I've had various problems with Ghost. It worked fine with up to FC2, but with FC3, had various problems. I found that if you did a sector copy it would work, but if it tried to read the boot partition, it would fail with an error about a large negative sector not being found. What I have done now with no problem, is to use either G4U (Ghost for Unix) or G4L (Ghost for Linux). These are boot up diskette/Cd (G4U) or CD (G4L).. Both of these have no problem with the copying of the whole disk or partitions. My Computer lab systems have 98, XP, and FC3. They are 80GB drives with the three OS's, and it currently creates about a 12GB single file to an FTP server. I've used it to create an updated image to an FTP server using dd, gzip, and ftp. G4U uses netBSD, where G4L using linux. Both are easy to find with a google search G4U has its own site, and G4L is listed on both sourceforge and freshmeat. I have modified the current sourceforge G4L script and image file to add some additional options. G4L original only works with anonymous having write access to an img subdirectory. I made changes to allow setting up a non-anonymous id, still uses the img directory by default. Also added dhcp support for IP. If got the modified script and iso image on my ftp site at the college, and a pdf file showing some of the screens and what modifications I made to the original. ftp://202.128.73.29 Both G4U and G4L don't allow for resizing the partitions, since they use dd, gzip, and ftp. Note: G4L uses ncftp instead of standard ftp, and also allows for bzip2 compress. On 31 Jan 2005 at 16:41, Charland, Denis wrote: > > > Have a look at the following bug report: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145307 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 15,503 Processing time: 30 years, 14 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes (Total Hours: 263,149)
