fedora core 3 and ghost

Michael D. Setzer II mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Thu Nov 18 00:35:22 UTC 2004 

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
From:           	Carrie Knox <knox at sgi.com>
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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 at 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 at sgi.com>
> >>>To:                     fedora-list at redhat.com
> >>>Subject:                fedora core 3 and ghost
> >>>Send reply to:          For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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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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