Re: Symantec Ghost doesn't display 2nd disk
From: Matt Payton (mattpayton_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/24/04
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:45:00 GMT
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:44:03 -0800, John wrote:
> O/k, I'm new to linux. I have just installed Redhat Linux 9 and set up
> samba. I thought it would be a good idea to ghost the Redhat
> installation just in case I stuff something up.
>
> My server has a SCSI drive with the linux stuff on it and a small 30Mb
> DOS partition. I went and bought an IDE drive and partitioned it so
> that it has a VFAT and EXT3 partition.
>
> When I boot from the Ghost disk and select Partition-To-Image, the
> source dialog displays all drives and partitions on both disks. The
> target dialog only has a:, (the floppy) and c:, (the 30Mb DOS
> partition on the SCSI drive). There's no mention of the IDE drive in
> the target dialog.
>
> I've looked at Symantec's FAQ and they suggest that I check that the
> IDE drive is on the primary IDE port and that it is set as master, and
> it is. I have also tried detecting the IDE drive in the bios, but
> still no luck.
>
> Any ideas
>
Does your boot disk support fat32 ( ie vfat ) ? If you created the disk
via the ghost utilites, then probably not, since I think they use IBM
dos as the default...Which only supports FAT16. IIRC, ghost does some
"magic" so that it can "see" partitions that dos can't, ntfs for example.
But you can't write/ghost *too* a file system that isn't supported by the
OS you booted into, only ghost from them.
So, you can either use a "regular" fat filesystem, or use a boot disk that
supports fat32...IE a boot disk created from Win98/ME, etc.
Finally, I don't know if I'd rely on a ghost backup of a Linux
partition...I know it's supported, but from what I've seen the results
aren't always the best. You may be better off with Linux native tools, or
something like partimage...Not saying it won't work, but you probably want
to test it *before* disater strikes.
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