Re: [Clonezilla-server-edition] Clonezilla SE (DRBL Live)

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

This are still some issues about testing DRBL live, especially the unfs3
issue.
Please give stable DRBL a try.

Steven.

On 03/26/2011 12:14 AM, Paul Warren wrote:
> I have been using Clonezilla Live for some time and I would now like to try
> using Clonezilla SE.  I dowloaded the latest DRBL Live ISO
> (drbl-live-xfce-1.0.2-46-i686.iso) and used tuxboot to put this on a USB
> flash drive.  I have used this flash drive to boot a spare PC.  Once the GUI
> comes up, I click on the Clonzilla Server icon to get things going.  I
> choose 'dhcp' to configure the network card.  Since there is only one
> network card, I choose 'Y' to the question "Do you want to lease IP
> addresses to PXE/Etherboot clients only".  The file that I want to send to
> the clients is on a Windows file server, so I select the option to connect
> to a samba server and provide all of the needed config.  I next choose to
> set the mode for "All" clients.  I then go through setting up the Clonezilla
> mode options and choose the image to restore.  I select "multicast restore"
> and "clients-to-wait" with 1 client.  I eventually end up at a message that
> says "DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW UNTIL CLIENTS FINISH THE CLONE!" at which
> time I boot the PC via the network controller.  The PC gets an IP address
> (verified via 'cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases' on the DRBL Live server) and
> begins booting the DRBL client.  After the main splash screen some lines of
> text scroll by and then things seem to stop.  I've waited several minutes to
> see if anything will happen, but nothing seems to be going on.  When I press
> 'Enter' on the client PC I get a command prompt ('#') with a few commands
> available.  Am I supposed to run a command here to start the process?  Have
> I done something wrong?  Both the DRBL server and the PC client are
> connected to the same switch, so I hope that eliminates any potential
> multicast issues for my test.  Where should I begin troubleshooting?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Paul
> 
> 
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