I use G4U to ghost 3 OS system. It has FC2, 98, and XP. When you do a disk upload, it copies all the disk. On 17 Nov 2004 at 14:15, Carrie Knox wrote: Date sent: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:15:40 -0600 From: Carrie Knox <knox@xxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: fedora core 3 and ghost Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > Hello, > > I am not running any LVM filesystems as I manually partitioned and setup > ext3 filesystems and swap similar to the following. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 6048352 5010060 731052 88% / > /dev/hda1 93307 8468 80022 10% /boot > none 123844 0 123844 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda6 31300896 103796 29607072 1% /ptmp > /dev/hda3 1035692 154796 828284 16% /var > > In regards to g4u, I'm wondering if it can be used to ghost a dualboot > system (both the Linux and Windows partitions) to a single image file? > > Thanks, > Carrie > > Jesse Jarzynka wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:26, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:36:34 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II > >><mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I have ghost 2003, and it crashed on the LVM drives, but I was able > >>>to use G4U to create an image file. Did a full install of FC3 on a > >>>clean 80GB drive, and did a g4u. Created a 14GB image file. Then I > >>>used the option to copy NULLs to all the free space on the drive, > >>>and redid the image file, and it was only 2.5GB. Just do a google > >>>search for G4U, and it is usually the very first hits. Note: This > >>>doesn't work well when going to a smaller drive, but same size and > >>>larger seem to work fine. Even did it with one that was a little > >>>smaller, and after running fsck after a shutdown -r -F now seemed > >>>to fix the error message. > >>> > >>>On 17 Nov 2004 at 10:26, Carrie Knox wrote: > >>> > >>>Date sent: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:26:31 -0600 > >>>From: Carrie Knox <knox@xxxxxxx> > >>>To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>Subject: fedora core 3 and ghost > >>>Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > >>> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hello, > >>>> > >>>>I'm wondering if anyone has been able to successfully create a Symantec > >>>>or Norton ghost image of an FC2 or FC3 installed system. > >>>> > >>>>In the past I have been able to create compressed ghost images of > >>>>various RedHat 9 and RedHat9/Win2K dualboot systems OK. After > >>>>installing Fedora Core 2 (and now Core 3), I am unable to create a > >>>>compressed Ghost image. I get this Ghost error "Application error > >>>>29004" "Read sector failure, result=1, drive=0, sectors -456237413 to > >>>>-456237411". This is not a failed device issue. I've received this > >>>>exact same error on several Fedora installed hardware platforms. The > >>>>disk type doesn't seem to matter. I am able to obtain a block by block > >>>>copy of the disk, but I really need the compressed ghost image that can > >>>>be reloaded onto a variety of disk sizes. > >>>> > >>>>I'm using the GRUB bootloader and ext3 filesystems with the bootloader > >>>>located in the MBR. I've reverted to LILO as the boot loader with no > >>>>success... still get the ghost sector read error. > >>>> > >>>>Initially, I was running Symantec Ghost 8.0, but have updated to > >>>>Symantec Ghost 8.2.0.1117 after contacting Symantec for assistance. > >>>>I've tried a variety of ghost options (-fni, -ffx,-bfc, -ib, -fdsz > >>>>-fdsp, -ffs, -fns, -fnu, -or). Ghost -ia and -id both worked. > >>>> > >>>>Symantec support's final response was... "In regards to your issue with > >>>>Ghost 8.2.0.1117 when cloning Fedora EXT3 systems... > >>>>One would expect that cloning an EXT3 file system would be just that > >>>>simple. However, it appears that there might be something different when > >>>>using Fedora, perhaps something to do with the partition structure. We > >>>>suggest you continue to try the switches -IA -IB -FRO or -BFC as a > >>>>workaround. You can include compression with any of these switches. The > >>>>bottom line is that Fedora is currently not supported." > >>>> > >>>>Has anyone had Ghost success with FC3? Any ideas on what might be > >>>>causing the "sector read" error during image creation? > >>>> > >>>>Thanks, > >>>>Carrie > >>>> > >>>> > >>Did G4U have compress function ? > >>Because I also failed to backup using ghost 8.0 So no tool can use to backup... > >> > >>Thanks... > >> > >> > > > >This seems to be kind of the same problem I'm having with dump/restore. > >The LVM partitions are the first times I've ever seen it fail. If you > >guys are interested in copying whole Linux operating systems you should > >try this. This has worked with everything except core 3 so far. > > > >/dev/hda is new drive > >/dev/hdb is existing Linux o/s > > > >After creating and formatting the relative partitions on /dev/hda with > >linux rescue cd: > > > >$ mkdir /mnt/disk > >$ mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/disk > >$ cd /mnt/disk > >$ dump -0uf - /dev/hdbX | restore xf - > >$ mkswap /dev/hdaX (for swap) > > > >Then just make sure your fstab and modprobe.conf files are correct. This > >is the way we've been installing all our pre-configured RedHat/Fedora > >Cor 1,2 systems to new PC's and it's worked everytime except with the > >new Core 3 partitioning system. Does anyone know anything about the new > >partitioning system and/or why there's no swap partition anymore? > > > >Jesse Jarzynka > >Cyber Source > >http://www.thecybersource.com/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +----------------------------------------------------------+ 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: 14,827 Processing time: 29 years, 165 days, 19 hours, 54 minutes (Total Hours: 258,020)
