[hardwarehead]

hey all, i'm a noob to this forumray: --merry xmas!:wave:

i hope this is the right place for this.

anyway, i am trying to get, learn, or build a ghost bootup cd or USB flash drive to image a Dell D510 latitude laptop. I have an image on the clients server i need to access. i am trying to learn to build a bootup but i don't know if the user can wait that long as my trouble ticket is a week old.

i use a DOS fueled USB flashdrive for mostly Dell ,IBM, and Dell desktop imaging. This is my first Laptop actually. I have all the particulars like it's a Broadcom 440x 10/100 NIC and a driver ver 4.25.0.0 already loaded in the Laptop.

problem is, i have to put the config info on my flash drive so i can use it like the other machines i image.

OR---------

build a cd ghost boot disk with the config file mainly for the Dell Laptop. SORRY, but there is no floppy drive to it.

anyway, if you guys have suggestions on how to "build" this booter, i'm open. i have a lot of info but no organized way of putting it together. thx again..hwh

 

[johnwill]

Google lists hundreds of hits if you do a search: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=build+ghost+boot+cd

 

[hardwarehead]

Google lists hundreds of hits if you do a search: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=build+ghost+boot+cd

well yea, i know google does. google is my middle name.:wink: i just don't know where to begin BUILDING it! i can't find a step by step to save my life. everywhere i go they want to make you build a floppy. i need to build a cd actually. :normal:

i was looking for a guru around these stomping grounds....:grin:

 

[johnwill]

Look at the multitude of hits on that search, several have detailed procedures for doing just what you ask. I'm sure not going to copy from those pages and type it in here.

 

[cjessee]

i use a DOS fueled USB flashdrive

What is DOS fuel?

 

[johnwill]

It's the stuff they use at the drag strip, perhaps he should be talking to NHRA. :grin:

 

[cjessee]

That is one fast USB flash drive.... zoooooooooomm.....

 

[hardwarehead]

That is one fast USB flash drive.... zoooooooooomm.....

you guys are funny, now git off the stage jethro .....:laugh:

I'm just trying for a starting point. i've found bootdisks but i need to add the cab? and change the ini files in the SE and PE? i see some builders that say i need a NT4 server CD? i need more terrafirma before i step out on the asteroid......(dang, more big words :sigh: )

have you guys built a boot disk before?:4-dontkno

 

[johnwill]

I had a CD that booted GHOST 2003 some time back. I just created a boot floppy with everything but the GHOST program itself on it, making sure it had CD drivers. You create a bootable CD using any popular burning application, I used Nero, and then put the GHOST EXE on the ISO9660 CD filesystem of the CD, along with any other utilities you might want. Boot the disk and you can run GHOST. If you love automation, you can fire up the GHOST application from the AUTOEXEC.BAT of the MS-DOS boot image.

 

[hardwarehead]

I had a CD that booted GHOST 2003 some time back. I just created a boot floppy with everything but the GHOST program itself on it, making sure it had CD drivers. You create a bootable CD using any popular burning application, I used Nero, and then put the GHOST EXE on the ISO9660 CD filesystem of the CD, along with any other utilities you might want. Boot the disk and you can run GHOST. If you love automation, you can fire up the GHOST application from the AUTOEXEC.BAT of the MS-DOS boot image.

thanks JW,

i have been wrestling with this more than i should--still am. if you don't mind,i want to break down what you said so i can soak up the process better......

1-you created the regular boot floppy, with cd rom drivers--ok

2-then you create a bootable cd. hold on there-----, where does the ghost part go? does it go on the cd as you make it bootable? does the floppy files go in here also---at this point?

that's where i'm stuck with my approach to the cd. what goes where when?:sigh:
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On my flash drive approach--------I formatted the flash drive and booted a floppy drive with it, i made in windows but that combo didn't work---yet. i think i need to add a driver configuration there somewhere so the Dell's NIC see's the driver.

anyway, i have all the weapons but can't hit the target.....:normal:

 

[johnwill]

Nero uses the boot floppy to create a simulated floppy boot from the CD. However, you can still record (during the same session) files onto the ISO-9660 file system of the CD as normal data, that's where I put the GHOST program. The reason for that is that all the stuff doesn't fit on a single floppy. Nero's help has a pretty section on making a CD bootable with a floppy MS-DOS image.