hasduck.blogg.se - Virtualbox boot from usb clonezilla

I knew for this pendrive that my booteable partition was /dev/sdg1, so that’s what I’ve used.īe careful with ‘sudo’.

I’ve listed the partitions of my pendrive with sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DT 100 G2 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS I have a virtual machine created in virtualbox called «fubuntu» with no disks attached on it.įirst I connect the booteable pendrive to my computer with Debian and identifty which device it is using sudo dmesg: usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected.Be carefull with this, my Clonezilla pendrive had to boot from /dev/sdf1 (partition) while my ubuntu pendrive did it from the whole device /dev/sdf (whole disk).

I have a physical booteable pendrive with CloneZilla on it (I’ve also tested with a Ubuntu Live pendrive) both worked.

The main documentation of this process can be found here. I didn’t like that idea so I’ve managed to boot the virtual machine (virtualbox) with a physical pendrive to take screenshots of good quality and, in this process, learn about this process which is really simple. Since I must start CloneZilla from a pendrive in each computer/tablet/device adding pictures of the process to the document could be acomplished by taking pictures with my cellphone in each step. What CloneZilla does is just essentially creating/restoring a snapshot of a hard disk so you can clone as much devices as you want, maybe some of you have used «norton ghost» for such task. Yesterday I was asked to create a document with detailed steps to clone images of devices using «CloneZilla».