  Can you please explain
> this briefly ?. Can i specify 
> 
> create-debian-live -l e -b stable -k 2.6.30-backports.1-486
> -i customized -a bnx2-driver
> 
> where bnx2-driver is the custom build driver for the
> BCM5708
> 
> Regards
> Shameem
> 
> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Shameem Ahamed <sha...@ya...>
> > Subject: [Clonezilla-live] (no subject)
> > To: clo...@li...
> > Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 8:23 PM
> > Hi Steven,
> > 
> > I am trying to create an image of my new machine. It
> has
> > the 
> > 
> > Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 GB Ethernet Card
> > 
> > when i am booting to Clonezilla live image, it is
> stuck on
> > 
> > 
> > "Warning: waiting for ethernet cards up.... If this
> fails,
> > maybe the ethernet card in not supported by the
> kernel
> > 2.6.30-backports.1-486"
> > 
> > I have checked one of your earlier reply to such a
> problem
> > and it seems like i need to put the module for the NIC
> card
> > in to Clonezilla live. 
> > 
> > 
> > Will this work for me ? Will this give a permanent
> > solution?. If you have anymore suggestions please let
> me
> > know.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Shameem
> > 
> > 
> >       
> > 
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?

[Shameem A. <sha...@ya...>]

i Suggest ssh or nfs.

Do you have a linux machine with 10 GB free space ?

Shameem

--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Uriel Avalos <ams...@ya...> wrote:

> From: Uriel Avalos <ams...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?
> To: clo...@li...
> Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 3:00 AM
> Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I had
> considered that but it does not seem to be practical in my
> case. I'll probably be backing up a clean Win XP install
> (with programs), so I'll need what ...6GBs? A 6GB USB drive
> runs at $20 + shipping. $20+ vs 2 or 3 blank DVDs ... the
> blank DVDs win :-) 
> 
> So back to my original questions... See below...
> 
> Another alternative is to use networking --- copy the image
> to my netbook. That's possible right? The only catch is that
> it uses NTFS partitions *and* I encrypted the drive... still
> possible?
> 
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:22:31 -0800
> Steve Poe <ste...@gm...>
> wrote:
> 
> > Uriel,
> > 
> > What about considering making a bootable USB flash
> drive and loading the image onto it?
> > 
> > Steve
> > On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi I am looking to create an image backup of my
> system to a DVD. However, suppose that the ISO won't fit on
> the DVD.
> > > 
> > > (1) What software do I use to break up the ISO?
> (ex: tar) Or can Clonezilla do this for me via some wizard?
> > > (2) Can Clonezilla restore from spanned media? Or
> do I need to first rejoin the spanned pieces?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > --Thanks!
> > > Uriel
> > > 
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Uriel Avalos wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I had considered that but it does not seem to be practical in my case. I'll probably be backing up a clean Win XP install (with programs), so I'll need what ...6GBs? A 6GB USB drive runs at $20 + shipping. $20+ vs 2 or 3 blank DVDs ... the blank DVDs win :-)

But a USB drive is reusable and a handy thing to keep around.  Used 
DVD's, not so much.

> So back to my original questions... See below...
> 
> Another alternative is to use networking --- copy the image to my netbook. That's possible right? The only catch is that it uses NTFS partitions *and* I encrypted the drive... still possible?

Yes, just share a directory where you can store images.  The livecd boot 
will give you a chance to connect to remote storage via nfs, ssh, or 
windows file sharing.  You may have to hand configure IP addresses if 
you can't plug the systems into a DHCP-managed network, though.

-- 
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?

[Uriel A. <ams...@ya...>]

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I had considered that but it does not seem to be practical in my case. I'll probably be backing up a clean Win XP install (with programs), so I'll need what ...6GBs? A 6GB USB drive runs at $20 + shipping. $20+ vs 2 or 3 blank DVDs ... the blank DVDs win :-) 

So back to my original questions... See below...

Another alternative is to use networking --- copy the image to my netbook. That's possible right? The only catch is that it uses NTFS partitions *and* I encrypted the drive... still possible?

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:22:31 -0800
Steve Poe <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> Uriel,
> 
> What about considering making a bootable USB flash drive and loading the image onto it?
> 
> Steve
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> 
> > Hi I am looking to create an image backup of my system to a DVD. However, suppose that the ISO won't fit on the DVD.
> > 
> > (1) What software do I use to break up the ISO? (ex: tar) Or can Clonezilla do this for me via some wizard?
> > (2) Can Clonezilla restore from spanned media? Or do I need to first rejoin the spanned pieces?
> > 
> > -- 
> > --Thanks!
> > Uriel
> > 
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Span an ISO across multiple DVD's?

[Steve P. <ste...@gm...>]

Uriel,

What about considering making a bootable USB flash drive and loading the image onto it?

Steve
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Uriel Avalos wrote:

> Hi I am looking to create an image backup of my system to a DVD. However, suppose that the ISO won't fit on the DVD.
> 
> (1) What software do I use to break up the ISO? (ex: tar) Or can Clonezilla do this for me via some wizard?
> (2) Can Clonezilla restore from spanned media? Or do I need to first rejoin the spanned pieces?
> 
> -- 
> --Thanks!
> Uriel
> 
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