[JohnWill]

How to Create a Ghost 8.0 Network Boot CD is the link that Lazerath was trying to post.

[Lazerath]

Guys, What happened was when I inserted the Url ( cust and paste ) and I attempted to post the message it was stopped with an error message stating that it wasnt allowed. I will attempt it again so I can get the error message to post so you can see.....

[Lazerath]

http://help.ischool.washington.edu/f...=29&artlang=en

[JohnWill]

See that, you just have to be patient.

[hadfiiw]

This site info is great! It has really helped in my quest to get a bootable ghost CD

Has anybody tried this with the "Drive Mapping Boot Disk" option? I run into the issue when it tried to load net\tcptsr.exe - it says cannot write to drive A (retry, abort, fail).

It has something to do with TCP/IP loading. I'm *guessing* this file is only for the drive mapping feature (or else everybody else may have run into it).

Thanks!
Ian

[Rahsta]

Hey guys,
I found this forum EXTREMELY helpful .. but when i go to burn that stuff to my cd it always gets stuck on a different percentages each time... please help.

[gpd501]

Good morning from a new member. We have 300 mobile units to ghost. For some reason, our company is still using ghost 7.5 and I have no control over that. Our normal operation:
We have boot diskette and then do a ghostcast to a server on our network for the image to install. Works great but we have to pull the car into an environment where a network connection is located.
What we want to do:
Have the boot diskette with some type of USB support on bootup along with an external USB Hard drive which has the image on it. Much easier to carry and we can go to the car rather than the car coming to us which isn't always practical. However, we tried using ghost 7.5 to make a boot disk with usb support but it only puts a usb folder on the diskette along with the boot data. It still doesn't allow the unit in the vehicle to see the attached USB Hard drive - only the diskette drive from which it booted.

THe units are running either Windows 2000 or XP Professional. any ideas or suggestions or can this even be done so that the boot diskette also loads a usb driver so the unit sees the usb hard drive and we can run the image off of the hard drive. Thanks for all your hlep.

[Ry Takahashi]

ok here's a stumper for you guys... here's what I want to do and i'm trying to figure out the best way to do it...

I have 30 machines to image and I am using the following setup...

- Ghost 8.x Corp Edition to Ghostcast...

- I found a way to access network services without going thru all the steps of combining floppy's to CD and making it bootable and so on and so forth. Using the Norton Ghost Ver. 10 bootable cd gives the option of accessing legacy images AND will load network service for almost any NIC. That outs altering Autoexec fiels on floppy's and config system files...

Anyway back to live action... here's the setup...

Backbone - OC48 ( Static )

1x laptop connecting via WiFi to the backbone and ICS to a 10mb concentrator.
Laptop IP from backbone - 168.223.217.177
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway - 168.223.217.1

Laptop WiFi ICS IP - 192.168.0.1
SM - 255.255.255.0

The Concentrator yields the following IP to one of the laptops that needs to be imaged

IP - 192.168.0.80
SM - 255.255.255.0
DG - 192.168.0.1

When i set the Ghostcast server it preps itself to send restore the ghost image i have located on a shared drive. ( \\fc\D )

When i chose ghostcast>multicast from the PC Dos laptop that is going to be imaged and type in the session name it gives the error - cannot locate disk...

Any ideas guys?

[ajmissred]

I've read through the thread and the answer I'm looking for hasn't been covered in your conversation.
I already have a ghost disc but it has been a very long time since I have used it, and now when I insert the floppy, I can't remember how to get from A drive to C or D.
The commands I thought I remembered to be true aren't working.
Could someone help me with that ?
I also can't even remember if I need to change directory or not when I'm switching drives.
I know this is very simple, but I just can't remember, please help!

[JohnWill]

To all of the people tagging new requests to this thread, please start your own thread with a complete description of YOUR problem and I'm sure we'll be able to help you sort them out. Having four of five people trying to share one thread is way too confusing for me to even consider trying to post some solutions.

[iane87]

OK I got the boot info off the floppy. Made a bootable cd. It boots and loads all the net drivers jus fine. But it does not find ghost.exe. If I crtl-C it and do a dir command in the ghost folder it says there are 2 files but doesnt list any (by the way all the other files show up in the root dir) and it wont run ghost.exe if i type it in. However when I go into windows I can see ghost.exe so i know it is there. Anyone know how I can fix this?