I already ahve GHOST and like the fact that it includes FireWire Support. However, their bootdisks assume an actual floppy drive, so when I make them into bootable CDs they fail (I think the network client is trying to write the DHCP IP address back to a file) Since I do not have a floppy on my machine, this makes the firewire support useless.

I wonder if you could work their firewire support into your disk so that if I already own their product I could easily copy the drivers and config statements to get this working?

Thanks,
D.

What about using a ramdrive to overcome this problem?
Might be working.

Why don't you use ISOLinux or BootScriptor to make your CD Bootable?

This will give you the ability to write to the emulated floppy image (if you use MemDisk), so when Ghost needs to write anything, the changes will be accepted and kept in memory until you reboot the system.

Here you go some help!!

Examples

1. autoexec.bat

@echo off
IF "%config%"=="DOS" GOTO DOS
IF "%config%"=="DRVIMG" GOTO DRVIMG
IF "%config%"=="PRTMGC" GOTO PRTMGC
IF "%config%"=="GHOST" GOTO GHOST
IF "%CONFIG%"=="DEPLOY" GOTO DEPLOY

:DOS
call startup.bat
CALL tools.bat
LH DOSKEY /INS
LH SMARTDRV > NUL
goto END

:DRVIMG
CALL STARTUP.BAT
call PQDI.bat
GOTO END

:PRTMGC
CALL STARTUP.BAT
call a:\PQPM.bat
GOTO END

:GHOST
call startup.bat
LH SMARTDRV > NUL
call ghost.bat
goto END

:DEPLOY
call startup.bat
call DEPLOY.bat
goto END


:END


2. Startup.bat

@echo off
mouse
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15
set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C
call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
ECHO ...
set temp=%RAMD%:\
set tmp=%RAMD%:\
path=a:\;%RAMD%:\
copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NUL
set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com
MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /L:X > NUL
set CDROM=FOO23
FINDCD.EXE
ECHO .....
if "%CDROM%"=="FOO23" goto NOCDROM
goto QUIT
:NOCDROM
echo.
echo BootCD files were not found.
echo.
SET NOCD=YES
goto QUIT
:QUIT
path=a:\;%RAMD%:\;%CDROM%\UTILITY\;%cdrom%\CDBURNER;
if "%NOCD%"=="YES" GOTO Z
set cd2=
if "%CDROM%X"=="X:X" GOTO CDY
IF "%CDROM%X"=="Y:X" GOTO CDX
GOTO Z
:CDY
SET CD2=Y:
GOTO Z
:CDX
SET CD2=X:
GOTO Z

:Z

3. Ghost.bat

@echo off
echo.
echo Norton Ghost 2003.
echo Loading...
echo.
copy %CDROM%GHOST\ghost.exe %RAMD%:\ghost.exe > NUL
%RAMD%:\ghost.exe

have fun!!
ZombieKIL

oops forgot this!!

config.sys

[menu]
menuitem=DOS, Dos Prompt
menuitem=DRVIMG, Drive Image 2002.
menuitem=DEPLOY, Deploy Centre 5.5.
menuitem=PRTMGC, Partition Magic 8.0.
menuitem=GHOST, Norton Ghost 2003.
menudefault=DOS,
menucolor=11,0

[DOS]
DeviceHigh=RamDrive.sys 32767 512 512 /E
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /L:X
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001 /L:X
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:MSCD001 /L:X
rem FILES=20
rem BUFFERS=20
DOS=HIGH,UMB
rem STACKS=9,256

[DRVIMG]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DeviceHigh=RamDrive.sys 15491 512 128 /E
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /L:X
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001 /L:X
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:MSCD001 /L:X
LASTDRIVE=Z

[DEPLOY]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DeviceHigh=RamDrive.sys 15491 512 128 /E
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /L:X
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001 /L:X
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:MSCD001 /L:X
LASTDRIVE=Z

[PRTMGC]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DeviceHigh=RamDrive.sys 15491 512 128 /E
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001
LASTDRIVE=Z

[GHOST]
include=DOS

[COMMON]