Re: The Perfect Clone: Am I doing this right?


Joseph wrote:


Depending on your virus client, you may want to put that into a post
installation script. That was always one of the final steps at my last
post, pushing Norton's to the new clients.


Yes, I thought about this - but what I figured was to put the
unregistered version of the software on the image, then after each
client is built, register the copy of Norton Internet Security on the
client (I have 25 licenses on hand). Hopefully, that works.

2. It has Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit installed, which required
the primary partition to be downsized and free space left on the end of
the drive, to allow for the 'scratchpad' area for the toolkit to keep
track of changes made to the computer, which are wiped out upon reboot
(sort of like DeepFreeze).

Does this require a secondary partition or just free space? I have not
had the time to play with it.


Just requires free space at the end of the Windows partition -- which
it says that it uses to create a 'protection partition'.


I am not sure about booting from the Ghost CD. One of the utilities
installed by ghost is a boot disk builder. This is what I have used to
boot a machine to ghost it. I have retired the boot floppies in favor
of a custom BartPE cd. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

I was able to boot with the Ghost 10.0 disk on a fresh machine, and it
came up with a pretty rich set of functionality. I'll exercise it
tonight to see if I can boot->image to NAS->retreive from NAS all
without booting the operating system on the machine.


With your Ghost server configured correctly you could blast all 20
computers at the same time. That's awesome!!! If you are to do this, I
would highly recommend the classroom computer be on their own network as
the traffic would be disruptive to other production computers. Ghosting
one or two at a time would not affect the network too badly.


Well...my 'server' is a simple Buffalo Linkstation 250G NAS drive.
These computers are all on their own 1000Mb network, so it might be an
interesting experiment to see if I can serve up that image to more than
a couple of computers at one time. I pictured trying this, and the
poor little NAS imploding under the stress. Maybe if the cache is
large enough to stay ahead of the demand from the clients...hmmm....


You are very welcome. Let me know how it goes!

Will do!

.

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