On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:59:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +> 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.
Well, that's good to know. Might have saved me a bit of time, although the learning process of building that custom disk was quite useful... +> 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. This is outside the scope of anything I'm doing (I prefer to multicast an image), so I'll leave you to solve that. +> 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. Good luck with that. I think you're likely right about the performance. A generic driver will work everywhere, but not quickly, whereas a specific driver will only work on the family of cards it's meant for but will be much faster... Cheers. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer Office of Planning & IT Faculty of Arts & Science University of Toronto Cell: 416.407.5610 GPG Key Id: 8E89F6D2; Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Contact me to arrange for a CAcert assurance meeting. Please Note: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any dissemination, disclosure, printing, publishing or use of this email or the information contained herein without written authorization of the sender is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete. Thank you.
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