Dell Latitude: Ghosting from a network drive.

[SHSUDreaux]

I'm setting up a network ghost disk that connects to a network share and runs ghost from that share which is also where we store our images. I'm using a Xircom cardbus ethernet 10/100 model # RBE-100 to connect to the network share. So far I've had no problems connecting to my network share and running other software off of the network share but when I run Symantec's Ghost 7.5 to pull an image from the network share to the local drive on a Dell Latitude C600 the software immediatly locks the computer up after displaying the graphical intro page, it even locks it up when I just pass the -help switch to ghost. I've tried running ghost with the -slowfile switch and a host of other switches (still open to suggestions) but have had no luck so far. I've seen and solved similar problems with Dell desktop machines by plugging in a spare network card into a pci slot that doesn't have an IRQ conflict but the laptop pcmcia cardbus interface doesn't allow me to apply such a simple solution. Who knows perhaps I'm overlooking something simple. Any suggestions on how to resolve this lockup? Any similar conflicts? Thanks for any help in advance.
-Dreaux

 

[ReddLefty]

I've seen Ghost lockup when trying to load and it was memory related. Running out of DPMI or upper memory.. stuff like that.

Try loading all your devices in upper memory (as much as possible).

Check your CONFIG.SYS and see if it has HIMEM.SYS loading. If it does, then try adding LH in front of certain commands.

Like LH EMM386.EXE (if you use it) and LH NET START stuff like that... no guarantees.. I had to play around with the exlusions in the EMM386 to finally get it to work.



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