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    Has anyone tried creating custom boot discs for the new Optiplex 755 with the Intel network cards? I've been unsuccessful, & I'm fairly sure that I'm using the right process. I created custom discs for the 745 w/ the Broadcom network card & it worked fine. If anyone has any ideas, it would be appreciated. Thanks!

    I've tried repeatedly w/out success. I even tried to ghost the machine onto the 2nd hard drive, with the thought that I could then transfer it between computers, thus saving me about 2-3 hours of installations & cutting the total time for computer implementation to about 45 min. per computer. Even this didn't fully work. I'm able to ghost to the 2nd hard drive, but I can't run sysprep. If I run sysprep, the computer won't reboot (I'm running XP Pro SP2)

I'm sorry if missed something in your post, but I'm not clear on how this allows you to access the network card using ghost. I will try to change the SATA operation, but I don't know how the Ultimate Boot CD will allow me to run Ghost. Thanks!

I posted this in another post here maybe this will work for you:


I have not touched the 755 yet, but on some d610's and d630's my dos boot cd would not work. (command.com error)
I have used barts boot cd ( http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/ ) and modified it to boot right into ghost.
It uses Linux to boot up and then loads dos, then you can run ghost. An added benefit is you only need it capture a a boot floppy with some Linux cdrom drivers after that you can add a directory with all your nic drivers and any other programs as big as a cd will handle.

Works on all the computers I have here (except for a 745 highend, some himem issue)


Message Edited by Peter ostrowski on 10-29-2007 12:41 PM

Message Edited by David.Poprik on 11-27-2007 10:29 AM

not sure how long this link will work.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2775&OSFullName=DOS&lang=eng&strOSs=5&submit=Go%21

you can search Intel's site for the 82566 driver.

Either use the UNDI universal driver or if you want the Intel pro 1000 you will need to grab the new e1000.dos file from intel's website add overwrite the old one located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Intel PRO 1000\

For the multi-template drivers to work, you will also need to add the PCI tag for the 82566 NIC in the mcassist.cfg file. Open it w/ notepad and add the following line at the bottom:

PCI-TAG = 8086 10BD : Intel Pro 1000$

Now when you create a boot disk w/ the wizard the multi-template driver w/ the pro 1000 will work for the 755.

Cheers,
-Ben
 

Message Edited by boot image on 01-08-2008 08:34 AM

Excellent solution MagnumVP.  That worked for me right off the bat.

Also for Vista Ghosters, be sure to run these DOS commands in Vista just before Ghosting:

BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice boot

Does anyone get the Intel 82566DM-2 working with a gigabit network connection? My card connects only with 100mbps to the gigabit switch.

Well I'm in the same boat. I have 15 new Dell 755 Optiplex machines. I have updated Ghost Console to 2.0.1. I am running the latest driver from Dell for the 82566DM nic.

The problem is that I can't find e1000.dos anywhere. I have tried Intel's site, no luck. If I try to install the proper driver from Intel it says there is no device present. In device manager it clearly shows an Intel 82566DM network card.

I have tried the Dell drivers and utilities cd that came with the worksations, but e1000.dos is not there.

Could someone give me a link to where I can grab it or maybe send it to me in an email?

Also, when I go into the properties for the workstation in Ghost console, I see "Unknown PCI identifiers:32902:4285" listed under Use Suggested Template (which is grayed out). I have tried the Intel Pro 1000 drivers but it fails when going to a virtual partition like others have noted.

Message Edited by eS on 02-28-2008 10:40 AM

Ok, I found e1000.dos in the Dell driver R162323. It is dated 1-30-2007 and 56.2kb.

I replaced the dos template e1000.dos with this one, then rebooted the pc. I still get the same error above.

Thanks eS
Unfortunately that didn't work either.

Are you running XP or Vista? The reason I ask is maybe that is why my driver date for the Pro 1000 differs.

Would you be able to point me to where you downloaded the Intel drivers with that date?

Search for "PRODOS.EXE" from the Intel.com site.  The PRODOS driver usually works fine with the 755s.  Also make sure that you use the appropriate SATA switches with Ghost (-noide -ffx -fni).

If all fails, you could create a Windows PE disk that contains Ghost32.  That way you won't have to worry about the SATA operation mode or deal with DOS drivers.  The only downside is that it's a little time consuming to build.

Make sure that you plug the USB flashdisk to the back of the PC, not the front.  Often times the port on the front is just a USB hub.

Using ghost11.5 and am also having issues with 755's

I use a network boot disc from here http://www.netbootdisk.com/
and set it to run a batch file to map to the ghost.exe file and some network shares
below is the one I use for multi casting (boots, starts ghost and auto joins multicast session called multi
Just ditch the -clone,mode=restore,src=@MCmulti,dst=1 -batch -quiet and you just end up in ghost.

Have to set the bios to legacy mode thou which is a bit cack.

