Ghost Solution Suite

In my environement, we boot with network boot disk that maps a drive to a network volume and loads the NIC driver, leaving us at a the A:\ prompt. At this point, we insert the 2nd floppy with has "ghost.exe" and then type in "ghost.exe" at the A:\ prompt. Then ghost runs.

We use Ghost 2003 and our .gho files name will NOT go larger than 8 characters. When the image is created the .gho file name is truncated to a maximum of 8 characters...not very helpful



MATT

what if you create an image to NTFS partition? Fat16/32 partition will be identified by dos and dos will truncate the file to 8.3 format.

No the partition being Ghosted is NTFS as well as the Partition where the image is being place.

I think this is a limitation with our version of Ghost 2003. We were using a previous enterprise version which did not behave this way. Within the ghost bootup session, it would allow us to create a name longer than 8 characters, thus the swamp file names would generate starting with a similar name. Was very nice when you wanted to include the OS, date, builders initials, etc. into the filename.

But now, after I create the image name of ONLY 8 characters, I must rename the image name within windows. And rename the swap files so I know what goes with what....but then ghost prompts me to browse to the swap files when I go to push out the images. It's as if the association to the swap files was lost when I renamed and now it needs to know which files to grab. Not the desired scenerio.

MATT