creating bootable CD set from existing .gho file

[emerald]

OK the situation is that I have created a .gho norton ghost file of a partition and would like to make it bootable from a set of CDs. Am I right in thinking that all I have to do is use Nero to burn a bootable set of CDs using the Norton Ghost boot floppy when Nero asks for it and then feed in the CDs till the image has been fully captured?

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[jeremybarker]

Sounds like you got the jist of it...just use ghost boot disk wizard to create a cd-rom boot disk. From there, modify the autoexec.bat to include the image name. The only thing I haven't figured out on this is how to tell ghost what file name is next in a succession of cds. EX: once I get finished with disk 1, I put in disk 2, but I can't just click OK, I have to click file name, then OK. Hopefully some help, w/ a question of my own at the end.

 

[wolluf]

Have I got this right - you've created a ghost image of a partition on hard drive. And you want to transfer it to CD's so you can use CD set to restore from?

I had a lot of 'fun' trying to do this - there's a lot of detailed help on symantec's site (FAQ for Ghost) - but I never managed to get it to work. You may have better luck.

If this isn't what you're doing, please ignore this!

 

[jeremybarker]

wolluf,
I spend many hours by myself and on the phone w/ symantec, so I feel your pain. This link was given to me by one of the Symantec techs, I couldn't find it when I was looking.

How to create a bootable CD and restore a Ghost image:

http://tinyurl.com/2dfr5

HTH

 

[wolluf]

jeremy,

that looks like a more detailed version of what I found (it was a few months ago - I sidestepped it by using network boot disks to access the image files over the network) - thanks, I'll bookmark it in case I really do need to do it sometime.