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Hi, first i will explain my experiment : We have ESX server running virtual machines .We want to migrate to XEN. As i did not found any tool for transfering ESX to for example real server, or better to XEN --> please correct me if i am wrong , i found following approach : i will inside virtual machine on ESX boot from Live-CD of CentOS , using dd i will transfer images trought scp to CentOs

Hi, first i will explain my experiment : We have ESX server running virtual machines .We want to migrate to XEN. As i did not found any tool for transfering ESX to for example real server, or better to XEN --> please correct me if i am wrong , i found following approach : i will inside virtual machine on ESX boot from Live-CD of CentOS , using dd i will transfer images trought scp to CentOs

Hi, I'm running a small Linux consulting business here in a group of small villages in the South of France (http://www.microlinux.fr). I'm using CentOS for everything, servers as well as desktops. The desktop installs are usually highly customized. My approach is to list the client's needs, find the corresponding applications and then install these, to avoid the bloat and

HI All, So I have 5 1U servers (running Windows) that have Ultra 320 SCSI Drives in them. The owner of these boxes wants the drives captured in their current states to .iso or .cdr or something where if the need arises the data can be viewed, used again, etc. So what is the best approach? Boot from a Live CD, hook up a USB external HD and do what? Can I create a .iso or .cdr (or some

Hi, First, I want to precise that I'm new to linux, so please answear with simple words ;) My problem is that I have to install and configure linux (RH9) on 36 identical computers. This would take ages. What I want to do, is to configure one, and then clone the install. But thos computers have no CD, no floppy, and I didn't manage to boot them brom an usb stick. The last option is to

Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction? all i want to do is to clone my entire server and all of it's directories to a more powerful server so i start using it instead.. i dont want

tftp keeps timing out when I try to transfer files. I intend to use tftp with G4U to clone a standard workstation. I am testing it between two Dell poweredge servers running CentOS 4.3. "chkconfig --list |grep tftp" shows tftp up and running on both boxes. When connected "tftp>status" shows it is talking to the other box "tptp>trace" shows "sent WRQ

Hi, I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a local FTP server in order to get it to work. # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd Here's what I'd like to do : * no anonymous access * only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install') The machine I'm installing it on has a static IP ok

Dear All I learned to clone my disk as the following : #dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb As far as I have understood, there is another gui-based utility named clonezilla that can do the same. If I am correct, please let me know how can I install clonezilla on my centos machine to try cloning my disk? Thank you

On 3/3/2017 5:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Well, I only wanted to copy the used part of the drive which I try to > keep small so I can still copy the image to an mSD card if I wish. So > I have to supply the amount of the drive to copy. The bs=512 went > fast enough, but then I was only copying 3.2GB. > > thanks for the help. personally, I would use 'dump' for

Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Thanks. -- BW,

Hello guys! I tested several boot loaders ( - windos 95 boot loader (works) - Smart Boot Manager (sbm) - syslinux (some versions) - grub1 - netbsd on the g4u boot-cd - lilo ) on a old pc machine. You can find my problems and results at [0]. What is really strange for me is that syslinux worked once, but not anymore. Perhaps you can give me you comment on

I've Found a page with interesing discussion about images backup http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-28255.html This give a "dirty" solucion for remove special thing of ext3 (Selinux remove resize_inode and ext_attr features) witch cause the error in ghost. I hope somebody help with the problem of norton ghost and clone centos 4. :) ----------- sfabkk 2005-07-11,

I have a tested copy of EL6 that I would like to duplicate to a number of similar servers, but can't seem to find a sane howto on the subject. TLDP's "Hard disk upgrade howto" is embarrassingly antiquated: when's the last time you saw LILO? What's the recommended procedure for doing an HDD copy/upgrade from one disk to another? Is there a nice, detailed howto that

Hello all! Actually I use dual boot PC with CentOS4 (kernel 2.6.9-11) and WinXP (HDD 20GB, 512MB, PentiumIII 800MHz), but I have the following problem doing the image with g4u ----BEGIN ERROR MESSAGGE---- wd0: (uncorrectable data error) 8951MB 1.59MB/s wd0d: error reading fsbn 18333440 of 18333440 - 18333567 (wd0 bn 18333440; cn 18187 tn 14 sn 62) retrying wd0: (uncorrectable data error)

Hi, I wanted to set up Clonezilla Tools on my client machine via PXE Boot. How do I do it. I got information from the web, but after making changes in the dhcpd.conf file, the dhcpd fails to start. In the BIOS after enabling the PXE Boot, iam not able to see an Clonezilla menu options that i have placed in /pxelinux.cfg file. Iam using centos-5.3 on Intel Board Please provide me with some

Is there a standard way of copying a working system from one machine to another with different partitions? I have two CentOS-5.6 machines, say A and B, and I thought I would copy / on sdb10 on machine A to an unused partition sda7 on machine B with rsync. I made the appropriate changes to /etc/fstab and grub.conf , as well as /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts , but found that there were innumerable

On 2014/3/7 ?? 05:23, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Bryan Romine <bromine1027 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for the confusion, I am actually using 6.02. It turns out that I was >> trying to use the 32-bit efi binary to load 64-bit kernels. I switched to >> using "syslinux64.efi" but it hangs during boot, just before loading the >>

Hi, A couple months ago, I migrated our local school (two servers, 20 desktop clients) from Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7. The desktop clients are running a customized lightweight desktop based on Xfce: https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-xfce-centos-7/ Home directories are all on the server, and authentication is centralized. Everything works fine so far. With Slackware I had found a

Hi, I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do that ? Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS and installing it on several client machines through network. I used clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore. I want to make a clone of centos OS and