Hello

I am still trying to use the advice that NightOwl gave me, in another thread. To do a Bootable CD/DVD with multiple NIC.

But, while i am not have results, i have more doubts with  Norton Ghost 2003 ( im trying to obtain NG 10 )

I have SATA HD and two Optical Drives, a DVD-RW and a CD-RW. Using Norton Ghost 2003 floppy wizard with MS-DOS and "-noide" as parameter, i obtain useful floppy to boot with SATA HD.

But, it does not recognize any optical drive. I think, at least one is with IDE BUS.

It is normal?  ???

I continue trying to obtain Bootable CD/DVD with multiple NIC

Thanks!

EDIT:

I edited this post as fast i could. I created a 2 floopy with ghost 2003 wizard. I selected the last option, "CD/DVD Startup with Ghost". And it worked. Now, will be perfect to make a DVD/CD boot with DVD/CD support  :P I will try it.

Bye

warpmaster


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I have SATA HD and two Optical Drives, a DVD-RW and a CD-RW. Using Norton Ghost 2003 floppy wizard with MS-DOS and "-noide" as parameter, i obtain useful floppy to boot with SATA HD. But, it does not recognize any optical drive. I think, at least one is with IDE BUS.

If you use the *-noide* switch, than any HDD or optical drive hooked up to a *IDE* controller will probably not be available in Ghost.

Radified Forum Member *ben_mott* posted this information about a new DOS driver that works with the newer SATA optical drives, and apparently is backward compatible with IDE optical drives as well.  It replaces the *oakcdrom.sys* (or similar) DOS driver in the *config.sys*:

Ghost 7.5 SATA CD-ROM

Download *gcdrom.sys* here!

Some additional resources:

GCDROM for DOS

NightOwl wrote on Feb 28^th, 2007 at 7:52am:

warpmaster If you use the *-noide* switch, than any HDD or optical drive hooked up to a *IDE* controller will probably not be available in Ghost.

Thanks NightOwl  ;)

Im sure you are right, but if i don't use noide parameter, the boot floopy disk don't work.

I tested this. First, i made a norton ghost standard floopy without parameter. I reboot the system, the floopy boot and load the ghost, but don't works.

Then, i made a second norton ghost standad floppy ( i still use Norton Ghost 2003 ), i wrote "-noide" in parameter field and reboot the system. This time, the floopy works  :-/ I could see the ghost application running, and explore the SATA HD with NFTS .

But, as you say, i don't see any IDE optical drive.

As i wrote in my first post, i tried to make a floppy with DVD CD Support and then this works. Problem: this requires 2 diskettes... and i cannot make a CD because i don't kwow to do it :-/ I tried to do a Boot CD/DVD with files of CD/DVD Support using Nero. Don't works.

Then i have some troubles floating on air. How to do a CD/DVD bootable that load Norton in SATA HD and recognize a IDE optical drive. I think with this, i will have a first solution to start the work. Really, i didn't think that use Norton was so complicated :'(

I know that I am asking much, thanks to all people of forum  ;)

EDIT:

I find this  googling:


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You need to use the first disk of the set to make the CD bootable, then burn the GHOST.EXE program to the ISO portion of the CD. You'll need to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files to have CD support after the CD boots, then you can access the rest of the CD. I haven't done this with GHOST, but I've created several MS-DOS bootable CD's with lots of stuff on the ISO file-system that is accessable after I boot the CD.

Perhaps its a solution?  ???

warpmaster

Have you tried the *-fni* switch to start Ghost and see if your SATA HDD's show up okay without using the *-noide* switch?

I tried, don't work  :'( I hate SATA HDD's!!!

What can i do now? If only i could obtain a way to use 2 floopys with CD/DVD support and make a CD/DVD Bootable, at least i will charge the CD and load the *.gho.

Im thinking in another solutions. To buy a USB HDD external? So i m still think that the network CD will be more difficult to me  :-/

Any idea?

warpmaster


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Any idea?

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