Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Symantec™ Ghost Solution Suite 3.2 RU3 Release Notes 1. Symantec™ Ghost Solution Suite 3.2 RU3 Release Notes Posted Sep 22, 2017 07:30 AM Highligts of this release: Support for CentOS 7.3 (ext4) operating system is added. BDC improvements: Improved performance of the Boot Disk Creator by reducing the time required to add preboot drivers and other packages while creating preboot packages for WinPE 5 and WinPE 10. Imaging support for 4K native drive: Added the ability to capture an image of a computer with 4K native drive that has GPT partition and NTFS file system and to deploy it on a computer with 4K native drive. Note: The following scenarios are not supported: Deploying an image that is created from a 4k drive to a drive with 512 sector size. Deploying an image that is created from a drive with 512 sector size to a 4k drive. From this release onwards, you can browse and search for content Ghost Solution Suite Online help.Release notes are available at the following URL:

CraigEVDec 29, 2012 11:34 PM...moved to the correct forum! 1. Symantec Ghost 11.5 boot cd and Dell Inspiron 7520 Posted Dec 21, 2012 11:09 AM I recently downloaded the test version of Ghost Solution Suite and created a boot CD with the wizzard. When I boot with that CD on the above laptop it doesn't recognize my hard drives. This machine is setup to use Intel Rapid Storage Technology and has a 32 gig SSD which is used to improve performance. What do I need to do to get Ghost to backup my hard drive to an external harddrive? 2. RE: Symantec Ghost 11.5 boot cd and Dell Inspiron 7520 Posted Dec 29, 2012 11:34 PM ...moved to the correct forum! 3. RE: Symantec Ghost 11.5 boot cd and Dell Inspiron 7520 Posted Dec 30, 2012 04:20 AM Is this a DOS boot CD or a WinPE boot CD? If DOS, chances are that it cannot see any devices that are SATA based as DOS has no SATA support. Try WinPE. 4. RE: Symantec Ghost 11.5 boot cd and Dell Inspiron 7520 Posted Dec 30, 2012 08:48 AM The boot CD is PC DOS and it works fine on other machines with SATA hard drives. I'm really leaning toward the Intel Rapid Storage Technology which comes with the Dell. If someone has had success Ghosting a Dell 7520 or other similar machine with this feature please share your experiences. Thanks. 5. RE: Symantec Ghost 11.5 boot cd and Dell Inspiron 7520 Posted Dec 30, 2012 09:04 AM PCDOS success with SATA depends on whether the bios offers any IDE compatibility settings. Have you checked if this option is available on your 7520?More and more vendors are not supporting PCDOS so what works for older hardware will stop working with new hardware, and sooner or later you will have to start using WinPE. That is what Microsoft have been using for Vista Windows 7 and Windows 8 as part of their automated installation processes, and there are valid technical reasons for this.PCDOS also lacks support for USB devices - how are you connecting external drives for backup currently? 6. RE: Symantec Ghost 11.5 boot cd and Dell Inspiron 7520 Posted Dec 30, 2012 09:50 AM On older machines with SATA internal drives I can access USB external drives. But I have a desktop that has a USB keyboard and I can either access the keyboard or the external USB drives based on settings for the Ghost boot CD (this is an older version of Ghost 11.0) but that's not too functional. So I back that machine up to an internal hard drive. The Dell 7520 doesn't see the internal hard drive

After performing the steps in this walk through you will have a working PXE and TFTP set up delivering a Win PE 4.0 package with the latest Ghost executables and 2 optional default Win PE 2.0 Ghost packages.With this walk though it is assumed that the Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 is already installed on a 2008 server (other os’s are an option however the screen shots and file paths are form a 2008 server installation.) These instructions also assume that your Ghost Server, DHCP server and Client are on the same network segment.Because WinPE, ADKsetup.exe, TFTPD32.exe, and 3com PXE server are not Symantec products Symantec technical support is not responsible for their performance or able to assist with troubleshooting or supporting these technologies. The appropriate manufacturer of each of these third party software’s will need to be contacted to assist with troubleshooting their respective technology’s. Downloading and installing required tools.Windows ADK Download and run the ADKsetup.exe from the following link. This is for the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8 Choose the “Install the Assessment and Deployment kit to this computer” radio button. Maintain the default locations if the batch files included are to be used. You will only need to select the “Deployment Tools” and “Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)” This download may take a long time but you can move forward with setting up this server while the download finishes.PE batch files. Create the following folder structure. Make sure that capitalization is correctly observed. c:\WinPE

DeployAnywhere is a utility that is used after image deployment to attempt to identify and inject missing drivers into a deployed Windows image. The DeployAnywhere executable files are included with Ghost Standard Tools, as is the driver database management utility (DriverManager.exe and/or DriverManager64.exe) but there is no default Driver Database.You can use DeployAnywhere in Evaluation mode without a driver database to identify missing drivers. For DeployAnywhere to inject any drivers it must have a DriversDB folder. To get a DriversDB folder you can either copy the DriversDB folder from an existing Ghost Solution Suite installation (From this location: \Program Files (x86)\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\DriversDB, to DriversDB folder you are about to create below.), or create your own DriversDB.To add a DriversDB folder to your Standard Tools boot disk, on the machine running the Boot Disk Creator, create the DriversDB folder under the OEM folder, like this: \Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Ghost\bootwiz\OEM\DriversDB\winpe\x64\Base\DriversDBIf you are using the existing DriversDB folder copy the contents of that DriversDB to the path above.If you want to create your own DriversDB follow these steps: Launch the Driver Database Manager: C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Ghost\DriverManager64.exe (assuming you have a 64 bit installation) Click the Change... button in the upper right corner. Choose the folder you created earlier: \Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Ghost\bootwiz\OEM\DriversDB\winpe\x64\Base\DriversDB Click Add Driver, then select the custom driver you want to add. Repeat step 4 as needed.Now that you have a DriversDB folder, follow the steps in this document: HOWTO124429 to create a new boot configuration. The key point during that process is that you select the OEM extension "ALL" during the creation of your new configuration. While you are there you should verify that "DriversDB" appears in the OEM extensions list, as well as "GSS" - you want both so you choose "ALL".After the boot media is created you can boot a machine to that media and the DriversDB folder will be present on the disk and you can follow the steps in DeployAnywhere in Evaluation mode to see if it is able to match the missing drivers to the DriversDB that you provided. If you run DeployAnywhere in Evaluation mode and, having evaluated the logs, you determine it does indeed find a match for all of the missing drivers, you can run DeployAnywhere again - this time without the /eval switch - which will cause it to actually inject the matching drivers that it finds in the DriversDB folder.