Need help cloning using Norton Ghost 2001!!

[pmartinez78]

hey guys, I need help cloning a server with norton ghost. The manual doesn't help at all, and the tech support suck.
Ok, here's what I wanna do. I wanna clone an NT server running IIS to a new dell poweredge 300 without an operating system. I have already connected both machine with a crossover cable, and have booted up using the boot disks I made for both machines. Now, here is where I'm stuck. The tech support and the manual say just to choose Local>Disk>To Disk, then choose the source(which is the older server), and then destination(which is the new one),but when I try it I get "Only one drive-Can not clone locally". Ok, so I figure they're wrong. Now, there's another option on the menu which TCP/IP that I think I have to use to make this work. On TCP/IP, it gives me a master and a slave option, but I don't what to choice on the older server and the newer server. Can anyone please point me to the right direction? Any suggestions will me greatly apprecatiated. Thanks

[flachebaq]

You can't clone over TCP/IP with Ghost. You can clone using a parallel cable with one system as the master and one as the slave. However, I've never been able to get this to work.

However, I would strongly suggest not upgrading to a new server this way. Every operating system installation is different unless the hardware is COMPLETELY and TOTALLY the SAME. Since you're upgrading, you're probably facing a different video card, a different network card, different SCSI card and the fact that Dell likes to put that stupid utility partition on their Poweredge servers. I can guarantee you that NT is not going to like being ripped from one server to another. You're probably looking at a lot more pain by ghosting than by just installing the server normally.

[pmartinez78]

thanks flachebaq, that's what I was worried about, so I just decided to go ahead a install NT from scratch. Thanks for the info.