Ghost Solution Suite

Does anyone have any advice on how best to save an existing ghost image to a dvd that can be booted from and restore the ghost image to the computer.
I hope to be able to create an emergency repair disk with the latest ghost image available without having to use Ghost to create the bootable DVD

You could try creating a BartPE bootable DVD with the Ghost Plugin and add the image file into the ISO that it creates.
What we've done in the past with no network connections was boot the PC with Bart and launch Ghost. Then when it asks for the image location I have another CD(s) that contains the image and insert that into the CD-ROM drive.

I have been able to create a bootable CD from Ghost Solution Suite 2 but a bit surprised that this update to solution suite doesn't allow you to package an existing ghost image on a dvd or multiple cds.

Do you have a link to the BartPE addin you are talking about?
I downloaded BartPE and started to follow the instructions for ghost but couldn't locate ghostcdr.dll in the folder but found the rest of the files

Message Edited by mobcdi on 05-30-200703:22 AM

Message Edited by mobcdi on 05-30-200703:35 AM

I'm interested in the possibility of this as well. Hopefully someone from Symantec will notice this post and reply.

Thanks
-John

Does anyone know if its possible to use the .iso file ghost boot wizard creates as a starting point and edit its contents using nero or similar software to add the ghost image to it.

At least that way you are starting with a CD you know will boot into ghost

Basically when you launch the PEBuilder.exe, click on the Plugins and enable "Symantec Ghost 8.0".

Here are the help files from C:\Pebuilder\Plugin\Ghost8\Ghost.htm

Ghost32 (version 8.0!) is certified to run on Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE).
But it also works on BartPE.
Ghost32 is not free, buy it from Symantec.
To activate support for CD or DVD write, you also need to enabled the "ASPI" plugin.

Before you can use the plugin you must copy some files to the plugin directory.

Install and activate ghost as described in the ghost installation manual.
Then copy the following files from programs files\symantec\ghost into the plugin\ghost8\files directory:
ghost32.exe, ghostexp.exe, ghostsrv.exe, ghostcdr.dll

Thanks but as i said above i can't find one of the Ghost files listed. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent file for the version of ghost that comes with GSS 2

Oh sorry guys, I guess that file is only in the earlier pre-V2.0 GSS versions.
I couldn't find any free copies of it out on the net, but if you send me your Email address I can email you a copy of it.

In the latest version (GSS 2.0) that dll seems to have been integrated into the Ghost32.exe.  So if you don't have it, and have GSS 2.0, use a semi-colon to comment out that line and you should still have full CD burning capabilities.  That dll was used as burning support in the previous editions.  (To my knowledge)