Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peterson Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:17 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 Thanks Les and Thomas. I appreciate the feedback. I'll look into installing this solution. I'm currently using a g4u-based routine with an ftp-server running of off a Win2k3-machine+dhcp. It works, but is slightly awkward to use. Clonezilla seems a bit more worked-on compared and more of a complete solution. Please let us know how it works for you. I did not know that you could install it on CentOS. I just started looking at it lately and can not get the live CD to work on new or old hardware. I have used PartImage and hoped it would be easier to use but no luck even getting it up to test yet. Glad to read that someone has gotten it to work. I will. I'm just about finished migrating RHEL3 to CentOS5 by way of g4u for a course-start and I'll start looking into Clonezilla afterwards, when I'm not deadlined anymore. This whole business with g4u made things pearshaped occasionally and also made me start looking for a more generalistic solution. Don't misunderstand me, g4u is not bad at all, but things are not ideal as it were. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Toby Bluhm Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 I never posted anything, but Steven Shiau, the maintainer, seems responsive to questions on the mail list. Thx for the hint. I'll look there for more help if I need any. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: The OS Maker! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Hi We have a standalone network cloning laptops using clonezilla. The person using it says it does what it is supposed to. The install was pretty much by the instructions on the webpage. The computer we use have an extra NIC for a private clone network. We also installed an extra HDD 500GB for clone image storage. What i did was pretty much; 1. Configure nic on eth1 to 192.168.100.1 2. Add packages dkms dkms-fuse dkms-ntfs3g dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g-devel fuse-ntfs-3g * /yum install dkms dkms-fuse dkms-ntfs3g dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g-devel fuse-ntfs-3g/ 3. /Modify ///etc/sysconfig/iptables/ according to Clonezilla server firewall https://sysadm.isy.liu.se/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClonezillaFirewall 4. Install Clonezilla following Clonezilla server install http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/ 5. Configure the server according to the webpage Regards Thomas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a 2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a 2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. Thanks Les and Thomas. I appreciate the feedback. I'll look into installing this solution. I'm currently using a g4u-based routine with an ftp-server running of off a Win2k3-machine+dhcp. It works, but is slightly awkward to use. Clonezilla seems a bit more worked-on compared and more of a complete solution. Thanks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a 2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. Thanks Les and Thomas. I appreciate the feedback. I'll look into installing this solution. I'm currently using a g4u-based routine with an ftp-server running of off a Win2k3-machine+dhcp. It works, but is slightly awkward to use. Clonezilla seems a bit more worked-on compared and more of a complete solution. Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Please let us know how it works for you. I did not know that you could install it on CentOS. I just started looking at it lately and can not get the live CD to work on new or old hardware. I have used PartImage and hoped it would be easier to use but no luck even getting it up to test yet. Glad to read that someone has gotten it to work. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Michael Peterson wrote: Please let us know how it works for you. I did not know that you could install it on CentOS. I just started looking at it lately and can not get the live CD to work on new or old hardware. I have used PartImage and hoped it would be easier to use but no luck even getting it up to test yet. Glad to read that someone has gotten it to work. How does the live CD fail for you? Installing the DRBL package on a Centos server basically gives you PXE network boot capability, but once you've booted into clonezilla it is pretty much the same thing you would have if you booted the live CD and mounted network storage from the server - and either way works with most of the hardware I've tried. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Works nicely for my only purpose - Windows backup. Installs like an appliance - it will stomp on several config files without warning. Best to try it out on a test box or virtual machine. Had to sort through many small scripts to get it to do what I wanted. Main ones I edited were /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions, /opt/drbl/lang/bash/en_US, /tftpboot/nbi_img/pxelinux.cfg/default. Use only one network, shut off nis master, made it a secondary dhcpd server, NFS mount the image storage point off another box. The logger service /opt/drbl/sbin/ocsmgrd didn't work the way I liked, so I use cobbled something together using nc. Because I changed around some files, I have to be careful with drbl/clonezilla updates. I found it useful to have spare disk/LVM space on the server to restore images to, easier restore of a single file or dir. Needs to be equal/larger than the biggest client disk. I had to move it from an x86_64 to i386 Centos - not all my client cpus could run 64bit. PXE boot other stuff like systemrescue, C5 install/rescue, DBAN, etc. I never posted anything, but Steven Shiau, the maintainer, seems responsive to questions on the mail list. -- tkb ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
