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Beta Release 1.51
Release Notes
October 22, 1998

This is a beta release of Norton Ghost for NetWare. This software has
both known and unknown defects and it is missing a few features. Please
do not use this software on production machines.

We are the Norton Ghost for NetWare development and support teams. It is our 
goal to make early versions of this software available to you, our customers,
so you can evaluate technologies in process. By doing so, we become more able
to provide you with products that are reliable, and that have the features you
want and need. During the next few weeks, we will release improved versions of
this software. Please help us by testing this software for both feature
requirements and software problem resolution.

What's new in this release:

1) Numerous bug fixes with the image and clone commands.
2) Improved support for NetWare file compression.
3) Improved support for NetWare sparse files.
4) Improved support for SCSI Adapters.
5) FDISK bug fixed.

Testing Status

During the week of September 21, 1998, we thoroughly tested Norton Ghost for 
NetWare at Novell's SuperLab facility. We found and corrected several problems.

Product Limitations
 
Norton Ghost for NetWare, beta version 1.30, now supports SCSI disk drives 
larger than 8GB. The sofware does not support IDE drives larger than 8GB.
This limitation with IDE drives be removed in subsequent versions.

During cloning and imaging, "Trustee" and "User Restrictions" are not copied. 
This limitation will be removed in subsequent versions.

Novell NetWare Volumes that consist of several spanned NetWare partitions 
are not supported. This limitation will be removed in subsequent versions.
 
No GUI. This means that the product does not look "pretty". However, this 
does not affect the functionality, only the usability of the product. We are 
currently developing a GUI to make this product efficient and user friendly.
 
No GUI means Norton Ghost for NetWare currently uses a command line 
interface. To execute the program, enter (ghost4nw.exe) from a DOS prompt. 
The commands are case insensitive.

Norton Ghost for NetWare is a 32-bit DOS Extended application. It runs from the 
DOS prompt and supports Novell NetWare Partitions and Volumes. Norton Ghost 
for NetWare provides a command prompt "GHOST4NW>". You interact with 
Ghost for NetWare by executing commands that Norton Ghost for NetWare 
understands.

Valid commands are:

	1. clone <SourceDrive> <DestinationDrive>
	2. fdisk <Drive>
	3. fdisk add <Drive> <Partition>
	4. fdisk del <Drive> <Partition>
	5. image file <SourceDrive> <DestinationFile>
	6. imagedir file <ImageFile>
	7. resize partition <Drive> <NewSizeInSectors>
	8. restore <ImageFile> <DestinationDrive> <VolumeName> <VolumeSizeInBlocks>
	9. volumes

Norton Ghost for NetWare supports the concept of Drives. A Drive is a physical 
disk drive connected to the system via an IDE, SCSI, or other supported bus.
The first drive in the system is drive zero. The drive number increases by one
for each drive in the system. A Drive can contain several partitions.
Norton Ghost for NetWare supports a DOS partition and the NetWare partition.

A partition is an fdisk partition. Norton Ghost for NetWare supports four such 
partitions, numbered from 0 to 3.

1) This version of Ghost for NetWare does not support the processing of the DOS 
partition. Use Norton Ghost, available at www.ghost.com, to clone the DOS 
partition. Then use Norton Ghost for NetWare to clone the NetWare Partition. We 
will soon add DOS Partition support.

2) This version support the following Novell NetWare versions:

	Novell NetWare 3.11
	Novell NetWare 3.12
	Novell NetWare 3.2
	Novell NetWare 4.10
	Novell NetWare 4.11
	Novell NetWare 5.0 (NSS File Systems are not supported)
	
3) All NetWare Volume Block Sizes are now supported:

	4K
	8K
	16K
	32K
	64K

4) The Clone command deletes Name Spaces other than DOS during cloning.
Use image and then restore to preserve Name Spaces.

5) Purged files are deleted during restoration and cloning.

6) Currently, the image command can image only one volume at a time to an image 
file.

7) Currently, the restore command can restore only one volume at a time from an 
image file. To image and restore multiple volumes, use more than one image file.
Norton Ghost for NetWare Commands

Imaging is Norton Ghost for NetWare copying a NetWare volume to a storage 
medium. The storage medium can be a disk file on a hard disk, a ZIP disk, a JAZ 
disk, a CD-ROM, a Windows or NetWare server, or a Tape Drive.

During the imaging process the software analyzes the Novell NetWare Volume, 
loads the FAT Tables into memory, processes the Volume Directories and then 
saves the logical structure of the Volume. After this process is complete,
Norton Ghost for NetWare copies all of the files from the NetWare Volume to
the storage file.

There are two methods of saving a NetWare Volume to an image file:

	Sector-by-Sector copying.
	File-by-File copying.

Sector-by-Sector copying (imaging) is necessary when the software does not 
understand the format of the partition or file system being imaged. For NetWare 
Volumes that are almost full, Sector-by-Sector imaging can be very fast.
However, it lacks certain features, such as resizing. As the fullness of the
NetWare Volume decreases, so does the efficiency of Sector-by-Sector imaging.
If the volume is only half full then Sector-by-Sector copying becomes very slow.

File-by-File copying of a partition or file system can create space-efficient
image files, provide excellent image performance. It also offers complete
flexibility during restoration. Norton Ghost for NetWare is the only product
in the world to offer a complete and totally integrated solution for Novell
NetWare imaging, cloning and restoration.

To image a Novell NetWare Volume to a storage medium.

For example: to save an image of the SYS volume on Drive 0 (where drive
numbers begin with 0), from the Ghost for NetWare command line, execute:

	image file 0 image1.img

	where: file means write to a disk file (as opposed to a SCSI tape).
	where: "image1.img" is the filename of the image file to create.

To restore a NetWare Volume from an image file:

	restore image1.img 1 SYS_TEST 100000

	where image1.img is the image file to restore from,
	and 1 is the destination drive (with a NetWare partition) to write to,
	and SYS_TEST is the name of the NetWare Volume to create,
	and 100000 is the size of the NetWare Volume to create (in 4KB blocks).

	Note: There must be a NetWare Partition on the destination drive. Refer to the fdisk 
	command below.

To view the contents of an image file:

	imagedir file image1.img

To clone a NetWare partition from one drive to another:

	clone

To view the FDISK partition table:

	fdisk 0
	where 0 is the drive number
	
To add a NetWare Partition to a disk drive:

	fdisk add 1 0
	where 1 is the drive number,
	and 0 is the partition number (partition numbers can range 0 - 3).

To delete a partition from a disk drive:

	fdisk del 2 3
	where 2 is the drive number,
	and 3 is the partition number (partition numbers can range 0 - 3).

To resize an NetWare Partition:
	resize partition 1 40000
	where partition is the sub-command
	and 1 is the drive number
	and 40000 is the new size in sectors for the NetWare partition

You can resize a NetWare Partition to be either smaller or larger. The Resize 
command verifies if it is safe to increase or decrease the size of a NetWare
Partition.

Help Command

	For help on any command type help. Any command that requires options
	will display help for itself if executed without any options.



For support contact support@ghost4nw.com 

 
Norton Ghost For NetWare is a trademark of Symantec Corporation.
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of their respective companies.
