Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:17:40 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Dimitri T <midiostri@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk Message-ID: <20020116201157.R55614-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <zdn0zdu984.0zd@localhost.localdomain>
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I've also been futzing around with getting Norton Ghost 7.0 to play nice with about 35 dual boot (FreeBSD and Win2k Server) Dell boxen in our lab. I'm yet to get it to work, but it is currently way down on the "things I gotta get working" list. The dd option is nice for copying HD's in the same machine, but I'm looking for a solution that would support the network deployment of a Ghost (or other) HD image that included multiple OS partitions. So far i've gotten the furthest using Ghost's "sector copy" option, but I haven't got it entirely to work (that is to say it doesn't fail to make the image, the image just doesn't work). I haven't tried the PowerQuest product (Drive Magic), but, as the University owns a site license for it, I'll probably give that one a try, too. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On 16 Jan 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "Dimitri T" <midiostri@hotmail.com> writes: > > > if not, is there some other ghost program that can do the job? > > I don't know "ghost". You'd be satisfied just copying from disk > to disk (one motherboard, not necessarily via a network), right? > > I think you should be able to just do something like "dd if=/dev/ad0 > of=/dev/ad1". At least that sort of thing was said to work on Linux, > IIRC. The closest I've come to doing that is: 1) copying a Win95 > (FAT16?) raw partition to another disk's raw partition from Linux, and > 2) storing a tar archive to another disk's raw partition from Linux and > then unarchiving from the raw partition from FreeBSD. > > If you think that using dd's "bs" option will speed things up, do some > tests; I've not always found it to help and it may give you problems > at the "end" of the disk, unless you are careful with the other options > so it handles the last, partial block (of the disks and of the dd > stream) correctly. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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