openbsd-flipp
12-13-2004, 10:55 AM
Heres the deal. Where I work we have ghost images for every type of computer out in use. We use a naming such as Model/location/department for each image. For example hppavilionFPadmin would be an admin's pavilion in frankiln park. Now the porblem is that some of our new computers are arriving without floppy drives or even a channel for the floppy disk. With the ghost boot flopppy being crap we have turned to using Bart's network boot disk and swapping out the disk with a floppy that has ghost.exe on it. Upon noticing the lack of floppy controller card I decided to make things a little easier by creating a boot cd with all the required files on it.
The first thing that I did was create a new boot floppy.
to do this I got the boot creation program from http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
I then extracted the files to d:\bfd.
next run "d:\bfd\bfd msnt" and follow the instructions.
after that you will have a msnet boot floppy. I took this floppy to a openbsd machine and as root typed "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/flipp/boot.img".{ This command will work on any standard unix/linux box with just changing the fd0 to your floppy drive device and /home/flipp to /home/(you)}
next I ftped into the openbsd box from the windows machine to grab the boot.img file. I opened it using WinImage and converted it from a 1.44 meg image to a 2.88meg image. All that was left was to copy ghost.exe to the root directory of the image.
finally I went into nero and choose bootable cdrom. you have to select 2.88 floppy emulation to get this to burn properly but it was just a matter of burning this image to a cd and booting it on another system.
The first thing that I did was create a new boot floppy.
to do this I got the boot creation program from http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
I then extracted the files to d:\bfd.
next run "d:\bfd\bfd msnt" and follow the instructions.
after that you will have a msnet boot floppy. I took this floppy to a openbsd machine and as root typed "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/flipp/boot.img".{ This command will work on any standard unix/linux box with just changing the fd0 to your floppy drive device and /home/flipp to /home/(you)}
next I ftped into the openbsd box from the windows machine to grab the boot.img file. I opened it using WinImage and converted it from a 1.44 meg image to a 2.88meg image. All that was left was to copy ghost.exe to the root directory of the image.
finally I went into nero and choose bootable cdrom. you have to select 2.88 floppy emulation to get this to burn properly but it was just a matter of burning this image to a cd and booting it on another system.