Adding packet drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard

Packet drivers are usually DOS executables (with .com or .exe file extensions) that load from the Autoexec.bat file before Symantec Ghost loads. Symantec Ghost communicates directly with the packet driver to use the services provided by the network card.

To add a packet driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard

1.

In the Template Properties window, on the Packet Driver tab, in the Driver Executable field, click Browse to locate the packet driver so that the Ghost Boot Wizard can copy the file to the current template.

Packet drivers are usually included on the driver disk supplied with the network card. If you are installing the packet driver from the original disks that came with your network interface card, the packet driver should be in a directory called Packet or Pktdrv. The driver date lets you check whether you have the latest driver.

2.

In the Parameters field, type the command-line parameters if the network card requires them.

These parameters vary from driver to driver and are usually optional with plug-and-play network cards. Consult the documentation that came with the network card. This is often in the form of a Readme.txt file in the same directory as the driver itself.

3.

In the Mode drop-down list select Select Automatically to let Ghost determine the best multicasting mode based on the information in the packet driver.

If the Select Automatically mode does not work, try Receive Mode 5. If that does not work, try Receive Mode 6.

4.

Click OK to continue creating the boot package.

You can also to add additional drivers or programs or customize the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files of the resulting boot package. If you edit Autoexec.bat ensure that the same changes are made to Autoexec.bat on both disks in the floppy disk set.