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  1. Where is the corresponding DRBL client directory in the server ?
  2. How can I append the Linux kernel boot time parameters to the DRBL clients ?
  3. How can I debug in the PXE initrd when clients boot ?
  4. How can I start a DRBL client service (e.g. cron, sysklogd, klogd...) in the server ?
  5. How can I run vmplayer in the DRBL client machine ?
  6. Is it possible to run a script on the client after Clonezilla finishes cloning ?
  7. When I reboot the DRBL client in Ubuntu Breezy Linux, it hangs, What should I do ?
  8. How can I put my own kernel for DRBL clients ?
  9. How can I create module for some hardware, like Nvidia, ATI VGA card, to use in client ?
  10. How can I share the printer in the server to clients ?
  11. How can I insert bios flash program and firmware to the freedos so that I can upgrade the BIOS in client ?
  12. How to get Japanese (Chinene, Korean) input method in English environment ?
  13. How can I hide the mounted NFS icons in my KDE desktop environment ?
  14. What the differences between Full DRBL, Full Clonezilla, DRBL SSI and Clonezilla Box modes ?
  15. How can I make a common directory where clients on any box can read, copy and delete files freely ?
  16. How can I make a local apt mirror in my Debian or Ubuntu DRBL server and use that as an apt repository ?
  17. How can I upgrade DRBL and related packages ?
  18. How can I hide the mounted NFS share icons in KDE desktop ?
  19. How can I debug the clonezilla if it fails ?
  20. I have some clients which mainboard include NIC, the mainboard supports RPL. How to make the clients to support PXE?
  21. When I use clonezilla to clone MS windows, there is no any problem when saving an image from template machine. However, after the image is restored to another machine, it fails to boot, the error message is "Missing Operating System" or just a blinking underscore. What's going on ?
  22. How can I calibrate the clock of clients ?
  23. Why Clonezilla can _NOT_ image from a large drive to a smaller drive ?
  24. A message "tftp: client does not accept options" appears in syslog file in server , shall I do someting ?
  25. I am trying to restore an image of a 300 Gb drive (with 30 Gb of data) onto a 250 Gb drive, but it gives me an error that the output drive partition doesn't have enough space to fit the image. Is there any way to restore it anyway?
  26. How can I restore the image from small harddisk to larger one ?
  27. What's the difference between clonezilla and G4L or G4U ?
  28. How can I change the yum repository in OpenSuSE/SuSe before I run drblsrv ?
  29. How can I assign the kernel to let client use that ?
  30. If my client computer only supports RPL instead of PXE, can it work with DRBL ?
  31. I am sure that the GNU/Linux I have is compatible with the GNU/Linux distribution which DRBL supports, how can I install drbl on that ?
  32. I put a script file like "myscript.sh" in /opt/drbl/share/ocs/prerun or /opt/drbl/share/ocs/postrun, and I check the option "-o0/--run-prerun-dir", or "-o1/--run-postrun-dir", but mscript.sh is not run. Why ?
  33. How can I add a package, say ncpfs, in Clonezilla live ?
  34. How can I create my own custom script to run in clonezilla live ?
  35. What if I have 2 or more squashfs files (filesystem.squashfs) in my system, how can I assign clonezilla live to boot ?
  36. How can I compile a kernel module in the DRBL client so that I can use it for DRBL clients ?
  37. How can I mirror drbl packages ?
  38. There is an existing DHCP service in my environment, so it's impossible for me to use the dhcp service comes with DRBL server. Any solution ?
  39. I have a weird problem when restoring an image. I always got an error message "Can't read the following volume file: ... /stdin.001".
