Has anyone ghosted a BeOS drive before? Has anyone restored an image of a BeOS drive with ghost? Just curious, I know it ought to work, but then again...

Thanx!
Joey Mink

This is a stretch of my intuition, but I doubt you can do it with a Windows app, because it's a different file system type. I know of no Windows applications that can read BeOS file systems.

However, use the Installer program included with BeOS and you can copy the entire OS, including any user files or applications to wherever you want, say a backup partition or attached hard drive.

Say you want to enlarge your BeOS partition and have to delete the old one and create a new one, larger one:
1-Create a temporary BeOS partition
2-Run Installer to install your BeOS to the temp partition
3-Do whatever you need to
4-Boot into temporary partition
5-run Installer and install your BeOS to the new/larger partition.

All of your user files, settings, and installed applications will be "transported" from the original parition, to the temp partition, and to the final partition.

The best is that BeOS is very flexible as to where it is installed. BeOS Installer can easily install to an extended partition on a logical drive, at the end of a slave drive. It simply doesn't care.

I'm not sure if you could use Installer to copy the operating system to a CD, though. Like for an archive backup... Anyone know? Jefro?

I was going to test that the other day before I answered. Almost out of time this week. I have used Ghost on production machines and my home machines for a few years. Saved my behind once too. It is supposed to be able to do a bit for bit copy. I think that if you were to use it for a backup to the exact same disk it should/could work baring disk errors. I just don't know how it would handle partition resizing on the fly mode. It may still work on a different sized disk with the exact sized partition. I have found it a very fast way to restore an entire system.
It boots into dos and shouldn't care about beos. Might have to fix bootman but there are options for save MBR too.

It is definitely the case that the BeOS op shouldn't affect ghost since ghost goes on a dos boot disk. I have never tried ghost on a linux or BeOS or any non-Microsoft file system. I just posed the question to see if someone else had the experience I didn't : )

But I'll definitely try this when I get some time, and will let you guys know what happens.

Thanx!
Joey

Done it many times. Ghost reads/restores BeOS "volumes" from DOS operation just fine.

I do it all the time.
So far I've never experienced any problem. Same with QNX.
Using ghost within windows or in DOS mode after booting on a win98 floppy.
Also the other way round: "ghosting" a win drive from within Beos.
Good luck.