[OPLINTECH] Clonezilla Portable Hard Drive

[Karl Jendretzky]

I really like the idea of a bootable flash drive, but live in fear of 
old mobos that won't boot from them, or at least make me mess around in 
the boot sequence trying things like USB-ZIP.

Currently I just boot from the CD, and then push the image across an ssh 
connection, but for awhile I had the OPLIN office setup to offer 
CloneZilla as a PXE boot, which was pretty slick.

Thanks,
      Karl Jendretzky
      Technology Project Manager
      Ohio Public Library Information Network
      jendreka at oplin.org
      (614) 728-1515


On 02/18/2010 04:12 PM, Eric Maynard wrote:
> I have been booting from CD and using a loaner 320Gb Seagate, but I 
> was looking to purchasing a good size USB drive to hold several images.
>
> It would be nice to have a single drive and in the case where there 
> are no media bays to be able to use USB only, but I wasn't certain if 
> portable hard drive could be made bootable.
>
> I have created bootable USB sticks so I guess I could boot from one of 
> those and then plugin the portable hard drive for storage.  That would 
> be a good plan B.
>
>
> Eric Maynard
> Head of Information Technology,
> Holmes County District Public Library
> Millersburg, OH  44654
> Email [emaynard at holmeslib.org <mailto:emaynard at holmeslib.org>]
> Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]
> Fax   [330.674.1938]
>
> "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mann, James H. <JMann at gcpl.lib.oh.us 
> <mailto:JMann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>> wrote:
>
>     Eric
>
>     I boot from CD and use a variety of homemade USB hard drives:
>
>     1. For Goodwill I use 80-gig IDE drives in a USB case. They hold
>     about 15 images
>
>     2. For GCPL public computers and OPACs I use a 30-gig laptop drive
>     with about 5 images
>
>     3. For GCPL in my office I have a 500-gig SATA drive which is
>     really too big to be portable
>
>     To date all my Clonezilla external drives are homemade.
>
>     I have booted from a USB drive but am more comfortable using the
>     CD, and like I tell my Goodwill volunteers you just hit enter 11
>     times and you have a clean computer. OK you hit enter 11 times and
>     arrow down twice but who’s counting?
>
>     Jim Mann
>
>     Technology Coordinator
>
>     Greene County Public Library
>
>     76 E. Market St.
>
>     Xenia Ohio 45385
>
>     (937)352-4000 x1210
>
>     mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us <mailto:jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>
>
>     "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast
>     enough." - Mario Andretti.
>
>     *From:* oplintech-bounces at oplin.org
>     <mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org>
>     [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org
>     <mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org>] *On Behalf Of *Eric Maynard
>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:29 PM
>     *To:* Oplintech at Oplin.Org
>     *Subject:* [OPLINTECH] Clonezilla Portable Hard Drive
>
>     Curious if anyone out there in LIbrary Tech land is booting
>     CloneZilla from a portable harddrive and if so how is working out
>     for you?
>
>
>
>     Also, does anyone have a preference for a particular drive?
>
>     CDWG has a 1TB Western Digital My Book for about $110 which sounds
>     like a pretty nice drive for cloning PCs on the go.
>
>     thanks,
>
>
>     Eric Maynard
>     Head of Information Technology,
>     Holmes County District Public Library
>     Millersburg, OH  44654
>     Email [emaynard at holmeslib.org <mailto:emaynard at holmeslib.org>]
>     Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]
>     Fax   [330.674.1938]
>
>     "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"
>
>
>
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