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Re: Ghosting Disks



Mark,

We either use ImageCast to image Win2000 or Red Hat 7.1, bu not dual
boot systems.  Not both.  I forgot you mentioned you were building dual
boot systems.  Sorry to lead you down the wrong path.

-Steve Pardee

"Mark W. Knecht" wrote:
> 
> Art,
>    Similar results here. One additional issue for us is that we are using
> System Commander 2K to create the multi-boot machines. We were unclear
> whether our problems booting the Linux partition was Ghost not handling
> Linux or messing up SC2K.
> 
>    Thanks for your inputs.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Steve,
>    This info from the Imagecast knowledge base. I'm not clear that it will
> work for me due to my machines being dual boot and SC2K needing LILO
> installed in the OS partition, not the MBR.
> 
> Mark
> 
> FROM IMAGECAST KNOWLEDGEBASE
> 
> With the release of version 4.2.0 Imagecast can image ext2 partitions
> using Optimal Read.
> 
> It has been tested on the following versions of Linux.
> Redhat 6.1 and 6.2
> Corel 1.1
> 
> We have done some minimal testing on Corel 1.2 and it has worked, however
> it is currently not supported.
> 
> We have also done testing with SuSe and Debian, but have not yet been able
> to image these systems.
> 
> Imagecast will only handle partition types 82 (Linux swap) and type 83
> (Linux native). Type 85 which is a Linux extended partition does NOT work
> with Imagecast.
> 
> At the end of a restore, the progress of the client appears to hang and
> will then reboot. The client may appear to be stalled for up to 5 minutes.
> During this time the client is writing Inode data (somewhat similar to the
> MFT for an NTFS system).
> 
> NOTE: Imagecast will not handle multiboot Linux systems at this time and
> it is recommended that the Linux install have a separate Swap partition
> and that LILO needs to be installed in the MBR.
> 
> 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
> 
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