Tech Tips for BHSEC Students

I’m using the clonezilla server that comes bundled with the drbl-live cd. This is good for cloning (in mass) windows XP and or Linux machines. (Prolly win2k, and some bsd’s too, but I don’t know about vista.) For my purposes I’ve put an image I created with a clonezilla live cd on a usb drive.  I connect the usb drive (which happens to be formated with ntfs) to a laptop which I booted with the drbl-live cd. I go to the command line and call:

$ sudo fdisk -l

That will tell you what hard drives/partitions are available so you can mount them. This is *not* the easy way to do this; I’m just doing it b/c I enjoy the practice. For me, that command revealed:

/dev/sdb1 is the device name I need to mount the usb drive.

I then called:

$sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,uid=1000,umask=0222 /dev/sdb1 /home/partimag

The command that the drbl-live cd ran was:

$ /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-ocs -b -g auto -x hn1 PC -y0 poweroff –time-to-wait 300 -l en_US startdisk multicast_restore folderNameOfClonezillaImageInTheDirectory-home-partimag hda