RE: [TCLUG:2177] Window manager/environment rec.

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Wilson [mailto:wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 1:25 PM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:2177] Window manager/environment rec.
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Michael Hicks wrote:
>
> > Ghost -- www.ghost.com (ack! they've been acquired!)  It used to be
> > really cheap to get official licenses (I think they were like $15 or
> > something..)  But the 30-day trial version should work for you..  Look
> > under "Free Downloads"
>
> Forgive me if this a slightly dumb question, but how does this help me?
> The ghost software is available for DOS/Win only. Can I do the "ghosting"
> from a Windows machine on the network? Will it be able to compress and
> distribute an ext2 filesystem?

Not dumb at all. You can use a DOS boot disk containing Ghost and the
appropriate network card drivers to run the network install.  That's how I
did it.

Here's a comment on Unix support from the web site.  It looks like
compression and partition re-sizing won't work on a Linux partition, but it
will replicate.

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Norton Ghost 5.0 Knowledge Base

                    Ghost and Unix and NetWare Drives

                    Situation:

                    Can Ghost save and load UNIX and NetWare drives?


                    Solution:

                    Ghost should be able to save and load UNIX and NetWare
volumes.
                    Ghost cannot resize these volumes. The hardware must be
the same on
                    each machine.
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Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.