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
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Subject: Re: fedora core 3 and ghost
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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(a)kuentos.guam.net> 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(a)sgi.com>
>>>To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>>>Subject: fedora core 3 and ghost
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>>>
>>>>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/
>
>
>
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