Update
With clonezilla 2.x is you are facing following error & boot is stuck, you can try changing vga=normal from vga=788 in pxe configuration.
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This article will help you pxeboot clonezilla using pxeserver. Clonezilla will be handy if you wish to backup / restore partition / hdd using network. So far with XP ghost was one of convenient way for many sysadmins. With the use of Windows 7, image size is increased to few GBs.
Requirement
PXE Server
CloneZilla bootable iso / zip
Download & mount / extract clonezilla iso / zip.
Create folder on existing pxe server
mkdir -p /tftpboot/images/clone/
#copy vmlinuz, initrd & filesystem from clonezilla mount location
cp live/vmlinuz /tftpboot/images/clone/
cp live/initrd.img /tftpboot/images/clone/
cp live/filesystem.squashfs /tftpboot/images/clone/
append following lines in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
label Clonezilla Live MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live kernel images/clone/vmlinuz append initrd=images/clone/initrd.img boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" vga=788 nosplash fetch=tftp://192.168.3.20/images/clone/filesystem.squashfs |
here 192.168.3.20 is pxeserver
above config will boot clonezilla using pxe & you’ll get prompt to choose lang, mount image source dir etc.
OR you can use following config to skip lang selection & mount option, however it will still prompt you to select image source but you can skip & continue as we have mentioned nfs server in following config.
label Clonezilla MENU LABEL Clonezilla kernel images/clone/vmlinuz append initrd=images/clone/initrd.img boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8" vga=788 nosplash fetch=tftp://192.168.3.20/images/clone/filesystem.squashfs ocs_prerun="mount -t nfs 192.168.3.24:/storage/clonezilla /home/partimag" |
here 192.168.3.24:/storage/clonezilla is clonezilla image location.
you can also use other options like samba instead of nfs
