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Ghost 2003 switches/long file name
Name: matt simon Date: November 10, 2006 at 07:28:58 Pacific OS: windows CPU/Ram: 1000 Product: dell
Comment:
How do I use Ghost switches?
In my environement, we boot with network boot disk that maps a drive to a network volume and loads the NIC driver, leaving us at a the A:\ prompt. At this point, we insert the 2nd floppy with has "ghost.exe" and then type in "ghost.exe" at the A:\ prompt. Then ghost runs.
We use Ghost 2003 and our files name will NOT go larger than 8 characters. Symantec's site says to use the "-cns" switch for long file names. But when I type in "ghost.exe -cns" at the A:\ prompt, it still truncates the the name to 8 characters.
Found this document with switch commands. Please help, not familiar with using Ghost switches.
Name: matt simon Date: November 10, 2006 at 19:03:00 Pacific
Reply:
It never fails, you get all excited because someone replied to your post, then you see that somone only asked "why do you need to do that?"
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Thank you for being helpful.
Matt
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Response Number 4
Name: don1 Date: November 10, 2006 at 20:38:29 Pacific
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To create a ghostfile with 8 characters is already long enough. In windows you can rename that file up to 256 characters. I hope it is clear.
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Response Number 5
Name: matt simon Date: November 13, 2006 at 05:21:37 Pacific
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donl,
Duh! Sorry, just frustrated that no seems to fully visualize the problem. Yes, I can rename the ghost file within windows, but I also want the swap files to be longer names as well, and wehn I rename the swap file, this happens:
When pushing out the ghost image it prompts me EACH TIME to browse to the swap file. It doesn't seem to know which one it is because it was renamed.
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