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Questions tagged [disk-image]

a disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

A disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

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How can I push operating system updates to remotely managed linux nodes?

I want to install a number of Raspberry Pi's in remote locations and push updates over the air to the operating system as necessary, in a way similar to mobile phones. There needs to be a partition for storing local data (such as wifi codes), so…
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Create iso/image/installation from Windows XP-installation

I'm using VMware and want to create a virtual machine with Windows XP. For this I want to use the Windows XP-installation of another computer, I don't have the cd, so I want to create a iso/image (or whatever) of this Windows-installation. How can I…
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Mounting individual "partitions" from a ddrescue'd whole-device image file?

I ddrescue'd from a sick drive device into an image file (I had enough free space, but not a spare device to copy onto). It seemed to go quite well, but now I can't find how to mount just one partition from the entire block device image. (All…
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Tool for taking disk image that includes NIC drivers

I've several laptops of different makes and models that I need to take a one time disk image of (not a clone), as a backup, prior to migrating the OS from Win XP to Win7. At this point, what I'd like is to boot from a CD (or USB) into the tool/OS…
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Instructions for pushing image from server on a local network

Every fortnight or so we get around 10-20 computers back from clients and we have to wipe them, restore to factory default, and then install a few select pieces of software. It's arduous and time-consuming to sit there with each computer…
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Manipulating root files in images without being root?

In our environment we have linux developer PCs and several embedded boards. The embedded boards are booted from an image. Those image files should be created/modified on the developer PCs. Mounting is no problem: mount /scratch/image.img…
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How to remove previously uploaded by rhevm-iso-uploader image?

Can't realize how to remove the booting image from RHEV ISO storage, can't find anything to perform such trivial operation.. what a shame.. In RHEV Manager I can only see a list of available images in "Store" tab.
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How do I create an ISO image of a partition on an external hard drive?

I see that there is a similar question with the answer to use BartPE with a plugin, but are there any other methods to create an ISO image from an external hard drive partition? I don't feel too good about using a plugin for a program that isn't…
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cloning windows server 2008 OS drive to smaller drive using Robocopy

I'd like to clone a bootable OS disk using robocopy. The source drive is larger than the destination, but with plenty of free space. Is it possible, and if it is, what do I need to keep in mind to get it to work? So far I've booted to the install…
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Acronis TrueImage .TIB file conversion to .VHD

I've made several backups of older 2000 and XP machines I've phased out over the last year or so. These were done with 'Seagate DiskWizard' from Hiren's Boot CD (Acronis True Image Home (v9.5 I think)) and produced .tib files which I've archived and…
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Cloning bitmap free count err on proxmox drive

I have a small business server (custome build) that runs proxmox for virtualizing common office services (samba, AD, web server, etc). I use clonezilla for all my cloning purposes and have never encountered this problem before. Clonezilla will not…
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How create ghost images and copy to many drives

I am looking for the cleanest and most reliable solution to create ghost images of a windows 7 based machine and copy these images to multiple hard drives. I am looking for the software needed to create the image and hopefully some instructions on…
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Acronis Cloning of Redhat Linux Server

I tried to evaluate Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for my redhat linux before deciding what cloning software to purchase for my company, but doesn't seem to get it working. My redhat linux box has the following filesystems: - /dev/sda1 …
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USB Image Mounting Executable

So I've used Daemon tools before to mount ISO images but I was wondering if anyone knows of a lightweight IOS mounter executable that I can put on a thumbdrive and run from any windows device without having to install it. The goal is to stick…
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Mounting filesystem on logical volume inside virtual whole-disk image

I have tried to mount a virtual disk image on my Fedora host using the command qemu-nbd -c /dev/ndb0 rawhide.img and then detecting the LVM logical volumes and mounting the one I wanted. Obviously, the virtual machine is not running - I'm not…
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