In order to create a working boot DVD with the image included on the same disk, you will need to upgrade your version of Ghost Solution Suite to the latest 2.5 build, 11.5.0.2141 or later.
Title: 'How to apply the Live Update for Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 build 2141.' Document ID: 2008091213121160 http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/on-technology.nsf/docid/2008091213121160?Open&seg=ent
Things you will need before you start:
After applying the latest upgrade, open Ghost Boot Wizard, and note the version and build at the bottom to the left of the Copyright. It must be 11.5.0.2141 or later.
You are now ready to burn your ISO file to a CD/DVD. Ensure whichever media you choose has enough space. If your .GHO file(s) take up more space than can fit on 1, you will need to put just the .GHO file on the bootable disk, and the spanned image files (.GHS extension) on other CD/DVDs.
Once burned to a CD/DVD, boot the CD/DVD on your client machine.
When Ghost loads:
Great tutorial CBaelum! Wish Symantec guys would make your tutorial a post so I could bookmark it for future reference. Thanks for working this out for us.
Fernando Cavendish
Worked great, thanks!
To make a USB stick bootable, follow this procedure:
Insert the USB stick in the machine
Run a command prompt as administrator
Start Diskpart.exe
Type the following commands
Now open the ISO file with the WinPE files, and copy all to the USB stick, and try to boot from it.
A WinPE ISO should contain:
I have the ghost solution that comes with Symantec Client Management Suite, and the bootwiz that I can run has some different options than described in the first article, but I end up with an ISO file, that contains the required files for booting into WinPE.
In the bootwiz program that I have available, I can customize the resulting WinPE ISO file, to make it run ghost and other things.
How about for USB booting? Any tutorial for this?
Thank you.
Regards,
JM
Pretty straightforward, thank you!
I've been looking for a tutorial like this for ages and reading it from the Symantec website from a Symantec Employee makes me feel even more confortable to follow! It worked like a threat, so, again, thanks!
I've not seen that before. I assume your ghosting onto same hardware. How many hard drives are in the target workstation? If more that 1 make sure the "blind ghost" your executing is landing on the right disk.
Only other thing I do is immediately after completing the ghost clone I execute ghostwalk for a unique SID. eg.
x:\ghost\ghwalk32.exe /AV=all /CN=%Lbug% /IGNORE_DOMAIN /sure
Just one more issue, when applying an win xp image using this method and ghost suite, windows does not load is there something else i need do do for this image to apply correctly.
I do not get a windows splash screen and when i look at the drive contents all seems fine, any ideas?
Genius
Make sure the path points to the boot device where the .gho resides. in the ghost clone example src=%BOOT_Media%\%IMG_NAME%.gho
Early in the .bat the %BOOT_Media% could be determined several ways, for instance:
if exist C:\%IMG_NAME%.gho set BOOT_Media=C: if exist D:\%IMG_NAME%.gho set BOOT_Media=D: if exist E:\%IMG_NAME%.gho set BOOT_Media=E: if exist F:\%IMG_NAME%.gho set BOOT_Media=F: if exist G:\%IMG_NAME%.gho set BOOT_Media=G:
and so on, or:
for %%f in (E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ) do if exist %%f:\%IMG_NAME%.gho BOOT_Media=%%f:
Your instructions are great, however I am having a struggle, ghost loads and attempts to auto run however my gho file seems to be on the usb stick i have created how to i get it to sit within the ghost directory on x: ?
I include an install.bat file during the "additional files" step of GBW then copy it into x:\ghost as part of the Configuration Files "START.BAT" (last step) of GBW. The last thing I do in the START.bat is to start the install.bat file. In the install is the ghost clone (example below), logic to determine the boot media and make the user repsond (confirm) they are going to blow away the contents of the hard drive.
x:\ghost\ghost32.exe -clone,mode=load,src=%BOOT_Media%\%IMG_NAME%.gho,dst=1,sze1=F,sze2=V -sure
when i am trying to create iso file , it is showing a message that " The ISO could not be created.Please verify that the destination path is writable". My email id is chaitan.sahoo1@gmail.com
hi all
I have installed ghost 15 and i need to create .gho image file.It starts with only backup and create symantec image file for backup not for ghost image file
I need to create a bootable media
I have followed thes instructions and when I use the DVD to boot up the workstation it loads into a Vista looking desktop with a dosbox and does nothing more.
the dosbox menubar has the following string "x:windows\system32\cmd.exe - startnet.cmd
Is there something I am missing?
I followed the process outlined above, and get an error message when the iso file is building. It copies my image files successfully, and then loads up some other files. But, in the window it says the following: Preparing disk image: From: c:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\ghostxxxxx\image\ghostfile.gho To: Image And then it kicks out an error message: An unexprected error has occurred. Please check that the target is not read-only and that there is enough space on disk. I click okay, and I then get a choice to Retry, or Cancel. If I Retry, the process starts over and the same message. If I Cancel, well, you know what happens. It stops. I checked the Temp folder, and there was only 28mb when I began. There is 26.3gb of free space on the C drive. I found that the Image folder that Ghost creates is read-only. I've attempted to uncheck read-only and Retry, but get the same message. Any ideas why this might not be working right? Please help!!