Ghost multicast or backup over network

[Bglad]

I posted this in networking a couple days ago but haven't gotten any help. Posts are as follows:

Could someone please help me or simply point me to a source with information to help me. I need to learn how to boot computers on my network using a dos bootup disk enabling network support so I can image one machine to another using Ghost. Thought I should be able to figure this out but I've spent hours searching.

I'm using machines on Win98 SE with simple network setup using Linksys and D-Link cards.

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By the way, I have an old version of Ghost (version 5) so I don't have the boot disk creator that comes with the new version. I know this can be done butSymantec doesn't say how without the boot disk creator program.

Thanks

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OK I finally found this page on the Symantec site:
symantec instructions
but I'm still kinda confused. I'm to the point of adding the drivers for my specific nic and I can't figure out which drivers to add. The disk has drivers for every operating system but none for dos (it is dos drivers I'm looking for right?). Which files need to go on there? I can't get it to work. When I run Ghost, the netbios option is grayed out.

Thx

 

[christom]

I have to ghost hundreds of computers for a living and spent weeks wrestling through setting up boot disks. First tip-don't use the bootdisk wizard, it never works right, even on newer versions of ghost. Make a bootdisk in win98se explorer formatting with /system box checked yada yada yada. Make sure it works. Take a second floppy disk. Use the bootdisk wizard if you have it and try to make a standard packet ndis dos bootdisk for tcp-ip. it should enter into the autoexec.bat and config.sys something about loading netbind. Copy this netbind program and put it onto your bootdisk for win98se. Make sure that the autoexec and config.sys files have the same lines for this netbind program that the bootdisk wizard added. That is the only thing that the bootdisk wizard ever gets right. It does not get the packet driver ever set up right.

So, go to the nic manafacturers web site and look for either a ndis or a ndis2 packet driver for tcp-ip. These use the tcpip protocal and not netbios. Look for dos drivers at the nics web site, or packet drivers, or call/email them asking where the hell can I get some dos-based tcpip drivers. They should know if they're worth a damn. You have to get the packet drivers booting properly and finding the nic in your computer "NIC FOUND AT SLOT SUCH-AND-SUCH". You have to fool around with the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get it working properly. The floppy disk should load properly in this order:
1) tcp ip dos drivers for your nic
2) netbind tcpip protocol for dos
3) ghost

work on the nic before anyhting else, that si the hardest one to get working. I could email you my bootdisk, but it wouldn't work on your machine. I use version 6.01 and I work for a compaq reseller so my nic drivers are stricly for Intel nic chipsets for compaq deskpros and armadas. But you would be able to see how I set it up.

Good luck, you'll need it.

Christom

 

[networkman]

I work for a library system, we have hundreds of computers, and I do use the Boot Wizard for creating floppy boot disks for the PCs - mix of Win95 and Win2K; however, I'm also using Ghost 6.51, so that doesn't really help you much.

I did try setting up the boot disk on version 5 and finally just upgraded. Sure, a little more persistence, might've paid off, but the time saved was more important than the money spent.

Good luck.