Ivanov
Quote:Before I start I would like to apologize about my ignorance & would like you to keep into consideration that my English isn’t that good & am a newbie when it comes to computers & ghosting.
I had the false impression that stem cell was difficult but now I feel that is a piece of cake as compared to Ghost 2003...
No apologies are needed! When I made this observation:
Quote:Looking at your recent images of your boot to DOS--I don't think you followed my Guide! You may have used it as an *outline*, but you have substituted other programs than what I recommended
I was just trying to make statement of fact--I didn't mean for it to come across as *judgemental*!
You are very likely much smarter than me--I have no foreign language skills at all--and I wouldn't know a *stem cell* from a *branch cell*--I just spend *way too much* time playing with things related to Ghost software--not too sure what that says about me and my skill levels!
Quote:Firstly I don’t have Partition Magic software so how do I get the required files as stated in the link….
That summary details how to change the basic Bootable optical disk as outlined in the
Guide
so that it also had PartitionMagic included, plus adds the drivers so the Panasonic USB DOS drivers are available. ckcc had asked how to do that in his reply #1 at the beginning of the thread.
If you do not have PartitionMagic installed on your system, you will not have that option to include those files on the boot CD. You would have to obtain the program and install it.
Quote:Secondly how & where do I create sub directories for Ghost & Partition Magic files as stated by you in the link?
That's part of setting up the burning program to create the bootable CD. I do not have Nero, so I can't create a screen shot, but look at this screen shot from the
Guide
for using Roxio v5.xx:
Recording the boot CD step using Roxio 5
.
In the lower panel on the left side where it says *Ghost Boot CD*, if you right-click that, you can select *new folder*, and you can then type *Ghost*, and enter and it will be added underneath that *Ghost Boot CD*, and it will be added as a sub-directory in the lower panel on the right side as well underneath where it says *Bootcat.bin* and *bootimg.bin*.
You can then browse using the upper panel to find your other files that you want to include in the data portion of the CD, and then *drag n drop* them from the upper panel to the lower panel in that *Ghost* sub-directory--so you would browse in the upper panel to where you have *ghost.exe*, and then select it, and drag it and drop it on the *Ghost* sub-directory in the lower panel on the right side.
Nero's interface will be somewhat different, but similar.
Quote:Thirdly I have some missing files as compared to the link. How & where do I get these files from…like mouse.ini, EDIT.COM, HIMEM.SYS?
*Edit.com* is a text file editor for DOS--it allows you to make changes to your files like *autoexe.bat* and *config.sys*. If you have booted to DOS, but want to change something in *autoexec.bat* to change its behavior while testing--you can do that before you re-boot to see the results.
You type from the A:\ prompt: edit autoexec.bat (and press enter)
It will bring up the *autoexec.bat* file and you can make changes and re-save it, and re-boot to see the effect of your changes--without having to re-boot to Windows and use Notepad or some other basic word processor to make changes.
Handy to have available--but completely unnecessary for using the boot CD and Ghost!
Both *Edit.com* and *himem.sys* can be found on the Win98se boot disk file that you load using the
Guide
outline and using WinImage--see the *Step #2* of the
Step-by-Step Instructions
, the second screenshot:
Screen Shot--Win98 Boot Disk Files in WinImage
, and you will see *himem.sys* listed there--you can pull it out the same way you are instructed to extract the other files in the
Guide
in the next Step #3.
*edit.com* is buried in the *ebd.cab* file that you can see in the image above!
Step #6 of the
Step-by-Step Instructions
, tells you how to extract the *mscdex.exe* file from that *ebd.cab* file--you can also extract the *edit.com* file in the same way!
The many steps makes it look complicated, but really--once you get used to the process--it's quite easy and straight forward.
Quote:Fourthly would you like to change the path using notepad, like earlier for [config.sys] & [autoexe.bat]
The *path statement* is fine. The *path statement* is simply to make it easier for DOS to search for programs--it tells DOS where to look, and in what order to look--for a program that you type at the DOS prompt.
If you do not have a *path statement*, then you have to use DOS commands to change to different *drives* (partitions with drive letters), and to change to different sub-directories.
Typing a *drive letter + a colon* will change to a different drive letter--so if you are at the A:\> prompt, typing *X:* and pressing enter would change to the optical drive's drive letter given this boot disc's boot file to make the first optical drive drive letter *X*.
Type *cd + sub-directory name* and press enter will change to a different sub-directory that's in the current directory--so at the X:\> prompt, typing *cd ghost* and pressing enter would put you in the *Ghost* sub-directory (assuming you created that sub-directory when you burned the CD).
Type *dir* and press enter for a listing of the files and sub-directories below the current sub-directory that you are in.
Type *cd + two periods* (cd..) and press enter and you will move up one sub-directory from the one you are currently in.
If all your partitions are NTFS partitions, then you will only have the A:\ drive letter and the X:\ drive letter of the optical drive--and no C:\ drive--unless you have an external USB HDD hooked up and successfully using the Panasonic USB DOS drivers--then that USB HDD will be C:\--unless you have formatted it to be NTFS also!
You will be able to *see* and *access* NTFS partitions in Ghost, but not from DOS!
Quote:Since I am using the mouse com file from the guide than I would not need the mouse.ini file…..correct?
That is correct--but if you do need a *mouse.ini* file, you just use Notepad to create it--as mentioned in the link, and save the file using the *mouse.ini* as the filename.
Let us know how things go--I'm curious to see if your system will respond to basic DOS and Ghost 2003!