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From: Jon <cykyc@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Re[2]: Ghosting FreeBSD.
To: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>,
	Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us>
Cc: 'Lord Raiden' <raiden23@netzero.net>,
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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
> 
> 
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