making ISO images with Symantec Ghost

[gilgamish]

today i intended to use Symatec Norton Ghost 2002 for the first time.
i created an image for my active partition of the HD.
when it promted me to type a file name, i gave it one. but discovered later that it attached the default file extension with
it.(*.gho), which was an unsupported format for Nero.
i had to redo everything and typed test.iso as the filename, and used this time the switches: -auto -bootcd -split=650
when finished, i was to burn the image on a cd. to boot from later.
but Nero turned the ISO file into an image with (nbr) extension. burned it. but made it no longer bootable
As it was the first time for me to make a bootable ISO image, was i doin it right?
or ive missed something that i dont know about here?

 

[Mitzi]

I might be wrong here but I was under the impression that Ghost can't make ISO images, as you've found out it makes proprietry ghost files which can then be written to CD as data files NOT disc images.

 

[LiLithTecH]

No. You were not doing it right.

For a very good Tutorial on making a Bootable Ghost Image CD,
try here:

How To Create A Bootable Ghost Rescue CD Tutorial

 

[Mitzi]

I stand corrected. Nice guide there LiLithTecH, added to bookmarks for future reference

 

[gilgamish]

thanx LiLiTech.
just what i wanted to know.
thank u very much again

 

[tcsenter]

You were doing something wrong, or just didn't know what you were doing.

.GHS is a spanned file and will burn using Nero just fine. Any time Ghost has to split or span an image into 'chunks', it uses .GHS file extension on the spanned files (e.g. when spanning across removable media or burning directly to CD).

If you're burning directly to CD-R using Ghost in DOS and you use the -bootcd switch, you don't need to use Nero for anything because Ghost automatically writes the image files to CD-R and makes the CD-R bootable (if you have the proper bootable floppy disk to use for the boot image).