[ale] Two questions

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 17:17:37 EST 2008


I know we use a Dos boot disk with Ghost on it.

It has been a while, so I've forgotten what drivers are present to
talk to your target drive with.  ie. Internal IDE only / USB /
Firewire / SATA / network drivers to mount a share / etc.

There are also more sophisticated options I'm sure.

Greg

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dylan.
>  Avnet is our server provider and our eventual goal is for them to
>  install our image at their site and ship the server.
>  They suggested I use Ghost 11.
>  A couple more questions about ghost 11. Does Ghost 12 work as well?
>  Is there anything online detailing how to do this.  since the server
>  is linux I assume I need some sort of windows or dos boot disk.
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Dylan Northrup <docx at io.com> wrote:
>  > We use Ghost 11 with little issue.  We don't have any LVM stuff setup, so
>  >  it's a vanilla single disk setup, but it works well for us.
>  >
>  >  There were other alternatives we tried but we weren't able to find something
>  >  that worked as simply as Ghost (and since we're going to be doing this in an
>  >  assembly line fashion, ease of use was paramount so we didn't mind paying
>  >  for the software).  I will check out Avnet to see what benefits, if any, it
>  >  has over Ghost.  It does sound very interesting.
>  >
>  >  A long time ago, (05.03.08), in a galaxy far, far away, Atlanta Geek wrote:
>  >
>  >  :=First, thanks everyone for the snmp guidance from last week.  It was a
>  >
>  >
>  > :=combination of several things.  Among them not having snmptrapd
>  >  :=configured to accept external traps and a long forgotten firewall was
>  >  :=blocking as well.
>  >  :=I have two new questions.
>  >  :=We are trying to take an image of a Linux server that we will clone
>  >  :=over and over again on our appliances.  anyone have any suggestions.
>  >  :=Also has anyone worked with Avnet before. They suggested I use ghost
>  >  :=11 to clone machines but I see conflicting stories on the internet on
>  >  :=how well ghost supports linux file systems.
>  >  :=
>  >  :=Anyway I appreciate any response.
>  >  :=Thanks
>  >  :=-Tommie
>  >  :=
>  >  :=P.S. Doug that  lost packet/resending packets issue was caused by a
>  >  :=bad router. Linksys blows, and not in the good way either.
>  >  :=
>  >  :=
>  >  :=
>  >
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