[lug] RH 7.2 & Norton Ghost

[j davis]

i had to download buffer,afio,and syslinux1.72
to make evrything work....without syslinux i was getting some boot floppy
errors too. guess syslinux comes with isolinux ....this was my problem

jd


>From: Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] RH 7.2 & Norton Ghost
>Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:00:25 -0600
>
>Any hints on how to get mondo working properly?
>
>Mindi dies on four different machines: Two are Debian woody with
>whatever their highest release package is for mondo, one is RedHat 6.2
>with the RPM's from the mondo homepage installed, all dependencies met
>via up2date except for "buffer" and one other package (I forget) that
>mondo wanted... used the binary RPM's from mondo's webpage for those.
>The other is RedHat 7.2.
>
>All exhibit similar symptoms... "Can't format floppy image..." when I
>run mindi alone to test it.
>
>The FAQ says something to the effect of "What if mindi isn't working?...
>E-mail me the error logs and I'll get around to looking at it sometime."
>
>Argh...
>
>Software looks very useful, but is suffering from all the differences
>between distros, even between distro versions, it would appear.
>
>On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:14:54PM -0600, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> > I have had very mixed luck with Norton Ghost in the past.  Some systems
> > simply wouldn't work properly (the ghosting process would exit
> > abnormally - but not necessarily in the same place).  Upgrading to newer
> > versions of Ghost sometimes helped.
> >
> > Eventually I started using mondo <http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo> and
> > haven't seen any more problems since.  It can also write its backup
> > image to tape drive, nfs partition, ...  Very flexible and reliable.
> > You can restore from floppy boot disk or CD.
> >
> > Maybe I should do a mondo demo at a meeting sometime.
> >
> > Ferdinand
> >
> > Rwheaton wrote:
> > >hello,
> > >     I have been trying to make an image of a 7.2 install using Norton
> > >Ghost server (over an ethernet connection).  In the past, previous
> > >versions of RH would work, but for some reason, 7.2 just dies.
> > >There's no discernable place that it always dies at.  We origionally
> > >thought that the reason it was dying was because of the ext3
> > >filesystem, but it recently died on a 7.2 install that was partitioned
> > >with ext2.  I'm really baffled, and have found nothing on google or
> > >any other site that would point to something different about 7.2 that
> > >would kill creation of an image.
> > >
> > >BTW, i've been on the list for quite a while now, but just recently
> > >moved into the area, so this is really my first post :-).  so far,
> > >boulder kicks ass.
> > >
> > >thanks,
> > >-ryan
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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
http://www.taproot.bz

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