Win PE for Network drivers to run Ghost32

[BlackWS6LS1]

Folks,

Just got this thing I and I have no idea were to start. More or less I want to enable a network card and run Ghost32. I know I need to change startnet.cmd, but I don't have a clue where to start.

Thanks

Guy

[gadget]

Difficult to know where to start. What do you want to do - CD boot or use ris....

There are plenty of walkthroughs on this site for added network cards if required. CD's are dead easy, network boot via ris is a bit more involved.

Treat PE as a rather large boot disk and the startnet.cmd is the autoexec.bat. Jou will need to copy across the ghost files prior to making the cd, this is described in the tutorials well.

To run ghost just add ghost32 to the end of startnet.cmd. Using a more complex batch file, visual basic n stuff like that, you can write whole applications to do a whole range of wierd n wonderful things.

What I would suggest 1st though is to complie (makeimg.bat) to an ISO then run vmware, mounting the cd as the iso image. Much faster and easier to debug.

Best thing is to play with it and post more specific answers.

PE is a great way to pretend to develop stuff for 6 -12 months at work as nobody else understands it..

[BlackWS6LS1]

Yeah I just want to boot off a CD run ghost32 and pull image file off of a server. Broadcom 57XX and Intel 1000. These images are for Dell 260 270 280 and 620's which run those two NICs. I guess I do not know what to put to init the NIC's to start.

Thanks for the help.

Tom

[mats]

first question: Have you read the docs in the docs directory of yoyr pe disc/download?

Second question. Have you used rvinst to add the drivers for your nics?

Third question: wich version of ghost are you using. 9.x and above is trickier than the 8.X series

[sh0cker]

Hello

This is the solution I use at work for cloning and mastering our pc...

but I'm using a custom Bartpe made from windows 2003 server and I've added BTS Lan drivers...

All you have to do is to download bartpe and get xp SP2 or 2k3 server

copy ghost32 files in bartpe install

enable the ghost plugin

enable penetcfg plugin for the network and modify the penetcfg.ini

this way if you have dhcp on your network

[NetID]

ComputerName = Sh0cker

Workgroup=domain

Primary DNS Suffix : yourdns.local

[NetDrive1]

; Drive = * (to use the first available drive letter)

Drive = z:

NetworkPath = \\yourserver\ghost

UserName = domain\name

; Password = (leave it empty to be prompted for a password)

Password = typeyourpass

[PostNetAutoRun]

0 = %SystemDrive%\programs\ghost8\ghost32.exe

Then you build your iso and burn it

or you can put your it on a usb key if you want

et voilà !!

Every kind of pc we have, are working with it

( we have more than 2000 pc right now from different brands (nec dell siemens ....)

It is a very fast and reliable solution for ghost32 8.0

and also for rescuing data

If you have any question

I'm here