Any chance of a little help with Clonezilla/DRBL?

Frapple

Frapple

Frapple

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Good morning all,

Huge linux newbie here, but been swayed by the plethora or open source enterprise level software available so decided to jump in and try Clonezilla (just had 15 new laptops delivered that need downgrading to XP, not doing it all manually!) I'm using Ubuntu Desktop 32bit 10.10.

1. I see that DRBL requires/suggests 2 Ethernet adapter as it serves as a DHCP server for the machines being imaged.

- Our internal network (with internet access) is 10.*.*.*

What do I need to set the other network adapter to (the one that's responsible for connection to the client machines)? Something like 11.0.0.1 so it can't access the other computers/servers?

2. I'm assuming I should be using the i586 option when choosing the CPU Architecture?

- This results in the following error:

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what you set the IPs to is irrelevant, as as long as your machine is not going to do any routing (as long as you don't tell it too...), they wont be able to see the outside world. The DHCP server could theoretically server 10.x.x.x addresses, since the machines would know nothing of the other 10.x.x.x network. (it's not a good idea though ;-))

i386 will work on everything (as long as it's intel based), use that.
 
Check if your ayo repo is alive and what kernel(s) it contains. Maybe you need to use a different mirror.

For i5 if you want ideal performance you should be using the i686 arch or x86_64.
 
Using option 2 (Same as Ubuntu Installation - The VMWare server has Intel Xeon E5320 CPUs in it)

I'm getting progress to the next step - shall I continue on this path or try and fix it for option 0/1?

Edit: In reply to above

As I say i'm pretty new to linux - how would I go about that?

I only get the following options:

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It's because your repo is restricted to the current server's architecture. repos are in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d in ubuntu.

Do a `uname -a` on your server it will tell you what arch your server is running. If it's Xeons E5320 don't worry about it your probably running x86_64 but your core i5's will support that as well so it's fairly irrelevant.
 
Right, started again with Ubuntu 10.10 x64 this morning as I ran out of time last week.

Got past the sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/drblsrv -i fine this time, it picked up 'kernal 2.6.35-25-generic x86-64' automatically, which is great! Thanks, knew I was on the right track when I saw your x86_64 popup :)

What I'm not getting is how the clients are actually going to be found by the Ubuntu server and imaged - I assume I'll need to enable PxE from within the BIOS on each machine, but do I need a list of mac addresses?
 
Right, just set the clonezilla-save-disk going on the template machine, booted to PxE but receiving the following:

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Any clues?
 
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