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Creating a bootable CD to restore a network image

Sure this question has been asked a thousand times, but I've yet to find a concrete solution.

I have a laptop that I need to restore an image to. There is no FDD. I just want to get into the Ghostcast area just as I would have a floppy drive.

Is there a way to easily create a CD that would load ghost.exe and allow me to use Ghostcast?

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Pete Long

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jvuz

Look here:

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

search66

ASKER

I've researched both paths, and neither have worked.... While I was able to use jvuz's suggestion; Ghost will not run properly (with network connectivity)... It fails to load protman.

Pete Long

Ive used the top one hundreds of times what went wrong? did you read the readme file on the disk?

search66

ASKER

I read the readme, and all it shows is the changelog... I've yet to find directions for use...

Pete Long

where did it go wrong the only time Ive ever had a problem with it I EMailed the guy who wrote it and he had it going in about 10 minutes (hes a nice guy:)

search66

ASKER

Heh... I'm saying I can't even find the syntax for use...

The "BD355.EXE" extracts these files:

- BD355.DRJ
- FLOPMAKE.EXE
- MAKEDISK.BAT
- README.TXT

The readme has nothing but changelog info...

search66

ASKER

Ok, well I got so far as this:

The CD boots fine, but I get this message after the NIC find tool runs:

One network adapter found. Bus 2 Device 0

14E4165D Ethernet
Broadcom/Dell Unknown Device

Directory already exists
No network adapter found, or network adapter not supported
NICNUM: 14E4165D

Pete Long

you just need to add the driver for that network card

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