Re: [Clonezilla-live] Anybody managed to build clonezilla from source?

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

On 12/07/2010 08:11 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 7 December 2010 10:28, Steven Shiau<st...@nc...>  wrote:
>    
>> Did you read the programs of Clonezilla?
>> They are all shell scripts or perl programs, you do not need to compile
>> them. The running programs are source codes. This is described here:
>> http://clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge/src/
>>      
> Yes, you do not need to compile them but you need to build the CD to host them.
>    
OK, now I realized what you want is the way to create such a Clonezilla 
live...
>    
>> If you mean to build Clonezilla live, check this:
>> http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq#46_create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.faq
>>      
> Yes, this is a nice guide.
>    
That's an old doc... Actually almost nobody asked this... Therefore 
that's why it has not been updated for more than 1 year. I have updated 
now, and put a link here:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/#make
Or you can directly find the doc here:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php
> It raises some questions, though.
>
> First, why is this guide located around half of a FAQ page which
> contains over 100 entries between
>
> # Is there any way I can save image to CD-RW or DVD-RW directly ?
> # Is that possible I can put clonezilla live in my harddrive which
> already has an OS installed ?
>
> and
>
> # When I use Clonezilla server edition to do a multicast clone, the
> client machines just keep waiting, any hint ?
> # I'd like to translate DRBL/Clonezilla to other language, how can I help ?
>
> Some organization of the FAQ would be helpful.
>
> The word build which is usually associated with obtaining a useful
> program image from the sources only appears in
>
> # How to Build and Install Partclone on Fedora 11 x86_64?
>
> The word source appears in
>
> # Where can I find the DRBL live or Clonezilla live source codes ?
>
> which is nowhere near the
>
> # How to create Clonezilla live from scratch ?
>
> Also the page is styled such that the text is very hard to read
> (because the background color is set but link color is not and the
> link color from my system theme is hard to read on your white
> background).
>
> Further the FAQ is not searchable by content because the answers are
> only revealed once a question is clicked.
> I could possibly find my answer by page search if the answers were
> available because the answer provides many useful keywords although
> the question does not.
>
> Hint: many FAQ pages are organized such that they are divided into
> multiple sections of related questions and they have all the questions
> listed on the top with answers coming after that and there are in-page
> hyperlinks form the top list to the answers.
>
>    
Yes, we have to sort the FAQ/Q&A... For the past few years, we just 
appended and appended... If you can, why not do something for us? Sort 
them and give us the best way to present them.
> Another question is since clonezilla live is self-hosted what purpose
> is that "source" published as separate tarball?
>    
Well, basically the "clonezilla" program can be run on other GNU/Linux 
distributions, e.g. Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuSE... I knew someone put 
Clonezilla program on Fedora live or other live linux and has his/her 
own Clonezilla live based on other GNU/Linux distribution.
> Can clonezilla be also built from that source or is it a red herring?
>    
Well, you can treat Clonezilla live as a GNU/Linux distribution, and as 
described on
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/create_clonezilla_live_from_scratch.php
the Clonezilla live can be created from Clonezilla source program...
Therefore they are related...

Steven.
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>    

-- 
Steven Shiau<steven _at_ nchc org tw>  <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.
http://www.nchc.org.tw
Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A
Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB  F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A