Symantec NORTON GHOST, User Manual

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Chapter 1: About Norton Ghost Personal Edition
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For restoration purposes, once the device is working and has a drive letter,
Norton Ghost can use that drive to perform the required task.
Clone hard disk drives and partitions peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer connections are typically used when there are two computers
that you wish to connect. Norton Ghost gives you the choice of connecting
through the NetBIOS or through the LPT (printer) parallel port. In both
cases, one computer becomes the master, the other the slave. See
“Peer-to-
peer connections” on page 18 for more information.
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To connect through the printer port you need a parallel data
transfer cable plugged into the LPT port of both computers.
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To connect through NetBIOS you need a network card in each
computer, a converted Ethernet cable, and the appropriate
networking software. In general, connecting through the network
gives two to five times the performance of an LPT connection.
For NetBIOS and LPT connections, one machine must act as the master and
the other the slave. All operator input will be on the master computer.
Using the NETBIOS interface
With Ethernet, or Token Ring, it is possible to clone between two
machines, using their network interface cards through the NetBIOS
protocol interface. By purchasing, or making, a custom connectivity
Ethernet crossover cable or using coaxial or a mini-HUB and cables, a PC
can connect to another PC. This is a two-node peer-to-peer network. To set
up NetBIOS requires five basic Novell networking software components:
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LSL
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MLID (the Network Interface Card ODI driver)
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IPXODI
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NetBIOS interface
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NET.CFG (configuration)