Steven Shiau wrote:
> 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.
Steven:
I was just about to email the list again about this.
Ubuntu also has memtest86 in the grub boot menu. I ran memtest and it
failed immediately!! By swapping modules around, I was able to narrow
this down to one 1GB module.
I fixed my memory problem, re-downloaded the image files, and now (of
course!) the md5sum values match the original files.
Thanks for your follow-up and attention to this problem which turned out
to have nothing to do with clonezilla!
> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
--
-Bill-
---------------------------------------------
Bill Gurley, Technical Director
Department of Chemistry
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
---------------------------------------------
Please support Wikpedia!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en
---------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by:
SourcForge Community
SourceForge wants to tell your story.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword
_______________________________________________
Clonezilla-live mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
