cloning a harddisk with SCO Open server & Win95

[avisitor]

Greetings all !

I have a laptop which has an installation
with a dual boot with Sco Open Server 5.0.4
and Windows 95 on a 1.26 GB harddisk.

It runs some special diagnostic tools
for ticketing machines so that is why
it has this special software.

I need to clone this laptop and
have gotten hold of a similar one.
(Because of special settings and so on
it is would save alot of work cloning
instead of having to re-install from scratch)

I thought of doing this by connecting
the laptop harddisk to a PC (With a cable
made for this) and then making a ghost image
of the laptop disk.

However, then you are about to make
a Ghost image of a harddisk Norton
prompts that a "Ghost ID" has to be added
to the disk before it can be cloned.

Could this ID in any way cause problems
for a harddisk with SCO/Win95 ?

thanks alot for any feedback.

A.

 

[tb1254]

It seems possible that you could run into a problem using Norton Ghost to back up the harddrive since SCO does have some stuff in the FAT where Windows is. You might want to backup each system seperately and try that first. If that works and you have checked the cloned drive to be sure. Try it using Ghost on a seperate HD (this means you will need 1 extra HD that's 3 total). Then check to see if Ghost worked for you.

HIH

 

[avisitor]

hi & thanks alot for your feedback.

How should I back up each system separately ?

I think I have an extra laptop disk
but if not I do have an extra 3.5 harddisk
for testing.

The most important thing is that I do
not mess up the SCO/Win95 harddisk
that needs to be cloned.
I do not have the SCO media here since
this was installed onto the laptop from
a third party vendor.

thanks again !

A.

 

[PHV]

You may have some licensing issue with SCO, don't you ?

Hope This Help, PH.
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[avisitor]

no, I am doing this task for a company
who owns several SCO 5.0.4 licenses allready.

The reason for cloning is that there
are several installations of very special
ticketing software on the laptop as well,
and there is alot of work setting up these.
(which they of course also own all licenses for
as they are designes specifically for them)

A.

 

[PHV]

So, after the cloning you'll have to go to License manager to get rid of cloned license(s), put the valid one(s) and then register.
Keep in mind that if the hardware is not the same, the license manager will, at least, warn you before you do the above.

Hope This Help, PH.
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[avisitor]

Good, thanks alot for that tips !

Do you have any advice for the cloning itself,
do you know if adding a Ghost ID to the
SCO/Win95 disk might cause it any problems ?

Norton has to do this before it can
make an image of the disk.

thanks,

A.