Serve Clonezilla with PXE using TFTP on a legacy BIOS computer

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The system used here is a Windows XP.

Fetch the required files

What you need:

• Clonezilla's zip file: clonezilla-live-1.2.12-10-amd64.zip
• pxelinux.0
• pxelinux's config file (pxelinux.cfg/default):
  

  
  DEFAULT Clonezilla-live
  
  LABEL Clonezilla-live
   MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live (Ramdisk)
   KERNEL vmlinuz
   APPEND initrd=initrd.img boot=live config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" vga=788 nosplash noprompt fetch=tftp://[INSERT YOUR IP HERE]/filesystem.squashfs
  

  
  

Extract the files

Extract the required files from the zipfile.

live/vmlinuz live/initrd.img live/filesystem.squashfs

Configure

Edit pxelinux.cfg and insert your IP. You can also preset parameters (see http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc.

Boot

Set up your DHCP and TFTP servers and boot your target.

Sources

• Clonezilla Live on PXE Server: http://clonezilla.org/livepxe.php

Attachments

• pxe-clonezilla-live.zip

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