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Really can not succeed to run clonezilla from USB for windows 7


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If you use the online method of tuxboot, then the screens you have shown above will download the ISO selected and install it, and you only need to select the Drive (choose your USB drive letter here - NOTE: USB key must be inserted BEFORE starting tuxboot, otherwise the drive list will not be populated - probably why no drive letter is visible in your screenshots), after the Type: USB Drive selection at the bottom, before clicking okay

Why not try method B, if youre having trouble with the tuxboot method and download the zip and copy the contents to the USB drive and run the makeboot.bat file on the USB key under the utils\win32\ folder. as mentioned in the info, do not run makeboot.bat on your hdd, only the USB key

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Well, finally did using the live cd and placed the image to the other HDD in the same machine.

But now if I want to install this image to another computer, how to do so?

Can I copy this image to a USB and then boot with Live CD and then install this image from the USB to the Drive I want in any other new computer?

Note: all computers are the same .

Thanks

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Well, finally did using the live cd and placed the image to the other HDD in the same machine.

But now if I want to install this image to another computer, how to do so?

Can I copy this image to a USB and then boot with Live CD and then install this image from the USB to the Drive I want in any other new computer?

Note: all computers are the same .

Thanks

Good to hear you got the image created.

And yes, you can copy the image to the USB (assuming the USB key is big enough), and then access it from the LiveCD, and restore the image from the USB key to any hard drive you wish (assuming the hdd is big enough)

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Curious what your long term goal here is?? You mention in other thread a lab with multiple computers. Are you looking for way to reimage these machines after say a class?

There is much easier way then putting images on thumbdrives and booting liveCDs.. I would just boot PXE and either take image or deploy whatever image you want.

Maybe something like this??

http://www.fogproject.org/?q=node/1

FOG is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP, Vista and 7 that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. FOG doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the kernel, so you don't really need to worry about drivers (unless there isn't a linux kernel driver for it). FOG also supports putting an image that came from a computer with a 80GB partition onto a machine with a 40GB hard drive as long as the data is less than 40GB.

Fog also includes a graphical Windows service that is used to change the hostname of the PC, restart the computer if a task is created for it, and auto import hosts into the FOG database. The service also installs printers, and does simple snap-ins.

FOG System Overview

fogoverview.jpg

This is a very basic overview of how FOG works. The FOG server, by default, provides DHCP, NFS, PXE, FTP, HTTPD, and WOL services to the clients on the network. All computers on the network should have PXE boot as their first boot device, then as is shown by client 1, FOG will chose if the machine should boot the FOG image, or to the local hard disk. Client 2 in the diagram is pushing an image to the server and storing it using NFS, where it could later be pushed down to other computers. The manager is the machine that controls all the tasks of the FOG server. The manager can be any web enabled device from an IPod touch with Safari to a XP desktop top running IE.

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Budman is correct

If you are looking to do as he says, and you have posted in another thread, and deploy images to multiple PC's, especially on a regular basis

Have a look at CloneZilla SE (Server Edition)

http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/

or

FOG

http://www.fogproject.org/?q=node/1

Either way theres some setup involved, and both are linux based solutions and require a linux PC to act as a server

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Curious what your long term goal here is?? You mention in other thread a lab with multiple computers. Are you looking for way to reimage these machines after say a class?

Hello BudMan ... the one who always cut it short to the point ;)

Yes my small lab has a set of two groups computers, the 1st set or group is about 20 computers and it is dedicated for capturing the streaming as I've mentioned in other threads, and the other set is 4 computers for encoding.

These two groups are connected using a simple network and there is no server or domain at all, but just normal sharing and ftp as I've mentioned earlier.

You mentioned in another thread here and here to use CloneZilla to do an image for the system to save my time (which was really new to me) in case something wrong happened to any computer of any set.

So now I am trying to have an image for each set to be safe (really thanks to you to let me know that keep computers running is ok).

So now I did tried to make the image with clone zilla and now I am trying to test how to restore it but really do not know how to do it at all.

Regarding the FOG PROJECT you mentioned, to be honest with you I do not know Linux at all so I will not be able to handle it and I am just trying to make things as simple as possible and learning in the same time.

I hope that computers will be ok and not all of them screw down at the same time so using something like CloneZilla is really good for me but the problem now is that I can not restore it and I did watched some tutorials in youtube and did the image and copied it to an external USB but when I boot from the live CD and started the clonezilla wizard and at the step where it is asking to isert the USB drive and wait for 5 seconds then hit Enter key I did but nothing appeared and I am still can not see the USB drive at all.

