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PC imaging with CloneZilla
4:08 PM EDT 7/20/07
FYI: My district wasn't interested in paying $10,000 for a certain commercial hard drive imaging software product. Even the vendor's slimmed down $2,000 version is too much. After snooping around, I discovered CloneZilla which is being developed and used by Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing. I've gotten the product to do about 99.9% of what I need. The remainder has to do with imaging systems via a network connection. The only hang up with that has to do with my lack of expertise with Linux.
For those of you interested, here are a couple links...
Information page:
http://www.nchc.org.tw/en/htdocs/news/info.php?id=18
Project page:
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/
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Re: PC imaging with CloneZilla
1:45 PM EST 1/25/08
as a reply to Harold Hoover.
My use of Clonezilla is now mostly by way of the
GParted-Clonezilla live cd available here...
http://gpartedclonz.tuxfamily.org/index.php
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Re: PC imaging with CloneZilla
11:17 AM EDT 6/11/08
as a reply to Jacob Blackwood.
Please let the community here know how it goes. Thank you.
I'm Very pleased to have begun making use of the multicast ability of Clonezilla server. I was able to boot a notebook PC off of a CD and multicast the same hard drive image to seven machines at the same time. What a time saver that was! After imaging, I renamed each of the public access computers.
The CD I used was burned from an ISO image obtained from this site... http://drbl.sourceforge.net/. The public access computers which were reimaged... I was able to boot via the network adapters (i.e. PXE). So, no boot CD was needed in any of those machines. The ISO image was of "DRBL Live, Testing" obtained from here... http://drbl.sourceforge.net/download/sourceforge/
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