Ghose Enterprise multicast issue...

I just installed Ghost Enterprise on my Win2k server box and I can't seem to get the multicast boot disk I made to assign the machine I'm trying to ghost an IP address. I created the multicast boot disk using packet drivers for a Cnet PRo200WL NIC. The packet drivers were on the install disk that came with the NIC, so they are right. The boot disk boots to Ghost, but multicast is not an option. I tried to ping the IP address I assigned in the setup of the multicast assistant, no reply. When I boot to Windows, I have access to the net and the rest of the network, so the card is working. Is there something in the BIOS that's disabled? The board is an Asus A7A266. I also tried enabling DHCP server on my router (all machines are static) and assigning an IP address, that way, but the machine does not show up in the DHCP clients table in the router setup when Ghost is fully booted. I'm going to try a different card sometime this week and see if that helps. Just thought maybe someone else has had this same issue.

[frente69]

I am having the same problem with a lab full of CNET PRO200WL pc's.
It wont pick up an IP addy. I have tried a few different driver versions and none seem to work.

I did notice however, that if i take out the cnet and put in another nic(a dlink or realtek) and then image a cnet boot partition onto the drive and put the cnet back in it works.

Something is sus with the way ghost talks to the cnet drivers i think!

[S.D.Willie]

are you getting any errors at all before ghost actually starts and are you sure youre using the right DOS driver for your nic? i had a problem because i didnt name the driver when i was making the disk. heres my thread , hope it helps in some way.

SD

[frente69]

Drivers are fine, while the pc is booting there are no failure messages for the nic.

The only thing that doesnt work is when i goto ghost cast and then select multi or uni cast and it try's to grab a ip,...it can't find the server,...yes the server is fine and the switch's are not faulty and i have tried different network cables ;-)

[frente69]

Hello again,
I may have just found a possible work around!(well it worked for me anyway)

1. Make a network boot disk with the cnet driver
2. Make a boot partition image with the cnet driver
3. open the boot partition image and copy the net directory, autoexec.bat, config.sys, e.ex, e.exe, e.ini onto the boot disk you just made.
4. edit the autoexec.bat and take out the reference to the consile client and put ghost.exe in its place(it should be the last line of the file.

I already had my image created, so my image might differ a bit, perhaps we are just using the wrong drivers and the correct drivers are on the image i have,.. but it worked,.. I will check out whats happening in more detail at a later date,..but its working for now and thats all i care about ATM :-)

Update:
It only got about 25% through the image and then froze, I dont know if this is going to be a common thing or not

[S.D.Willie]

glad you got it working although this thread wasnt yours.

SD

Since the original post, I have discovered that the versionof Ghost Enterprise I have is 6.0 and that's not fully supported in Win2k, so I kinda gave up on the project until I can get my hands on the newest version. I was going to pull the card and use the 3com that's listed in Multicast assistant, but that will not be happening now.

S.D.Willie I never got any errors while the client PC was booting to the disk I created. When Ghost booted, multicast was greyed out, so I am assuming the nic drivers were part of the issue. Now I am thinking it's the version of Ghost Ent I am using. When I installed that, I got an error, unable to create service account. I can't get into the Ghost Management console (or whatever it's called). I never really cared, as long as I could use multicast.

[S.D.Willie]

When Ghost booted, multicast was greyed out, so I am assuming the nic drivers were part of the issue

you would assume right as i had the same issue until i fixed it. this was on ghost enterprise 7.

So you're saying the cnet drivers are already built in to Ghost Ent 7?

[S.D.Willie]

well there are alot of drivers built into ghost, but in my case i had to hunt down my particular 3com driver for my laptop because it wasnt in the list. plus it has to be a pure dos driver. i havent used any cnet nics and never even heard of them.
plus in the pic you can see there are none listed. might wanna hit up their site if they have one or use a nic thats compatible since theyre so cheap anyhow.

SD