Pierre, Thanks for helping out with this. I will add a C4C laptop to my delivery list to your place this week. If you can set everything up on that laptop then C4C can repeat this in the future. I could also likely spare some CD's. Are these something that we need to prepare beforehand or can we burn on site (as long as the clonezilla laptop has a burner I guess). Maybe we can ask volunteers to bring their own USB thumbdrive as well. Empty? C4C Can provide the router and switch. I have a D-Link router (DI-524) if that would work fine. It has DHCP and is wireless (can you clonezilla wirelessly?). You can configure virtual servers for the router as well. Here is an emulater of the router: http://support.dlink.com/emulators/di524_revc/h_wizard.html PXE booting would be a cool feature but some older hardware might not have that ability then you are booting a CD to use PXE anyhow. I think we might be able to pull this off. Pierre et al, I put together a google doc to hammer out some of the details. If you want write access just let me know and maybe send some of your thoughts to the list. Cheers On 13-04-21 01:14 PM, Pierre Kerr wrote: > I'd like to help with this. Perhaps I can take a day off my usual > Saturday volunteer work. But I do have other things draining my time > too. > > If you want to do a Clonezilla thing, have a "server" that could be > anything with file sharing and maybe DHCP unless you use a router. > Use CDs to boot the machines to get images. If your server is set-up > as I mention in my documentation here (near the bottom of the page) > <http://pierrekerr.ca/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=computers:computers_for_communi... > then you really don't need to type anything, just accept the defaults > then pick the image you want to use. > > I could supply a laptop and maybe a router for DHCP to act as the > file server and put several images on it. Ubuntu 12.04LTS, LUbuntu, > Puppy, Qimo... > > You'd need some CD's and/or bootable memory sticks. > > Clonezilla does have a facility to do PXE boots and some day, maybe > before May 25, I'll figure that out. But then you do have to set-up > the machines to do a PXE boot. > > > On 04/21/2013 12:52 PM, David Sampson wrote: >> Hey Folks, >> >> I am wondering if for our May Work Day (May 25) we could maybe bring >> a bunch of systems out to the meeting place and install fresh Ubuntu >> on them or at least set up a system that we can do this easily. >> >> Due to the lack of a decent internet connection at Centre Pointe, >> Ben Franklin Place I was thinking that we could use CloneZilla. I >> have no experience with this setuip but I know others on this List >> (eg. Pierre) do. >> >> This is what I was thinking. >> >> 1. We setup a cloneZilla dedicated server (maybe on one of our >> workshop laptops) >> 2. We bring a bunch of network patch cords and 20 port switch >> 3. We bring out a bunch of systems 5-10 (I would need people to help >> pick them up in Barrhaven) >> 4. Save on peripherals by using a couple of KVM's (2), a couple of >> monitors (2), keyboards(2), mice (2). >> >> Perhaps a couple of people would volunteer to come out to Barrhaven >> on Wed May 1 to help set everything up and sort through parts in >> storage to find what we need. >> >> Pierre, can you provide a copy of the image you are currently using? >> I could pickup the compressed image on DVD when I drop off the other >> stuff this week. >> >> To pull this session off I would be looking for someone to take the >> lead and ensure everything is good to go and organized. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> My questions: >> 1. how do you take a stock Ubuntu image (12.04 LTS) and modify it >> for use in CloneZilla (eg add software, extra resources etc) >> 2. do we use CloneZilla Live or SE? >> 3. Should this be installed on a laptop we also use in the labs or >> should it be dedicated to only cloning? >> 4. Who is interested in this as a potential event for next month's VWD? >> >> >> Information: >> ------------------- >> http://clonezilla.org/ >> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop >> http://computersforcommunities.ca/c4c/en/volunteer#BuildProgram >> http://computersforcommunities.ca/c4c/en/volunteer#InstallProgram >> http://computersforcommunities.ca/c4c/en/node/7/#AdoptionProgram >> http://computersforcommunities.ca/c4c/en/forums/c4c_lists/home_refurbishi... >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > C4C-tech mailing list > C4C-tech(a)lists.ncf.ca > http://lists.ncf.ca/listinfo/c4c-tech