clonezillalive Cookbook

Deploy Clonezilla-Live for network-booting.

Clonezilla then allows to save and restore images of hard-disks.

If the image is for windows and prepared for example with sysprep, it can be used to install several machines over and over again.

Requirements

The development of this cookbook happens on debian wheezy (7.x), which makes this the supported platform. It should work on ubuntu too.

cookbooks

• pxe: For the booting and creation of the pxe-menu
• nfs: For the image store

Attributes

node['clonezilla']['append_line'] = 'boot=live config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset noprompt'

Basic appendline to boot. Will be extended by the keyboard-layout and the specific options to run clonezilla.

node['clonezilla']['kbdlayout'] = 'us'

Set the keyboard-layout to use in clonezilla.

node['clonezilla']['serverip'] = nil

If the server is reachable via two (or more) interfaces, use the given address for the clients to boot from. If not given, node['ipaddress'] is used.

node['clonezilla']['debug_boot'] = false

By default clonezilla boots with quiet added to the appendline. With this attribute set to true, quiet is replaced by nosplash.

node['clonezilla']['version'] = '2.2.1-25'

The version of clonezilla to install.

node['clonezilla']['architecture'] = 'i686-pae'

The processor architecture to use for the clonezilla netboot. Can be different from the servers own architecture. Clonezilla has images for 'i486', 'i686-pae' and 'amd64'.

node['clonezilla']['checksum'] = '<checksum_of_2.2.1-25>'

The corresponding md5-checksum of the clonezilla-version to verify the download. Unless you change the version for clonezilla to a version not yet incorporated in this recipe, there should be no need to set this attribute.

node['clonezilla']['file']

Customized name of the file to download. Defaults to clonezilla-live-#{node['clonezilla']['version']}-{#node['clonezilla']['architecture']}.zip. Unless you want to download a custom clonezilla (from a custom location) there should be no need to set this attribute.

node['clonezilla']['url']

Customized download url. Defaults to http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/clonezilla_live_stable/#{node['clonezilla']['version']}/#{node['clonezilla']['file']}/download. Unless you want to download a custom clonezilla (from a custom location) there should be no need to set this attribute.

Usage

clonezillalive::default

This recipe does nothing. Its there to play it safe if I want to add providers and resources to this cookbook.

clonezillalive::server

This recipe grabs the clonezilla live image and unpacks the files needed for network-boot. Then it installs tftp and syslinux and configures pxe-booting for the clonezilla image.

Contributing

Standard opensource cookbook rules apply:

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Run rubocop and foodcritic . and try to have not to many issues.
5. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
6. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
7. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Authors: Arnold Krille (for bcs kommunikationslösungen)

Contributors: Brent Stephens (Outloud Industries, LLC)