Cloning or Image Copy of W95 Based System

[lmssguy]

I have an 8156B PXI controller running W95. The controller has an ENET
port, USB port and a floppy drive. I believe that the USB port is
unavailable since I'm running W95. I want to ghost the image on this
controller so that it can be placed on to a spare 8156B controller. I
see that Norton Ghost Advanced has a cloning feature that will work
over a peer to peer setup. Does the client side (controller to receive
the data), boot from floppy? I presume that the floppy will have to
host some sort of an ENET driver.

Any other ideas as to how to proceed?

Again, thanks in advance for any input.

john

 

[Rod Speed]

I have an 8156B PXI controller running W95. The controller
has an ENET port, USB port and a floppy drive. I believe
that the USB port is unavailable since I'm running W95.

You arent running W95 when doing ghost ops on that system.

Not that that helps much for using the USB port.

I want to ghost the image on this controller so that
it can be placed on to a spare 8156B controller.
I see that Norton Ghost Advanced has a cloning
feature that will work over a peer to peer setup.

Can be rather tricky to setup tho if the
NICs arent natively supported by ghost.

Can be viable to use something like Bart's universal
network boot floppys and then load ghost after you
have booted using those universal net boot floppys.

Does the client side (controller to receive the data),
boot from floppy? I presume that the floppy will
have to host some sort of an ENET driver.

Yes, you basically have to boot ghost on both the
source and the destination systems to clone like that.

Any other ideas as to how to proceed?

It would be a lot simpler to remove the physical drives
to a desktop system and clone from one to the other
in the desktop system running ghost and then put the
drives back in the original PXI machines.

 

[lmssguy]

Rod,

Thanks much for the reply. Unfortunately, removing HDDs is not an
option at this point (i.e., controlled HW/SW, etc.). Appreciate the
insight re: booting client and master side using Bart's utilities.

john