I forgot to mention that most of our workstations are Win98, and a few 2000 Pro. They are all part of a domain. So if I use the above instructions, we would be able to create an image onto the Server ? as a backup?
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Hi all, does anyone ever use Norton Ghost? We are trying to deploy it in our office, on our BDC, I do not have proper instructions on how to configure it. I have a rough idea, that I have to create the Norton Boot disk.. if someone could point me in the right direction please, that would be great.
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I have a ghost session going right now, on the Server I started the GhostCast Server, named a new session, and named a new image file, and browsed to where I want to save it.... Accepted Clients, made a network boot floppy from Ghost Wizard... and I booted up with that Floppy on the workstation.... It is in progress right now, but I have a question... the workstations hard drive is 20GB... the ghost image I did was compression high. and now im looking on the server and the MB total is 1400. is there any way to decrease that size? the hard drice is not partitioned, jsut total 20GB. So the 1400MB it is dumping to the server is the amount being used on that workstation?
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by: PeteLongPosted on 2003-08-22 at 03:32:08ID: 9202025
Hello There
Here a walkthrough of how I clone Windows 2000 systems :0)
To Create a PC Image (Windows 2000)
1. Set up the PC/Laptop from its manufacturers Rescue discs to ensure the PC has all the correct Drivers.
2. Ensure the correct Windows Service Pack has been applied
3. Install and Register all your Applications.
4. If you want All Pc’s to have a default Home Page and/or Proxy Server, Open a MMC Console (Start - Run - MMC - [ENTER]) Add the group policy snap in. Configure the home page as http://yourhomepage then configure the proxy as Your Proxy IP address
5. Ensure the machine is set to get its IP address dynamically and is connected to the network. (Unless you use Static IP addressing!)
6. Set the administrators password.
7. If you use Novell Install and configure the Novell Client
8. Apply I.E. Service Packs
9. Apply MSOffice Service Packs
10. To display a Login message on every machine Go to the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
LegalNoticeCaption
<Title of the Message>
LegalNoticeText
<Text of the Message>
11. If you use Host Files copy them to the following locations
Win9x c:\windows
Win2k c:\winnt\system32\drivers\
12. Download the latest Sysprep files from http://www.microsoft.com/w
13. If You need to create an unattended file (So you don’t have to fill in all the prompts that windows usually gives you run setupmgr.exe from the sysprep folder and follow the onscreen prompts.
14. Press start - run - cmd [Enter]. At the command prompt type cd:\sysprep [Enter] then type sysprep -pnp [Enter]. Sysprep will now run and close the PC down. If you restart the PC it will rebuild itself. It is now ready for Ghosting/Cloning
15. Before cloning your Hard Drive, ensure you have another hard drive (That Big enough to hold the image fitted to the machine being ghosted. (You cannot ghost to the same Hard Drive!)
16. Arm yourself with a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com (Ensure it had RAMDRIVE on it and it works!) And a copy of Ghost.exe from symantec
17. Boot with your bootdisk
18. Type ghost then return. (This will create one big image if you want to split the image up, to fit on CDROM’s type “ghost.exe -split=600 –auto”)
19. At the welcome screen press enter to clear the message.
20. Using the Cursor Keys select Local, Disk, To Image then return.
21. At the select local source press enter
22. At the file name to copy to screen, Use the Tab Keys to navigate to the image location your second Hard Drive.
23. Press Tab to navigate to the filename box and give the image a name (i.e. delllat1)
24. Keep pressing the Tab Key till Save is highlighted then press return.
25. At the Compress Image screen Tab to "High" Then press return.
26. At the proceed screen Tab to "Yes" then press return.
27. When it is completed it should say, "Dump completed successfully"
28. If you’re deploying from CDROM you can now burn the image “portions” to CDROM. Ensure the first disk is bootable and has a copy of ghost on it to restore the image to a new computer.
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