Norton Ghost boot disk help over tcp/ip

[Bglad]

I've been trying to backup over tcp/ip with Ghost for 2 months now and I still can't get it to work. Previously I was using Ghost 5.0 but I finally gave up and purchased Ghost 2002 but still can't get it to work.

My desktop machine appears to work but I'm trying to backup a laptop to it. I can't get the laptop nic card to be recognized. I think I finally got the right drivers onto the boot disk using packet drivers but I get an i/o error while booting the laptop with the floppy. I'm thinking that maybe the pcmcia slot that the nic is in may not be getting recognized. Has anyone gotten this to work that can help me?

It is a Dell Inspiron with a Linksys 10/100 pcmcia nic card. Win 98SE is installed, and I'm using the MS-DOS option for booting with the Ghost boot disks.

Thanks for any help.

 

[kerykeion]

I also tried making a network bootdisk for weeks using a very similar configuration... I too ran into problems getting the PCMCIA-service enabled...which seems to be the problem for you as well. I don't know what you mean by packet driver, but when I tried using the pc100.dos file, it created some errors. If you haven't sone so, check out bootdisk.com or bootdisk.info for more bootdisk options and let me know if you get something working.

 

[ScottMac]

For the PCMCIA NIC to be recognized, you probably have to load the "point drivers" for DOS. Basically, they're the code layer that lets DOS access the PCMCIA slots. There should be some on the NIC disk, or from the NIC producer...maybe the laptop mfr.

PCMCIA is not recognized from DOS without the point drivers (and the NIC won't be recognized without the NIC drivers..you need both).

Good Luck

Scott