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Posted by outsidesys on November 7, 2007, 11:40 am
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I ran into the same issue. I ended up creating an image with "partimage"
over
the network. Here's what I did, and it can be done with any system:
- Setup
a Linux/Unix VM or stand-alone system with enough disk space
to hold your
notebook image(s). This will be the "destination" system.
- Create an NFS share
on the destination system (there's plenty of
tutorials on the Internet for
this step). Make sure permissions on the
shares are setup properly.
- Boot the
"source" system to be cloned with a Linux Live CD. The
latest version of
Knoppix works with the HP 2510p, and this is what I
used.
- Open a terminal on
the source system to enter some commands. The
following commands work in
Knoppix:
Code:
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$ su root
# passwd
# cd /
#
/etc/init.d/ssh start
# ifconfig
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- "su root"
switches you to become the root user.
- "passwd" allows you to set the root
password
- "cd /" gives you more room to type commands
- "/etc/init.d/ssh start"
starts the ssh service.
- "ifconfig" will show you the IP address of the system
given by
DHCP.Now you can ssh into the source system with a program like
PuTTY. I do
this so I can move away from the source system and work from my
desktop.
Now you can connect the source system to the NFS share on the
destination system:
Code:
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# mount -t nfs
<destination IP>:<destination nfs share path> <source mount point> -o nolock
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Here's a very simple example:
Code:
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# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.50:/mnt/data /mnt -o nolock
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Based on the example above, if you "cd /mnt" on the
source system, you
will see the contents of the NFS share on the destination
system.
Now start up "partimage" on the source system to create the image on
the NFS share. There's plenty of tutorials for partimage on the
Internet.
Good
luck. :smile:
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outsidesys
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