[OPLINTECH] Clonezilla Portable Hard Drive

[Mann, James H.]

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] 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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