Ghosting an XP machine

I am running Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 on Windows Server 2003.

I have a machine that has passed on.... I imaged another PC (same
model) and would like to push the image over the network via PXE boot
to do this.

I have two different types of PC's. I would like the ability to push
a generic image of each to anyone with a problem. I used this setup
in my lab when I was teaching a Cisco class last year and it was
nice. Anytime someone messed anything up, ghost it, and we are back
to normal. Easy to use but I did not set it up.

How do I accomplish this?

I installed the 3Com PXE server which came with GSS 2.0

I created the TCP/IP Network boot image using Ghost with the session
name, then set up the PXE Menu Boot file. I added the boot image to
the Menu Boot file and saved it as deploy.pxe. I then added the PC I
wanted to reimage to the BOOTPTAB file.

I started GhostCast Server and clicked accept clients for the session
name I had programmed in. I then started the PC I wanted to reimage
and received the following errors:

PXE-E79: NBP is too big to fit in free base memory
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

What am I doing wrong now?

In the quickstart guide I also see this:

Turn on the client machines and configure MBA on the
client machine to boot PXE. You can do this with either the
MBA Configuration Utility, ?MBACFG.EXE?, or press
CTRL+ALT+B when prompted at startup.

What does this do? The target machine is messed up and I need to push
a base image to it. It is picking up an IP and everything when it
boots.

I have been searching endlessly to overcome this issue. I found a post
that stated this:

"Increase the IRPSTACKSIZE. for more information refer to Microsoft
web site.
on both source and destination.

These messages appear to be due to problem with how Ghost performs
caching. To resolve the problem, use the -WS- and -WD- switches to
turn off Ghost caching:

Ghost.exe -ws- -wd-"


Any ideas? Thanks.

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