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Has anyone created a good boot disc for the Dell Optiplex 755 for use with Ghost Solution Suite 2.0?

I am just trying to create a boot disc to use in powercasting / ghostcasting and I've downloaded the drivers for my Dell Optiplex 755 from Dell's website, but the boot disc does not initialize the network adapter.

I've tried NDIS2 and Packet Driver, but no luck... the image is ready to go, it will take forever to get this lab done at school unless I get the powercasting up and running.

Just wondered if anyone else has got this working or if you have an .iso file you could send?

Thanks a lot!

Matt

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diablo-26

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Hmm.. my sonic wall is blocking that file.
This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: Delf.NGT_5 (Trojan)
Maybe I'll try to grab it from home...

Thanks I will try this.

cfischer225

thanks fo rthe iso. i downloaded and burned it but its not running correctly

this is what i get;
device driver not found : 'cd1'.
no valid cdrom device drivers selected

it looks like the nic drivers are binding which i couldnt get to do before

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diablo-26

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So it binds to the network adapter? It's good to know about the BIOS setting, but my initial problem was the NIC not responding.

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robsantos

netbootdisk is great as well! used it for a couple of years, but have recently been playing with WinPE2.0 - I like (and use) the bootable USB option...
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/7a47a896-ca59-4586-b688-3a3c098d34241033.mspx?mfr=true
but I digress - this was a Ghost Solution Suite bootdisk question

diablo-26

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Do you have to swap boot discs at some point if you use one of those others? Like boot using one cd and then put in the Ghost disc? I suppose that would work as you just need to activate the network card so the GhostCast option becomes available in the sofware.

Thanks for all this help.

Matt

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DartPC

With the ubcd4win, you wont have to swap out disks. When you add the plugin, you also copy a few of the program files as well... then you build the cd, and all of your tools are on that... of course it takes a little bit of work to build the cd, but it is fairly well documented on how to build it and how to add plugins for tools that are not included with it initially.