From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 7998 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2000 03:47:54 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2000 03:47:54 -0000 Received: from afb.net (w171.z208036095.nyc-ny.dsl.cnc.net [208.36.95.171]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA28508 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:47:54 -0500 Received: from helen by afb.net (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id WAA01992; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:57:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:57:23 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Instructions for installing Slackware In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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! 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. > > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe >