need connectivity between DOS & W2K

[Bob T]

I am trying to restore a Ghost image, running under DOS
(Win98s vs) to to it's partition on a W2k system.

It won't go. something went wrong making a change in the
cluster size using Partition Magic 8.0. I can restore
that partition from a backup (before the cluster change)
but it is an old backup.

W2K, DOS, PM reported the imaged drive is no longer
formatted. But, when I ran a save image on it, you could
see it pulling down each file, so I know they are there.
I just need to find a way to get them back to their
original drive.

I want to try to restore the bad back up, running under
DOS to another W2K machine on the network and see if that
will work. Then I could go back to W2K and move the files
across.

The systems see each other fine in W2K. I can ping them
and get their TCP/IP address but neither sees each other
when one is in DOS (W98 DOS). I'm running through a
switch.

Can you direct me to info on how to temporarily setup my
network, so that there is connectivity between DOS and
W2K? I knew how to do this in NT4 to DOS, but am at a
loss for W2K to DOS.

Searching the KB hasn't helped. (I assume that my DOS
(W98)boot has to be made into a network boot? will that
do it? Let the systems see each other?

Can someone help with answers or direct me to KBs that
will help?

Thank you.

 

[serverguy]

The problems you are having are most likely related to the ntfs file system.
Win9x uses Fat or Fat32(larger partitions), which Win2K can also use, but if
it is using ntfs, the dos boot disk won't see it. However, it may not need
to see it if you are using a newer version of Ghost. If there is nothing
else on the drive, just delete all partitions, then fire up ghost and see if
it will restore the image. Ghost doesn't care about partitions or
formatting. As long as there is enough free space on the drive, it can put
an image on it.
As for connecting two pcs under dos, yes, you will need a network boot disk.
The one I use is here:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/