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I installed Windows Deployment Server and I've modified my PXE boot menu so that I can boot different kernels (which works). Now I'm trying to set up CloneZilla to also PXE boot but I can't get the TFTP portion working correctly. Here's the clonezilla boot menu code:
label Clonezilla-live
MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live (Ramdisk)
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=tftp://$serverIP/filesystem.squashfs
where $serverIP is my TFTP's server IP - which came from here:
http://clonezilla.org/livepxe.php
Everything works great except for the fetch statement at the end of the APPEND line. It will work when I try and hit another TFTP Server (SolarWinds), but for the life of me I can't get it to fetch from the WDS TFTP server, which I know is working because WDS relies on it. I'm able to use a TFTP client to access the WDS TFTP server, but whenever I try and do it with clonezilla, it gives me an "Access violation" error when it tries (and fails) to download the filesystem.squashfs file.
It might be a long shot, but I figured someone might have run into something like this before.
CLARIFICATION
The filesystem.squashfs file is essentially the clonezilla app - it's not the cloned image that is meant for storing the image to be deployed - those files are huge (in the gigs) and transferred via other means within the clonezilla app. This squashfs file is downloaded while the Linux subsystem is loading and then the clonezilla app is executed when it is finished downloading.
I haven't had an issue downloading from subfolders - I think the real problem is the slashes - I think the tftp utility being utilized by CloneZilla (or debian or whatever it is) doesn't like them. I finally gave up and I'm just loading clonezilla from an Ubuntu box after PXE booting from the WDS server. It's kludgy, but I don't plan on doing this for very long... – Mike – 2017-11-11T06:41:27.803