Re: Instructions for installing Slackware

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

Hi, Tommy:

I don't know about calling Ghost from within Windows because I never do it
that way. I know it has some neat features such as the ability to retrieve
just certain files. But, as I said I don't use it that way.

Instead I use it from a DOS prompt. Either I do a shutdown to MS DOS
Prompt -- or I just start up in command mode -- hold down the control key
immediately, and I do mean immediately after you hear the system beep that
indicates the beginning of DOS loading and then press the number five on
the top row of the computer's keyboard where the numbers are -- and hit
enter.

This takes you to a C:> prompt of some kind. I like to have my Ghost files
on the hard drive -- so I do a CD to the directory where they are.

Now things get interesting. You cannot just run ghost and use the menus,
because they've made this application look and act like a Windows app. It
really does, next and back buttons and everything like that -- and it's a
DOS app! <grin>

So, what do I do?  Read the file called "switches.txt" and become an
expert on it. That's all you need to know to run Ghost from the command
line -- or to build a batch file to use -- which I've also done to make
this quick and easy for myself.

Here's my command for creating an image file called win98.i on my D:>
drive:

ghost -clone,mode=pdump,src=1:1,dst=d:\win98.i -sure -vfy -z9

Here's what all that means:

Ghost is the executable, obviously
-clone means we're going to clone something
pdump means we're going to dump a partition -- not the whole disk
src means source
1:1 means the first partition on the first disk
dst means destination
d:\win98.i is the filename I said I was going to use.

-sure is a switch to tell it to exit to DOS when it's finished instead of
asking for some confirmation from you -- I don't remember what it is
actually

-vfy is verify

-z9 means maximum compression -- and slowest speed, of course.
I prefer to write the image to a second partition on the machine I'm
cloning if I can. Then I move it to a Jazz drive or I burn a CD with the
image. If I do something stupid, or I install some stupid program that
makes my computer not work well, I can undo the damage in about 15 minutes
like so:

ghost -clone,mode=pload,src=d:\win98.i:1,dst=1:1 -sure

which means

pload load a partition
source is my filename which was originally on partition 1 somewhere -- yes
you can move a bootable partition this way to partition2, for example

dst 1:1 means put it into partition one on the first disk

By the way, as I write this, I'm creating such a backup for a client right
now on a notebook computer sitting to my right.

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina@afb.net


On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Tommy Moore wrote:

> One thing that I learned about ghost today when trying to use it is that
> when you run the program speech locks up so if you do use ghost you'll
> have to figure out a way to do some batch processing if it can be done. I
> haven't been able to read the documentation that comes with ghost so I'm
> still in the learning process when it comes to this prog.
> 
> 
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