NT Workstation duplication

[Gregory Leblanc]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfredo Ramos [mailto:ralf at is.rice.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:28 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Re: NT Workstation duplication
> 
> 
> Schlomo, 
> Thanks for the reply. It sounds good. In fact it sounds very 
> similar to
> what is done here. The difference is in the imaging software 
> used. You use
> GHOSTWALKER, we use PCRDIST. What I want to get away from is 
> using a boot
> disk on every machine to jump start the process. Or, maybe I miss-
> understood your reply. You do get the imaging process going 
> from each NT
> with a startup disk right? That is what I want to eliminate.

My first instinct is to say use Unix on SPARCs (or some other real
hardware), but I'm guessing that there might be a way to do that for
NT, although not one that I'd trust.  Create a 5 meg partition (or
something about that size) with DOS on it, and network bootup things
etc, and a copy of your imaging software.  Then create an at command
to change the default boot to be that DOS partition instead of NT (NT
should be the default boot in the image), and reboot the machine. 
When it boots to dos, it runs the imaging software automagically, and
you've got a clean NT machine.  Now that I've come up with this idea,
I think I'm going to try it out of a couple of machines in our LAB. 
I don't know how PCrdist works, but it used to be a windows app.  We
had it run on logout, and you could probably have it run from an AT
command as well.
	Greg

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