It's probably (from the sound of it) not the corrupt floppy image, but
if it is, simply installing MP2 will get rid of the corrupt floppy
issue.

It "smells" like you need a different version of the DOS driver.



-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Brooks,
Jason
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:44 PM
To: Karl.Rossing AT federated DOT ca
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows

And do you have it documented how to delete the archived images?
Shareable? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Karl.Rossing AT federated DOT ca
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: Brooks, Jason
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows
> 
> 
> Two things come to mind 
> 
> 1) problem with emm386/himem and the dos nic driver
> 2) boot floppy image on the bmr server is corrupt 
> 
> I havn't had a problem with 1) but i have had a problem with 
> a corrupted floppy on the server with BMR 6.0MP1. I had to 
> contact support and have them walk me threw deleting the 
> image in the BMR/netbackup database. 
> 
> You are not at the point of the mac address yet. that will 
> come later after windows is installed. Count on more fun to come. 
> 
> Hope that helps. 
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 04/04/2006 
> 01:10:20 PM:
> 
> > I'm testing BMR and trying a somewhat complex restore for 
> the first try.
> > We've done a BMR backup of one of our Windows servers and I 
> am trying 
> > to restore it to another box, our old BackupExec server.  Both are 
> > Dell boxes, but different models.
> > 
> > I've created a custom boot disk using the DOS NIC and MSD 
> drivers for 
> > the restore client.  I've looked through the BMR Sys Admin 
> guide and 
> > saw several references to doing something with the new MAC address, 
> > but I never saw what to do.  So, here's what happens:
> > 
> > With the boot disk in, started a restore process and rebooted the 
> > restore client.
> > 
> > It goes through the normal post operations and then:
> > 
> > Starting PC Dos...
> > 
> > IBM RAMDrive ver 3.10 virtual disk C:
> > Disk Size: 2048K
> > Sector: 512 bytes
> > AllocationUnit: 2 Sectors
> > Directory Entries: 64
> > 
> > And then it just sets there.  I've tried generic boot disk, custom.
> > I've copied the current config on my BMR'd Windows box, and 
> tried the 
> > restore with that config.  Still nada.
> > 
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> > 
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