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- restore Clonezilla image into VMWare (Part 2)

 

 

 

 

Step1: Boot from Clonezilla

Clonzilla Boot Up Splash Screen

Select "Clonezilla Live (Default settings, VGA 1024x768)" or if your monitor does not support 1024x768, please select "Other modes of Conzilla live"
 

Clonzilla Boot Up Process

The screen capture shows the startup process of Clonezilla

 

Step2 :  Select language

Clonzilla Menu - choose language

Accept the default setting and press <OK> for next page.

 

Step3: Keymap Selection

Clonzilla Menu - Configuration Console Data

Accept the default setting and press <OK> for next page.

 

Step4: Select Clonezilla Operation Mode

Clonzilla Menu - Start Operation Mode Type

Navigate to Start_Clonezilla and hit <OK>

 

Step5: Select the Clonezilla Image directory

 Clonzilla Menu - Mount Image Directory

Here, we are choosing the location of  Clonezilla image directory. In my senario, l have NFS server hosting all my clone images. Navigate to "nfs_server". Hit <OK> to continue.

 

Step6: Configure the Clonezilla network

Clonzilla Menu - Network Configuration

In my case, I have DHCP server installed.  I will choose dhcp and hit <OK>

 

Step7: Configuring NFS server

Clonzilla Menu - Mount NFS Server

Since we are using NFS, we are specifying the NFS server address here.

 

Step7: Specify the NFS version

Clonzilla Menu - Specify NFS Version

Here, we are specifying the version of NFS service we are using. If you do not know which version, just accept NFS v2, V3.

 

Step8: Specify the NFS mount point

Clonzilla Menu - Mount NFS Server

This is NFS directory that you put your Clonezilla images.

 

Clonzilla NFS Mouting Process 

The screenshot above shows the mount point of NFS to local Clonzilla volume /home/partimag

 

Step9: Specify the Clonezilla Operation Mode

Clonzilla Menu - Operation Mode - Beginner

 

Step10: Clonezilla Operating Mode

Clonzilla Menu - Save and Restore Image Mode

Here, we are selecting "restoreparts". This will restore an image to local partition of VMWare that we created at part 1.

 

Step11: Select the image to be restored.

Clonzilla Menu - Mode: Restoreparts , Choose image to restore

Select the image you want to restore. Here, we only have one image, just highlight the image and hit <OK>

 

Step12: Select local restore partitions

Clonzilla Menu - Select location restoratiom partition

Since our image contain 2 partitions, we are going to restore both of the partition together. Navigate to both partititon and hit spacebar, you will notice both selection now are [*]. Hit <OK> to proceed.

 

 

Clonzilla Image Restoration in Progress

The screen capture above shows the process of image to partition restoration. You will be asked for confirmation during the restore process. Simply ask YES to proceed. If there is any error, you be informed during the process

 

Clonzilla Image Restoration End Result

Depends of your size of images and used space, you restore process might take few minutes to hours. The screen capture above shows the restore process if completed. press 0 or 1 to reboot your system.

 

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