Making a ghost boot disk.

[Duran]

Hello,

Before I start, I know there is a ton of sites out there that tell a person how to make a ghost disk that will allow you to map a drive to a network resource, but I dont seem to be able to get any of them to work, or I need something I do not have (like DOS). None of the options in Ghost Boot wizard seem to work either, I can boot to them, but cannot map a drive, it's all local drives.

All I want to do is boot into ghost on the PC I have syspreped and map to a drive so I can copy the image there, whats even more annoying is that 2 years I had this all working (in a previous job), but I have basically forgotten what to do.

Any help at all would be really appreciated.

Thank you,
D.

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[robmazco]

It wont allow you to Browse out to location?

 

[wolluf]

Which version of ghost? And is it enterprise or not? (without enterprise version I think its all peer to peer)

You mean you have a machine with sysprepped image stored on it connected to network and another machine you want to deploy the image to, also on the network? I have done this a few time with ghost 8 I think (abandoned it years ago as couldn't guarantee reliability over the network. As I generally work in small scale networks, just put image on an external drive and take it to each machine that needs imaged). Needed to create a network ghost bootable floppy for both machines (as needst o have the correct network drivers of course) - think you can use static IP or DHCP - but can't remember. But I've just remembered - Ghost does have help for this. Can't remember which you boot first - image host or target, but once one's up and running you can access it from the other.

 

[gbaughma]

We use BartPE. I boot Bart, then load ghost, which was incorporated right onto the Bart disk.

Works well.



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[Duran]

Hello,

Thanks for your replies. It is indeed Ghost Enterprise, its not that it does not allow me to browse to location, I do not even get the option.

Greg, hello, Do you have a URL for BartPE? I have seen the bart site, but remember seeing that.

Regards,
D

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Electric Barbarella !

 

[allteltec]

I 2nd. Bert Pe, I use Bert Pe with the Ghost Plugin, I save to USB or Fire wire drives. I up graded my Ghost to V11 it is not limit to 2G image size if saveing to NTFS dirve. The only problem I have had is if a dull boot image one OS C: the other D: when booting from Bert Pe with the USB HD will become D: this will cause problems with the booting of the 2nd. OS. after doing a image restore. The only anser I came up with was to save a image of the 2nd OS to the first partition before doing the Ghost image, then after doing a disk restore I do a partition restore from the first partition to the 2nd.