Hope you can help me :)

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Ok I am at a loss to why your having issues.. I just grabbed clonezilla, created usb boot - click, done! Rebooted box, selected to boot from the usb.. Shazam clonezilla running and walking through creating image.

Where are you having issues?? What USB are you saving the image too, is it really large enough for your whole image?

You move files back and forth between all your machines all day don't you? Why don't you just mount a samba share and put the image there?? I just booted the clonezilla live USB and didn't want to actually create an image of this computer - take longer than I wanted to spend. But vs writing to usb that you seem to have issues with. Why don't you just mount a share and put the image there? This way you could put your different images in the same location for ease of access.

btw your picking images and not devices when you boot clonezilla?

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Ok I am at a loss to why your having issues.. I just grabbed clonezilla, created usb boot - click, done! Rebooted box, selected to boot from the usb.. Shazam clonezilla running and walking through creating image.

How by god you were able to make a bootable USB for clonezilla, I only was able to do the Live CD by downloading the .iso and burn it.
Where are you having issues??
I am having issues that my USB is not shown when clonezilla asks for it, exactly at the point when it says if you want to insert USB now connect it to the machine and wait 5 seconds and then hit enter.

What USB are you saving the image too, is it really large enough for your whole image?

I've booted using Live CD and I've two HDD installed already in my computer, so I've made an image for the 1st HDD and saved it to the 2nd HDD using clonezilla and this part done correctly with no issues.

Then I copied the folder that contains the image to a USB and the image folder is less then 8 GB while the USB is 16 GB.

So when I tried to test restoring the image I booted the Live CD and inserted the USB when it asked but I was not able to see it at all.

You move files back and forth between all your machines all day don't you? Why don't you just mount a samba share and put the image there?? I just booted the clonezilla live USB and didn't want to actually create an image of this computer - take longer than I wanted to spend. But vs writing to usb that you seem to have issues with. Why don't you just mount a share and put the image there? This way you could put your different images in the same location for ease of access.

You mean like external HDD to save image to it and then browse to it to restore?

a bootable USB will work as fine for me as I will not do the restore frequently and will do it only if disk failed.

btw your picking images and not devices when you boot clonezilla?

Yes the 1st option.
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"How by god you were able to make a bootable USB for clonezilla"

It was very difficult - I grabbed tuxboot like they suggest. pointed it to my USB disk that was formatted FAT again per the instructions. Waited a few minutes and shabang there you go bootable usb flash drive.

Did you run the tool as administrator? Where you getting admin elevation popups if you did not?

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Then when computer booted, picked F12 (this would depend on your computer) for boot options and there you go pick usb and shazam there you go running clonezilla.. Then just follow the bouncing ball instructions to create or restore an image.

Maybe your computers don't boot usb?? how old are they? Are they set to boot usb? Did you pick boot options when it booted where you can pick a hdd, cd/dvd or usb or pxe, etc.. to boot from?

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"How by god you were able to make a bootable USB for clonezilla"

It was very difficult - I grabbed tuxboot like they suggest. pointed it to my USB disk that was formatted FAT again per the instructions. Waited a few minutes and shabang there you go bootable usb flash drive.

FAT or FAT32!? when I try to format my USB stick drive I can only find two options which are FAT32 and exFAT.

Did you run the tool as administrator? Where you getting admin elevation popups if you did not?

Yes I did :(

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Then when computer booted, picked F12 (this would depend on your computer) for boot options and there you go pick usb and shazam there you go running clonezilla.. Then just follow the bouncing ball instructions to create or restore an image.

so during the process of booting from the USB I can make an image of my harddrive and also save this image to the same USB I've booted from?

Maybe your computers don't boot usb?? how old are they? Are they set to boot usb? Did you pick boot options when it booted where you can pick a hdd, cd/dvd or usb or pxe, etc.. to boot from?

Yes the machine is Dell, OptiPlex GX 620 has an option to boot from USB.

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fat32 should work, might be the partitions is too big with 16GB? I have a 16GB one guess I could use that for testing. Try using the manual instructions with creating a 200MB fat partition, etc.

Here you go - I even did a rawmap to my usbdisk and booted a virtualbox with it - so I can send you some pictures if needed, etc. And guess I could clone my virtualbox win7 host to samba and walk you through it.

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How big is your install? Is it going to fix on 16GB disk?

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Ok, I've created the USB drive and I will test it right now to boot with it.

Please one last thing, can I save the image of the hard drive to the same USB? so this way I can boot from the USB and restore the image stored on it.

The image size folder is about 8 GB so it is less then the USB stick size.

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