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

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

Yes, setting the network up on windows at first boot is what I want to
do.   Drbl-winroll does look like it may do it.  Installing a copy of
cygwin for that seems like overkill though.   I was hoping to find a
way to do it in a batch file of native windows commands - but anything
is better than nothing.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
> 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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