[olug] Ghost and Linux servers

[Brian Roberson]

I have done the dos/ghost/samba on everything from win95 to XP - its doable

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

Is the _best_ resource for this, just put the ghost exe on the share your
.gho files are on and your set!





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Brutsche" <phil at brutsche.us>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Ghost and Linux servers


> K.J. Kirwan wrote:
> > Would g4u (ghost 4 unix) help you?
>
> g4u copies the raw disk or partitions.  It'll work fine as long as the
> destination hard drive is the *same* size (and my same size I mean the
> same sector count) or larger as the source - not all drives of the same
> advertized capacity have the same sector count.  One 60GB drive can
> actually end up being a couple GB smaller than another 60GB drive from
> another manufacturer.
>
> With Symantec's Ghost, a 40GB NTFS volume can be imaged onto a 2-3GB
> file if that's all the data that's on the partition.  That limits what
> file systems Ghost can image; it's generally limited to FAT, FAT32,
> NTFS, and *maybe* (that's a really strong maybe) HPFS.  PowerQuest
> DriveImage (aka PQDI, a similar program recently aquired by Symantec)
> can handle ext2/3 file systems as well.
>
> The big problem with Ghost is that it's a Win32/DOS program.  You've not
> developed true dislike for MS-DOS until you've tried to make a bootable
> Ghost CD capable of pulling images off a Samba server (the network
> drivers and related utilities wouldn't fit in 640KB RAM with the CD-ROM
> drivers and utilities and still leave enough room for Ghost or PQDI to
> work).
>
> If someone could teach g4u to understand at least the file systems with
> open-source implementations, many of us would be in hog eaven, so to
speak.
>
> And no, I'm not volunteering.
>
> :)
>
> -- 
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
>
>
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