Norton Ghost -- Today vs Yesterday

[robboll]

I recently got back in to imaging machines after a break from doing
that for a few years -- and the process today (using NG 10) involves
installing Norton Ghost on your machine???? I remember doing it with
two floppies. One to boot to Ghost and create the image, and the
other floppy was used when putting the image on another machine to
reset the MAC address. Simple and sweet.

If all you are interested in is capturing a golden machine of your
machine why should you have to INSTALL Norton Ghost to the machine? I
guess with that intention one can install Norton Ghost, create the
image to a seperate device, and then uninstall it. Unless there is a
better way?

Thanks for any suggestions.

RBollinger

 

[Sid Knee]

I recently got back in to imaging machines after a break from doing
that for a few years -- and the process today (using NG 10) involves
installing Norton Ghost on your machine???? I remember doing it with
two floppies. One to boot to Ghost and create the image, and the
other floppy was used when putting the image on another machine to
reset the MAC address. Simple and sweet.

If all you are interested in is capturing a golden machine of your
machine why should you have to INSTALL Norton Ghost to the machine? I
guess with that intention one can install Norton Ghost, create the
image to a seperate device, and then uninstall it. Unless there is a
better way?

If your backups are to be done from the boot floppy, the full program
installation only needs to be done once to any machine running a
suitable version of Windows.

When you install Norton Ghost to Windows, it then allows you to create
the DOS boot floppy which you can subsequently use to boot from and
create the image(s). After that, the Windows installation isn't needed
unless you want to use any of it's other functions. (Being able to look
inside an image file and extract individual files can be very useful and
personally, I'd leave the installation on one machine).

The boot floppy can then be used on any machine.

I don't know if there's a way to create the boot floppy directly from
the Ghost install cd ... but then, I've never actually looked.