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In this example: Save 1st disk (sda) as an image on 2nd disk (sdb) (Step by step)
1. Boot the machine via Clonezilla live 2. The boot menu of Clonezilla live 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Here we choose 800x600 mode, after pressing Enter, you will see Debian Linux booting process Choose language Choose keyboard layout Choose "Start Clonezilla" Choose "device-image" option Choose "local_dev" option to assign sdb1 as the image home
9. Select sdb1 as image repository, then choose "savedisk" option 10. Input image name and select source disk 11. Clonezilla is saving disk image (sda) to the partition of 2nd disk (sdb1) [Back to 'Clonezilla Live Doc']
Boot the machine via Clonezilla live
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In this example, the machine has 2 disks, 1st disk's name is sda (device name in GNU/Linux), 2nd disk's device name is sdb. The size of disk sda is 8 GB with Ubuntu Lucid installed. There are 3 partitons (sda1, sda2, sda3, and sda5) on disk sda as shown in the following:
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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:
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Or by pressing a hotkey (e.g. Esc, F9 or maybe F12) when you boot the machine, you will see the boot menu of BIOS like this:
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Check your motherboard manual for more details about how to boot your machine via CD.
The boot menu of Clonezilla live
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Here is a screenshot of Clonezilla Live boot menu:
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The first one is the default mode for Clonezilla Live. It will default to framebuffer mode with a resolution of 800x600. There are more modes which you can choose in the 2nd choice "Other modes of Clonezilla live", e.g. 1024X768 or 640x480 one if you want, as shown here:
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The choice, "Clonezilla live (To RAM. Boot media can be removed later), is the same function with the 1st one except when Clonezilla live booting finishes, all the necessary files are copied to memory. Therefore you can remove the boot media (CD or USB flash drive) then. If you do not need Chinese or Japanese environment or if your computer experiences problems in the framebuffer mode, you can choose the one "Clonezilla Live (no framebuffer)" to clone in the English environment. The choice, "Clonezilla live (failsafe mode)", is for something goes wrong when you are not be able to boot your
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machine, such as ACPI of your machine is not supported in the kernel. If you want to boot local OS in your harddrive, you can choose the one "Local operating system in harddrive (if available)". This is an extra function in the boot media that has nothing to do with Clonezilla Live. The choice, "FreeDOS", allows you to boot your machine into Free DOS. This is an extra function in the boot media that has nothing to do with Clonezilla Live. The choice, "Memory test using Memtest86+," is for memory testing using Memtest86+. This is an extra function in the boot media that has nothing to do with Clonezilla Live. The choice, "Network boot via etherboot" or "Network boot via gpxe" is used to perform a network boot via Etherboot or gPXE. If your computer does not have a PXE network, you can use this to do boot from a network. This is an extra function in the boot media that has nothing to do with Clonezilla Live. Here we choose 800x600 mode, after pressing Enter, you will see Debian Linux booting process ^TOP^
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Choose language
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Choose keyboard layout
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The default keyboard layout is US keybaord, therefore if you are using US keyboard, just press enter (i.e. use the option "Don't touch keymap").
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If you want to change keymap, you can either choose "Select keymap from arch list" or "Select keymap from full list". ///NOTE/// There is a bug when choosing French keymap in "Select keymap from arch list", so use "Select keymap from full list" to change keymap if you are using French keyboard. Choose "Start Clonezilla" ^TOP^
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Choose "device-image" option
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Pay attention to the hints, too. You might need that: ///Hint! From now on, if multiple choices are available, you have to press space key to mark your selection. A
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star sign (*) will be shown when the selection is done/// Choose "local_dev" option to assign sdb1 as the image home ^TOP^
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There are other options, e.g. sshfs, samba or nfs, you can use when network is available. This is very useful when 2nd local disk is not available.
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Since we choose "local_dev" option, we can use 2nd disk or USB flash drive to save 1st disk's image. If using USB flash drive as repository, inster USB flash drive and wait a few secs.
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Select sdb1 as image repository, then choose "savedisk" option
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Choose the directory name on /dev/sdb1 as the image repository. Here we put image on the top directory:
If you are not familiar with the disk or partition name in GNU/Linux, read the hints:
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'The partition name is the device name in GNU/Linux. The first partition in the first disk is "hda1" or "sda1", the 2nd partition in the first disk is "hda2" or "sda2", the first partition in the second disk is "sdb1" or "sdb1"... If the system you want to save is MS windows, normally C: is hda1 (for PATA) or sda1 (for PATA, SATA or SCSI), and D: could be hda2 (or sda2), hda5 (or sda5)...' Then Clonezilla shows you the disk usage report:
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Here we choose "Beginner" mode:
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Now we can select "savedisk" option:
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If you choose "Expert" mode, you will have some chances to choose advanced parameters, e.g. imaging program, compression program, etc.. You can see more details here.
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Input image name and select source disk
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Enter the image name, Clonezilla will give an image name based on date and time, feel free to change it
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Select the source disk "sda" we want to save:
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Clonezilla will prompt us the command to save the image. This command is very useful when you want to create a customized Clonezilla live:
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Before starting to save the disk image, we still have a chance to say no:
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Clonezilla is saving disk image (sda) to the partition of 2nd disk (sdb1)
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Clonezilla now is saving disk sda as an image. The job is done by saving: MBR (by dd) Partition table (by sfdisk and parted), CHS of disk. Data on every partition or LV (logical volume) (by partimage, ntfsclone, partclone or dd. It depends on the "-q" option you choose)
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When everything is done, Clonezilla will prompt you if you want to run it again, 1. 'Stay in this console (console 1), enter command line prompt'
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2. 'Run command "exit" or "logout"'
Then you can choose to:
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Poweroff Reboot Enter command line prompt Start over
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Here we choose Poweroff (0), then when the shutdown process is done, it will ask you to remove the disk and close the try (if any) then press ENTER.
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That's all. We have successfully saved disk image (sda) on 2nd disk (sdb1). The image on the 2nd disk is a directory with name "lucid-2010-07-28-07-img" and its contents are:
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root@debian:~# ls -alFh /home/partimag/ total 512 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2010-07-28 07:12 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2010-07-28 07:15 ../ 48 2010-07-28 07:07 DOCS/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 2010-07-28 07:12 lucid-2010-07-28-07-img/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2010-07-28 07:07 Photos/
root@debian:~# ls -alFh /home/partimag/lucid-2010-07-28-07-img/ total 220M drwxr-xr-x 2 root root drwxr-xr-x 7 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2010-07-28 07:12 ./ 168 2010-07-28 07:12 ../ 4 2010-07-28 07:12 disk 34K 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link] 18K 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link] 10 2010-07-28 07:12 parts
-rw------- 1 root root 216M 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link] -rw------- 1 root root 2.3M 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 2010-07-28 07:11 [Link]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0M 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-hidden-data-after-mbr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2010-07-28 07:11 sda-mbr 434 2010-07-28 07:11 [Link] 310 2010-07-28 07:11 [Link] 53 2010-07-28 07:12 [Link]
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[Back to 'Clonezilla Live Doc']
Modified: Tue Jan 4 6:58:56 MST 2011.
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