NT Workstation duplication

[Seth Vidal]

> 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.

do this same thing with lilo and a small linux partition instead of dos 
and you're life is even easier.

you can do all sorts of crazy things.

as well the access to raw devices (ie cp systemimage.file to /dev/hda1) is
very nice.

-sv