I wish to create a bootable cd with a backup Ghost Image version 9 on windows 2000

Doug,

There are two ways that I can think of to do this: one is to do it the Symantec
 way (See URL)

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/d87bb6ce0bde286d88256d6a00452701/fdd881a565c6e0008525689a005b8792?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam

The other would be my reccomended way, to do it manually:

1)  Create a bootable floppy with CD drivers (see www.bootdisk.com)
2) Edit autoexec.bat on the floppy to run GHOST.EXE (off the cdrom) with the command line switches to load you immage (that will also be on the cdrom)
3) Use NERO or some other burning software to create a bootable CD using the Floppy you created above and copy on ghost.exe and the immage from the network.

This should work a treat ..

Hope this answers your questuion.

Danny

No problem at all.

Go here:

www.bootdisk.com

Pick up the DOS 6.22 bootdisk with CD-ROM support.

Create the boot floppy.

Next, use Nero to make a bootable CD (or DVD) - if your image is more than 650MB and is not split into parts then you'll have to make a bootable DVD.
You want to tell Nero to use your floppy for the boot image it puts on the CD/DVD, so insert the newly created boot floppy before you run Nero.
Copy your image file from the networked drive to your local C:\ drive so that you will not experience any buffer underruns during the burn.
Now, drag and drop the image file and a copy of Ghost into your compilation.
Burn it.  Make sure to select the option to Close the Session and Close the Disk or it won't boot.

Now you should be able to boot with your CD\DVD and run Ghost from the CD\DVD using the drive letter that it was assigned during the boot process.  When Ghost launches, select to restore image and once again point it at your CD\DVD drive for the image file.

This is all you should need to do.

dhompas.. the KB article yo reference does not cover Ghost 9.0:

"Product(s): Norton Ghost 2003, Symantec Ghost 7.0, Symantec Ghost 7.5, Symantec Ghost 8.0, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.0

Ghost 9.0 is unigue in that the ghost.exe is so large the floppy boot disk set is two diskettes.   All the CD burning softwarre I have used does not aallow you to use two diskettes to creat a boot image.  I have not been put in a position yet where I absolutely had to figure this out, but I believe I know the solution.  The Ghost executable, which is on the second disk made by the Boot Disk Wizard, needs to be burned on the CD with the image, BUT not as Part of the BOOTIMG.BIN file.

Your going to have to create a Bootdisk like Netman describes, but run Ghost from the CD drive letter (D, E, F...) that is assigned once the CD Drive is recognized.   The only problem I am not sure of how to tackle yet, is Ghost.exe needs to be able to WRITE to a file; in case an error log needs to be generated.  I believe it fails to launch correctly if it cannot find a place to write to.  I have been away from desktop too long and miss these anoying problems.

Easier solution would be to use any version of Ghost before 9.  I believe anything GHost version 8 or latter supports XP's NTFS 5.  I will be listening and if I have time will look into this more.  MSGeek

Doug.. I will receive an e-mail on any posts to this question and will respond as timely as I am able.  I am responsible for a Server Core and a VOIP system and there are times I may not get back as quickly as this.

1) Slipstreaming is not a setp you need here.  Slipstreaming allows you to take an Operating Install CD, Like XP with no service packs on it and transform it to a XP CD with SP2.  That way when you install XP from the slipstreamed CD it is already SP2.  You are not installing an OS and then patching it.

2)  I would use your spanned Images (*.GHO and *.GHS files) on your CD or use a Ghost 9 network boot disk to "ghost" the single image (*.GHO) or spanned image to the new HD.  Ghost does have command line switches: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/1998082612540625

Let me know if you need any more information, Netman66 who alos responded isa great Expert on EE!  MSGeek

As I mentioned, if you tell ghost to put the image on a device like a cd or DVD burner, it will automatically make this disk bootable and also copy ghost to the CD. If  you boot with the CD inside, ghost will start and you can select what you want to retore. This method will also automatically split your images to fit  onto the other CD's.

If you only want to restore a file from an image, you will have to install ghost first, then use ghost explorer to find and restore individual files from your image.