Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:08:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jon <cykyc@yahoo.com> To: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>, Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us> Cc: 'Lord Raiden' <raiden23@netzero.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Ghosting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20020222140828.11810.qmail@web20602.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <6815969492.20020222141643@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
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Ghost "understands" FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (read I think), ext2fs, and probably a couple others, but does not understand native FreeBSD (type 0xa5), so it does a fully block copy. This was at least true for Ghost Enterprise 7.0 as of Thursday night :) Jon --- Alex <FreeBSD@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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