Re: Ghosting Disks

["Bill Plenge" <replytogrouponly bestweb com>]

I had a similar problem ghosting one drive to another with Partition Magic,
The cause was that though the partitons were copied properly the drives
original MBR wasn't altered.  I needed to make the partition (Win NT in this
case) which held my boot manager  active, boot to it and tell it to enable
my boot manager (Boot Magic) to update the MBR.

Best,
Bill

"Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com> wrote in message
news:000e01c11460$33bf3730$b50aa8c0 mknecht   
> 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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