Making disc images

[Mel Wilson]

On 10-11-26 11:37 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
[ ... ]
> I looked at all the solutions suggested - thanks - and went with
> clonezilla.  I used the unetbootin tool to create a clonezilla (which
> uses partimage) bootable USB stick, and was able to make a clone of my
> example machine relatively painlessly - reading and writing to and from
> an NTFS-formatted USB drive without difficulties.  I am impressed and
> pleased.
>
> Just running the install and updates on the example machine took several
> hours, not including cruft removal and software installation, but
> restoring the image to a new machine tool less than half an hour.

On our first try with USB sticks we couldn't get our Mini-ITX board to 
boot, so we punted and left our Clonezilla images on an NFS server on 
the LAN.

I'll take a look at unetbootin and see if we can get farther.  Many 
thanks for your follow-up.

	Mel.
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