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 > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list redhat com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list redhat com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list -- stevevp pacbell net "What... you're crying...there's no crying in baseball...there's no crying in BASEBALL!" --Tom Hanks, A League of their own
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