Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:

>"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>     I can think of at least two or three ways of accomplishing this. The
>> first would be to use Ninjaforce's Asimov 2.0 program. It can create
>> a image copy of an entire partition (stored as a '2MG' file) then restore
>> a byte for byte copy onto the same or a new partition. Typically you'll
>> require an HFS partition to store the '2MG' image file, as it'll exceed
>> the file limit size for ProDOS (16 MB).
>
>Whenever I try to make a 2mg image of a prodos hard disk partition, it will
>get partially through, then error out with an overflow error...maybe I don't
>have the latest version of Asimov???

    Sounds like you're writing the output file to a ProDOS partition. As I
mentioned above, ProDOS cannot handle ANY file that is larger than 
16 megabytes. It's not surprising people forget that in a day where 
it's not unusual for a single sound or image file to be that large. :)

    Make sure you're writing the '2MG' file to an HFS partition with 
enough free space.

>...maybe I don't have the latest version of Asimov???

    Doubt it, see above. In any case, I don't believe there were ever
more than two public releases of Asimov: v1.0 which is ProDOS-8
based, and v2.0 which is GS/OS based.

Mitchell Spector