ghosting a linux HDD
 

This is a 2 fold question.

I'm going to ghost rh 8.0 and rh 9.0 drives. Will this work and is there anything I have to watch out for?

Also, is it possible to ghost a machine and not have it put the image on one of it's partitions--I don't have any for it? Can I network it to where it gets put on a Windows machine's partition while the ghosting is taking place?


Thanks.

I have done that. You need the ghost.exe located on the partition where you want to upload to. Also, you need a dos network disk with the network drivers on it. Ghost has an option to make those.
Also partimage works nicely for this.....

I have used Ghost Corporate Edition (version 8 if I remember correctly) to image laptop drives at work a couple of times. It works pretty well. I have only used it with ext2 and ext3 file systems though and I don't know if the other common alternatives (reiserfs, xfs, jfs) are supported officially.

What I did was I created boot floppies using the Ghost wizard in Windows to support my network card, then popped in the floppy, booted from it and used the running Ghost Console service on a fileserver on the network to store the images. It all worked very well and was quicker than I expected.

After having replaced the small old hard drives in the laptops I used Ghost again to transfer the images back. All went well and the only additional thing I had to do was to reinstall the boot loader (simply by booting the Debian install CD in rescue mode and running /sbin/lilo).


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