Creating Ghost Restore Dvd Set

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Creating Ghost Restore Dvd Set, help creating a custom booting restore dvd

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Kristopher McDou... Kristopher McDougall View Member Profile	Mar 12 2008, 10:32 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 25-February 08 From: Issaquah, WA Member No.: 192,574	Hey everyone ... what I am wanting to do with a new system build for a customer is create a ghost restore dvd for them. I know how to go about creating the image over several cds/dvds but what I need help with is making the dvd bootable and have it start ghost and start the restore process with limited user intervention (ie maybe a message asking are you SURE you want to erase everything on the comp). If there is a better way to do this than using ghost I am open to all ideas. Thanks ! KM

DaChew View Member Profile	Mar 12 2008, 10:47 PM Post #2
Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 4,987 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon and rockytop Member No.: 131,963	Having a backup spread accross several dvd's or a lot of cd's is problematic at best, it's better to partition the hard drive or even better to do it to a second hard drive. Burning cd's and dvd's and then reading them back without any errors can be a hit or miss operation until everything is just right. After helping people with a few hundred burn logs spread out over the last 3 years I guess I have lost faith in optical backups and the average user. -------------------- Chewy life is like a box of chocolates and stupid is as stupid does but you can always run

Kristopher McDou... Kristopher McDougall View Member Profile	Mar 12 2008, 10:55 PM Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 25-February 08 From: Issaquah, WA Member No.: 192,574	Hey Chew - Thanks for the info, yeah you really have a point there. If I put the restore image on a second hard dirve or even a second partition would there be anyway to hide it so the user couldn't delete it something? If it were on a second hd/partition how would I automate the process of doing the restore? Thanks for the help!

DaChew View Member Profile	Mar 12 2008, 11:35 PM Post #4
Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 4,987 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon and rockytop Member No.: 131,963	If you are afraid of them deleting it, you would be better off keeping the image on one of your hard drives, we thought about that for a business where we had 4 different computers but never got around to it, ghost was having problems with raid stripes and sata hard drives at the time. Back then we used a boot floppy that ghost made, today it would probably be a bootcd? Automate? Disk imaging and reinstalling is not that easy? This post has been edited by DaChew: Mar 12 2008, 11:35 PM -------------------- Chewy life is like a box of chocolates and stupid is as stupid does but you can always run

Kristopher McDou... Kristopher McDougall View Member Profile	Mar 13 2008, 12:01 AM Post #5
Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 25-February 08 From: Issaquah, WA Member No.: 192,574	Howdy again ... so after some further research I found this ... http://users.pandora.be/satcp/ghostresq01.htm The page has great info, step by step instructions to create a bootable cd/dvd with ghost and image on the media and fully automated. It just seems like the would work better because I am not on site to do the imaging for them. I hope it is something they will not use often but it would be nice to have something quick for a 'just in case'. Well thanks for the advice ... KM

DaChew View Member Profile	Mar 13 2008, 12:09 AM Post #6
Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 4,987 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon and rockytop Member No.: 131,963	QUOTE Copyright of all documents and scripts belonging to this site by SatCP 1999-2001 back in the windows 98 days, very dated This post has been edited by DaChew: Mar 13 2008, 12:09 AM -------------------- Chewy life is like a box of chocolates and stupid is as stupid does but you can always run

mommabear View Member Profile	Mar 13 2008, 01:03 PM Post #7
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 488 Joined: 26-November 06 Member No.: 97,783	This is one of the best sites to learn about Ghost. http://ghost.radified.com/

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