  40. How can I remaster Clonezilla iso file ?
  41. How can I put the kickstart file for netinstall GNU/Linux ?
  42. How can I configure FreeBSD network installation in DRBL server ?
  43. How can I restore those *.ntfs-img.* images into a partition manually ?
  44. Is that possible I can read the content of a NTFS image created by Clonezilla ?
  45. Is there any way I can save image to CD-RW or DVD-RW directly ?
  46. Is that possible I can put clonezilla live in my harddrive which already has an OS installed ?
  47. How to create Clonezilla live from scratch ?
  48. When I use Clonezilla server edition to do a multicast clone, the client machines just keep waiting, any hint ?
  49. I'd like to translate DRBL/Clonezilla to other language, how can I help ?
  50. How can I config my DRBL clients to use Active Directory authentication ?
  51. How about the unique license key for each MS windows machine after I clone them ?
  52. I have a class B subnet, the range is 172.16.0.1 - 172.16.31.254, how can I configre DRBL to fit this range ?
  53. What's the difference between multicast, broadcast and unicast function in Clonezilla SE ?
  54. How can I run Clonezilla live using serial console ?
  55. How to put my own binary driver in Clonezilla live without modifying /live/filesystem.squashfs ?
  56. How can I compile and put an extra module on Clonezilla live ?
  57. Is that possible I can save Clonezilla image on a rewritable CD/DVD directly when using Clonezilla live ?
  58. How much space do I need when saving an image ?
  59. Why stable and testing Clonezilla live are based on Debian, but alternative one is based on Ubuntu ?
  60. How can I make Clonezilla SE (DRBL) server as a RIS server, too ?
  61. How to add MAC addresses of new clients in DRBL ?
  62. Is there a way to make a hardware independent image with CloneZilla?
  63. Is that possible I can hack my buggy PXE bootrom ?
  64. I got a "tftp timeout" error on my DRBL client...
  65. Clonezilla live gives me "kernel panic" or can not detect my hard drive, network card... Any solution ?
  66. Where can I find the DRBL live or Clonezilla live source codes ?
  67. Does Clonezilla support RAID ?
  68. How can I enable sudo privilege for an account on clients ?
  69. Using multicast clone on Clonezilla SE, for one client the speed is fast, but more than one, it's very slow. Any idea ?
  70. How can I restore those *-ptcl-img.* images into a file manually ?
  71. What are the differences between partclone and ntfsclone ?
  72. How can I create my own recovery Clonezilla live CD or USB flash drive ?
  73. How to use DRBL with existing Altiris setup ?
  74. After I restored an image to my Macbook, it fails to boot. Any method to make it boot again?
  75. How can I modify the contents of initrd1.img from Clonezilla live?
  76. How can I use the recovery-iso-zip function if I use PXE to boot Clonezilal live?
  77. How can I modify the settings of DRBL SSI mode? e.g. the bash prompt?
  78. How to create an autorun recover Clonezilla live?
  79. How to Build and Install Partclone on Fedora 11 x86_64?
  80. What are the compression options in Clonezilla? What are the differences?
  81. I'd like to customize the Clonezilla boot menu, any doc I can refer?
  82. I have more than 1 network card on my DRBL client, how can I force the client to use the specific network card, i.e. with priority, to connect to DRBL server when booting in the initramfs?
  83. How can I add a program in the main file system of Clonezilla live, i.e. in the file "filesystem.squashfs"?
  84. I knew the network card of my DRBL client is supported by the kernel, however it fails to load the module during PXE booting. What can I do?
How to create Clonezilla live from scratch ?
  1. Download Clonezilla live 1.2.0-25 or later version.
  2. Boot the downloaded clonezilla live, after language and keyboard are selected, choose "Start_Clonezilla" -> "device-image", then mount a working directory, the space should large enough to put the live CD and some temp files. It's recommended to choose local_dev to mount local partition as /home/partimag, since live-helper will use some low level commands and it might fail in network-based directory. Also make sure the partition is the filesystem of Linux, like ext3 or reiserfs, _NOT_ FAT or NTFS filesystem, because they do not support some file types in Linux.
  3. When Clonezilla live asks you to choose save or restore disk/partition, choose "exit" to enter command line prompt
  4. Run "sudo su -" to become root
  5. Run "ocs-live-netcfg" to configure the network so that we can access Debian repository later
  6. Modify /etc/apt/sources.list if you want to assign different apt repository.
  7. If you want to add more packages in Clonezilla live, and you are sure the packages are included in Debian repository, e.g. ncpfs, you can edit /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf, append ncpfs in variable PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED.
  8. cd /home/partimag/
  9. apt-get update; apt-get -y install cdebootstrap live-helper
  10. It is recommended to modify the 2 varialbes in /opt/drbl/sbin/create-debian-live: 
    mirror_url="http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian"
mirror_security_url="http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian-security/"
    to use any debian mirror site near you so it will save you some time when downloading packages.
    • If you want some special kernel version, and you are sure it exists in Debian repository, e.g. kernel 2.6.18-6 or 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1, you can make Debian live by:
      create-debian-live -l e -b unstable -k 2.6.18-6 -i customized
      or
      create-debian-live -l e -b unstable -k 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1 -i customized
      ("-l e" means to use the live-experimental branch in drbl respository, this also means packages from live-stable, live-testing or live-unstable can be used. "-b unstable" means to use the unstable branch of drbl, this also means packages from stable and testing branches can be used.). You can refer to this URL to check the packages in DRBL repository http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/pool/drbl/).
      If everything runs smooth, you will get a Debian live with file name "debian-live-for-ocs-customized.iso". Later we will use this Debian live as a template for Clonezilla live.
    • If you want to use the default kernel, you can just run it without "-k 2.6.18-6" (This method only works for Debian Lenny. For Etch, you have to assign the kernel version), i.e.:
      create-debian-live -l e -d lenny -b unstable -i customized
      or
      create-debian-live -d lenny -i customized
      For more options about create-debian-live, you can run "create-debian-live --help".
  12. Run:
    ocs-iso -s -j debian-live-for-ocs-customized.iso -i customized
    ocs-live-dev -c -s -j debian-live-for-ocs-customized.iso -i customized
    then 2 files, clonezilla-live-customized.iso and clonezilla-live-customized.zip will be created, respectively.
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