Thanks for the tip. I eventually got it working, even though the image was not useful.
I found a website (in French, no less) that details what you are supposed
to do. The .SYS file was really a disk image file in some crazy format.
Open it with winimage and convert it to a 2.88mb disk image, and then it
will boot.
I have been trying to make a boot disk that will use the UNDIS3C driver,
and also use the Microsoft DOS networking client (and TCP/IP) so I can map
a drive to a server, run ghost from the mapped drive, and have ghost save
the image to the mapped drive. I didn't need any broadcast functionality.
The problem is that the UNDIS3C driver will work with every NIC, but the
speed when saving the image to the mapped drive is ridiculously slow. I'm
talking 30+ hours for 2GB. If I use bart's netboot disk, and it uses the
NIC's native driver, it is much faster (down to about 6 hours for 2 GB),
but still mighty slow. I'm comparing this to a disk that uses native NIC
drivers and has the NOVELL client on it (which is IPX, no TCP/IP) which
will transfer the 2 gigs in about an hour.
I'm guessing the UNDIS3C driver is not intended to be optimized for
performance.
...or it might be that now, I'm trying to use TCP/IP instead of IPX, and
the packets now have a lot more overhead....
As an alternative, has anyone had any expereince/luck with getting GHOST
to work under DOSEMU? Maybe I can just wedge it into my unattended
installation.
Ben Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: Ben Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
04/21/2007 08:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unattended] PXELinux question
Hi Matt,
I wasn't able to use the default ghost tools to create a boot image that
worked with PXELinux. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I'm unaware
of how to do it. I took a different approach:
I used the ghost tools to create a set of floppy disk images (2 disks)
that would use the pxe network stack (thus being NIC agnostic). I then
used a windows boot disk tool (name I can't remember, but it's a readily
available try-before-you-buy type) to master those two floppy disks into
a .img file. I then use the memdisk kernel to load the floppy disk
image which functions as a ghost client.
I had to set an option in one of the ini files for the client to work in
my environment (any env?) with multicast, and I didn't include all of
the tools that ghost does their floppies...
If you need more specific info, let me know. I could likely even just
give you the floppy disk image and save you the trouble (at least until
you go to solution suite 2).
Hope that helps.
-Ben
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:08:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+> This question isn't specifically about unattended, but I figure the
people
+> on this list have similar knowledge, so I'll ask:
+>
+> I am happily using unattended 4.3 with the linux boot via PXE. My DHCP
+> server is Windows. My TFTP server is Windows. My File server (where
+> unattended is located) is Windows. As you can tell, I'm fluent with
+> windows, but not so much with linux.
+>
+> I'm using PXELinux as the bootloader, because it supports a nice menu
+> system for choosing to boot other utilities or disk images via
memdisk.
+>
+> Symantec GHOST has some sort of Boot Image creator. When I run it, and
+> choose all my options, it creates a boot image for me, but it creates
it
+> with a .SYS extension.
+>
+> Does anyone know what the heck I'm supposed to do with this file?
GHOST is
+> remarkably unclear, because it expects me to know about my PXE
+> configuration.
+>
+> Am I supposed to put it in my default configuration file? When I try,
it
+> doesn't boot. It just locks up.
+>
+> LABEL ghost
+> MENU LABEL ^GHOST
+> KERNEL unattended/memdisk
+> APPEND initrd=tools/ghost.sys keeppxe
+>
+> It doesn't really look like a disk image, because it's over 2MB in
size.
+> Can anyone tell me if I'm on the right track?
+>
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