Ghost8 can't span to network drive?

[awoolf]

I'm having an odd Ghost8/network problem. Let's see if any one can help me out.

Background:

Single hard drive in PC, need to image it to the server.

300GB share on Win2003 Server.

PXE network boot, loads a Ghost boot floppy disk image.

Floppy image includes 3Com generic PXE network driver.

Floppy image logs in & maps network share to Z:.

Ghost runs from Z:\ghost

(The network share is "read only", except the account used by Ghost bootdisk has "full control")

Everything works great as long as image file is under 2GB. Ghost can make the image on the network share with no problem. 2GB is the max file size that DOS can access, so this makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is that when I let (or force a) Ghost span, it refuses to write the data to the second file. It writes a 0-byte second file, asks for a place to put a new file. If I tell it Z: again, it writes a third 0-byte file and errors out.

Example:

GHOST -span -split=100 -z9

(support spanning, split files into 100MB chunks, maximum compression)

In Ghost GUI, I pick local drive as source, and Z:\foldername as dest.

It then:

Makes 100MB ghost.gho,

makes 0MB ghost.000,

asks for a new location for files,

makes 0MB ghost.001,

errors out, about out of space.

Basically, it is unable to add data to the SECOND file. Whatever the size is of the first file, up to the max of 2GB, it writes fine. I first tried forcing it to span at 2GB, then 2000MB. (Thinking that it was something to do with the 2GB max) When that didnt work, I tried the above 100MB - still no luck.

Any ideas?

A Woolf

[aleinss]

Same exact issue here! I started to work at this company 4 weeks ago and I see they have spanned images in the past. They are using a PC-DOS bootdisk and I am using a MS-DOS based boot disk. I'm going to try a PC-DOS based bootdisk (7.1) and post back with my results.