Re: Ghosting Disks

[Art Ross <aross skyenet net>]

Steve Pardee wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I cannot guarantee ImageCast is going to work for you, but I have been using it
> for over a year and if you get stuck, StorageSoft have a knowlege Base to help
> and once you get the kinks out of it which depending on what you are doing you
> may or may not experience, it just works.  The company I work for uses it as
> the standard Imaging tool for both Windoze and Linux.  Let me know if you get
> stuck.  I might have run across the same thing already.
>
> -Steve Pardee
>
> "Mark W. Knecht" wrote:
>
> > Brandon,
> >    The original issue I had was that Norton Ghost didn't handle ghosting of
> > my Linux partitions correctly. They wouldn't boot. I use system Commander
> > 2K, and run DOS, Win ME & 2 versions of Linux. I need them all to work.
> >
> >    Really I was wondering if Linux didn't already have the tools built in to
> > do this without extra software. I'm happy to put the disk in a special
> > machine. It is not important in my case that the solution be network based.
> >
> >    The ImageCast suggestion is interesting, but leads me to wonder if I'm
> > destined to fail as per my experience with Ghost?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Brandon Caudle
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:54 AM
> > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject: Re: Ghosting Disks
> >
> > Norton does the same thing.
> >
> > Brandon Caudle
> > --------------
> > 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)
> >
> > >From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward bright net>
> > >Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > >To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> > >Subject: Re: Ghosting Disks
> > >Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:48:38 -0400
> > >
> > >You may have more success using Image Cast 4.5 rather than Norton Ghost.
> > >As far as where to put the images that all depends on how your network is
> > >setup but Image Cast 4.5 has the ability to extract images across a network
> > >directly onto the target drive.
> > >I don't know about Norton Ghost so I can't say much on that subject.
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>
> > >To: "Redhat-Install-List (E-mail)" <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> > >Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:38 PM
> > >Subject: Ghosting Disks
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >    I'm sort of wondering if a RH box might make a good platform for
> > >ghosting
> > > > a drive. I tried Norton Ghost and it didn't work correctly.
> > > >
> > > >    I've got 10 machines running in my lab, and I need a good way to get
> > > > identical disk copies in each machine. Each disk has 4 OS's and multiple
> > > > partitions on it. I'd like some strategy that was pretty independent of
> > >me
> > > > sitting there and doing something once I start. Can someone make some
> > > > suggestions?
> > > >
> > > >    I've never set up extra drives under Linux, so I'm going to need
> > >pretty
> > > > clear instructions, but I'm basically thinking about a machine with a
> > >main
> > > > system drive, a second drive that has the image I want to copy, and then
> > > > another drive that gets the copy put on it.
> > > >
> > > >    How might I go about setting this up?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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Our department purchased Norton Ghost 2001 a few months ago to handling our lab
imaging.  All lab computers are dual boot systems containing Windows 98 and RedHat
Linux.  Windows 98 is imaged just fine but RH Linux yields a fatal boot error and
we haven't been able to fix it.  The source drive containing the image is 8 GB and
the targeted drive is 30 GB.  Are there some issues that we may be overlooking.
Ghost images the Windows 98 partition identically, but the Linux partitions are
resized to fit the entire 30 GB.  To simply experiment with this, we tried imaging
onto an identically sized drive.  Still, the same problem occurs.

Unfortunately, we didn't realize this when we bought the Ghosting software.  Does
anyone know how expensive ImageCast 4.5 is for a multiple machines?
  Best Regards,
  Art