Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: GHOST 11.0 Corporate
started by: tridy
Posted by tridy on Feb. 09 2012,11:33
Hi.
I have Ghost 11 Corporate bootable cd iso that I want to integrate into EasyBoot. When I run ISO in the emulator to boot it up, it starts MSDOS, creates D drive, then somehow copies files there including GHOST\GHOST.EXE there and runs it.

So, ISO file has the files that get copied to D drive on boot.
I looked inside the BIF file and viewed AUTOEXEC file:

QUOTE
@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+01:00
mscdex /L:D /d:mscd001
MOUSE.COM
\net\netbind.com
echo Loading Ghost...
D:
cd \ghost
GHOST.EXE -nousb

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END


I cannot see any command there that would be creating folder or copying files to D drive? Inside the BIF file there is also an empty GHOST folder which I am wondering about.


If I extract bootable BIF file from ISO, it's of the size of 1 floppy disk (1 474 560).

So, how I go from here, having ISO and BIF to having one IMG file to run? Do I need to create an image and extract files from both BIF and ISO? I got stuck here. Again, how do all the files from ISO appear on D drive that gets created after the boot? I think I totally misunderstand how it works.

The second question is -- what is a proper way of running it from EasyBoot?

thanks
Posted by balder on Feb. 09 2012,12:02
@ tridy

Quote: "Inside the BIF file there is also an empty GHOST folder which I am wondering about?"
Sure, but not empty inside ISO-file

This is DOS (Disk-Operative-System) :)

A brief explanation:

mscdex /L:D /d:mscd001 <driver that set CD\DVD-unit letter to D:
MOUSE.COM  <launch mouse support (might not work from USB)
\net\netbind.com <This is some driver for net-support (no use of it can be skipped)
echo Loading Ghost...
D:  <<< DOS start from drive letter D:
cd \ghost  <<< 'cd' Change-Directory to folder 'ghost'
GHOST.EXE -nousb  <<< Execute GHOST.EXE withou USB support (not a bright idea these days so skip '-nousb')

This ISO of yours is simply a CD when you emulate it.

Quote: "The second question is -- what is a proper way of running it from EasyBoot?"
Copy ISO to folder EZBOOT and use menu command:  run ghost11.iso  (or whatever name you have to ISO-file)

You need to learn a lot of DOS to handle this situation :O
You can chose the long learning 'DOS-road' or the much easier (smarter) Ghost11-32-bit road :;):

Why not use one on the Internet best 'rescue-system-build' which is 'ActiveBoot5Plus' :laugh:
Try to find that ISO and you are 'home'. Ghost11-32-bit included in build with full mouse support
There is also a lot of other 'utilities' including file-manager etcetera...

Simply copy ActiveBoot5Plus.iso to folder ezboot and use menu command in Easyboot menu:  run ActiveBoot5Plus.iso  (or whatever name you use to ISO-file).
Note: works excellent from USB as well :)

regards balder

Posted by tridy on Feb. 09 2012,12:09
Of course it was the emulated ISO that was mapped to the D drive. Shame on me.

I will search for ActiveBoot5Plus.iso. thanks for the advise!