Using Ghost.exe On A Stand-Alone Computer - Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1 - V1.0 Manual

14 Using Symantec Ghost as a stand-alone program

Using Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer

Using Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer
Note: For Ghost32, VMDK images are supported for all normal operations, and
PQI and V2I images are supported as a source (but not as a destination) in all
cloning operations. You must have
Ghost32.exe.
The information about Ghost.exe is also true for Ghost for Linux, with the following
limitations:
Direct writing to CD or tape is not supported.
Peer to peer connections over printer cable or USB cable are not supported.
The following is an overview of how to start and run Ghost.exe.
Note: Ghost.exe does not fit on a single floppy disk. Ghost.exe is concatenated on
a RAM drive in DOS and executed from the RAM drive. The concatenation is
transparent.
To use Ghost.exe on a stand-alone computer
1 Start Ghost.exe.
See "Starting Ghost.exe"
Add command-line switches, if necessary.
See "About Symantec Ghost switches"
2
If necessary, establish a peer-to-peer connection.
See "Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe"
3 Select the Ghost.exe operation:
Disk or partition to image file
Disk or partition from image file
Disk to disk
Partition to partition
Check image or disk
4 Do one of the following:
Select the source hard disk or partitions.
Select the image file.
in the same directory as
v2DiskLib.dll
on page 15.
on page 131.
on page 16.