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Norton Ghost 6.01

Norton Ghost 6.01. Tony Brett Corpus Christi College OUCS ITSS Seminar. What is Ghost? What can Ghost do? Why is this useful? How does it work? Advanced Features Applications How to get hold of Ghost Other similar products. Norton Ghost Overview.

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Norton Ghost 6.01

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  1. Norton Ghost 6.01 Tony Brett Corpus Christi College OUCS ITSS Seminar

  2. What is Ghost? What can Ghost do? Why is this useful? How does it work? Advanced Features Applications How to get hold of Ghost Other similar products Norton GhostOverview Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  3. Product for managing whole disks or partitions Supports many file systems (Fat 16/32, NTFS etc.) Can take a snapshot, writing or reading file to/from: Ghost Server Network Drive Tape Device ZIP/JAZ, CD-R(W) etc. etc. Through parallel port What is Ghost? Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  4. Quick and easy replacement of hard disks. Configuration libraries can be kept so machines can be used in multiple configurations Change of OS/File system on PC at will Management of configuration on public machines - easier than locking down Can go back to good configuration quickly if install breaks Why is this useful? Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  5. Runs as a DOS application - Menu or command-line switches Will make images of local disk or just partitions of it Will replace disk or partition contents from image file Image file can be on a server, removable media (with spanning), other partition or a CD How does it work? Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  6. Ghost Explorer Can explore and modify image files Advanced Features (1) Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  7. Multicasting - Server runs on DOS, Win32 or Netware 5 (4.11sp7) Advanced Features (2) Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  8. Used to send data to identical hardware workstations all at once OUCS Lecture Rooms, Corpus Computing Suite Packet Drivers (Plug&Play gives problems!) DHCP to give IP addresses Not through routers IP multicasting clones all workstations at once Wake-on-LAN technology (PXE) Multicasting Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  9. Ghost Walker Identical machines cloned will clash on the network(with MS Networking) so... Allows changing of: SIDs for NT Workstation (NetBIOS) name with NT and 9x Username Domain/Workgroup TCP/IP settings No Support for Novell identities, w/s registration. Advanced Features (3) Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  10. Managing Computer Rooms Use Multicasting, with packet driver support for TCP/IP. Watch Plug&Play with 3c5x9. W/s will take new image if there is one waiting otherwise Ghost times out and Win9x continues to load. Applications (1) c:\clone\3c5x9pd 0x60 cls c:\clone\ghost -clone,mode=load,src=@mcdan300_95,dst=1 -sure -rb c:\clone\3c5x9pd -u 0x60 Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  11. Keep images of machines - hard drives can be replaced and machine up and running in 20 minutes after disk failure. Make a boot floppy that will connect to network drive, or CD or other media. Put ghost on the floppy or network drive. Make bootable CDs (with Ghost and image) of vital machines. Applications (2) Replacing Hard Disks Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  12. Library Use! Applications (3) Self-healing standalone set comspec=d:\image\command.com cls call d:\image\repair.bat Autoexec: Directory of D:\image . <DIR> 23/11/99 17:37 . .. <DIR> 23/11/99 17:37 .. GHOST EXE 676,839 16/11/99 12:58 GHOST.EXE REPAIR BAT 91 23/11/99 17:38 repair.bat COMMAND COM 93,812 24/08/96 11:11 COMMAND.COM LIBCAT1 GHO 47,303,140 23/11/99 17:47 LIBCAT1.GHO 4 file(s) 48,073,882 bytes 2 dir(s) 133,005,312 bytes free d:\image\ghost -clone,mode=pload, src=d:\image\libcat1.gho:1,dst=1:1 -sure Repair.bat: Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  13. Applications (4) Perfect uninstall! = Re-image with Ghost works perfectly! Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  14. Available as centrally-funded software Contact Jane Brown at OUCS with Software Card Barcode number and exact number of Worstations that will use Ghost. Can be downloaded from micros.oucs.ox.ac.uk, but need password to unpack archive. How to get a copy of Ghost Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  15. Altiris Rapidepoly - more advanced than Ghost 5.x, but Ghost 6 adds the bits that were missing (management console, wizards, ability to edit images) PowerQuest DriveImage Pro SureData FlashClone Similar Products Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

  16. Questions? This presentation at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~aesb/ghost.ppt Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost

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