In this example, the machine will run as a Clonezilla lite server, which can be used to deploy an image to many computers. Assume we already have a Clonezilla image in sdb, the image name is called "focal-mbr-zst-20201114" and will be deployed to other computers using multicast mechanism. We will use the existing DHCP service in the LAN when providing network booting service for clients:
root@debian:~# ls -lh /home/partimag/
total 32K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 07:26 Docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 07:26 Photo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 22 13:55 focal-mbr-20200722
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 08:25 focal-mbr-zst-20201114
drwx------ 2 root root 16K Nov 14 07:25 lost+found
and its contents are:
root@debian:~# ls -lh /home/partimag/focal-mbr-zst-20201114/
total 545M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 870 Nov 14 08:25 Info-OS-prober.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96K Nov 14 08:25 Info-dmi.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236 Nov 14 08:25 Info-img-id.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53K Nov 14 08:25 Info-lshw.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.7K Nov 14 08:25 Info-lspci.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194 Nov 14 08:25 Info-packages.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101 Nov 14 08:25 Info-saved-by-cmd.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 872 Nov 14 08:25 Info-smart.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 805 Nov 14 08:24 blkdev.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 451 Nov 14 08:24 blkid.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2K Nov 14 08:25 clonezilla-img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Nov 14 08:24 dev-fs.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov 14 08:24 disk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Nov 14 08:24 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Nov 14 08:24 sda-chs.sf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0M Nov 14 08:24 sda-hidden-data-after-mbr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Nov 14 08:24 sda-mbr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 385 Nov 14 08:24 sda-pt.parted
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 350 Nov 14 08:24 sda-pt.parted.compact
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266 Nov 14 08:24 sda-pt.sf
-rw------- 1 root root 457 Nov 14 08:24 sda1.vfat-ptcl-img.zst.aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Nov 14 08:24 sda2-ebr
-rw------- 1 root root 543M Nov 14 08:24 sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.zst.aa
Now the image "focal-mbr-zst-20201114" will be deployed to other machine's sda.
Once you have the bootable Clonezilla Live CD/DVD or USB flash drive, you can boot the machine you want to clone via Clonezilla live. Remember to use the Clonezilla live CD or USB flash drive to boot the machine. For example, if you have Clonezilla Live in USB flash drive, you have to boot it via USB device (Ex. USB-HDD or USB-ZIP). If necessary, you can set the first boot priority in the BIOS as USB-HDD or USB-ZIP so that it can boot Clonezilla Live from your USB flash drive.
Here we take CD as an example. You can either set CD as first boot priority in machine's BIOS like this:
Or by pressing a hotkey (e.g. Esc or F9) when you boot the machine, you will see the boot menu of BIOS like this:
Check your motherboard manual for more details about how to boot your machine via CD.
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