Hi, I need some help, I have a Dell C600 that came with a built in 3com 10/100 Mini PCI nic. I need to be able to make a ghost image of the machine up to our network (tcp/ip)and pull down the image to similar laptops in the future. I'm not sure if it matters but I am running NT on the laptop, and using Norton Ghost as my imaging software. Any help is muchly appreciated. EJ

With ghost 2001 you can pull images from other computers on a network, is this the version that you have? If so you'll have to use the network boot wizard and specify either a static IP or dynamic when the computer boots and the computer with the image has to be running ghost software as the other computer that is booting comes online, I've done it with a Windows2000 image awhile ago so I'm not sure of the full details, but I could research again if you need more info. Hope this helps. Email me if it works, I'd like to hear about it.

EJ, What is the Network Operating system of your file server. To do what you want to do you will need to boot from DOS, load drivers for your NIC and Log-in to your Network File Server. Now, usually, everything you need to create this Boot disk is included on the Drive Floppies or CD that came with your NIC Card, except for the DOS files themselves. I do this using my Netware File server and it works great. The biggest difficulity is locating the necessary files. If they weren't included on the NIC's Driver Disk, then I would be going to thier web site and looking there. If you can't find them there, I'd send them a e-mail. To be honest, 3com usually has everything you need right on the cd-rom or floppy disks. It's dependant on your File Server OS to determine what files you need. If you are logging in a Netware 5.0 server let me know, I can e-mail you files that work with standard 3-com cards. Wayne

Try Bootdisk.com Glenn