Using Norton to Clone FC2

[Michael D. Setzer II]

This link from symantec shows a way of fixing the problem by 
booting to a rescue diskette, and just resetting the pointer. 

The find they mention didn't work for me, but I knew my boot 
partition ws 5, so used that in place of the 1 they show in the 
example. 

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2000042113083825

Another option you might want to look at is g4u, this is a free 
program that works with a BSD boot diskette, or is also a boot cd 
option on the ultimatebootcd cd. It can create an image to an ftp 
server, and download it as well. It uses a boot to BSD to function. It 
doesn't handle resizing partitions, and doesn't like to go to smaller 
drive, generally the same size or larger works. 

I use ghost 2003 and g4u, and have no problem. Make sure to use 
the command option to clear the unused blocks. They have an 
example in the g4u text.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M
rm /0bits

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

It makes the image size much smaller. 
I just did a test with an FC3 setup, and ghost 2003 doesn't like the 
LVM partitions and failed, but the g4u copied the disk image. First 
time I did it, it create a 14+GB file. Then I zeroed out the unused 
sectors and got a 2.5GB file.

Have not tried restoring the image yet.
On 15 Nov 2004 at 11:50, Ryan McDougall wrote:

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> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I have a situation here at work. We are trying to clone FC2 for a lab
> that will be coming in a few days, but we can't seem to get a working
> image. By the way we are using Ghost 7.5. The problem is that no
> matter which boot loader we use they won't start. Grub came up with a
> GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB error and LiLo only produces LI. The only thing I
> can think of to get this actually to work would be to go around to
> each of the machines and go into rescue mode and re-install grub/lilo
> and hopefully that would work. But thats kind of a lot of work for a
> whole lab.
> 
> I have read that Ghost 8.0 works but can anyone tell me whether or not
> it does actually work in production with FC2?
> 
> Thanx,
> Ryan
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