Using knoppix to get past the good old DOS limitations?

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Originally Posted by rcook

I understand that you want to run a DOS version ghost and access windows shares and drives. Knoppix with samba will let you access shared MS drives and you can read MS formated partitions from the machine you are on. To run ghost in a windows emulator such as wine might prove problematic.

atric-pay has it right. Try to download Bart's PE builder from this site: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ .

If you have any XP installs, it is possible to generate a very nice boot disk which is XP. There are links or stubs available to install ghost. You will have to check out the version numbers and possibly tweak the stub to get it to run with your version of ghost.

It runs well and it is Microsoft centric which should ease any pains for running a DOS version of ghost.

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actually the version that runs in Bartpe XP live-cd is not ghost.exe (a 16 bits DOS version for real DOS) but ghost32.exe v.8 or 8.2 (runs in the virtual XP DOS box)

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Originally Posted by oscar

actually the version that runs in Bartpe XP live-cd is not ghost.exe (a 16 bits DOS version for real DOS) but ghost32.exe v.8 or 8.2 (runs in the virtual XP DOS box)

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Yeah I noticed, I had ghost 6, 7, 9 and 10 laying around but not 8 (which is the one I need) but I managed to get a copy of ghost32.exe.

So far everything seems to be ok, I can succesfully boot with BartPE, map an image drive and run ghost32. Now I just need to figure out how I can script everything and it all will be solved :-)

Hi,

I suppose NTFS Reader can help. I've used it before and it works great, it never failed, it allows easy access to NTFS in DOS, win98 or me. The tool is included into a data utilities set CD, Boot Disk. It alos posses other extremely valuable soft for working with data. Give it a try, you won't regret.

http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm