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

[Michal S. <hra...@ce...>]

On 7 December 2010 17:40, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote:
> On 12/7/10 8:48 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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...
>
> Is there a way to build a handier platform for testing changes?  Like a bootable
> USB drive large enough to have an uncompressed filesystem?
>

For me the debian-live config is quite handy testing platform.

On a decent system running the mksquashfs for something the size of
clonezilla does not take very long.

Also running mksquashfs is only required for changes to initscripts,
other scripts can be modified directly from the live system and the
diffs saved on an USB stick or on network and applied by live-helper
on subsequent rebuilds.

Changes to initramfs require only running mkinitramfs which is also
not too lenghty, especially if you don't need something like mdadm
installed.

debian-live allows booting from network so you can serve the initramfs
and squashfs image from the build directory without the need to build
an iso image or burn CDs.

Thanks

Michal