Autoexec:
@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+05:00
CLS
LH \MSCDEX.EXE /D:cd1 /D:cd2
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
if %config% == FROMFLPY goto FLPYBOOT
if %config% == FROMCD goto CDBOOT

goto FAILED

:FLPYBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
pause
if exist a:\ghost\ghost.exe goto GHOSTFND
goto FLPYBOOT

:CDBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
echo To run Ghost.exe from a hard disk or CD, press Ctrl-C at the following prompt
echo then change to the appropriate drive letter and type 'Ghost'
pause
if not exist b:\ghost\ghost.exe goto CDBOOT
b:
goto GHOSTFND

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

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END


Config.sys
@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+05:00
CLS
LH \MSCDEX.EXE /D:cd1 /D:cd2
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
if %config% == FROMFLPY goto FLPYBOOT
if %config% == FROMCD goto CDBOOT

goto FAILED

:FLPYBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
pause
if exist a:\ghost\ghost.exe goto GHOSTFND
goto FLPYBOOT

:CDBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
echo To run Ghost.exe from a hard disk or CD, press Ctrl-C at the following prompt
echo then change to the appropriate drive letter and type 'Ghost'
pause
if not exist b:\ghost\ghost.exe goto CDBOOT
b:
goto GHOSTFND

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

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END

Just the basic stuff from the diskette creation.

Config.sys
[menu]
menuitem=FROMFLPY, This computer was started from a Ghost boot disk
menuitem=FROMCD, This computer was started from a Ghost bootable CD

[FROMFLPY]

[FROMCD]

[COMMON]
DEVICE = oakcdrom.sys /D:cd1
DEVICE = btdosm.sys
DEVICE = flashpt.sys
DEVICE = btcdrom.sys /D:cd2
DEVICE = aspi2dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi8dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi4dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi8u2.sys
DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\B57.dos
LASTDRIVE = Z

I have the same problem, and as the original poster mentioned it does give you the option to make the cd bootable, at which point the only option is to insert a floppy into the non-existent floppy drive!  It only allows 2 choices for destination - A: or B:

If you are able to post clear instructions for burning a copy of the files that would be on the bootable floppy, please do - I really couldn't follow the ones the original poster was able to follow.  Thanks so much for the guide - it's definitely better than the Symantec Guide (I have Systemworks 2003 that includes Ghost 2003 and a Dell 4700C with no floppy option and a virtual diagnostic partition.  I'm going nuts between no floppy and the built-in virtual partition (Ghost won't work with the built-in diagnostic partition - the only way around that is to use a floppy boot disk.)   Anyone else have a sollution to this one?

Sorry to hyjack this thread....

Like before, I need to create a ghost boot cd so I can take images off a laptop, then put a new install of XP on.

Basically, I work at a boarding school, every school holidays when the students coem back our network is bombarded with all sorts of viruses.

We now want to take the image of the laptop and save it on a server, then give the student a fresh install of XP thats runs on the domain with normal user rights, then when they go back home put there other image back on the laptop.

so many laptops dont have a floppy drive, so I need to dreate a boot disk with all th drivers for laptops used on my network.

Ive read this thread time and time again, real all the links (syd's is dead) but I still cant work it out...

Someone please help me...

I have 2 weeks before the school term starts again, if I cant work out how to do it before then, that would be the only other option but the boss wants 1 cd or dvd thats bootable with every ndis drive under the sun on instead of 100 bootable floppy disks.

In order to make a CD bootable while in Ghost 2001 you can use the commandline switch -bootcd or when Ghost comes up in DOS go to Options and locate the switch in there and place a checkmark or its equivilent next to it.
As far as running from CD I believe it is possible if you use nero to make a bootable CD and add ghost.exe or ghostpe.exe, as well as any files you might otherwise add to the MS-DOS floppy version of a ghost boot disk, to the CD.
hope this helps.

I have been trying (for a long time!) to create a bootable CD for Norton Ghost 2003 without using a Floppy drive. I finally did it and thought someone else might benefit from this. Let me know if this is helpful. It uses Bart's BFD utility.

Just FYI, I am running WinXP. These are the steps:

1) Download Bart's BFD utility from http://www.nu2.nu/bfd/
2) Create the Virtual Drive "B:" as follows (this fools Ghost into writing the files to the hard drive):
a.  Open a Dos window
Click Start / Click Run / Type "Command" / click OK)
b. Type the following at the Dos command prompt:
subst b: c:\GhostFiles
Press <Enter>
Note: "c:\ GhostFiles " is any existing and empty path on your hard drive
3) Use Norton Ghost to write all the files to the hard drive.
a. Under "Ghost Utilities" choose  Norton Ghost Boot Wizard
b. Choose the kind of Boot Disk and all the parameters which work for your system.
c. When you get to the wizard screen where it asks for "Floppy disk Drive," the drop down combo allows for "A:" or "B:".
    i. Choose "B:"
    ii. Uncheck "Format Disk"
d. Continue and Finish. Norton will write files to the B: drive (a path on your hard drive)
4) In Explorer, goto the directory where the ghost files were written (e.g. c:\GhostFiles)
a. Edit Autoexec.bat and config.sys to your hearts content
b. I use Barts MSDos 7.01 (not Norton's supplied PCDos) since I don't have a bootsec.bin file for PCDos. Therefore, the 3 files in B: are not used and can be erased: command.com, ibmbios.com, ibmdos.com
5) Configure BFD
a. In Explorer, goto the directory where BFD is installed
b. edit bfd.sam and save it to bfd.cfg. My bfd.cfg looks like this:
Note that the "c" command is the copy command and you should have a copy line for every file you want copied to your floppy image. "m" is the make directory command. Mine mirrors the directory and file structure that Norton wrote to the hard drive.

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ghost cdrom boot disk
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
n       ghostBoot
b       cdrom
c       GhostFiles\Autoexec.bat
c       GhostFiles\config.sys
c       GhostFiles\guest.exe
c       GhostFiles\mouse.com
m       ghost
c       GhostFiles\ghost\ghost.exe ghost
m       fwr
c       GhostFiles\fwr\aspi1394.sys fwr

6) Rund BFD using the Dos Command Prompt
a. I had to do this step to workaround a bug in BFD - the temp directory wouldn't automatically create, so I had to do it manually each time I ran BFD. You will have to substitute your own temp path for mine. bfd will tell you where it is trying to write to and give an error that it can't.
md C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\$bfd$
b. Type the command
bfd -d -i ghostBootImage.ima -t 288 ghostBoot c:\temp\ghostimage
c. This creates a 2.88mb floppy image file: ghostBootImage.ima
d. Use Roxio Easy CD Creator (or Nero) to create a boot disk. Give it the option to supply the image and choose "ghostBootImage.ima"

Hope this helps someone.