Creating Multiple Boot Menus In Symantec Ghost On A Flash Drive

It can also be put on a floppy

I hope this helps !

Thats not exactly what I need. I already have the dos drivers for the systems I use (about 3-4)... id just like to be able to have a menu where i can pick what loads...

Right now each floppy I uses points to a different filename/nic driver as i boot it up, then it runs ghost. Id like some kinda menu system where I can say:

1. Surveillance PC (Gigabyte motherboard)
2. Dell machine (Intel pro driver)
3. Other pc (some other driver)

and i can highlight/press option 2 and it'll load the dells nic drivers and then start ghost for me... rather then having to put in that floppy (floppys take longer to boot, and i hate sorting through them)

I have exactly what you are looking for except that I don't know how to make it. I know it has to do with customizing the config.sys

somebody created that boot flash drive before I started working at my current company. Now nobody knows how it was made. But the menu lists the different computer/nic configurations just like you mentioned in a nice little menu right when you boot.

If you could provide me with your config/sys and autoexec.bat files that'll definitly help me. I can figure out how to make the flash disk bootable, thats not that tricky... its the menu system where i want to pick different NIC drivers im clueless on. I grew up in the DOS age, but havnt done menu systems in over 20 years.

You can also do the same thing with the the universal TCPIP net boot, but the advantage is that you never have to search for NIC drivers again, since it recognizes the NIC automatically.

Just add a menu that will call something in the autoexec, or simply navigate to the restore Dir and do the restore manually.

I hope this helps !

to SysExpert
On my USB key this Universal TCPIP net boot is listed as one of the options (option 3). Indeed, it works but works significantly slower (reimaging takes 3 times longer - instead of 10 minutes, it takes 30 minutes) than two other floppy images with the NIC specific drivers.

Besides, with the described method you could add other bootable images (WinPE, Linux).

Thanks for the help guys... the syslinux gave me problems but I was able to use what you said to do things from a config.sys menu... so heres what I did:

AUTOEXEC.BAT
 
@echo off
MOUSE.COM
\net\netbind.com
\ghost\ghost.exe
 
 
CONFIG.SYS
 
[MENU]
MENUITEM DVR_GIGABYTE, DVR (Gigabyte Motherboard)
MENUITEM DVR_OLD, DVR (Old DVR)
MENUITEM POS_COBRA, Point of Sale (Cobra 478)
MENUITEM POS_CS200, Point of Sale (CS200)
MENUITEM DELL_320, Dell OptiPlex 320
MENUITEM DELL_3100, Dell Dimension 3100
MENUITEM DELL_200, Dell Vostro 200
 
[DVR_GIGABYTE]
DEVICE=\net\gigabyte\protman.dos /I:\net\gigabyte
DEVICE=\net\gigabyte\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\gigabyte\rtend.dos
 
[DVR_OLD]
DEVICE=\net\olddvr\protman.dos /I:\net\olddvr
DEVICE=\net\olddvr\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\olddvr\rtsnd.dos
 
[POS_COBRA]
DEVICE=\net\cobra\protman.dos /I:\net\cobra
DEVICE=\net\cobra\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\cobra\e100b.dos
DEVICE=\net\cobra\RTEND.DOS
 
[POS_CS200]
DEVICE=\net\cs200\protman.dos /I:\net\cs200
DEVICE=\net\cs200\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\cs200\rtsnd.dos
 
[DELL_320]
DEVICE=\net\dell320\protman.dos /I:\net\dell320
DEVICE=\net\dell320\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\dell320\b44.dos
 
[DELL_3100]
DEVICE=\net\dell3100\protman.dos /I:\net\dell3100
DEVICE=\net\dell3100\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\dell3100\RTEND.DOS
 
[DELL_200]
DEVICE=\net\vostro\protman.dos /I:\net\vostro
DEVICE=\net\vostro\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\vostro\E1000.DOS
 
 
Then on my drive itself I have my main NET folder which has one file, NETBIND.COM
 
Then inside that folder are my various folders with the NIC drivers.
 
It works like a charm. Boots up fast.
 
Only thing that is strange is, after i pick which system im ghosting, the Windows 98 start screen appears and the bar moves... then after a few seconds, ghost opens... VERY strange. Anybody know what that is, lol.

                                              

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The solution led me in the right direction, however the file links did not work. Although the solution did include a link to the current how-to document, i was unsuccessfull in getting this solution to work, although it did lead me in the right direction for a better solution.