---x:itsbuilds-----g:studentbuild------h:staff------
net use h: \\casper\images
net use g: \\casper\images2
net use x: \\itsbuilds\csrbuilds
x:
x:ghost -clone,mode=restore,src=@MCmulti,dst=1 -batch -quiet -sure -rb
REM
REM Note: the -rb = reboot when done :)

We have just had a Optiplex 755 delivered with the intel 82566DM-2 NIC to create a master image as we are expecting another 73 machines.

Im having trouble booting into ghost and getting the Unicast and multicast options to show. I am booting off a USB key, and the boot to the menu from the USB key works fine, and ghost boots. We have an autoexec.bat file on the USB, which is here

 

@echo off
cls
prompt $p$g
Common\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM

cls
Goto %config%

REM =======================================
:BootDELL755

ECHO Loading Ghost Boot for Dell 755

GOTO GHOST2

REM =======================================

@ECHO OFF

:Ghost1

cd \Common
echo Loading Ghost...
GHOST.EXE
GOTO END

REM =================

:Ghost2

cd \Common
echo Loading Ghost...
GHOST.EXE -FNI
REM ===== END ======

:END

 

and the config.sys file here:

 

[menu]
menucolor=1,3
menuitem=BootDELL755,SetUp to Boot Ghost with Intel NIC - Dell 755
[common]

[BootDELL755]
DEVICE=DELL755\protman.dos /I:\DELL755
DEVICE=DELL755\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=DELL755\e1000.dos

 

 

In the folders on the USB key, i have got a folder called DELL755 and in here is the e1000.dos file and protocol.ini (both from the folder from the intel site), protman.dos, netbind.com, protman.exe and DIS_PKT.dos.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thanks

Tim

FIXED!!!!!

 

Have managed to successfully create a bootdisk with menus that will work from a USB key and boot into ghost on an Optiplex 755 machine.

If anyone wants to know how, it takes about 3 mins to do, and requires 3 files from me, PM me and ill send them over with instructions. This has been tested out on 2 other networks and they said it worked fine.

Tim

Hi Timbo_343

 

Would you be kind enough to help me creating image of Dell Optiplex 755? Since this machine doesn't have floppy disk, we're having problems creating image of the HD. I tried using hiren 9.5 with its cloning utilites like norton ghost 11 but it doesn't seem to recognize the the cd-rom drive. Hope you can provide me a code or something like ghost boot cd to download for us to use with our new machines in creating ghost images. Thank you.

What you need to do is extract the extcd.sys driver from the dell ResourceCD and put it on your boot disk and change your config.sys file Add DEVICE=A:\extcd.sys /d:mscd001 and it will load the driver for the dvd drive.......

Hi,

 

I have the same your problem Dell optiplex 755 + Ghost 8.

I need your files and the instruction to solve this problem.

 

Many thanks in advance.

Ciao Angelo

 

Sorry for my bad English.

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I'm using Ghost version 8 and having problems getting the floppy disks to boot. I've tried everything you guys suggested here for the Optiplex 755s and i've got 8 of them to ghost. I've come close a few times to it working, but when it gets into the ghost screen it freezes up. Not sure what's causing that.

 

Managed to get it to boot into ghost without network capabilities though.

 

Timbo_343 if you don't mind could you send me them instructions and files you used to create your Optiplex 755 boot or post them on here it would help everyone greatly.

Timbo,

I am also having issues with this as well, could you send me the information?

Thanks in advance!!

Sure, can you send me an email address please.

 

Thanks

 

Tim

Please send info also.

 

Thanks,

 

Larry

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Hello Timbo,

 

please send me the files, thanks in advance.

 

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Ciao

 

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This has been driving half our department crazy for some time now. Would much appreciate it if you could show us the light.

 

Thanks

 

Billy

Hi Billy

Can you PM me your email address?

Thanks

Sent, Thanks in advance.

 

Billy

Does anybody have a step by step of this process using the virtual partition ?

I've tried adding a new template driver using the dell/intel drivers mentioned but it still doesn't work.

 

I must be missing some paramaters I guess.  I have no problems taking an image from a USB stick and saving it to the stick.

 

Thanks

I just followed mrguitar suggestion on page 3.

 

This worked great.  many thanks !!!

I'd like to confirm what jcccomputer said. The extcd.sys driver does allow you to create a bootable CD for the 755 WITHOUT having to set the BIOS to Legacy mode. If you use this driver, the gccdrom.sys driver can be removed. I've also got the extcd.sys driver to work with the following Dell models: Optiplex 745, Optiplex 755, OptiPlex 760, Latitude E6400, Latitude E5400.

 

Thanks jcccomputer, you saved me a headache.

Create a boot diskette in Ghost 7 or 8 for an Intel 1000 card. Then download the PRODOS.EXE file from Intel and replace the e1000.DOS file in the NET folder of the ghost boot diskette with the one from the PRODOS.EXE installation of the same name. Done.

You can find that file here:

http://www.infodesics.com/share/e1000.zip

I use it for all my Optiplex 620, 745, and 755.