Clonezilla

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One image to multiple disks : Restore an image to multiple disks, e.g. massive production of live USB flash drives.
  1. Boot the machine via Clonezilla live
  2. The boot menu of Clonezilla live
  3. The boot menu of Clonezilla live
  4. Here we choose 800x600 mode, after pressing Enter, you will see Debian Linux booting process
  5. Choose language
  6. Choose keyboard layout
  7. Choose "Start Clonezilla"
  8. Choose "device-image" option
  9. Choose "local_dev" option to assign sde1 as the image home
  10. Select sde1 as image repository, then choose "1-2-mdisks" option
  11. Select image name and destination disk
  12. Clonezilla is restoring disk image on disk sde to sda, sdc, and sdd.
Clonezilla is restoring disk image on disk sde to sda, sdc, and sdd.
Clonezilla now is restoring the selected disk image to destination disks. The job is done by restoring:
  • MBR (by dd), and Boot loader (by grub)
  • Partition table (by sfdisk).
  • Data on every partition or LV (logical volume) (by partimage, ntfsclone, partclone or dd. It depends on the image of each partition or LV.)












When everything is done, you can choose to:
  • Poweroff
  • Reboot
  • Enter command line prompt
  • Start over (image repository /home/partimag, if mounted, will be umounted)
  • Start over (keep image repository /home/partimag mounted)
  • Start over (Remount subdir in medium of current repository)


Here we choose Poweroff, then when the shutdown process is done, it will ask you to remove the disk and close the try (if any) then press ENTER if you boot Clonezilla live from CD. If you boot Clonezilla live from USB flash drive, then there is no such prompt.


That's all. The destination disks (sda, sdc, sdd) are ready to be used.
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