[ale] Ghosting Linux

[Denny Chambers]

Not sure why it would hang, but I would think that linux partitions, or 
linux file systems would not matter here. I thought that ghost just does 
a bit by bit copy of the disk, not caring what data is actually on the 
disk.

John Mills wrote:

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>On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Denny Chambers wrote:
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>>1. Why not use Norton Ghost?
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>Actually we have had some problems with this, most recently last week.
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>We plugged the 'ghost' diskette into the Linux box and booted it. It
>seemed to recognize Linux partitions fine, and appeared to enter it's
>'copy' step (to a Win host elsewhere on our LAN), but then it hung forever
>- never registered any progress.
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>Our target was a RH-7.2 box which had been set up with ext2 partitions.
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>Has anyone seen, and [better] overcome this?
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> - John Mills
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