dsmith

I'm about to rebuild my works laptop - but dont want to lose everything so I'm ghosting it.

Laptop is Win2K Pro with 20gb FAT32 drive.

I have it booting to a Win98 boot floppy. MS Workgroup for DOS networking up and running to give me a NetBeui connection to my main PC - Win2K Pro NTF - which has plenty of disk Space.

Ghost is quite happy to copy the Laptop partition to a file on the network drive.

BUT, will only create a file of 2Gb at a time - then starts a new one. Not a huge problem but you have to press "ok" in the middle which is a right pain

Is the 2Gb limit becaue its booted to Win98 ? Any way round it ?

I'm sure I've used ghost like this without this limit before...

Any Suggestions ?

Deano

ozzy

Hmm, that's a strange one.

Which version of ghost are you using? FAT16 has a 2Gb limit, but FAT32 supports larger drives (8GB IIRC).

I use a DOS 6 boot disk with an IP connection to an NT4 server and have never been limited to 2GB with Ghost 7

Stefan

dsmith

I thought the 2gb limit only applied to Fat16 aswell

Its Ghost 6.0.

Racking my brain for anything I've done differently this time. Was going to install IP on the boot disk but it was easier to add NetBeui to my PC.

Obviously the Network client (old dos mw wrkgrp add on) is quite old . Is it possible to use the net.exe from Win98 with the same conifg files ? Do I need to use any other Win98 files.

Hmmmm - how do you create your Boot disk ?

Deano

boomer

Isn't there a 2GB limit for a single file (even though the volume/partition can be much more)?

Do you have any very large files?

mb

ozzy

That's possible. All my images have been less than 1GB, so never had any bother.

www.bootdisk.com for any boot disks. There's even links for some network boot disks.

Stefan

Edited to change web site.

[Edited by ozzy - 9/25/2002 10:37:40 AM]

shunty

dsmith - I've had this problem before, convert fat32 to ntfs with party magic 7, then use ghost 7 or PQDI etc, should be fine....
HOWEVER, I am intrigued to the poss 2 gig limit on a single file theory...sounds feasible...but wasn't the case for me though.

I also have a boot disk that supports the majority of laptops with full pcmcia driver support, saves fooken about looking for the dos drivers & modifying the relevant files on the network boot disk.

Let me know if you need anything.

edited to add - ozzy it's bootdisk.com that will have confused him for a few minutes....it's a useful site isn't it.

shunty

[Edited by shunty - 9/25/2002 9:09:56 AM]

shunty

ps - ozzy, did the reboot fix your connection problem from yesterday then ?
it's a pain in the **** when you can map c$ IPC$ etc but can't get a remote connection, I wish I knew of a way around it.

shunty

dsmith

Its definately only seeing the drives as 2GB available.

Have tried a diff version of the DOS Net Client with TCP/IP and it makes no diff.

Tried accessing a shared Fat32 drive and again no diff.

Bugger.

Deano

dsmith

the boot disk (and its the Custom Win98 se from bootdisk.com) isnt giving me long filename support for the Fat32 C drive either.

Deano

ozzy

Shunty,

The reboot of the mail server fixed the queued mail for the MTA. I was trying to VNC into the box to restart the services manually without distrupting everyone, but I spent more time trying that than it took to get everyone out and reboot the thing.

Sometimes it's best just keeping things nice and simple

Stefan

suba

it could be the ghost version? i remembered i had the same problem when HDD size was growing. the HDD size for the first PC for a rollout was 10G although the user only getting 2G NTFS on NT4 workstation. then we got newer PCs with bigger HDD and ghost just didnt wanna work. finally track down the problem and it was the version of ghost we got.

dsmith

ta for advice.

Found the switch to let ghost get on with it without waiting for prompts and changed to 100 meg. Should all be done in under 2 hours now.

Ghost might only report the short file names but the long names are in the image.

Its still in 2gb chunks but ghost seems to cope fine.

Deano