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Creating a Perfect System in few minutes.

Posted by on October 22nd, 2011

There might come up a case where you need to install same kind of OS and other Softwares( which are required for daily use) on multiple systems. One of the ways to do it is follow the same procedure on each of the machines, which is obviously a pain. Here’s a easy way to do it by using Clonezilla.

Now with clonezilla you will have to setup one system only, this this would obviously take time. But once the first system is done, you can just setup rest on other machines in few minutes.

Here are the steps, that I used to follow to create system with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu in under 10 minutes. With all softwares installed which included Counter strike on windows, Couple of IDE’s on Ubuntu and Git , mySql , Java and more on Ubuntu.

  1. Setup a perfect system. Install OS and other software that are required. Once the system is ready we need to download few softwares.
    1. 7zip ( p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_i386.deb).
    2. Tuxboot (Tuxboot-linux-8 ).
    3. Clonezilla (clonezilla-live-1.2.6-40-i686.iso).All three of these are freely available.
    4. And we would also need a USB drive preferably with space more than 16GB , as windows 7 installation takes 15 GB approx and Ubuntu 11.10 will take around 6GB and little extra for other softwares. Clonezilla uses very effective compression technique will reduce size to approx half. So 16GB USB drive would work just fine.
  2. Install CloneZilla on USB drive.
  3. Once Clonezilla is installed , its time to make image of Perfect System.
  4. After image is done, we are ready to clone out perfect system, to other machines.
  5. Making Clone of Existing image, Process to make clone are pretty much same as process described in step-3. Except Step-11 of “making image” . Just select restore disk, this will create clone of image on disk. And ALL EXISTING DATA FROM DISK WILL BE ERASED. Following  are the links of images depicting step 5.  Image 1,Image 2,Image 3,Image 4,Image 5,Image 6,Image 7,Image 8,Image 9. There images are taken from a camera, hence please don’t mind  their quality.
  6. This is it , your next system is ready within few minutes. Now this process can be repeated again and again, to create clone of existing systems.

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Create Image of System in USB, Using Clonezilla

Posted by on October 22nd, 2011

Clonezilla is a software that can be used to make image of system that can later be used to install this image on new system, to make it a clone of former system.

Here are the steps to create image of a system by clonezilla

  1. Create a Bootable USB drive Using Clonezilla. Follow the link to know more
  2. Boot the system you want you clone using Bootable USB (i.e Perfect System)
  3. On Booting by USB you’ll see Clonezilla home screen, select Clonezilla live.
  4. Next it will ask you for language (Choose the one you prefer)
  5. Then it will ask you for policy to handle keymaps, Select “Dont Touch my keymap”
  6. Next it will ask you whether you want to “start clonezilla” or “launch shell”, select “start clonezilla”
  7. Next it will ask you for mode, select device-image
  8. Next it will ask you where you want to mount image, select skip (as we want image on USB drive)
  9. Next it will ask you for which harddisk you want to make image, Select harddisk and press enter
  10. Next it will prompt you for beginner or advanced mode, select beginner
  11. Then it will ask which operation you want to perform, select savedisk, this will save local disk as image on USB drive
  12. Then it will prompt you fir name by which you want to save it.
  13. Then All you need to do is press enter few times ( only when prompted )
  14. Next it will show you screens actually working, and when it completes. You are ready with image of your system
  15. Go and create clone of your system, using the image in USB drive.

Below are the links to images depictung full process.But images are taken from a camera, so please bear with their quality.
Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4, Image 5, Image 6, Image 7, Image 8, Image 9, Image 10

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Installing CloneZilla on USB drive using Ubuntu.

Posted by on October 22nd, 2011

Clonezilla is a software that allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery.

To install Clonezilla we would need following Softwares, all of which are available freely.

  1. 7zip ( p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_i386.deb)
  2. Tuxboot (tuxboot-linux-8 )
  3. Clonezilla (clonezilla-live-1.2.6-40-i686.iso)

Here are the steps to install CloneZilla

  1. Install 7zip required to install Tuxboot
    1. sudo dpkg -i p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_i386.deb
    2. It would show something like
    3. (Reading database … 168886 files and directories currently installed.)
    4. Preparing to replace p7zip-full 9.04~dfsg.1-1 (using p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_i386.deb) …
    5. Unpacking replacement p7zip-full …
    6. Setting up p7zip-full (9.04~dfsg.1-1) …
    7. Processing triggers for man-db …
    8. And Step 1 is done. 7Zip is Installed.

2. Run tuxboot

    1. By default tuxboot is not executable , change it permission to make it.
    2. chmod +x tuxboot-linux-8
    3. Run tuxboot with sudo permission
    4. sudo ./tuxboot-linux-8
    5. Set the values as shown in image

    Step 5 - Installing Clonezilla

    5.1. Select Diskimage – then in adjacent dropdown select iso
    5.2. And then select the clonezilla image ( the one you downloaded)
    5.3. Type – usb drive
    5.4. Press “OK” . And let it complete. It will ask to reboot afterwards , but you can also reboot later

3. And your clonezilla usb is ready now. You may now use it to clone systems.

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