When Trying to Save an Image to a CD/DVD Burner, the Device Does Not Show Up in Ghost
We have all seen at the end of the boot wizard, when selecting your media package, the option for 'Support for bootable cd/dvds'. This option is supposed to make it so, when it is selected you can choose your cd-burner as a destination drive for your image. What it also does, is makes the first disk of your image set; bootable.
This has been a constant frustration for me as a tech to help customer's find a resolution.
Most times, the cd-burner does not appear. Instead of messing around with GCDROM.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE. A simple way around this is to as soon as you boot up into Ghost, remove the media from the drive. Then proceed through Ghost. The cd-burner should appear as a valid destination.
I have tested the multiple times, not only for my own purposes, but also with customers. Thank you!!
Version is important
I just wanted to point out that version 11.5.0.2141 or later is necessary for making bootable CD/DVD image set, because earlier versions on the Ghost Boot Wizard will not allow adding files larger than 500MB.
Adding image file at the end of the boot wizard....
Hello Randy,
Thank you for the reply. If you are referring to adding image files at the end of the boot wizard, during the sections labeled 'add additional file' then as far I know it is not recommended to do this.
The reason being is that when a client is booted with a disk there has to be enough RAM to hold the contents of the bootable media. If an image is added to the bootable media via the boot wizard then there has to be at least that much available RAM to contain all the boot files and the image file. That can get pretty large. Of course my interpretation could be incorrect. But that is how it was explained to me by Shawn.
You are correct, although...
You are correct in that adding additional files go into the RAM. However, if you add additional files (such as your image file) but make sure it goes into a folder (you can specify the folder) then it will not load that into the RAM, just make it accesible while booted into the PreOS. As Randy said, this can only be done in build 2141 or later.
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