Hi all,
I'm using a Symantec Ghost v11 USB-bootable flash drive to load PC-DOS and Ghost v11 with network drivers. The device works fine on computers that can boot USB natively, but when used in conjunction with the PLoP boot manager, I receive the error "Error closing file." This error occurs just after the program loads the network drivers.
Thanks in advance.
hi,
maybe ghost is trying to write something to the usb device, but the boot manager does not allow writing to the usb device.
i don't have ghost to test/check this.
regards
elmar
Actually, it does. I did not think of that. Is it possible to enable write support on the usb device?
its possible to load another usb driver from dos to enable usb writing. but you have to work with a ram disk and disable the plop usb driver before you load the other usb driver.
or you copy the ghost program to the ram disk and start it from there
Could you help me out on how I might accomplish that?
The Ghost usb drive works like this:
It scans for which network adapter is present, then writes to a file on the drive in order to load the correct drive later in the process. It then loads pc-dos and the proper network driver, followed by Ghost, itself.
Device=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 32767 /E
this creates a 32mb ramdisk using the extended ram (himem.sys)
change your scripts that you make all write operations on the ramdisk.