1, background
We have a customer, running Oracle 10g DB, Form / Report. For such a huge client, I tested it, count the operating system, DB, FORM installation, software configuration, initialization, all the time is added together, actually take half a day. This is unacceptable for customers with dozens or hundreds of machines. Since customers do not have IT staff, they are unacceptable to complexity faced by each client installation and complexity recovery after system failure.
2, problem
Considering the above situation, actually requires un-attended installation. The desired solution is that when the user needs to reload or make recovery, automatically boot through the disc, and automatically start GHOST, GHOST automatically opens the corresponding IMG file, automatically recovery. Considering the above situation, decide with GHOST.
3. How do you need to handle problems or how to make startup CDs? How do I use GHOST back up the hard disk data and save it to the disc? How to automatically restore your hard drive using GHOST? How to test during the production process?
4.1 How to make a boot disc? The startup disc is actually saved on the disc, call this image by boot sector, uses FLOPY Emulation to create a virtual FLOPY boot disk in memory to boot the system. Many burning software can make bootable CDs, such as Nero, by loading the guide disk from the floppy disk or floppy disk.
Therefore, the first task of starting the CD has become a production launch floppy disk. This is a very easy thing in the Windows9x system. However, my system is WindowsXP. When I use "Build Bootable Disk" in Ghost 2003, I have encountered a problem. When "Build Bootable Disk" prompts to format the floppy disk, if I have selected formatting, the NT format is format when the floppy disk formatted by Windowsxp is format, not the Windows9x format, so even if all system files are copied. Floppy disk, the system cannot be guided from the floppy disk. After selecting "Do not format", finally make a floppy disk that can boot. However, now the quality of floppy dishes, or let me give up the idea of using floppy disks. I just bought 10 plates, I broke three in an hour. Of course, it is also possible to have a problem with the floppy drive. In short, making a boot disk through a floppy disk into a bad choice. In the impression, some software can make bootable flouth IMG files, which may be a good Workaround. So I found FLOPYIMAGE, FLOPYRECOVERY, finally made a 98boot img file. Then use it in Nero to make a boot disc that did not have anything, and launched the system with it. It seems that it is no problem that the CD that can be started by starting the floppy disk image is no longer a problem.
Next, I looked at the disc and there was no file. This is reasonable, Nero puts the files in the floppy disk in the bootableImage, and this part of the user can not see through the resource manager. This gave me a cool idea, which is to make Norton Ghost to Bootable Image, thus hiding these things. However, Ghost Bootable Disk made with "Build Bootable Disk" is made by two floppy disks, even if some unwanted drivers are removed, there is no way to do a floppy disk. To know, it has more than 900K a ghost.exe. It seems that it is necessary to make a must-have task that is a must-beaten image to achieve greater than 1.44m. So the next question is how to put all the things I want to in a floppy disk. Fortunately, in Nero's "Production Boach CD" wizard, there is a "expertmode", which mentions FLOPY Emulation 2.88M, which seems to be an image of 2.88. There is no way to achieve this goal. So, Google for Img and Flopy. Find a famous Bart's Nu2. He has the entire series of production launched solutions.
In the Bart program, the first step is also an Image of making the boot floppy disk, which is consistent with my idea. This requires his BFD tool. Look at the documentation and example, this tool can make 1.44, 2.88 boot disk or start disk image, with -i
-t 288 command line parameters can produce a 2.88 image file. The requirements that put all things in the same image can be reached. The next question is how to integrate GHOST and its related automated commands to BFD.
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