Re: [Clonezilla-live] 'Upgrade' windows systems with clonezilla?

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

Yes, what I mentioned is run under GNU/Linux.
If what you need is to configure the network after restored MS windows
boots, I believe you could use DRBL-Winroll to do that:
http://drbl-winroll.org/

Steven.

On 2015年02月12日 00:20, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Thanks for the response, but these run in the context of the linux
> clonezilla-live system don't they?   I was hoping someone would have
> examples or pointers to documentation showing how to set the IP,
> netmask and gateway on the freshly cloned disk with a windows 2008 OS,
> and in particular how to tie them to the correct NIC where the machine
> may have several.   Or, if this can't be done from a linux script, is
> there some way to include a program that runs at first boot on a
> windows image?  (And in that case I still need to find the commands to
> make the settings in a script).
> 
> -Les
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>> Yes, you can run your own script before and after Clonezilla job is run.
>> The boot parameters you can use are ocs_prerun* and ocs_postrun*:
>> http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc
>> Just place your script in the appropriate path and use that parameters
>> to run it. You should be able to make it.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> On 1/29/2015 AM 12:32, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> We will need to upgrade a large number of windows 2003 servers to 2008
>>> or 2012 in the near future.  Most of these are headless and have
>>> multiple network connections. I know I can build a usb disk/key that
>>> will install a standard image with clonezilla, but is there a way to
>>> also:
>>>   a) run a script on the machine before rebooting that gathers the
>>> hostname and NIC/IP settings - and maybe a few other things and write
>>> to the USB device.
>>> and
>>>    b) after the newly cloned image comes up, have it run a matching
>>> script to recreate the original settings?
>>>
>>> Has anyone done something like this already?   Alternatively, we might
>>> pre-build a database of all the MAC addresses and IP's and include
>>> that in the installed image so a script could get it back on the
>>> network to do the rest of the work.
>>>
>>
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