Leo

You are the third person in about as many months that has reported a similar issue--and I'm not sure we have found the main cause for this failure.

I would like to attempt to repeat the process so as to see if I too have the same problem.

1.  What version and build of Ghost are you using?

2. How are you creating the three Ghost image files--i.e. what procedure and how are you controlling the size of the images?

3.  What boot disk are you using to make the DVD bootable?

4.  What burning program are you using to create the bootable DVD?

Leo

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But....I didn't say *error*!!!!

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I do consider it a *failure*, because my spanned image files on optical media find the next segment without having to wait, watch, and then direct Ghost to the next segment!

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I assume this means a baseline system, that is *syspreped* for deployment.  Then, either you boot locally with Ghost and *push* an image to the networked server--or use Ghost Console to *pull* an image to the server--creating the 3 segment image set on the server's HDD--with the first file having a *.gho* extension, and the other two with a *.ghs* file extension.

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The devil is always in the details!!!  Which boot floppy from the Wizard?

Last time I heard, Ghost 8.2 is too large to fit on a single floppy--along with the boot files--so it must be a two floppy boot set--how are you managing that when creating the bootable DVD?

Are you *automating* the bootable DVD, using a command line to restore the template image to the new system without user intervention?

A list of boot files, plus the contents of [config.sys] and [autoexec.bat] would be helpful to understand the setup.

Leo

No problem!  

Ghost 8.2's Ghost Explorer can do the same as Ghost 7.5--but, I think it was Ghost 8.3 that came out with the ability to create image files larger than the DOS limited size of approx. 2 GBs.

But, I'm not sure a larger, single file on DVD will be compatible--even if using Ghost 8.3 or above--the DVD file system may not support that larger size along with Ghost and DOS!  Those larger or single file images may have to be placed on a HDD rather than optical media to work.

In Ghost Explorer, you would go to the menu item *View > Options*, and specify the size for Ghost segments--*2048* is the max for pre-version 8.3, if I'm not mistaken--you will get an error message if you try a larger, unsupported size.  

Then load your image file set into Ghost Explorer, and go to the menu item *File > Compile ...*.  You will probably be asked to select a location and new file name for the image set.  

Leo

In Windows, a 4.4 gig file is supported on a DVD!  But, in DOS--using DOS Ghost!!!???--it may work, but I have no personal experience with that--so I don't know!  Give it a try!!!  Let us know!

But, you have Ghost 8.2--and not 8.3!  If my memory serves--Ghost 8.2 will not support the larger file size--regardless!

Leo

If you have a site license for Ghost 8.2--you would use the LiveUpdate for your Ghost installation!  You should be *eligible* for at least v8.3--but, probably not the latest v11.x.

Ghost 8.x is still supported, but no longer available for purchase or trial downloads.  You can probably get a trial version of Ghost 11.x--but, it will probably have some limitations as to its functions:  

Symantec's Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 Info Page

NightOwl wrote on Feb 15^th, 2008 at 9:50am:

Yup, correct. There's no way (until we get funding to build a UDF filesystem driver into Ghost - which is a possibility, for future Blu-Ray/HD-DVD media, but not before GSS3.0 at the earliest) to do this because the ISO 9660 filesystem that MSCDEX (and Ghost) uses has a 2Gb limit.

The "native" filesystem for CDs is ISO 9660, which the MSCDEX add-in for DOS provides a reader for. For larger-capacity media you can use ISO 9660, but to bypass things like the 2Gb limit (and to deal efficiently for the various oddities of the -R, +R, -RW, +RW DVD media) a different filesystem design called UDF is used and there is no reader for DOS for it.

NightOwl wrote on Feb 16^th, 2008 at 9:00am:

Yup, Ghost Solution Suite 1.0 to 1.1 was (mostly) a paid update. There are a lot of options for buyers of corporate products - some purchase options get you future updates, some don't. The simple pricing shown on e.g. websites doesn't cover that kind of deal, though.

Basically, only changes in the third version digit are free updates. One of the complicated factors in assigning version numbers is that all kinds of folks conflate the various elements. So our LiveUpdates for GSS to 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 are being called by some folks 2.1 and 2.2, which they aren't. Still, it means that we pretty much have no option but to call the next version 2.5

Anyway, the main thing is that to get >2Gb files on optical media in DOS isn't going to happen. You would have to format the DVD using the UDF filesystem, and then run Ghost32 from a Windows PE boot disk to read it using the UDF filesystem support in that. If he has GSS1.0 (aka Ghost Enterprise 8.2) then Ghost32 should be there and so Windows PE is an option.