Topic: can you ghost an e-smith box?

[sam russo]

I have read somewhere that you can ghost an e-smith box. Has anyone done this.
That is ... say we have a box with a IDE hd and  standaed pci nic. We ghost that machine onto a cd. GO to a new machine say with a larger HD and new nic-dump the ghost image back and then do a "Configure this server and Gateway" from the console and find the new nic.
Would the image take up the rest of the new HD? ..
Will it work at all.
Any ideas woud be appreciated.
sam russo

[Jean-Guy]

I use ghost to back up mine, I created a bootable floppy with the Nic drivers on it (ghost will do this for you) then I run ghost from the floppy and connect to a ghost server and send the image over the network to a windows box. Otherwise ghost requires that you write the image to another physical HDD, you cannot partition a drive and write the image to the partiton. Once I have the hdd image on my pc i burn a bootable cd with ghost.exe on it and i can restore my e-smith box in a few min!

Jean-Guy

[sam russo]

Yes, I understand that ghost can restore the machine back on the same hardware. Have you tried going to a newly built other machine and dumping the image and then using the "Configure this server and gateway" option for the new HD and new NIC.

[Alejandro]

You'll probably be stoped by a kernel panic error
my e-smith installation can detect changes in the nics, i've replaced them without troubles to reconfigure e-smith, but hdd is a problem.
I have made a few tests on this without luck, beter than this could be a reinstallation disk, and a desktop backup of a working e-smith, then you can powerup a new machine and begin a re-installation process that will detect hardware, disk size etc, and you'll get a new clean machine where you can download a desktop restore of your old system.
Alejandro