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

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furtherside@xxxxxxxxx wrote in
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Well, last night I tried out my process. I found that I must not
have been thinking about sysprep the right way -- I thought I
should use the -reseal option on the master machine,

Why are you using -reseal or -factory? Those are switches only used by
OEM builders.

Which raises a strange dilemma:
the image created for deployment now includes an installed copy of
Ghost. I'll have to manually remove Ghost from each of the
clients I build from that image (!)

You need to boot from a DOS network boot disk, map a drive and then run
Ghost from the mapped network drive. If you want to use BartPE, you
have to use ghost32 (separate purchase from Symantec). See
http://www.leinss.com/blog/?p=9 for more information on making a DOS
bootdisk.

The image is about 12 gig in size (compressed), and it took about
15 minutes for Ghost to pull it off the NAS and build the new
computer. Just for fun, I tried running two clones at one time.
The time estimate went from 15 minutes to over three hours -- so
my little Buffalo Linkstation NAS is nowhere near able to do what
a 'real' server could do, in this regard. Looks like I'll be
building one machine at a time :-)

Here's what I do...take a box, put Windows XP on it. Get a Gigabit
switch. Plug your XP box into it. Share out a portion of the disk (I
actually made another partition and shared that out). Now you can plug
your other boxes into the switch and Ghost them down with the image on
the XP box. Takes about 5 minutes doing this way at work. If I am
lazy and want to do it from my desk, it takes about 45-50 minutes over
the network.

Adam
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Visit my PC Tech blog at www.leinss.com/blog
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