Okay, some background. I have a Network Boot CD, built with Universal Network Boot Disk. loaded with a ghost client and a login script that maps a network drive and launches Ghost with switches that will install an image off the network drive and then reboot.
i.e. I walk up to a machiine stick the CD in - push the reset button - once I see ghost has started (or anytime before Ghost finishes with the re-image) I take the CD out. Once ghosted the computer reboots, runs mini setup, joins the domain, yada yada, all unattended. The computer is now back to my updated defaulted image displaying the ctrl-ALT-Del for the next user to log on.
I would like to take this one step further. I would like to setup a second partition on the drive so that if the computer boots from this partiion it will run through the same scenario as above. I can set that up. However, for it to be useful to me, I would like to be able to do both of the following:
1. remote desktop into the computer (Client OS is Windows XP) and trigger a reboot that will boot from that partition just the one time (so after the image is deployed and ghost triggers the computer to reboot again it will boot back into the new image. (This is the part I have no clue about - if I knew how to do this 9or if it can be done) I could probably figure out the next step.)
2. Do the same as above but schedule it to happen that night through a logon or logoff script. i.e. I tell my users to please leave computers on tonight (but make sure you logoff) then the log off script would schedule the reboot so the image goes through.
Please note: I know I can create 'ghost partitions' and use ghost console to accomplish the same results. I prefer to avoid ghost console and do this strickly through client side scripting and a network share - for one reason it would then work with most of the free non-commercial imaging products out there.
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