Ghosting a dual installation

matux · 09-21-2004, 06:19 AM

Hi , Sorry if i have posted this in the wrong place. I have Mandrake 10.0 and windows XP installed on a computer and want to ghost it accross. I was wondering is it possible to do this with a dual installation and what would be the best way to go about it. Thanks for any help,

hulf_slo · 09-21-2004, 07:01 AM

Its realy simple:
Multiboot-with-LILO

and in case you dont have 2 drives and you play with some freaky windows partition tools .. read this:
Partition-Rescue

rm6990 · 09-21-2004, 09:05 AM

Are you talking about Norton Ghost??? If you are, Norton Ghost is capable of ghosting Linux ext2 and ext3 partitions to CD/DVD. If this is not what you mean, then please be more specific.

matux · 09-24-2004, 03:53 AM

Well i have tried to use Norten ghost but it has caused problems. Just to explain what has hapened.

I have a PC with windows XP and Mandrake installed. All working perfectly.

I the used Norton Ghost to generate a clone of this master on the Server. I then broadcast this to all the PCs in the room. This
has worked successfully before.

However - I suspect that there are issues when ghosting a dual boot PC!

All of the other PCs crashed and the boot screen just displays "L 99 99 99 99 99 99
....."
Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help

rm6990 · 09-24-2004, 04:57 AM

There is something wrong with the MBR. Ghosting a dual-boot computer would not hurt it. Why would Norton provide a Windows program that is capable of reading Linux partitions if it didn't work on dual-boot. Use the Mandrake CD and try to go into rescue mode and there should be an option to overwrite the master boot record. Go and try that.