Ghosting Redhat 8.0

joeca12 · 02-13-2003, 10:01 AM

I am trying to ghost a laptop that has redhat8.0 installed. I have succesfully ghosted redhat on laptops fine of different types but for some reason this particular laptop will not ghost Redhat. It gives me an Invalid Cluster Error. I have successfully ghosted windows from the same laptop but for some reason Redhat will not ghost. Please help.

Thanks

nakkaya · 02-13-2003, 04:41 PM

btw what does it mean to ghost redhat 8.0?

joeca12 · 02-13-2003, 04:46 PM

Symantec has software called symantec ghost. It creates an image of your hardrive so you can dump the image to mulitple, identical machines.

fancypiper · 02-14-2003, 09:59 AM

# How to clone a distro to a new drive
Install drive in box (assuming IDE1 slave for examples) and ensure BIOS can detect it. Boot into Linux and login to your user's account. Open an x terminal and partition and format the new drive as you wish

Code:

[phil@fancypiper phil]$ su -
Password: 
[root@fancypiper root]# fdisk /dev/hdb

Exit with w to write the partition table.

Format the partitions with the chosen filesystems:
mke2fs /dev/hdbX -> ext2
mke2fs -j /dev/hdbX -> ext3
mkswap -> swap
mkreiserfs -> reiserfs
mkfs.xfs -> xfs

Make directories for source and destination mount points. You need these to keep out of an endless loop of copying itsself over and over.

Code:

[root@fancypiper root]# mkdir /mnt/source
[root@fancypiper root]# mkdir /mnt/destination

Mount your os partitions that you want to clone on /mnt/source
Mount your partitions on the new drive, making directory entries for your separate partitions (/boot, /home, /var etc.)

Now, cd to /mnt/source and pipe it over with tar

Code:

[root@fancypiper root]# cd /mnt/source
[root@fancypiper source]# tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -)

Edit /etc/fstab as needed, install the boot loader and it should work when stuck in it's new home.

je_fro · 02-14-2003, 10:18 AM

I've been able to ghost ext2 but not ext3 for some reason, even though the instructions say ext3 is supported.

cli_man · 02-14-2003, 02:08 PM

You need to have ghost 7.5 or above, even though the docs say that earlier versions support ext3 I can tell you from experience that you need 7.5 and above, I use ghost to make backups of my linux servers every now and then to have compleate backups to compement my automated backups. The version I use is 7.5 corporate.