Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: Run Aconis TrueImage by EasyBoot menu
started by: xoben
Posted by xoben on Nov. 13 2003,23:03
Acronis products can make bootable floppies (3-4 floppies), unpack all files to one folder, and add them to the sample image: < http://www.ezbsvs.com/download/acro5760.zip > by WinImage, you can get the floppy image which can be used by EasyBoot.

Note: This method works with TrueImage 6 only. For TrueImage 7, please see < http://www.ezbsys.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=23 >
Posted by LP on Nov. 17 2003,10:33
Hello ,
i've tried several versions of easyboot and it's a very good program,
I discovered how to put into easyboot some ISO cd images of acronis Products .
First of all , buy the full version of acronis 2003
then after the installation create the bootable CD .
Use winiso or ultraiso to create the cd image .
Then open the image with winiso and extract the boot sector (You can also use UltraISO to extract the boot sector from the orginal CD, directly - Martinx.), The boot sector extracted (boot.wbt for example) is long some MB and contains almost the whole iso data .
So , put the boot.wbt into the boot directory of the easyboot project , and then set the command : bootinfotable;run boot.wbt
then create the easyboot cd and try to run it .
(it should better to have microsoft virtual pc or vmware workstation installed)
In some cases this method couldn'twork (maybe a problem of the diskemu bootinfotable command).
bye

LP[I][/I]
Posted by wn on Nov. 18 2003,23:27
Hi
I have tried xoben's suggestion, but the newly created image keep asking to "insert disk 2" although all files are inside the image.

I have not yet tried LP's suggestion.

Bye
Posted by wn on Nov. 19 2003,22:45
Hi
I have tried LP's suggestion and it works. Thank you.

The following commands are explained in the help file:
run
boot 0/80
reboot

I have seen in the forum:
bootinfotable

1. What does this last command do?
2. What other commands are available?

Thank you
Posted by _LP_ on Nov. 20 2003,04:56
Well , bootinfotable , is one of the undocumented commands of the diskemu boot loader used by easyboot.
If you want to know more about this command , you'll easily find it through a google search .
bye

LP
Posted by urie on Dec. 04 2003,13:33
I have also tried LP's method and it works for trueimage v6 but not for trueimage server v7, anyone got any ideas

thanks
Posted by martinx on Dec. 06 2003,23:24
EasyBoot version 4.55 will help you to create large image (blank) up to 46.08MB, then you can put all files from floppys created by Acronis.
Posted by Ypsos on Dec. 12 2003,17:19
Is there not a way to edit bootwiz.cfg
that stop asking for place disk 3 etc.?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[BootMgr]
AUTOMATIC ON
QUIET ON
[TrueImage]
ECHO Starting Acronis True Image...
RUN splash.run
RUN ramdisk.exe /d timage.bin
VGA VESA
MBRCRCS ON
INITRD y:\ramdisk.dat /S
KERNEL y:\kernel.dat quiet
---------------------------------------------------------------------
timage1.bin
timage2.bin
timage3.bin
timage4.bin
timage5.bin

or join the timage.bin files to one
Posted by Hannes on Dec. 13 2003,13:32
I've been struggling with this same issue for 2 days now as well. The big hurdle for me is trying to figure out how to take the boot sector information over from the physical first floppy to the large disk image.

I guess you would need an intial Linux based "Seed Image".

If anyone figures out how on earth to do this I would be eteranally grateful!

Once the image is made bootable we should just be able to copy the contents of the first floppy over along with the timagex.bin files from floppies 2-5 and we should be good to go (I hope!).

Hannes
Posted by h-h-j@gmx.de on Jan. 01 2004,17:27
Use Nero6, make bootable CD.In autoexec.bat you can give your commands like PQDI ( of coursé you have to copy the PQ Prog onto the Cd. I got my 4 GB iage on a bootable DVD, theres nothing to it
Posted by MeinerEiner on Jan. 17 2004,17:29
The image is to small for my german version newest build. I need a greater image for True Image 6 and True Image Server 6 german.
My CD with the command : bootinfotable;run boot.wbt don't boot.

Thanks
MeinerEiner
Posted by mezar on Jan. 22 2004,20:22
Quote (Guest @ Nov. 19 2003,04:27)
Hi
I have tried xoben's suggestion, but the newly created image keep asking to "insert disk 2" although all files are inside the image.

I have not yet tried LP's suggestion.

Bye

how i can make bootable cd with 9disk ?
thank you
Posted by mezar on Jan. 22 2004,20:24
Quote (Guest @ Jan. 23 2004,01:22)
Quote (Guest @ Nov. 19 2003,04:27)
Hi
I have tried xoben's suggestion, but the newly created image keep asking to "insert disk 2" although all files are inside the image.

I have not yet tried LP's suggestion.

Bye

how i can make bootable cd with 9disk ?
thank you

waht about tow disk ?
Posted by jen on Feb. 22 2004,13:48
Does anyone have step by step instructions on how to create multiboot linux (Suse or Redhat Linux) and windows(Win XP) CD.  I do not have an iso for linux available, only bootable cds.:blues:
Posted by i8ntda1 on Jun. 07 2004,01:52
Can you elaborate how you got your 4GB image from PQ onto DVD? Thanks