Help with Ghost Boot Disks 1

[TobyA]

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right forum for my problem, but I couldn't find any others that seemed relevant.

I'm trying to create a Ghost boot disk for a Dell GX260. I have downloaded the relevant dos driver for the NIC, but there were loads of files in the zip I downloaded and I wasn't sure which one to use.

When I tried it with what I thought were the right files I got an error on boot saying the drivers haven't loaded properly. Please help! I ordered these PCs for our office ages ago and it's starting to look like they're just going to sit there gathering dust!

Thanks,

Toby

 

[Bigwes]

You need to see what type of nic card it is. Usually w2k picks it up pnp...and it is easily detected. Go into device manager and see what card it is. Then go to the manufactor web site and download the latest drivers for it. I want to say with ghost it will be the dos files ex. el90x.dos or e100b.dos Try also using the Ghost Boot Disk Wizard

 

[prinand]

I have just created a network bootdisk for myself:

what you need is the e1000.dos file

unfortunately I don't know the name of the dell download but it extracts itself into a C:\dell\drivers\R46476

If you want I can also send you a winimage file with the network boot disk....


the type of network card in the gx260 is :
Title : Network:8255X 10/100/1000 Integrated Network
Version : A01
OEM Name : Intel
OEM Ver : 6.1.15.2
Computers : Dimension 4500C, 2300C
OptiPlex GX260

Oses : MS-DOS 6.2x,Windows 2000 Professional,Windows 98 Second Edition,Windows NT 4.0 SP5Windows XP Home EditionWindows XP Professional
Languages : English
Created : Tue Jul 23 13:39:47 CDT 2002

 

[crashtestmac]

go to

http://nu2.nu/bootdisk

excellent site with all the dos packet drivers you could ever want.

Also has a great tutorial for creating boot disks. Mac
MCP, MCSE (NT4), MCSE (W2K), CTT, MCT

Glad to be of service.

 

[TobyA]

Thanks for your help guys. I'll try your suggestions today and let you know what happens.

Cheers,

Toby

 

[TobyA]

Excellent......I have a working boot disk!

I used the Norton Ghost Boot Disk Wizard with the e1000.dos driver. It didn't bind at first, but then I realised the network cable wan't plugged in

Cheers,

Toby

 

[TobyA]

Hello again!

I'm trying to create another boot disk, this time for a Compaq Deskpro EN.

The NIC is an Intel Pro100.

I have downloaded the e100b.dos driver for the card and used Norton Ghost Boot Wizard to create the disk. The PC seems to boot OK using the disk but then it gets halfway into Ghost and just hangs with the floppy disk light remaing on. :-(

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is there something wrong with the network driver maybe? (I used an NDIS2 Type driver).

Thanks in advance for your help

Toby