Since the release of Ghost Solution Suite 2.5.x, Symantec decided to add support for Linux partition in their ghost clients; however, as far as I know ext4 is not yet supported. As part of the IT job, IT Pros have to rely on some sort of imaging software, and if I can make images of every OS out there with a single application, even better. You can read more info on the support of ghost and Linux partition here. For this tutorial I will go over the steps on how to create a ghost boot disk with Linux support. By the way now the default for a ghost boot disk uses Windows Preinstalled Environment (WinPE).

1- First open the Ghost Boot Wizard, and select default and click next

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In this tutorial, I show how to use 3com Boot Services with Symantec Ghost, because the computers boot from the network, you do not have to visit the client computer. That is the client computer download and run the same files that would be run at the client computer when you start the computer from a Ghost Network Boot Disk. When the Ghost Multicast session is complete, the 3Com PBoot.exe utility restart the computers from the hard drive. The preparation requires creating and editing the files necessary for performing the clone: Read the rest of this entry »