Deploying OS using Ghost

[Josh]

Does anyone know if you can deploy/clone a pc to another pc that has no
floppy and no OS using Ghost? And if so, how do you go about doing
that? From the instructions that I have found it appears that you have
to have one or the other. I am running Ghost Corporate Editon 7.5

 

[Rod Speed]

Does anyone know if you can deploy/clone a pc to
another pc that has no floppy and no OS using Ghost?
Yes.

And if so, how do you go about doing that?

Basically boot the CD and restore an image that way.

That can be the distribution CD or a CD written with an image file on it.

From the instructions that I have found it
appears that you have to have one or the other.
Nope.

I am running Ghost Corporate Editon 7.5

The BartPE bootable CD has ghost 8 on it.

 

[Trinity]

Does anyone know if you can deploy/clone a pc to another pc that has no
floppy and no OS using Ghost? And if so, how do you go about doing
that? From the instructions that I have found it appears that you have
to have one or the other. I am running Ghost Corporate Editon 7.5

You can clone direct to cdr. Takes up quite a few disks though.

 

[Peter]

The BartPE bootable CD has ghost 8 on it.No, it does not. You have to supply your own XP and Ghost 8.x to build one.

 

[Rod Speed]

No, it does not.

Yes it does.

You have to supply your own XP and Ghost 8.x to build one.

No you dont.

 

[Trinity]

No you dont.

Is Ghost 8 abonware? I don't think so.

 

[Rod Speed]

Is Ghost 8 abonware?
Nope.

I don't think so.

Take it up with Bart.

 

[Rod Speed]

Basically boot the CD and restore an image that way.

That can be the distribution CD or a CD written with an image file on it.


The BartPE bootable CD has ghost 8 on it.

Whoops, sorry, its the Microscope bootable CD that has Ghost 8 on it.

 

[Trinity]

Whoops, sorry, its the Microscope bootable CD that has Ghost 8 on it.

Is this what you are talking about? Doesn't mention Ghost.
http://www.micro2000uk.co.uk/products/toolkit/features.htm

 

[Joe Morris]

Does anyone know if you can deploy/clone a pc to another pc that has no
floppy and no OS using Ghost? And if so, how do you go about doing
that? From the instructions that I have found it appears that you have
to have one or the other. I am running Ghost Corporate Editon 7.5

Easiest way to handle this is to temporarily install a second hard disk
in the machine, then on another computer build a bootable CD with
DOS as the boot system and Ghost either in the emulated floppy or
as the data on the main CD tracks. Create a Ghost image of the system
on the main disk, writing it to the second hard disk...then move
that hard disk back to another system where the .GH? files can
be copied to a DVD or stack of CDs. The bootable CD can be used
to get Ghost running on the target system as well.

Or...you can do the swap in the other direction, temporarily moving the
drive you want to clone into a system that has a floppy. Over the
years I've used both techniques, for distributing images, for creating
backups, and for forensics.

Joe Morris

 

[dg]

cdr. Takes up quite a few disks though.

Or DVD. With DVD drives getting so common, and burners too, you can often
get away with a 1 DVD image for a standard HD image used for distribution.
You can get fancy and make a bootable DVD from a ghost floppy, and use
command line switches to make it pretty damn slick.

--Dan

 

[Chuck U. Farley]

Or DVD. With DVD drives getting so common, and burners too, you can often

get away with a 1 DVD image for a standard HD image used for distribution.
You can get fancy and make a bootable DVD from a ghost floppy, and use
command line switches to make it pretty damn slick.

I did a fresh install of XP, installed all my basic apps, made a bootable
DVD with Ghost 8.0 and it just fit on one DVD. 5 or 6 months from now when
my system starts getting sluggish, I'll restore the image and be back to
baseline without feeding cd's and answering dialog boxes for a couple of
hours.

In addition, I back up my system every Friday and then immediately restore
it just to make sure everything works the way it should. Nice piece of s/w
that I'm sure will yank my ass out of the fire one day.

 

[Peter]

In addition, I back up my system every Friday and then immediately restore

it just to make sure everything works the way it should. Nice piece of s/w
that I'm sure will yank my ass out of the fire one day.

How do you backup your system every Friday?

 

[dg]

I did a fresh install of XP, installed all my basic apps, made a bootable
DVD with Ghost 8.0 and it just fit on one DVD. 5 or 6 months from now when
my system starts getting sluggish, I'll restore the image and be back to
baseline without feeding cd's and answering dialog boxes for a couple of
hours.

I have done that before (made an image of my personal system, nice and
fresh). I usually find that when the time comes to rebuild, I am so far
beyond that basic image that I just rebuild again.

In addition, I back up my system every Friday and then immediately restore
it just to make sure everything works the way it should. Nice piece of s/w
that I'm sure will yank my ass out of the fire one day.

EVERY time I rebuild somebodys PC, I make a ghost image of the drive first
and save it somewhere (usually 2 places). Then after rebuilding it I
extract the documents from the original image and save the image for a month
or so. That way if I get a call about something missing, I still have it.

--Dan

 

[Chuck U. Farley]

How do you backup your system every Friday?

Image it.

 

[Rod Speed]

I have done that before (made an image of my personal system, nice and fresh).
I usually find that when the time comes to rebuild, I am so far beyond that
basic image that I just rebuild again.


EVERY time I rebuild somebodys PC, I make a ghost image of the drive first and
save it somewhere (usually 2 places). Then after rebuilding it I extract the
documents from the original image and save the image for a month or so. That
way if I get a call about something missing, I still have it.

You'll likely find True Image worth having a play with then.

The main advantage over ghost 9 is that you can just boot
the TI CD and image the system over the lan. You cant do
that with ghost 9, you have to install that on the system you
are imaging first. And the big advantage of TI and ghost 9
is that you dont have to fart around with boot disks with
network support like you do with the earlier ghosts.

 

[Peter]

You'll likely find True Image worth having a play with then.

The main advantage over ghost 9 is that you can just boot
the TI CD and image the system over the lan. You cant do
that with ghost 9, you have to install that on the system you
are imaging first. And the big advantage of TI and ghost 9
is that you dont have to fart around with boot disks with
network support like you do with the earlier ghosts.

Actually WinPE (BartPe, UBCD4WIN) + Ghost32.exe works better in most
situations.

 

[Rod Speed]

Actually WinPE (BartPe, UBCD4WIN) +
Ghost32.exe works better in most situations.

Better in what sense ?

In his situation where he just wants to do a safety image of
the system before any changes are made to it, and to be
able to get individual files out of the image later, TI works fine.

Tho I do have one system the CD wont boot on, and BartPE etc boots fine.

 

[Peter]

Actually WinPE (BartPe, UBCD4WIN) +

Better in what sense ?

Better device support, better stability, better speed and smaller images.
That has been my experience.

 

[Andy Lee]

Does anyone know if you can deploy/clone a pc to another pc that has no
floppy and no OS using Ghost? And if so, how do you go about doing
that? From the instructions that I have found it appears that you have
to have one or the other. I am running Ghost Corporate Editon 7.5

If you have the corporate edition you should have the option for
Multicast deployments and backups this is not so easy to setup but
worthwhile if you have a large network