Setup Bart PE and Ghost How to

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The first requirement of this How to is that you already installed Bart PE and that you have a windows installation disk so that it can pull the windows files that it needs.

You want to install the network interface card or NIC drivers to Bart PE and if your hard drive is SATA then you want to add the SATA drivers.

To add network drivers to the boot CD you want to go to C:\pebuilder3110a\drivers\Net. For every new NIC you want to create a folder.

To add SCSI adaptors or Sata adaptors then you want to go into the following directory C:\pebuilder3110a\drivers\SCSIAdapter. You will add a new folder for the new adaptor.

To get BartPE to map a drive and load the network I had to change two files in C:\pebuilder3110a\plugin\penetcfg folder. The two files that I changed were penetcfg-dhcp.ini and autorun0penetcfg.cmd.

In the file autorun0penetcfg.cmd I have the following

@echo off
title Starting Network Support
call %SystemRoot%\system32\penetcfg.exe /UseProfile:penetcfg-dhcp.ini
rem call mstcp.cmd
exit

This will load the penetcfg-dhcp.ini file at starting the network support.

In the file penetcfg-dhcp.ini has the following

[NetAdapter1]
EnableDHCP=Yes
UseStaticGateway=No
UseStaticDNS=No
UseStaticWINS=No
IPAddress=
SubnetMask=
DefaultGateway=
DNSServer=

[NetID]
Workgroup=workgroup

[NetDrive1]
; Drive = * (to use the first available drive letter)
Drive = J: ;this is the network drive letter that you want
NetworkPath = the path to the network share that holds the images
UserName = the user that has access to the network share
; Password = (leave it empty to be prompted for a password)
Password = the password of the user that has access to the network share

This file will enable DHCP and will map the drive for us.

To add ghost 8 to BartPE application you will need to add couple of ghost files.

ghost32.exe
ghostcdr.dll
ghostexp.exe
ghostsrv.exe

You want to place them in C:\pebuilder3110a\plugin\ghost8\files. You will then want to go to the plugins window.

Here you can add, remove, enable and disable plugins for the BartPE environment
The first plugin that I enabled is Boot fix (enabling “Press any key to boot from CD).
The next and important plugin is Symantec Ghost 8. You want to highlight Symantec and click enable.

You are done in the plugin screen. You just want to click Close. You will go back to the main screen of PE Builder.

Type a name for the folder that will hold your files. I called mine Computers. I then click on create ISO Image and it will automatically create the ISO image. When you are ready to build the image then click on BUILD button. I then went to a computer that has the capability to burn to a CD. You should be all set to create a new network bootable CD that will be easier to use and add drivers to.

This is really easy to setup once you get it working. I like this setup because it is easy to add network drivers and SATA drivers if you need to. BartPE will automatically pick the drivers and use them. I just wanted to share this with everyone on How I set this up at work.

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Craig Kitts on January 12th, 2009 6:23 pm

do you have the iso of this bartpe disc with ibm lenovo r400 nic drives and sata drivers. I am looking for this cd. I have older versions but I am having a difficult time creating the cd.
Administrator on January 12th, 2009 6:37 pm

No I do not have an ISO with the SATA and NIC drivers. I downloaded all the drivers from the IBM site for the R400. Thanks Greg Ellison
Bart PE and Ghost | Greg Ellison on March 10th, 2009 6:37 am

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lakshmikanth on March 28th, 2012 5:53 am

Dear Greg

how to find out whether the image on particular, system is pulled using BART PE or any other imaging software