From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 5:16:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517D237B416 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 05:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GRXRJW00.ZHL; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:16:44 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:16:43 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <6815969492.20020222141643@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: Erin Fortenberry Cc: "'Lord Raiden'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Ghosting FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Erin, Thursday, February 21, 2002, 6:51:37 PM, you wrote: Messe reformated due to top-posting >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lord Raiden [mailto:raiden23@netzero.net] >> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:55 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: Ghosting FreeBSD. >> >> >> Ok, short question. Is it possible to use Norton Ghost >> to Ghost a Freebsd >> install A) from one machine to another of similar or >> identical hardware, or >> B) to a machine of entirely different hardware with few if any >> complications or corrections? >> >> Not needing to do this right now, but curious if this >> is possible as a >> mental note for the future in case I want to do it. EF> I have found that the hard drives need to be the same size because ghost EF> does a binary copy of the entire. I went from one 40G to another and it took EF> about an hour. I beleave this rumor is false, Ghost doesn't need to write to a same sized partion. (At least for windows partitions.) -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message