Bill,
Maybe you can run a memtest on your 2nd machine ?
There is an option "memtest" on Clonezilla live boot menu, you can try that.

Steven.

Bill Gurley wrote:
> Steven:
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.  It turns out that md5sum values on my large 
> (2000MB) image files on the 2nd machine did not match the 1st machine, 
> and were also unreliable (changed with successive runs).  I transferred 
> the files to a 3rd machine, and all of the values matched the 1st machine.
>
> So I've got to troubleshoot what the problem is with that 2nd machine, 
> which is Ubuntu 8.10, and is my own desktop machine!
>
>
> Steven Shiau wrote:
>   
>> Hi Bill,
>> Bill Gurley wrote:
>>     
>>> I think that I've done this before successfully, but last week I ran 
>>> into trouble.  Let me explain the scenario:
>>>
>>> I have a computer lab with about 30 identical XP Professional machines. 
>>>   The network configuration is not conducive to using the Clonezilla SE 
>>> server setup for multicasting images.  So I just restore my clonezilla 
>>> image to all of the machines, using the live CD and connecting to an ssh 
>>> server to access the image, and performing unicast restores.
>>>
>>> This is fairly low-tech, I know.  But I only have to update the image 
>>> about once per year.  I have a special image server that I use for 
>>> clonezilla images.  The server is running 64-bit CentOS.
>>>
>>> One obvious problem is that, over 100Mbit ethernet, the server starts to 
>>>   bog down if you run restores on more than three of these machines at a 
>>> time.  So I decided to put a copy of the image onto my own desktop 
>>> machine, which is running 32-bit Ubuntu, so that I could have a second 
>>> source for the image to run more simultaneous restores.
>>>
>>> Is there a problem copying files from a 64-bit file system to a 32-bit 
>>> filesystem?
>>>   
>>>       
>> No, it's all the same.
>>     
>>> I don't understand it, but I had all sorts of problems trying to do 
>>> restores from the copy on my desktop machine running 32-bit Ubuntu.  The 
>>> first time it complained that the files for the ntfs partition were 
>>> corrupted.  The restore aborted.  So I copied the image files again. 
>>> The last time I did this, the restore went unreasonably fast, and then 
>>> Windows would not boot.  There was still some problem with the image 
>>> files, even though they were the correct files sizes and had the correct 
>>> permissions.
>>>
>>> Restores from the original ssh image server continued to work just fine.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?  Is there a proper way to copy an image from one 
>>> machine to another?  I tried copying it using ssh, and even tried using 
>>> an external usb drive to move the image.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>   
>>>       
>> After you copy the image files, maybe try to run a md5sum or sha1sum
>> check. At least this can make sure the files you copy are identical.
>>
>> Steven.
>>     
>
>
>   


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