How to make a Ghost bootable image DVD?

[edro]

Any good tutorials on how to make a bootable DVD that has your ghost image on it..... so I can just pop in the DVD, boot to it, and it will image the HDD with the image on the DVD? If it's the same as a regular CD, you could give me a link to that.

Thanks a lot!
-Ed-

 

[tcsenter]

No different than making a bootable CD. Your mastering app must able to support creating bootable DVDs.

You generally execute Ghost by command line from AUTOEXEC.BAT. Something like this (where E: is the letter of your CD/DVD-ROM drive specified by the /L:x switch in AUTOEXEC.BAT when loading your DOS CD/DVD-ROM driver):

ghost.exe -clone,mode=load,src=e:\image001.gho,dst=1 -sure -fx

That command line will recreate the first HDD (dst=1) Ghost encounters in your system (C: drive) using the image file 'image001.gho' located on source drive E: (CD/DVD).

Some switches as I understand may no longer be supported by the latest versions of Ghost. I still use the rusty but trusty v5.1D of Ghost cuz it works. Consult the user manual for the version of Ghost you will be using. You may also type either ghost -h or ghost -? at DOS prompt to see accepted command line switches.

Some useful Ghost tutorials:

The Coaster Factory

Radified Guide to Ghost <-- somewhat poorly organized

 

[edro]

Cool, thanks!