NT Workstation duplication

[Alfredo Ramos]

PCRDIST is definitely NOT freeware. It is a PC product. You can check its
web page at www.pcrdist.com. There is a comparison to ghost and other imaging
products.

Will keep looking; 

Thanks;

Al.



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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:

> Yes, I use a bootdisk just now. A different one for EACH computer. Sigh.
> 
> I am currently working on changing THAT. Our computers are fairly new IBMs
> that have Wake On LAN. 
> 
> The idea is to switch on the PCs via WOL since then they can boot from a
> different boot device (a feature of the IBM BIOS). The best would be
> bootable network cards of course since then you don't need anything at the
> client itself.
> 
> If you don't have bootroms everywhere (as we do :-() then I can suggest
> another solution: (especally if you can't or won't be able to buy ROMs)
> 
> Put a floppy drive into each computer INTERNALLY (e.g. without access to
> it for the normal user, or with the opening in a slot etc.) and another
> floppy (B:) normally (or no floppy if you can use a central computer to
> download stuff to diskettes). In the BIOS set the boot sequence to HD only
> and the alternative boot sequence (if started by WOL) to FD only. Thus if
> you switch on the computers from the net they boot from the bootdisk and
> install the PC. I'll make an intelligent bootdisk this week that will
> detect the name to be set automagically.
> 
> Of course all this is MUCH nicer with boot roms (I have some other classes
> with bootroms and it works just PERFECT !). Especially newer Intel NICs
> are great since they have the bootrom builtin :-)
> 
> Schlomo
> 
> PS: I would be more than glad to hear other solutions / improvements /
> ideas in that area.
> 
> PPS: Is PCRDIST freeware / Linux / multicating ?
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Alfredo Ramos wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks;
> > 
> > Al.
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> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'll be glad to help.
> > >
> > > That's it. Works very smooth (I start the NTs from a diskette, they
> > > connect to the multicast server, dump their image, ghostwalker changes the
> > > name & SID, the client reboots and is ready for use and registered in the
> > > domain.
> > >
> > > Schlomo
> > >
> > > --
> > > Schlomo Schapiro
> > > Computation Authority
> > > Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> > >
> > > Tel: ++972 / 2 / 65-84404
> > > email: schapiro at clerk.pi.huji.ac.il
> > >
> > >
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Schlomo Schapiro
> Computation Authority
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> 
> Tel: ++972 / 2 / 65-84404
> email: schapiro at clerk.pi.huji.ac.il
> 
>