vince

By all reports, the stand alone Ghost 2003 CD is bootable--I think you can choose to load optical drive support, and USB or Firewire drivers--but it will be the DOS program that's similar to Ghost 2002 that loads.

For the bootable Ghost CD to boot and work, you do not have to have Ghost 2003 installed to Windows.  But until you install it to Windows, you will have none of the Windows Ghost features.

NightOwl wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2005 at 1:22am:

Rad,
thanks for the links.  I haven't read them yet.  Get to them soon.

By the way, I have successfully created a Ghost boot cd using Nero 5.5 in the "bootable cd" mode, (using my desktop computer which has a floppy drive) and it creates a boot image by extracting it from the Ghost floppy.  This disk works fine on my laptop which has no floppy drive.  

FWIW, I've verified that the file that gets written back to the disk is called DHCP.

I have made a bootable ghost cd that supports a usb hard drive and keep the images on it. The only problem I have came accross is that there is one computer at my plant that is all usb no ps/2 connects and I can't get the keyboard or mouse to work.

Bryan Dunham

Some have found that if you use the Ghost Boot Wizard for the Standard Ghost boot disk--on the first *options* page--select *Peer-to-Peer Options*, select *USB Support*--has allowed USB mice and keyboards to function in DOS.

I just solved this by taking a Win 98 startup floppy, Stripping out any lines in autoexec.bat pertaining to 98 (load win 98 disk 2 for example). I then took a 2 floppies and ran the Ghost Network Boot Disk Wizard. There are 5 0r 6 grouped lines pertaing to netbind and mouse.com in the ghost autoexec file that needs to be copied and pasted into the autoexec on the 98 startup disk. Next you need to make the last line in the 98 autoexec read "ghost.exe"
  On the startup disk itself strip out any unnecessary files (ex: Fdisk).
Now copy the mouse.com and mouse.ini from the ghost boot disk to your 98 disk. If you need usb mouse support edit the mouse.ini adding "mouse=usb" to it.
   Copy the lines in the ghost config.sys to the 98 config.sys and copy the "net" folder from the ghost disk to the 98 startup disk.
   Use Roxio to " make a bootable cd from a floppy" function and once created append the cd by adding ghost.exe from the Ghost folder on floppy #2 from your ghost boot disk set. Once the disk is finished burning pop it in your cd drive, reboot and you go directly into the Ghost interface after the disk runs. I used Ghost V8.2 but I am sure it will work w/ 7.5. Once this works you can start playing with the 98 startup disk to remove more than I have said to makr bootup faster. I can supply screen shots if requested.