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Net boot disk limits mapped share to 2GB
Name: R Braswell Date: February 1, 2001 at 21:05:54 Pacific
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I know I can't be the only one down this road. Same old scenario. Network boot disk to dump ghost image to shared drive. I am using a Windows 98 boot disk and I can map drives successfully to a Win2K workstation. The problem is the share has a 2GB limitation. I tried this with a 12GB share and another 8GB share. Same thing. Only shows 2GB available from the machine booted from network boot disk. Is this a FAT16 problem? Why doesn't Windows 98 format the diskette at FAT32? Do I have a downlevel NETBEUI setup? Are there any newer DOS networking files available? I have spent a lot of time everywhere looking for this, but there doesn't seem to be any insight on symantec, microsoft, NT forums you name it. I can't be the first to fight this nasty little problem.
Name: Mahlon Hollway Date: February 2, 2001 at 09:24:25 Pacific
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Its not a limit of the Bootdisk, it's a limit of the network redirector. It can only calculate up to 2 GB and so that is what it reports. It should not be limiting anything but the reported size. The free space reported will be accurate once the amount of free space is below 2GB.
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Response Number 2
Name: R Braswell Date: February 2, 2001 at 14:20:22 Pacific
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Thanks for the update. One other question. Is there anyway to 'trick' the network redirector into reporting more. I still have the same problem. Ghost is telling me that my image file will exceed 2GB and it can't proceed even though there is more than enough space out there. Any tricks? Thanks for the feedback.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mahlon Hollway Date: February 5, 2001 at 14:19:48 Pacific
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I don't think you can trick it. The MS net.exe program for the boot disks is an old 16 bit app, so I think it's a hard set limit to 2GB. I don't know of anyone that supplies a 32-bit DOS client. Novell might have one, but I don't know for sure. There should be an option in Ghost to ignore space checking...Could not find one. But you can use the option so split the image into smaller files "-split=x" where x= a size in MB. Set it to 1024 or something and it should run fine.
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Response Number 4
Name: Mike Mullin Date: February 17, 2002 at 14:13:45 Pacific
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Yes, I believe there is a limitation in the Client for Microsoft Networks redirector, because if you use the DIR command on a local disk, the correct size is reported. A boot disk made with Win95(osr2) or newer files can see local large partitions properly, but when connected to a network, the same boot disk only reports 2gb available on any network disk. This causes Ghost programs to prompt you to span a disk image that will be greater than 2.1gb.If someone finds updated driver files for the Microsoft client, please let me know. Thank you
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