Network Boot Disks

BoomAM · 27 Apr 2007 at 12:59

Hi.
Ive been trying in vain to create a MSDOS Network Boot disk.
I have the name of the ethernet card in question (Broadcom 440x), but for the life of me i cant get it to work.
Ive tryed the Symantec boot disk creator, adding the driver in that, ive tryed the Bart Network boot disk thing, but again, nothing is working.
Ive tryed creating CDs, Floppy Disks, USB Keys, nothing seems to work.

Can anyone help me here as this is starting to annoy me now.

Thanks in advance all.

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Nexy · 27 Apr 2007 at 13:01

What are you trying to use it for, and will it run in a command prompt under win32 (so long as you're not booting from the HDD)? If so, give BartPE a shot, I use it for imaging hard drives and spyware.

BoomAM · 27 Apr 2007 at 13:07

As said, ive tryed BartPE.

Im trying to create a boot disk so i can ghost this laptop to our network, then, on a same spec laptop, ghost back onto that.
But it doesnt want to work, i keep manually adding the drivers in all the many ways to make these disks, but each time, i get a different error.

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BoomAM · 27 Apr 2007 at 14:59

Anyone?

Its annoying, because it should be as simple as getting the DOS drivers for the card, which ive done, going to the Ghost Boot Disk Wizard, create a new template, again, done, create the disk and away i go.
But it keeps giving me 'The Driver Failed To Load' error when i use the boot disk.

BoomAM · 27 Apr 2007 at 17:47

Doh! With a capital D.
I decided to stay longer at work so i could sort the problem, then 5mins before i was about to leave, i saw some 440x drivers, already available in Ghost, ready to use. How the heck did i miss those!

What a wasted afternoon.

mike1210 · 27 Apr 2007 at 19:29

Boom check this link

http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/DriverPack.php?pag=l

extract the drivers from that download and copy them into the Bart PE Net drivers directory, the build will fail, you will need to delete a few of them, after that, you have Bart PE and 99% of network drivers to boot on the CD

then copy the files into the ghost folder in bart plugins to get ghost working

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/pluginhelp/ghost.htm

K.C. Leblanc · 27 Apr 2007 at 19:53

BoomAM said:
Doh! With a capital D.
I decided to stay longer at work so i could sort the problem, then 5mins before i was about to leave, i saw some 440x drivers, already available in Ghost, ready to use. How the heck did i miss those!
What a wasted afternoon.

Yeah, but you'll have a head start next time you have to ghost something with a strange network card.

Last time I had to cook up a ghost disk because where wasn't one on the list I did the following (I think, it was a while ago and don't have the disks anymore). I copied the driver file into the /net directory. Edited the config.sys file so the device= pointed to the new driver instead of the old one. I then edited the protocol.ini and changed all references to the old driver so they were the same as the new one.

I now use BartPE.