[Re: [LUAU] Recovery disc.] Ghost

[Keith Leong]

Ghost is great because it can run off of a floppy disk.
I know fat partions or disks can be selectively restored (you can pull out
files that you need) by using Ghost explorer.

I've also used ghost to upgrade to a larger harddrive.  Ghost can resize Fat
partitions, but not Linux ones.  So in conjunction with ghost i used partition
magic to resize my linux partition.

There is only one problem with ghost, to use it LEGALLY you have to license it
for EACH computer that you use it on. Drive Image will actually let you use it
on multiple computers. 

owner-luau at news.hi.net wrote:
Hi Mark and Michael, thanks for the info.  Unfortunately, I've got a
standalone Linux box with no other MS-type OSes inside.  Can Drive image
still "image" the drive? or do I have to take out the drive and hook it up
to my Wintel box to image it?  I'm trying out GHOST and 'digesting' that
FAT acrobat manual.  But anyway, really glad to hear from you folks.

-Max

>Max I have both ms and unix oses on my system I use drive image from
powerquest
>to make compressed images of partitions for instant repair. At a time when I
>have an os working perfect I create a compressed partition image. I use 1 gig
>partitions and the images are about 400 meg. Then when I want to refresh
the os
>I blow away the partition, and restore from the image. Creating the image
for a
>1 gig partition takes about a half hour. Restoring the partition takes
about 5
>minutes. One down side is that data added after you make the image won't be
>restored so I often need to do a small amount of hand work before I do the
>refresh. I avoid most of this by keeping the os stuff and system applications
>on one partition and usr files on another. As I add new system stuff after I
>really like the way it works I make a new image. For ms type oses the
variable
>system stuff is registry and profile files. for unix oses the /etc files get
>changed with new os software and so hand work is necessary there.  Also some
>type of media that can hold large image files is needed, like a jazz drive or
>harddisk space, or as you suggest a cd. If you can make a dos bootable cd
with
>the drive image program and the image files you have a self contained rebuild
>disk. It will all fit. I also use a boot manager which directs the boot
process
>into the correct partition for the os desired, so refreshing a partition
>requires no messing with the boot process.



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