Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:21:15 +0100 From: Marko Cuk <cuk@cuk.nu> To: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> Cc: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us>, 'Lord Raiden' <raiden23@netzero.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <3C7653DB.BDF17FCA@cuk.nu> References: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B93453A9047@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us> <6815969492.20020222141643@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
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Alex wrote: > Hello Erin, > > Thursday, February 21, 2002, 6:51:37 PM, you wrote: > > Messe reformated due to top-posting > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Lord Raiden [mailto:raiden23@netzero.net] > >> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:55 AM > >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >> Subject: Ghosting FreeBSD. > >> > >> > >> Ok, short question. Is it possible to use Norton Ghost > >> to Ghost a Freebsd > >> install A) from one machine to another of similar or > >> identical hardware, or > >> B) to a machine of entirely different hardware with few if any > >> complications or corrections? > >> > >> Not needing to do this right now, but curious if this > >> is possible as a > >> mental note for the future in case I want to do it. > > EF> I have found that the hard drives need to be the same size because ghost > EF> does a binary copy of the entire. I went from one 40G to another and it took > EF> about an hour. > > I beleave this rumor is false, Ghost doesn't need to write to a same sized > partion. (At least for windows partitions.) This is not true. Ghost don't support ufs and it cannot write it as NTFS, FAT or extfs and therefore it cannot dinamically resize partitons. Cuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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