🚀 go-pugleaf

.. and it came to pass that Richard Ashton <{R}@sunshine.tm>
uttered forth:
>
>GHOST runs of a DOS boot disk so when a partition gets corrupted the
>CD .img file is copied back to the empty partition from the CD, I
>can't GHOST from a CD, I really must RTFM, 

Apparently you CAN restore from a GHOST image off CD onto HD.

>GHOST is available from the likes of Simply for around 15UKP, over the
>past few months I have done all my OS's except Linux which GHOST can't
>see on my machine. It is nice to feel safe when messing with the box.

I use GHOST to clone from one HD to another - it identifies all
Billy$shit systems (but the volume names are read under DOS)
and can clone onto drives of different size - it looks like it's doing a
v.fast xcopy between the two.

Also, the version of GHOST I use identifies SCO but not Solaris,
Linux or Unixware - but can still clone them onto disks of identical
size (best to use identical types - manufacturer, size etc).
However, last week my new assistant cloned a Solaris disk off a
Conner850MB onto a Quantum1.6Gb and it worked perfectly -
looks like if two things match between the disks (cylinders,
number of heads, not sure yet) then cloning is possible.

It's also possible to dump these images to a server and restore
across a network - I've used IPX under DOS to map a drive to a
Netware3.12 server, and then used:

ghost -mode=dump, src=1,dst=G:\IMAGES\NEWFILE.IMG -sure

(or something along those lines). At the moment, I'm
experimenting with a laptop to see if I can dump a ghost image of
a clean install to a backup server, so I can restore it quickly over a
self-contained LAN after one of the sales bods has buggered
about with it off-site. still having problems with the sodding
PCMCIA network card... grrrr!! Anyhow - this idea may be of use to
you, {R}, instead of trying to restore off CD...?

-- 
 
"Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode...

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