Thanks for posting this to the forum. I was in the works to create a Ghost when I saw this. I'll check it out this weekend (hopefully) and post my results next week.
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Always try the MS KB first before posting.
MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;KBHOWTO
And the answer could have already been posted, so try searching this and other newsgroups first.
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Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org
"ServerBootDisk2GBLimit" <emailpwstuff@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:81c6aa84.0412011710.287269d4@posting.google.c om...
I have a HP 580 server with 3gb of memory and a HP 740 server with 8
gb of memory. I was trying to use a network boot disk to ghost the
server image and was running across memory errors due to boot disks
having a 2gb memory limit.
I found a network boot disk (below) that did not have the 2gb memory
limit error.
Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for Microsoft Networks
http://www.users.on.net/~driver/bootdisk/index.htm
http://www.users.on.net/~driver/bootdisk/cards.htm (many cards)
This bootdisk solved my 2 gb memory limitation. I was able to boot and
ghost both servers.
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Teledata boot disk had the same error even after I tried this
solution: device=himem.sys /numhandles=128
http://tdonline.com/initialpage.htm
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http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
I drove home to get an old set of dos 6.22 disks (never got the chance
to install and use himem.sys)...
Barts boot disk gave me the same error after I had this message and
tried this solution:
The xmsdsk.exe (ramdrive application) does not seem to be able to
function correctly on computers with more than 2GB of RAM. I keep
getting the error "XMS get free mem error.".
Yes, I think this is a bug in xmsdsk.exe the author (Franck Uberto)
does not have a machine with this amount of memory, so it's not easy
for him to fix it. But here is a workaround: Replace the himem.sys
with himem.sys v3.10 (from Dos 6.22), this will provide 64MB XMS
memory as the maximum and xmsdsk.exe will not fail.
jun 16, 2003 - Updated note! Someone mailed me that removing the "/t"
parameter for loading xmsdsk.exe solved his problem...
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Both Teledata and Barts bootdisks are superior to the Universal TCP/IP
Network Bootdisk but the Universal gets around the 2gb limits on
memory without any modifications. great for server booting.
