Norton Boot Disk issues ANY TAKERS!!!!1

[faf1967]

Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!!!!

I have a huge problem. I need to create a bootable CDROM so I can use ghost multicast. The problem arrives from the fact the ghost multicast boot is over 1.44 MB. Normally I would take a floppy disk and make a bootable CDROM. I am at a stand still since ghost requires you to make two floppy disk and Roxio will only use one floppy to make a bootimg.bin file. I was successful using virtual floppy to create a virtual floppy drive (2.88 MB). I was able to make ghost write to the virtual floppy drive but Ghost still prompted me to use two disks even though I had enough space in my virtual floppy drive. I was able to point Roxio to the virtual floppy drive and make the bootimg.bin file successfully. When I tried to boot the computer using the CDROM boot disk it gave me an error.



What I need to be able to do is take the 2 floppy disk created by Ghost and put them into a virtual floppy drive so it will look like one floppy disk. I need to be able to merge the two disks into the virtual floppy drive without altering the disk’s ability to boot.

Another option:

Is there a way to add files to a *.bin file. When you create a bootable CDROM using Roxio a bootimg.bin and bootcat.bin file are written to the disk, is there a way to edit/add files to a *.bin file and then use this file to create a bootable CDROM?


I have to re-image 1800 computers and would like to be able to use a ghost bootable CDROM to speed up the process. Once again thank you for any suggestions and help you have for my horrible task I am facing.



***************** DISK INFO ***********************


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***** DISK -1 *****

04/24/2005 09:49 PM <DIR> .
04/24/2005 09:49 PM <DIR> ..
03/18/2005 07:06 PM 724 AUTOEXEC.BAT
09/11/2003 08:17 PM 53,802 COMMAND.COM
03/21/2005 01:15 PM 278 CONFIG.SYS
04/24/2005 09:49 PM 0 dir.txt
09/11/2003 08:17 PM 44,672 IBMBIO.COM
09/11/2003 08:17 PM 42,566 IBMDOS.COM
01/16/2003 01:12 PM 37,681 MOUSE.COM
03/21/2005 01:15 PM 24 MOUSE.INI
04/20/2005 10:32 AM <DIR> NET

***** NET Director on DISK 1 *****
04/20/2005 10:32 AM <DIR> .
04/20/2005 10:32 AM <DIR> ..
05/29/2004 01:41 PM 44,288 B57.dos
08/26/2004 06:38 PM 5,781 DIS_PKT.DOS
01/16/2003 01:12 PM 8,513 NETBIND.COM
01/16/2003 01:12 PM 21,696 PROTMAN.DOS
01/16/2003 01:12 PM 13,770 PROTMAN.EXE
03/21/2005 01:17 PM 136 PROTOCOL.INI


***** PROTOCOL.INI *****

[protman]
drivername=PROTMAN$

[pktdrv]
drivername=PKTDRV$
bindings=nic
intvec=0x60
chainvec=0x66

[nic]
drivername = "B57$"


***** config.sys file *****

[menu]
menuitem=FROMFLPY, This computer was started from a Ghost boot disk
menuitem=FROMCD, This computer was started from a Ghost bootable CD

[FROMFLPY]

[FROMCD]

[COMMON]
DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\B57.dos
LASTDRIVE = Z

***** AUTOEXEC.BAT on Disk 1 *****

@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+06:00
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
if %config% == FROMFLPY goto FLPYBOOT
if %config% == FROMCD goto CDBOOT

goto FAILED

:FLPYBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
pause
if exist a:\ghost\ghost.exe goto GHOSTFND
goto FLPYBOOT

:CDBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
echo To run Ghost.exe from a hard disk or CD, press Ctrl-C at the following prompt
echo then change to the appropriate drive letter and type 'Ghost'
pause
if not exist b:\ghost\ghost.exe goto CDBOOT
b:
goto GHOSTFND

:GHOSTFND
cd \ghost
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE
goto END

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END


***** DISK 2 *****

04/24/2005 10:00 PM <DIR> .
04/24/2005 10:00 PM <DIR> ..
03/18/2005 07:06 PM 724 AUTOEXEC.BAT
04/24/2005 10:00 PM 0 dir.txt
04/20/2005 10:32 AM <DIR> GHOST
2 File(s) 724 bytes

***** GHOST DIR *****

04/20/2005 10:32 AM <DIR> .
04/20/2005 10:32 AM <DIR> ..
03/18/2005 06:56 PM 1,397,900 GHOST.EXE
04/13/2005 08:14 PM 18,083 GHOSTERR.TXT
2 File(s) 1,415,983 bytes

***** Let me know if you want a copy of ghosterr.txt on DISK 2. *****



***** AUTOEXEC.BAT on DISK 2 *****

@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+06:00
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
if %config% == FROMFLPY goto FLPYBOOT
if %config% == FROMCD goto CDBOOT

goto FAILED

:FLPYBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
pause
if exist a:\ghost\ghost.exe goto GHOSTFND
goto FLPYBOOT

:CDBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
echo To run Ghost.exe from a hard disk or CD, press Ctrl-C at the following prompt
echo then change to the appropriate drive letter and type 'Ghost'
pause
if not exist b:\ghost\ghost.exe goto CDBOOT
b:
goto GHOSTFND

:GHOSTFND
cd \ghost
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE
goto END

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END

 

[iamnotageek]

Try looking here...

http://www.911cd.net/forums/

If the answer isn't already there, someone should be able to answer.

 

[Rick998]

faf1967,

You only need one floppy disk to create the bootable CD. The floppy disk is just used to load network drivers (and enable CD-ROM support if the base unit doesn't support booting from CD).

Copy the Ghost executable to the root of the CD and amend AUTOEXEC.BAT so it doesn't try to run the Ghost exe using a file path, then use this floppy to create a bootable CD. In AUTOEXEC.BAT you don't need the :FLPYBOOT or :CDBOOT or :GHOSTFND sections.

PS - It looks like you're using the Broadcom DOS driver. There's a known issue with some versions of Broadcom's DOS drivers and some versions of Ghost if the base unit has SATA controller support (even if the HD is attached via EIDE) and Intel 865 or 875 chipsets.

(See

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...st&dtype=corp&svy=&prev=&miniver=symghost_75)

Hope this helps...

Rick