[OPLINTECH] Clonezilla Portable Hard Drive

[Eric Maynard]

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]
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>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
>
> "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]
> Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]
> Fax   [330.674.1938]
>
> "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"
>
>
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