On Mar 31, 2005 10:21 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31 Mar 2005 at 21:44, RL wrote: > > Date sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:44:16 -0500 > From: RL <rlurman@xxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Ghost 2003 and FC 3 > Send reply to: RL <rlurman@xxxxxxxxx>, > For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > > > I just got a DVD writer for my FC 3 machine so I could ghost the > > entire drive. I have Norton Ghost 2003. I remember having no > > problems ghosting other Linux distros. When I try to ghost this time, > > however, it errors at the start with a read sector failure. Is this a > > known issue? Ghost 2003 should work with ext3 filesystems just fine. > > Are there any other good ghosting progs? I have used "g4u" with > > FreeBSD and it is real nice; however, I'd rather have something to > > backup an entire hard-drive right on to a DVD. > > > > -- > > This is a know problem with Norton Ghost. It gets an error with the > FC3 partitions. It does work if you have it do the sector mode image, > but then it is copying all sectors of the disk, and is much slower and > creates a larger file. > > Both G4U and G4L have no problem with the imaging of the > systems, but neither currently allows for DVD imaging. > > > 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 > mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.guam.net/home/mikes > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu > Number of Seti Units Returned: 16,039 > Processing time: 30 years, 186 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes > (Total Hours: 267,265) > > What's different with the FC3 partitions than other Linux distros that use ext3? With g4u, you can actually put it on a DVD/CD. With Fbsd when I was playing with it, I would set up a small FTP server on my XP machine and the large files would end up there. I would then just copy it to a CD/DVD. If it was bigger than a DVD, I would use a program to split it.
