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I have found that if I use Ghost's Windows interface to create a bootable CD with a Ghost image, if you watch the process, when your system boots into the 'virtual partition' to create the image, the mouse pointer is present and you can move it around while the image is being created.

But, when you boot the CD to do, say, an integrity check--no mouse support!  Have others noted that, or is it just my system?

I looked at the autoexec.bat file that's on the 'virtual A: drive' by doing a 'cd \' command at the A:\Ghost>_  prompt after quitting Ghost and no mouse.com command is there (actually, I had to change to the 'C:\Windows\Command' directory in order to type 'edit a:\autoexec.bat' in order to see what the autoexec.bat said).  Strange--Ghost creates the bootable CD with the mouse support enabled, but doesn't put mouse support on the CD!

Well, I noticed that the autoexec.bat has a path statement the includes 'C:\'.  So I put Mouse.com and Mouse.ini in the root directory of the 'C-drive'.  Use the Ghost bootable CD to boot up and Ghost automatically starts.  'Quit' Ghost.  And at the 'A:\Ghost> prompt, type Mouse.com, which loads the mouse, and then type Ghost and now you have mouse support under Ghost!

I wonder why Symantec left mouse support out of the bootable CD?  Certainly not critical, being as you can use the 'tab' key and the 'arrow' keys to move around, but......

lamer

PS2

roxe

I think I know what you're asking...and if so, Yes!

When you use your arrow keys to get to the 'Source' drop-down box, the Ghost program defaults to highlighting the file below the drop-down box.  You have to 'tab' to change what's highlighted (the 'active' item) until it come to the drop-down box (the 'active' item first goes down to items lower on the page as you hit tab, and then works its way back up to the top--haven't tried, but might be able to use Shift-Tab to go up), and then use the 'down arrow' and the list drops down.  Continue to use the down arrow to scroll down through the list of drives and partitions.

Let me know if this is what you're looking for.

roxe

I'm assuming from what you said above that when you have mouse support using Ghost, you are able to click the item and the list box drops down. 

Just out of curiosity--is it a USB mouse or PS2 on your system?

So the 'tab' key works to change the 'active' item, but your down arrow doesn't cause the drop-down box to drop....another strange result.

Do your up and down arrow keys work for making your selections from Ghost's main start menu, i.e. can you move from 'Local' to 'Options' to 'Quit'?

Just a long shot...on my keyboard, if you turn off NumLock, then the number pad #8 becomes an up arrow key and the #2 becomes a down arrow key--any chance it responds to those keystrokes?

That's odd Roxe.

If i Tab into the drop down field and press the "Down" arrow I immediatly get a drop down field with all "detected" devices.

Tab - Changes fileds
Arrow keys - moves selections within fields
Return - chooses selection

you have to run the boot disk first.. coz mouse.com tries to write to the mouse.ini file if it has not booted up on the machine before.. thats why you getting that errir

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Hey...no one has ever answered the question buried in my first post of this thread!

Have others out there used Ghost's Windows interface to create a bootable CD image, and find they have no mouse support when they boot the CD?---or is just my machine and setup?

Just curious.

roxe

I don't think you can go back and add mouse.ini after Ghost is done.  The disk is 'finalized', using CD-R's.

Plus, the autoexec.bat file does not have a load command for mouse.com and mouse.com is not on the CD either.

But if you do everything from DOS and pop in you boot floppy, everything is added to the CD that's on your boot floppy.