Deploying OS using Ghost

[dg]

The main advantage over ghost 9 is that you can just boot
the TI CD and image the system over the lan. You cant do
that with ghost 9, you have to install that on the system you
are imaging first. And the big advantage of TI and ghost 9
is that you dont have to fart around with boot disks with
network support like you do with the earlier ghosts.

Thanks for the tip. I have played around with TI and I really like it, but
my employer is so far staying with ghost.

For now, my method is fine as every one of the computers I support (several
hundred, maybe 1000+) have Intel Pro100 nics so the network disk is pretty
universal.

I may try talking the guys here into trying TI. I was blown away with the
ability to do a backup image while running windows.

--Dan

 

[Rod Speed]

Thanks for the tip. I have played around with TI and I really like it, but my
employer is so far staying with ghost.

Yeah, operations that size tend to be rather conservative.

For now, my method is fine as every one of the computers I support (several
hundred, maybe 1000+) have Intel Pro100 nics so the network disk is pretty
universal.

Yeah, the older dos based ghosts are pretty
usable if the nics are in the installed list.

And you can always use a universal boot CD
with the dos based ghost on it for the others too.

I may try talking the guys here into trying TI. I was blown away with the
ability to do a backup image while running windows.

Ghost 9 can do that now too, and incremental backups as well.

 

[dg]

If you have the corporate edition you should have the option for
Multicast deployments and backups this is not so easy to setup but
worthwhile if you have a large network

It really can't be stressed enough how important multicasting is. I
remember before multicasting, starting 60+ computers imaging and pretty much
just walking away for the night-as the server bogged down with the
incredible load. Now with multicasting, 6 or 7 minutes is all it takes to
image those same workstations.

--Dan