Anyone use Bart's Network Boot Disk + Ghost 8?

[glc650]

Hello,

When booting from Bart's Network Boot Disk (msnet/modboot), Ghost 8.0.0.984 will not save images to a network share (error 10032, disk volume full). However, I can restore images from a network share. I can map drives to shares and copy files to/from those shares without issue.

The boot disks created by the Boot Wizard that comes with Ghost don't have this problem, however, I need the flexibility of Bart's boot disk.

Thanks in advance...

-g.

 

[tyanni]

Are you sure the credentials you are using are correct? When exactly does Ghost choke on saving the files - immediately, or after a certain period? Does it work if you specify the -split option and limit the image size to under 2GB? I apologize if you've tried all of this - I use BartPE with Ghost 8 and have no problems.

Tim

 

[glc650]

Yes, the credentials are correct, otherwise I wouldn't be able to map a drive letter to the network share I wish to save the image to. Ghost chokes immediately - as soon as the image creation process starts (or would normally start). The finished image size is well under 2GB (~1.2), besides the destination share is NTFS. Also, there is plenty of space (5+ GB).

I have now also tried the boot disk at netbootdisk.com and same results - Ghost error 10032 - disk volume full.

So far my only options are:

1. Any network boot disk + Ghost Cast Server on remote machine where image is to be saved;

2. Boot disk created by the Boot Wizard that comes with Ghost

Problem with #1 - want to move to a non-Windows (and non-Ghost supported) OS in future and besides, Ghost Cast Server is just another step/added time.

Problem with #2 - not flexible enough...need something like Bart's Network Boot Disk.

Thanks,

-g.

 

[gaidin123]

I use ghost8 corporate with bart's pebuilder on a regular basis with no issues whatsoever. It's been far more reliable than scrounging up ndis drivers for ghost boot floppies.

Er, actually I think you're using a different boot disk thing. Try out pebuilder with the ghost8 plugin which uses ghost32. It's much slower to boot since you'll be booting a minimal WinXP environment but for us we've found ghosting odd hardware (ie servers) to be much more reliable this way. You also get a *lot* of network drivers on a single disk.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
http://www.ubcd4win.com/downloads.htm

The 2nd link takes you to a driver package download which has most remotely common SCSI and network adapter drivers not included in Windows by default.

I'm not sure if this will work for your environment but I couldn't live without these packages.

Gaidin

 

[tyanni]

I agree - BartPE is absolutely wonderful...

 

[glc650]

I've tried BartPE before and while I can see why a system admin would love it, it's overkill for my simple needs (boot with network suppot, map a drive to a share, and use Ghost...that's all I need) and the long boot/setup time just kills me (seems like it takes longer to boot, start network support, map drives to shares, & run ghost than the actual restore/image creation time).

There must be a way to get Ghost 8 working with Bart's Networking Boot Disk...