MS-DOS & NIC Drivers

[Hurmoth]

I have Symantec Ghost 8; Ghost 8 now requires 2 Floppy Disk per NIC. I came up with the idea of putting it on a USB Key along with all of our other drivers (i.e. D500, D505, GX270, GX280, etc.). Everything works with one set of drivers, but now I am trying to create a DOS menu that will allow me to load certain drivers based on the choices given in the menu. Here's my config.sys file:

[menu]
menuitem=D505, Boot using D505 NIC
menuitem=GX280, Boot using GX280 NIC

[D505]
DEVICE=\D505\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\D505\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\D505\e100b.dos

[GX280]
DEVICE=\GX280\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\GX280\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\GX280\B57.dos

[COMMON]
DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD

rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:1f0,14
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:170,15
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:170,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:1e8,12
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:1e8,11
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:168,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CD /P:168,9
LASTDRIVE = Z

And my autoexec.bat:

@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+05:00
prompt $p$g
NETBIND.COM
MOUSE.COM
MSCDEX.EXE  /D:CD /L:R
if %config% == D505 goto GHOSTFND
if %config% == GX280 goto GHOSTFND

goto FAILED

:GHOSTFND
cd \ghost
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE
goto END

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END

Not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong, can anyone help me?

[pingloss]

Try this.....

How to create a Ghost 8 Bootable CD

I'm sure you'll be able to modify this to work with a bootable USB key.

[Hurmoth]

Try this.....

How to create a Ghost 8 Bootable CD

I'm sure you'll be able to modify this to work with a bootable USB key.

585028234[/snapback]

Awesome! Thanks :D

[okidoki]

Awesome! Thanks :D

585028361[/snapback]

What I'd suggest you do is make use of a ramdisk.

Put the modules for the NIC in a compressed archive (CAB, ZIP, whatever)

Then you extract the files to the ramdisk and load them from there.

I've made a bootable ghost-cd for Ghost Corporate, loading in the NIC we use (EE100), cd drivers etc. and then loading up ghost.

It's easily done, but I'd recommend staying away from floppies - as they're very very unreliable these days.

Bootable CDs work wonders - especially if you have 2-3 discs and 100+ machines that need ghosting.

[Hurmoth]

It's easily done, but I'd recommend staying away from floppies - as they're very very unreliable these days.

Bootable CDs work wonders - especially if you have 2-3 discs and 100+ machines that need ghosting.

585028379[/snapback]

Yes, I totally agree! Now it takes two floppies per NIC (Symantec Ghost 8.2) and that's a bit much if you work with two or more different NICs. CDs are great, but you can't go back and edit them as easily as a USB thumb drive, which is why I decided to use one of those; which works great by the way (at least with one NIC, I'm going to try adding my others at some point today). I'll post a guide at some point on how to create a Ghost bootable USB thumb drive. Thanks for the help!