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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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genisoimage/mkisofs making isos

I am trying to reproduce a .iso (of clonezilla), needed a proprietary driver to work. I had to unpack, unsquashfs, add a driver, resquash, re-iso the distribution.... Now, I am trying to re-create a bootable .iso :) An iso that will not be…
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Disk imaging, active directory, and vss?

I am using a cloud hosting provider, which uses dedicated servers. They let you "image a disk" and then cancel the server. To image the disk, they use software which is similar to Clonezilla (no name known). However, would there be any problems with…
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How to prepare a custom installation of Windows 7 for cloning to a dozen machines with various hardware configurations?

I would like the image to detect and install storage controller and video drivers for a limited but varying set of machines, known ahead of time. Windows 7 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I would like to activate each restored instance…
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Hard Drive upgrade advice for a Dell PowerEdge 1950

My setup is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with 2x 140Gb Hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The OS is Windows 2003 Web Edition and disk is partitioned into to two, a 12Gb C: partition and the remainder is the D: drive. Both are very close to full…
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Can I use a single OS X Installation Image on multiple machines?

I currently admin a small variety of Mac's at work. We have some G3/G4/G5/MBP/iBook/eMac/iMac. I've noticed that each system is configured slightly different and wanted to come up with some disk images of full installations pre-configured. I would…
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Updating a single file in a CPIO archive

I have a CPIO archive with the Linux image on it. With binwalk I can see that there are the following chunks: DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 …
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How to resize lxc/lxd images, if i am using LVM backend?

I'm using LXD few years and I'm glad to use this platform in my testing environment. But few days ago, I couldn't install Microsoft SQL server 2017. The reason was, that I used default ZFS backend. Ok, I checked, that if I need ext4. I have to use…
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What steps are needed after cloning from a image Ubuntu to new system? (sysprep, unconfig)

I have an imaged (clonezilla) system image of a Ubuntu setup with a bunch of settings. Now I am wondering, what needs to be changed if I use the clonezilla image to create always new systems from this image. The things, which I can immediately name…
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Copy a disk in another VM in Azure (using Graphic Interface)

I'd like to copy a disk of a VM and use it in another VM. I see that there are many tutorials to do it, but they suggest to use PowerShell, bash, ecc. But I don't want to spend time to learn how to use them (I have never used PoweShell), I guess…
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CloneZilla Live vs. PartImage?

For use on a test computer, I need a free cloning tool to save NTFS and ext3 partitions to the same disk, ie. no need to up/download images from a server. CloneZilla Live and PartImage (available on the live CD SystemRescueCd) seem to perform the…
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How do I generate a bootable .iso file from a directory?

Currently, I have selected a distribution of Linux that I like a lot and I have downloaded the .iso image which I can simply dd to an USB or CD media, etc... I would like to add some additional data to this installer image so that I do not have to…
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Converting VMWare to ISO

I installed VMWare player on vista and tried Ubuntu on it, I am quite happy with it, the built my dev env on it (Ruby, Rails, MySQL etc). Now i want to move to a dedicated machine, is it possible to create a iso file out from VMWare file, so that i…
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KVM image format convertion: raw thin provisioning to raw preallocated

I'd like to convert a KVM virtual machine disk image in raw file from a thin privisioning format to preallocated. In the first place I've got a preallocated 20Gb raw image file: image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/ArchLinux.img file format: raw virtual…
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Is there a way to relate the mac address of a machine to it's hostname when deploying images over a network?

This is a os-agnostic question; When deploying to a large number of machines, the only thing you have to differentiate them with is a mac address; DHCP can assign an IP to each machine based on it's mac address, and then DNS will assign it a FQDN…
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Recommended system cloning tool with customizable boot disc?

I am setting up a small computer lab at a school in a small town up in the hills of Panama, where we will be starting with 10 similarly-configured student PCs. My desire is to create a locked-down system image on the first PC, then clone it to all…
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