The problem with Clonezilla ...
This is just a reminder, as I seem to stumble with the same rock every now and then. The problem is the keyboard configuration and the sometimes quick time window to perform a cloning operation. All of it leads me sometimes to a number of failed attempts until I got it right. The culprit? Having passwords that use symbols that are mapped to different keys depending on the keyboard language selected. And no, selecting the UI language has nothing to do with that. So the common symptom is my host system no longer allows the connection to the SMB share I use to store the images to (or to retrieve them from). So I first worry about potential incompatibility of the SMB versions and authentication modes. Then I think there might be I am not remembering a not so often used password right. And, eventually, I realized that the password I am typing at the terminal that I cannot read as it is not echoed back most likely contain the wrong symbols as I did not choose the right keyboard (w...