Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question I am trying to take an image of my Android phone. Specifically I have tried to image the system and boot partitions. The … Read more
I want to solicit opinions and options on a way to improve setup time of our many computers. We are a small company, but we have lots of computers. Most of them are used for a certain role in our company, and they are pretty well utilized most of the time. We actually have 2 … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question In case of a system failure, I wanted to create a system image. However, it requires administrative password. System admin asked me why … Read more
I’m having trouble getting ClearLinux to work on OpenStack. From their download source, based on their sites download page & documentation, I’ve tried clear-29690-cloud.img, clear-29690-cloud-native.img, clear-29690-live-server.img, and clear-29690-live-server.iso after running it through conversion. I can’t tell if this is something specific with clearlinux or not. Their documentation states the one for OpenStack is the cloud-img … Read more
I’m trying to create a CentOS 7 ISO image to use it later with Virtualbox. That ISO should include a ks.cfg file also. I’ve followed the steps under How to create a custom ISO image in CentOS, but I get one ISO with only 70MB of size which cannot be used in Virtualbox. Any user … Read more
I’ve been looking for a way to do a disk image backup of a running linux server. There are several questions which answer this, like How to make a disk image, Mirror Live Linux (Debian) Server, Linux live hot backup snapshot and debian live server image. Most of them seem to suggest dd, using a … Read more
I often hear its easy to create the image of one VM and setup it another VM(even instance types are of different types) than creating the image on physical server. In fact one of the devops guy in the past told me image from physical server can not be created . Is that true ? … Read more
In our environment we have linux developer PCs and several embedded boards. The embedded boards are booted from an image. Those image files should be created/modified on the developer PCs. Mounting is no problem: mount /scratch/image.img /scratch/mounted-image -o loop,user would be enough. The problem is users can mount it, but not access files that are … Read more
I am attempting to setup nightly builds of a Linux OS on my webserver. Well, the problem is I need to generate a floppy disk image without being root. Really, I don’t need to fully generate it. I just need to update the image. As I have a FFS image with boot manager and such, … Read more
A friend couldn’t seem to get Norton Ghost to clone a disk usably. I suggested using GParted, and (after running chkdsk /f on the NTFS partition – possibly the cause of Norton’s problem) took the following steps: Copied the recovery partition (at the end of the original drive) to the end of the new drive. … Read more
