Using Norton to Clone FC2

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Tue Nov 16 15:22:16 UTC 2004


Ryan McDougall wrote:
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I have a situation here at work. We are trying to clone FC2 for a lab
> that will be coming in a few days, but we can't seem to get a working
> image. By the way we are using Ghost 7.5. The problem is that no
> matter which boot loader we use they won't start. Grub came up with a
> GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB error and LiLo only produces LI. The only thing I
> can think of to get this actually to work would be to go around to
> each of the machines and go into rescue mode and re-install grub/lilo
> and hopefully that would work. But thats kind of a lot of work for a
> whole lab.
> 
> I have read that Ghost 8.0 works but can anyone tell me whether or not
> it does actually work in production with FC2?
> 
> Thanx,
> Ryan
> 

We used ghost 7.5 for FC1 + ext3 + GRUB with success. You must make sure 
when you create the image that you run "ghost -id" . Then just dump it 
on the target machine and reboot.


Serge




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