Where is the Ghost support?
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 6 comments
We've been doing things the hard way around here and building Ghosts manually. Of course DS 6.9 supports Ghost natively. Well not on our copy... I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong. When trying to create or deploy an image GHO isn't an option. What gives? We're runing 6.9SP2 and of course Ghost is there off of the
\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\ since 11.5 comes integrated.
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Look at this KB:
https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=19972&r=0.6890833
Brian Hawver
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Yaskawa America, Inc.
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Thanks for the reply
Thanks for the reply.
I read that, however that is for older versions. 6.9 and newer should have .gho file support built right in. Everything in the documentation says that I should be able to select Ghost files in the dialogue boxes, but for our site's copy it isn't listed as a supported file type.
on the job
so in the capture/distribute image task it will ask you what imaging engine you want to use. There is no ghost selection.
check the imagetools.ini file in the express share. it should look like this.
; Modify this .INI file to integrate the new imaging tools in the Deployment Solution.
; The following is a list of the supported preboot environments and their abbreviated names.
;
;
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------
; Supported OS | Processor Architecture Abbreviated Name
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; DOS | x86 | DOS
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; Linux | x86 | LinuxPEx86
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; Linux | x64 | LinuxPEx64
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; Linux | ia64 | LinuxPEia64
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; Windows | x86 | WinPEx86
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; Windows | x64 | WinPEx64
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
; Windows | ia64 | WinPEia64
; --------------|---------------------------------|----------------------
;
;
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; You can add the new image tool entries in the [ImagingTools] section.
;
; This section contains Tool-n=ImagingToolName, where 'n' is the tool number.
;
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ImagingTools]
Tool-1=Symantec Ghost
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Provide the settings like Display Name, File extension, Preboot environment
; for the newly added imaging tool in this section. The name of this section is the same as
; specified in the [ImagingTools] section e.g. [Symantec Ghost].
;
; You can add the following list of keys in this section,
;
; Key name Description
;
; Display-Name Name appear in the console.
; ImagetoolFileExt Extension of the files supported by the particular imaging tool.
; Preboot-n Preboot OS supported by the imaging tool. 'n' is the preboot number.
;
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Symantec Ghost]
Display-Name=Symantec Ghost
ImageToolFileEXT=.gho
Preboot-1=DOS
Preboot-2=WinPEx86
Preboot-3=WinPEx64
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Provide the settings for the particular tool and preboot OS environment combination
; using the following section. The name for this section is a combination of the image tool
; name and preboot OS environment e.g. [Symantec Ghost-DOS].
;
; You can add the following list of keys in this section,
;
; Key name Description
;
; ImageToolEXEFilePath Imaging Tool executable file path.
; PreCreateImageCommandLine-n Commands executed before creating an image. 'n' is the command line number.
; PostCreateImageCommandLine-n Commands executed after creating an image. 'n' is the command line number.
; CreateimageCommandLine Create image command line.
; PreDeployImageCommandLine-n Commands executed before deploying an image. 'n' is the command line number.
; PostDeployImageCommandLine-n Commands executed after deploying an image. 'n' is the command line number.
; DeployImageCommandLine Deploy image command line.
; Preboot-OS Preboot OS.
; Preboot-Arch-Type Processor architecture.
;
;
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Symantec Ghost-DOS]
ImageToolEXEFilePath=%ALTIRIS_SHARE%\Ghost\ghost.exe
CreateImageCommandLine=-clone,MODE=create,SRC=1,DST=%IMAGE_FILENAME% -sure
DeployImageCommandLine=-clone,MODE=restore,SRC=%IMAGE_FILENAME%,DST=1 -sure
Preboot-OS=DOS
Preboot-Arch-Type=x86
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; The following section provides the settings for the WinPE-x86 preboot environment.
;
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Symantec Ghost-WinPEx86]
ImageToolEXEFilePath=%ALTIRIS_SHARE%\Ghost\ghost32.exe
CreateImageCommandLine=-clone,MODE=create,SRC=1,DST=%IMAGE_FILENAME% -sure
DeployImageCommandLine=-clone,MODE=restore,SRC=%IMAGE_FILENAME%,DST=1 -sure
Preboot-OS=WINDOWS
Preboot-Arch-Type=x86
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; The following section provides the settings for the WinPE-x64 preboot environment.
;
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Symantec Ghost-WinPEx64]
ImageToolEXEFilePath=%ALTIRIS_SHARE%\Ghost\ghost64.exe
CreateImageCommandLine=-clone,MODE=create,SRC=1,DST=%IMAGE_FILENAME% -sure
DeployImageCommandLine=-clone,MODE=restore,SRC=%IMAGE_FILENAME%,DST=1 -sure
Preboot-OS=WINDOWS
Preboot-Arch-Type=x64
Linux Man Viddect
Yeah that's what's driving me
Yeah that's what's driving me nuts, that file is there and looks correct aside from missing the WinPE-x64 section.
I made sure my imagetools.ini
I made sure my imagetools.ini looked exactly like the one you posted and it still isn't showing Ghost as an option :(
You need to copy ghost.exe and ghost32.exe to eXpress\Ghost
This is direct from the DS 6.9 admin guide, page 222:
Important
Deployment Solution does not include the Ghost executable or a license to use
Symantec Ghost. You must provide a copy of the ghost.exe and/or ghost32.exe imaging
executable to enable this support.
Customers currently using Ghost imaging solutions have the option of copying the Ghost
executable to the Deployment Server to enable Ghost imaging from the Create Disk
Image and Distribute Disk Image tasks.
To add support for Symantec Ghost:

1. On the Deployment Share, create a folder called ghost. Copy ghost.exe (for DOS
support) and/or ghost32.exe (for WinPE support) to this folder.
Symantec Ghost is now available for selection in the Create Disk Image and Distribute
Disk Image tasks. A configuration file called ImageTools.ini, located in the root of your
Deployment Share, contains settings you can change to customize the behavior of
Ghost.
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