Problem with a Ghost switch

[GhostlyPea]

OK I have created a boot disk (DVD) that automatically loads up Symantec Ghost. I have had a search around but I can't find the correct switch to use to make ghost automatically select the image and start the process.

path=a:\;x:\
mouse.com
mscdex.exe /d:NIGHTOWL /l:x /m:16 /v
ghost.exe -CLONE,mode=pload,src=%CDROM%:\IMAGE.GHO:1,dst=1:1 -SURE

Thats the code inside my AUTOEXEC.bat file. Assume the file is called IMAGE and the file is on the disk placed "as-is" not in a folder. The image is around 2.7GB in size and I am using version 9.0 of Ghost. Any help with this is appreciated

- Pea0n

 

[GhostlyPea]

To be honest I havn't reallt got much experience with this and the switch line I adapted from the Symantec website. How do i go about assigning a particular drive letter to the CD rom?

- Pea0n

 

[GhostlyPea]

Thanks for the help, i'll give it a go

- Pea0n

 

[GhostlyPea]

OK I have tried that and it came up with the following error:

A:\>ghost.exe -CLONE,mode=pload,x:\IMAGE.GHO:1,dst=1:1 -SURE
Unknown keyword: X:\IMAGE.GHO:1
A:\>

Any ideas?

- Pea0n

 

[GhostlyPea]

OK well slight update on this. The image was created with version 11 of ghost, originally we were using version 6 and this caused some of the problems we had. Now I have managed to use version 11 of ghost in the loader so that if I have the image on the disk, but not automated it is all fine. I tried it again with the original switch I showed and it didn't have the original error, but successfully loaded into ghost and, it seems, tried to load the image but had "error- cant write error to A:\ghosterr.txt" or something similar to that effect and crashed.

I have just tried using the switch you wrote for me and the same thing happened
"output error file to the following location: A:\ghosterr.txt"." clicking OK brings up another error "insert diskette (434). pressing cancel brings up the error "unknown keyword: X:\IMAGE.GHO:1. pressing ok drops me into DOS with the message

ABORT: 580, Unknown keyword: X:\IMAGE.GHO:1

A:\>

Any help is appreciated

- Pea0n

Edit - If it is any help, I have used a boot disk (Win 98) with ghost included in the IMA to automatically boot into ghost. This is on a DVD and so is not writable, if you need to see any file structure or contents of a file just shout ^

 

[GhostlyPea]

Update - I have tried it with the switches -SURE and -FX by themselves and there are no errors that way (this is the method for manually selecting the image still), so these shouldn't be causing an error

- Pea0n