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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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Install .iso file on a remote server without DVD drive access

Is there an easy way to install software located on a .iso file to a remote server which does not provide to me access to the DVD Drive? I have a license for SQL Server 2008 Web Edition through WebsiteSpark and need to install it on my remote VPS…
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What is the recommended method to prepare Red Hat/CentOS 7 templates?

If I need to deploy Red Hat 7 from template, I would like to take the recommended steps to make my "golden image" clean. It should boot to the first boot prompt and guide the user through the typical steps. In Red Hat 5/6, I followed the…
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Is there a way to change a .iso files volume id from the command line?

I have a .iso file under linux and have been trying to find a way to change the volume id without having to recreate the .iso file. Most of the authoring tools such as mkisofs provide a switch for setting the volume (-V) for example. However I can't…
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Create a windows 10 image for use as a docker container

I'm trying to create a Windows 10 image in order to dockerize an existing legacy application. For very good reasons, the base image has to be Windows 10 not Windows Server. How do I go about doing this? What I had in mind was: 1) Create my vanilla…
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OS X equivalents for Ubuntu's genisoimage and qemu-img

How do I achieve the same result on OS X 10.9 as I do on Ubuntu with commands: $ genisoimage -output init.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data and $ qemu-img convert -O raw disk.img disk.img.raw
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Why is Clonezilla faster than dd?

On my SSD imaging (Source and Destination are 2 SSDs) I get 12GBpm using CloneZilla while with dd I get only 5GBpm. What makes Clonezilla so much faster than dd?
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Imaging OS X installations

We have about 20 Macs in our shop, all of which have been setup and configured as they were purchased. We have a mix of computers and years (some Mac Minis, some iMacs, some MacBook Pros). They're not even all running the same version of OS X. We'd…
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How to convert a TAR file into an ISO file

I have a Linux TAR file that I would like to convert directly into an ISO. Is there a way to do this, preferably, without having to extract the contents of the file first? This would be similar to the following question; however, this is focused on…
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What to change after cloning a Linux server?

Let's say I'm cloning a virtual machine containing a Linux server. What would you advice to change in the clone? I know - it's kind of vague and depends on what services ware installed on linux but maybe you can throw some ideas? Right now I…
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Looking to replace Ghost with FSArchiver or Clonezilla, few questions about capabilities

I work for a PC Repair company and we are looking into setting up a dedicated machine with externally accessible SATA bays to clone harddrives as a safety net incase something goes wrong during a repair. We currently use a SATA/PATA to USB bridge…
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How to write a sparse Linux (EXT4) disk image without writing gigabytes of zeros?

I have a 64 GB Linux disk image with ~50 GB of unused space across the partitions. The file is sparse, so it only takes ~14 GB on disk. But if I dd the image, it writes the full 64 GB, which takes quite a while. Is there any way I can do the…
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Migrate Hosted VPS server to my own server

Is it possible to direct copy an entire VPS host to my own server? My current VPS is in the US and the response times from/to Denmark are bugging me a lot. I have previously had my own server, running FreeBSD, before I switched to the VPS. For the…
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Mounting a linux image built with "dd" on Mac OSX 10.7

I recently did a ssh root@myserver "dd if=/dev/xvda " | dd of=//myimage.img as instructed by my VPS server docs at linode. I did this before to another linux system and mounted it perfectly by doing sudo mount -o loop myimage.img…
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Converting Multiple VMware disk image to single disk image

I have a VMware Instance that uses "multiple vmdk" format(around 7 vmdk files). I want to write the entire disk image to my pen drive. If it was "single vmdk" image, I can use qemu-img convert file.vmdk -O raw /my/drive/ But, I'm unsure on how to…
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Make a dd image restorable to a smaller drive

Suppose I have a 32 GB USB flash drive (UFD) and an 8 GB UFD. I have a 5 GB partition at the start of the bigger UFD, and the rest is unallocated. The problem is to copy the partition and boot sector to the 8 GB UFD using dd or a similar tool. Is…
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