Boot disks with drive mapping network support

When your computers need to access a network drive, use the Ghost Boot Wizard to create boot disks that map a drive letter to a shared resource on a network server. This lets you use the local option in Ghost.exe to access a network drive.

Ghost.exe is not included on the boot disk set, it is run from the network drive.

To create a boot disk that supports mapping network drives

1.

In the Ghost Boot Wizard window, click Drive Mapping Boot Disk.

2.

Click Next.

3.

Select the network driver for the particular make and model of the network card installed on the computer.

If the correct driver is not in the list, add the driver.

You can add more than one driver to the boot package.

4.

Click Next.

5.

Select one of the following:

Providing MS-DOS

6.

Click Get MS Client and browse to the MS-DOS Client files to include the Microsoft Client files if you are using MS-DOS.

If you are using MS-DOS, you must include the Microsoft DOS Client files. You must install the files on the Ghost Boot Wizard computer before you can include them in the boot package.

7.

Click Next.

8.

In the Client Computer Name field, type the name of the client computer.

This specifies the name of the computer after it starts from the floppy disk and does not have to be the same name given to the computer in Windows. If you create more than one disk, a number is added to the computer name so that the names for subsequent disks are unique.

9.

In the User Name field, type the user name that the boot disk will use to log on to the network.

This user must exist on the network and have sufficient access rights to the mapped network drive, files, and directories that you want to use.

10.

In the Domain field, type the domain to which the user belongs.

11.

In the Drive Letter field, select a drive letter to access a network share through a mapped drive.

Select a drive letter greater than any existing drive letter.

12.

If you want to prevent the boot package from mapping a drive when the computer starts, click None.

In this case, map a drive from the DOS prompt after the computer has started.

13.

In the Maps To field, type the complete UNC path to the network share.

For example, to access a shared folder named Ghost on a computer named Boss, the UNC path is \\Boss\Ghost.

14.

Click Next.

15.

Do one of the following:

16.

Click Next.

17.

In the Floppy Disk Drive field, select the appropriate drive letter.

18.

In the Number of disks to create field, select the number of disks that you want to create.

19.

Ensure that Format disk(s) First is checked to format the disks before disk creation.

Ensure that this option is checked unless you are creating a custom boot disk with custom system files. If this option is unchecked, the boot disk is not bootable.

20.

Ensure that Quick Format is checked to perform a quick format.

21.

Click Next.

22.

Review the boot disk details and click Next to start creating the boot disks.

Follow the prompts to format the disks and create a boot disk set.