How do you create a bootable Ghost CD?

[Muse]

I AM dismayed to find that they don't seem to make it any easier to create a bootable Ghost CD than then did with my NSW 2001 Ghost. The process of creating a bootable Ghost disk (using the Norton Ghost Boot Wizard) that I'm going through now creates a floppy! A FLOPPY!!!

Reasons this is STUPID:

1. Ghost runs at 1/5 the speed from a floppy that it runs from a CD, and that's generous.

2. A lot of people don't even have floppy drives.

In NSW 2001, there IS a way you can make a Ghost bootable CD, but it wasn't easy and I only have one and for some reason I couldn't make a copy of it that works. However, since I want NTFS support, I have to create another for NSW 2003 pro Ghost. I guess I'll have to dive into that 221 page manual. Ugh! Symantec, what can you say about them? They didn't write Ghost. They bought it from some people with talent. Rant over

 

[DaveSimmons]

You could always buy Acronis True Image.

But agreed, it is stupid of Symantec not to be making bootable CDs or including an ISO for one with floppies so close to extinction.

 

[Muse]

I used to boot wizard to create floppies, asking it to use the MS Dos supplied by a floppy. However, it used PC Dos anyway. Symantec? Are you awake?:| Must have been my mistake. It worked next time I tried it. Sorry, Symantec.

Edit: Symantec, you are slime! Sometimes it copies PCDos, sometimes MSDos, even if you tell it MSDos each time. That's crap software.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You could always buy Acronis True Image.

But agreed, it is stupid of Symantec not to be making bootable CDs or including an ISO for one with floppies so close to extinction.

I'm 90% sure it's doable, but they make it really hard to find. Not only that, you wouldn't know it's possible so you'd never dig into the manual. I happened to find it because I printed out the Ghost manual for NSW 2001 and dug deeply into it. It's way worth it to make that CD. Ghost runs sooooo slowly from a floppy.

 

[powerMarkymark]

I don't know about that version of Ghost but Norton has remedied it in their new Ghost 9.

Marc

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: powerMarkymark
I don't know about that version of Ghost but Norton has remedied it in their new Ghost 9.

Marc

I'm sure it's doable in my version of Ghost but I'm afraid I'll have to dig some to do it. Probably creating a Ghost image onto a CDR or CDRW and making it bootable will create the CD I want. Thing is, you don't have to restore from the CD. You can just boot from it and Ghost starts automatically (it's on the CD). Once Ghost starts you can use it in manual mode, which is the way I've used it so far. Yeah, I want to create some disks that do certain backups automatically so I don't have to do the manual stuff, but it's not too bad if you only do it occasionally, and it does run quickly enough from CD. From a floppy, it's real slow though.

 

[Muse]

Here's the deal: If you make your bootable CD with PCDos, it will ONLY be able to see NTFS partitions. Fat32 partitions are invisible to it. To get Fat32 as well, you have to make the CD bootable with MSDos. Thing is, the Ghost boot floppy I made using MSDos didn't work. So, I used the one I made with PCDos instead, not knowing it wouldn't work with Fat32 partitions. So... I'm making another Ghost bootable floppy with MSDos files, presuming it will produce a Ghost bootable CD that works with NTFS and Fat32. I have to think:

1. All the good programmers left Symantec years ago.

2. Symantec and Microsoft don't get along very well.

 

[Muse]

I'm finding that even Ghost 2003 bootable CD's with Windows 98SE bootfiles will only write to or from NTFS partitions! WTF?