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I use the boot disk & then insert the ghostpe disk. After that I enter the
command
ghostpe -split=625 -auto -z9
-split=625 spans the image over nearly 650mb images for the cds.
-auto renames your subsequant images appropriately.
-z9 causes the maximun compression.
I normally dont change the filesystem status from default fat32. Normally,
the end result is
60% of the used partition.
Regards
HT
----- Original Message -----
From: "david b. stanley" <davestan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:00 AM
Subject: off topic:The right Ghost image
> I'm attempting to get images of all worthwhile partitions on my hd onto
> cd's so that I can reformat the drive for a larger c:\ partition with
> fat32
> instead of fat.
>
> I made a boot.exe disk with no switches because the options in the Ghost
>
> image menu seemed to have the adequate switches I needed.
>
> I set the options to -f32 to change fat to fat32 and -span to limit the
> amount
> of data that would go on each cd to the default span length which Norton
> manuals
> say is 550mb.
>
> The c:\ size is 2000mb and the used portion is 1937mb.
>
> With the option settings I used, I would expect the image file to have
> been
> dumped to 4 disks, show the "MB copied" to be the same as 1937MB,
> and the file system to have been changed to fat32.
>
> However, the dump filled only two 800MB disks so it did not do any
> spans.
> I don't see any indication that the file system has changed to fat32.
> The program reported that "MB copied=1937" but also says
> "MB copied=1272" which confuses me because I selected
> "Compression=None".
>
> The Ghost Explorer doesn't seem to be able to read much off the cd so
> this
> hasn't been a help.
>
> Questions:
> Will the -fat32 switch only work when I reload the cd back onto the hd?
>
> Is all the data there but in some kind of weird compressed form such
> that
> when I transfer everything back to the hd I will have a hd that's ready
> to
> run? The pdf's say that all data is copied but no leftover space is
> copied
> when creating and image file but 1272MB certainly is less than my used
> space.
>
> Seems to me that the -span option should have worked when dumping to
> cd because in the documentation it is recommended for imaging to a cd.
>
> Should I have added all these switches to the boot disk instead of
> selecting
> switches in the options menu?
>
> I'm confused, thanks...dbs
>
>
>
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