Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
Anyone used debian with norton ghost? I have a problem with lilo when I create a bootable CD image of a dual boot debian+win2k box. I thought maybe moving around the order of images in the lilo.conf (which ghost attempts to follow) would fix my issues, but apparently not. I talked to their tech support and they pretty much said "we don't support debian". The current problem is a "Descriptor checksum error". I would really prefer being able to clone machines AND have a working MBR rather than carry around a boot floppy. I was able to dump a debian-only image to another drive, it's something about the dual boot that makes it impossible. Any ideas are welcome. -nicole
I've got a lab of 19 Gateways that are dual-booting between Debian and W2K. I use Ghost to create them. Generally I use one as a master, push the image up to a server, then ghost it down to the other machines. I can't use multicast, because for some reason it takes down the router, and then our Network Admin has a fit because he's suddenly got 1200+ machines that are dead network-wise.
I've never worked with creating bootable CDs.That "Descriptor checksum error" sounds familiar. I had originally tried to use LabExpert's ImageBlaster (a Ghost work-alike), and it would die about 77% into the first (Windows) partition when downloading the images. Eventually I just gave up and tried Ghost, which worked
I also remember something when I first started with LabExpert that the old version we were migrating from left a hook of itself in the MBR, and I had a great deal of difficulty getting rid of it.
When does the error occur? During the creation of the image, or during the replication of the image. Does it happen in a consistent spot?
Sorry this isn't much help, but maybe it'll give you some hope that you can eventually make it work.
Kent