Any chance of a little help with Clonezilla/DRBL?

[Frapple]

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:

 

[Frapple]

The processors are i5, so I'll try that.

EditL Receiving the same error when using option 0 (i386)

 

[Frapple]

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:

 

[Frapple]

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?

 

[Frapple]

Right, just set the clonezilla-save-disk going on the template machine, booted to PxE but receiving the following:

Any clues?