[plug] Re: disk imaging a la ghost

[Jon L. Miller]

Mike,
When you do a image you are doing this at the bit level, unless you are
using such a tool on Linux, then the only thing you were doing was making
a copy of the workstation and therefore you were missing all type of
information such as partition size, file format (FAT type, etc).  I do
not know if Linux has such a tool.  Knowing your setup I would use the NT
server to store the image (although I had a few problems doing this
myself) on the NT server and using a DOS boot disk with ghost on it, I
would access the image through the disk.  You first create a WinNT boot
disk to access the WinNT server.  See the following site for information
about creating the boot disk:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q142/8/57.asp
http://bms.sdhc.k12.fl.us/homepage/techsupp/ghost_page/ghost.htm

The 2nd location gives you step by step on creating the disk.  Give this
a try, if it doesn't work for you give me a call

Jon

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On 8/31/99, at 10:46 PM, Mike Hasleby  wrote: 

>Have heard a few reports about a program called ghost which enables
creating
>an image of c drive in windoze.  You can then multicast via a network,
copy
>onto cd etc to clone work stations based on the machine copied.
>
>>From my brief aquantaince with Linux I suspect the same could be done
using
>Linux alone, copying an image of the workstations c drive onto our file
server
>then using a boot disk to initiate the cloning process on another
server.  Has
>anyone had any experience, or know of anyone else who has.
>
>I had a go at doing the same thing using dos today but met with
frustration.
>
>Mike Hasleby
>
>Computer Technician/Systems Admin
>Lake Joondalup Baptist College

Jon L. Miller, MCNE ASE
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