Norton Ghost 6.01 Tony Brett Corpus Christi College OUCS ITSS Seminar

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Norton Ghost Overview n What is Ghost? n What can Ghost do? n Why is this useful? n How does it work? n Advanced Features n Applications n How to get hold of Ghost n Other similar products

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost What is Ghost? n Product for managing whole disks or partitions –Supports many file systems (Fat 16/32, NTFS etc.) n 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

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Why is this useful? n Quick and easy replacement of hard disks. n Configuration libraries can be kept so machines can be used in multiple configurations n Change of OS/File system on PC at will n Management of configuration on public machines - easier than locking down n Can go back to good configuration quickly if install breaks

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost How does it work? n Runs as a DOS application - Menu or command-line switches n Will make images of local disk or just partitions of it n Will replace disk or partition contents from image file n Image file can be on a server, removable media (with spanning), other partition or a CD

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Advanced Features (1) n Ghost Explorer –Can explore and modify image files

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Advanced Features (2) n Multicasting - Server runs on DOS, Win32 or Netware 5 (4.11sp7)

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Multicasting n Used to send data to identical hardware workstations all at once n OUCS Lecture Rooms, Corpus Computing Suite n Packet Drivers (Plug&Play gives problems!) n DHCP to give IP addresses n Not through routers n IP multicasting clones all workstations at once n Wake-on-LAN technology (PXE)

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Advanced Features (3) n Ghost Walker –Identical machines cloned will clash on the network(with MS Networking) so... –Allows changing of: n SIDs for NT n Workstation (NetBIOS) name with NT and 9x n Username n Domain/Workgroup n TCP/IP settings –No Support for Novell identities, w/s registration.

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Applications (1) n Managing Computer Rooms n Use Multicasting, with packet driver support for TCP/IP. Watch Plug&Play with 3c5x9. n W/s will take new image if there is one waiting otherwise Ghost times out and Win9x continues to load. c:\clone\3c5x9pd 0x60 cls c:\clone\ghost -sure -rb c:\clone\3c5x9pd -u 0x60

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Applications (2) Replacing Hard Disks n Keep images of machines - hard drives can be replaced and machine up and running in 20 minutes after disk failure. n Make a boot floppy that will connect to network drive, or CD or other media. n Put ghost on the floppy or network drive. n Make bootable CDs (with Ghost and image) of vital machines.

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Applications (3) Self-healing standalone n Library Use! set comspec=d:\image\command.com cls call d:\image\repair.bat Directory of D:\image. 23/11/99 17: /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: Autoexec:

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Applications (4) Perfect uninstall! = Re-image with Ghost works perfectly!

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost How to get a copy of Ghost n Available as centrally-funded software n Contact Jane Brown at OUCS with Software Card Barcode number and exact number of Worstations that will use Ghost. n Can be downloaded from micros.oucs.ox.ac.uk, but need password to unpack archive.

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Similar Products n Altiris Rapidepoly - –more advanced than Ghost 5.x, but Ghost 6 adds the bits that were missing (management console, wizards, ability to edit images) n PowerQuest DriveImage Pro n SureData FlashClone

9 December, 1999Tony Brett Corpus Christi College Norton Ghost Questions? This presentation at: