Symantec Norton GHOST (Windows)

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Symantec Norton GHOST (Windows) 15 http://www.ghost.com/

Information

ERPXE Module

• Name: - Symantec Norton GHOST (Windows)

• Version: 15

• Official website: http://www.ghost.com/

• License: Proprietary software

• Wikpedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software)

• Download: http://www.erpxe.com/downloads

• Supported from ERPXE 1.0

Plugin type

Plugin type

Symantec Norton GHOST (Windows)	Anti-Virus	Deployment	Diagnostics	OS Installation	Live Media	Recovery Tools
	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No

Plugin Requirments

Plugin Requirments

Symantec Norton GHOST (Windows)	CIFS	HTTP	Internet	NFS	Linux OS	Windows OS
	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

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Special Information

Ghost is a disk cloning program product sold by Symantec.

Originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research, the technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec.

The name Ghost is an acronym for General Hardware-Oriented System Transfer.

Installation Instructions

Download ghost15-XXX.tar.gz to /

https://sourceforge.net/projects/erpxe/files/plugins/

extract ghost15-XXX.tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf ghost15-XXX.tar.gz

The following files are from Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008:

Copy "boot.sdi" to "er\{{{num}}}\boot.sdi"

Copy "bootmgr.exe" to "er\{{{num}}}\bt.exe" and hex edit it:

Change the "\Boot\BCD" unicode text to "\ER\{{{numupper}}}\BCD" at 0x 4F98C

Also, copy "boot\pxeboot.0" to "er\{{{num}}}\pxeboot.0" and hex edit this too:

Change the "bootmgr.exe" to "er\{{{num}}}\bt.exe" at 0x 5961

"bootmgr.exe" has a PE checksum we used a tool called "PE Explorer" to create a new checksum:

Calculate a new checksum on "bt.exe" at 0x130

Download Symantec Norton GHOST Boot CD.

Open ISO file with 7zip and extract \sources\boot.wim to /tftpboot/er/8/winpe.wim

Verify files with filelist.txt in each folder.

All Done!