Bdtyktl

I am using Clonezilla to create and restore system images all the time. I would really like to preseed some of the options to make it easier and faster. I have repeatedly tried to follow the instructions on Clonezilla's website, but I still can't get it to work.

Here are the steps I have taken:

1. download clonezilla zip


2. extract it


3. edited both isolinux.cfg and syslinux.cfg with the preseed options


4. built an iso from the files from the zip


5. burned the iso on a flash drive


6. booted into clonezilla

the instructions are here

my .cfg files look like this:

# Created by generate-pxe-menu! Do NOT edit unless you know what you are doing! 

# Keep those comment "MENU DEFAULT" and "MENU HIDE"! Do NOT remove them.

# Note!!! If "serial" directive exists, it must be the first directive

default vesamenu.c32

timeout 300

prompt 0

noescape 1

MENU MARGIN 5

 MENU BACKGROUND ocswp.png

# Set the color for unselected menu item and timout message

 MENU COLOR UNSEL 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000

 MENU COLOR TIMEOUT_MSG 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000

 MENU COLOR TIMEOUT 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000

 MENU COLOR HELP 7;32;41 #c0000090 #00000000



# MENU MASTER PASSWD



say **********************************************************************

say Clonezilla, the OpenSource Clone System.

say NCHC Free Software Labs, Taiwan.

say clonezilla.org, clonezilla.nchc.org.tw

say THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

say **********************************************************************



# Allow client to edit the parameters

ALLOWOPTIONS 1



# simple menu title

MENU TITLE clonezilla.org, clonezilla.nchc.org.tw



# Since no network setting in the squashfs image, therefore if ip=, the network is disabled. That's what we want.

label Clonezilla live

MENU DEFAULT

# MENU HIDE

MENU LABEL Clonezilla live (Default settings, VGA 800x600)

# MENU PASSWD

kernel /live/vmlinuz

append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset noprompt ocs_prerun="mount /dev/sda4 /mnt" ocs_prerun1="mount --bind /mnt/Backup /home/partimag/" ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -c -r -j2 -k -p true restoreparts ask_user sda1" ocs_live_extra_param="" keyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_live_batch="no" locales=en_US.UTF-8 vga=788 ip= nosplash

TEXT HELP

* Clonezilla live version: 2.2.2-37-i686-pae. (C) 2003-2014, NCHC, Taiwan

* Disclaimer: Clonezilla comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

ENDTEXT

the command used to create the iso file is:

xorriso -as mkisofs -R -r -J -joliet-long -l -cache-inodes -iso-level 3 -isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isohdpfx.bin -partition_offset 16 -A 'Clonezilla live CD' -b syslinux/isolinux.bin -c syslinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot --efi-boot boot/grub/efiboot.img -isohybrid-gpt-basdat -isohybrid-apm-hfsplus ./ > /tmp/clonezilla-live.iso

the command used to write the iso (clonezilla-live.iso) to a flash drive is:

cat clonezilla* | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64M

My overall question: what am I doing wrong? Or more specifically, what action(s) do I need to take in order to successfully preseed Clonzilla? It is acceptable to only use the keyboard layout and language options as an example/in your answer.