Question : DOS TCP/IP Network bootdisk to ghost PCs on a network share drive

I have used internet sources, www.netbootdisk.com to create a universal TCP\IP DOS network bootdisk. I can perfectly boot multiple PCs and laptops through the network to a server share drive and execute Symantec ghost (version 8.0 or 2003). I also can perfectly download ghost files from the server in to the client PCs. But while uploading files to the server (ghosting a client pc on a server, 200GB share drive) ghost spans the file and eventually stops by 2047MB and asks to brows to other drive because no enough space available. I know that DOS causes this issue and not ghost but I couldnt find out where in DOS and how to fix it.  Please advise& / Thanks - Ramin

Answer : DOS TCP/IP Network bootdisk to ghost PCs on a network share drive

You are right . . . this has got to be some kind of limitation with DOS, not with anything else.  Ufortunately, I remember using this kind of boot disk back in the days when all the machines in my company still had Windows NT 4.0.  Windows 2000 was still in beta.  That was over 8 years ago, which is ancient in the world of computers :-)  6GB hard drives were common back then, and it was unlikely you'd be backing up more than a couple gigs of crap most of the time.

Have you thought about using a PE disk instead?  Whenever I need to boot a computer into a sandbox, I always use either a WinPE disc or a Knoppix disc.  I haven't used DOS in years.  But then again, I haven't used Ghost in years either :-)