Live Ubuntu, a combination of RAM-resident Ubuntu® 10.10 and of Clonezilla Live, can be deployed to the RAM of a client system without impacting the on-disk contents and without running the native operating system (Linux, Windows, ESX) installed on the client system.

 

MAC-Specific Live Ubuntu

Click on the “Live Ubuntu” radio button in the “Enable Provisioning upon Network Boot?” field:

 

The MAC-Spec Provisioning Role Dashboard will show the entry in green:

 

MAC-Independent Live Ubuntu

Click “Add Ubuntu or Debian Role”, and select “Live Ubuntu” from the drop-down:

 

 

The resulting entry on the menu will be as follows:

 

And the corresponding client-side menu will display:

 

Client-Side:

When deployed, either with MAC-Spec or MAC-Indy Provisioning, Live Ubuntu's first screen will show:

 

Note the mapping of files between the Provisioning Server and the Client system: files (scripts, data, etc.) are mounted and can be accessed from either system:

/home/tftpboot/pub/liveubuntu/

/tmp/liveubuntu

 

To access the Ubuntu command line, enter [2] or hit "Enter"

 

To access Clonezilla Live, enter the sudo command as shown below:

You will then be brought to the Clonezilla Live welcome screen:

To exit Clonezilla Live, tab to the "Cancel" button, then enter "n" when prompted:

For root access, use the command "sudo su -"

 

Access the remote system via ssh using ssh user@{client-ip} and the password liveubuntu (this can be changed in the templates in tftpboot/templates/pxecfg/).

Password encryption: in /usr/local/linmin you will find the script linmin-bmp-encrypt-pw.sh for Linux password encryption of clear text passwords.

 

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