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Creating a disk image of a SCO Unix 5.04 system through a network

I have a SCO Unix 5.04 computer on my WorkGroup. I purchased Symantec Ghost 15.0. When i do the download to a XP Pro computer on the WorkGroup and launch it the system will create a bootable CD with Symantec Host on it. I tried to run boot this CD on the SCO Unix computer and i get an error that suggests I reload Windows. I have the documentation and it refers to programs that are supposed to be on my computer. How do I back up the disk on my SCO Unix system using this product? What am I missing?

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SysExpert

You need an older version of Ghost that boots via DOS. Newer versions use windows PE so require a windows machine

I think Version 8 and earlier are better choices

I hope this helps !

already_used

The versions of Ghost that use a DOS boot diskette will definitely duplicate HTFS and DTFS file systems, however you cannot make any changes to the size of the partition.

SysExpert

Also for a network image, you should look into using the universal network boot floppy/CD to simply access the shared network drive.

put ghost.exe on the share ( DOS version ) and then you are all set

network boot Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk is a DOS bootdisk that has almost all NIC drivers built in.
http://www.netbootdisk.com/

Ghost bootable
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f3/norton-ghost-bootable-cd-153755/

Create a Universal network boot floppy image and use that to create your CD boot. set it to connect to your server, and put a copy of Ghost.exe on the shared drive where the images are .

I hope this helps !

Casey Herman

You may have an extremely hard time ghosting drives in sco. That particular version only likes certain hardware and I would be suprised to see ghost cleanly. I have not been able to do this successfully yet myself.