Ghosting is Slow
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Original Message
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Name: Paul M
Date: April 4, 2002 at 15:24:19 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting is Slow |
Comment: I have created a dos ghost boot disk using 3 com packet drivers.
I am basicaly ghosting a Win 2000 machine image onto another Win 2000 machine on the network wich I have set up as a server to hold ghost images.
The problem is that it is ghosting so slow just 15mb per minute and the is on a 100mbit network. The network is fine as ordinary copying in Windows is full speed.
Can somoeone tell me why my ghosing is so slow.
Cheers
Paul
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Response Number 1
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Name: garreth
Date: April 4, 2002 at 18:28:11 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting is Slow
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Reply: (edit)adding more free ram to dos might help. try to add this command in your floppy autoexec.bat file smartdrv 2048 you might have to add smartdrv.exe to the floppy.
this will give 2Mb of ram to Ghost.(add this to a floppy when installing NT4,you will be rock off your chair)You say it's a 100MB network,are the Hubs 100Mb has well? if not they are letting trafic going throu at 10Mb,not 100.any colisions on the Switches or the Hubs?Check that out. Cheers!
Garreth.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Paul M
Date: April 5, 2002 at 00:11:23 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting is Slow |
Reply: (edit)Cheers for your reply.
The network is fine there are no conflicks. I copied a 40meg file over in Windows and it took 5 seconds.
Can you tell me exactly how to add smartdrv 2048 is it a comamnd in Autoexec. And does smartdrive.exe go on to the floppy disk also?
Thanks in advance
Paul
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Response Number 3
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Name: jivesh
Date: April 5, 2002 at 20:02:48 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting is Slow
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Reply: (edit)If the machine you are ghosting is NTFS the try the ghost.exe with the -ntil switch.
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Response Number 4
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Name: David M
Date: May 16, 2002 at 00:15:24 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting is Slow
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Reply: (edit)I had the same problem as you. The problem is a documented problem with Windows 2000 when using dos based drivers to connect to the 2000 share. The solution is to run Ghost with the following parameter. ghost.exe -buffersize=8 The explanation for this can be found at: http://service4.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000101913040025 Hope this helps you.
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Response Number 5
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Name: ssphoenix
Date: May 20, 2002 at 22:06:35 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting is Slow
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Reply: (edit)The slownes of the ghost is due to the hubs and switches not haveing IGMP enabled. By default ghost will bradcaset to the entire network. Done the same thing on my cisco switche. The network lid up like a christmas tree. Enabled the IGMP and everything went away.
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