(OT) DOS <shudder> networking

[Benjamin Minshall]

Unfortunately, you're faced with very few options here.  The best thing to do
if possible is to burn a CD or Cd set with a spanned GHOST image (invoke ghost
with -SPAN=650 to break the image into 650 meg chunks)  and put ghost on a
bootdisk with CD-ROM drivers.  This is the preferred method if all of your
systems have CD drives.

If you must use the network, I recommend setting up a NetWare emulator (or just
using a NetWare server if you have one) and booting from a Novell DOS disk.
This sounds nasty, but Novell is the only network system that still has decent
DOS support.  This is method I use at work, but we have a full production
NetWare LAN.  Avoid it if you can, if not, I can get you some conf files and
stuff for DOS booting.

Stephen Weber wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Over where I'm working right now we're in an all Windows98 area. The boss
> wants to be able to use ghost from any computer, just pop in a boot disk to
> the computer to have it done to, and get the image off the network. Problem
> is, ghost is dos-based, and we can't connect from DOS.
>
> any suggestions? I'm wrestling with MS Network Client for dos, but I'd like
> to hear from you guys. Is there a Linux solution here that I could use?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Steve Weber
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