NT Workstation duplication

[Alfredo Ramos]

Greg,

You're exactly right! It is a PC product. And that is what I'm trying to
get away from. I'm trying to image the NT's from a SPARC machine running
Solaris 2.6. Your idea of a DOS boot partition sounds doable. The only
problem would be to replace machine names and password hashes on each
image. We'll look in that direction!

Thanks;

Al.

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

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> > 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
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> > 
> > 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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