[ale] Ghosting software

Patman patman at io.com
Wed Aug 9 14:33:23 EDT 2000


Another thing that we do when ghosting NT laptops is to re-SID the IDs on
the NT installation once we've ghosted the image to a new laptop. 

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Patrick Jones wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:57:13 -0400 
> From: Patrick Jones <pjones at newcomb-boyd.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] Ghosting software
> 
> Having Ghosted a couple of hundred NT machines - from GIM
> of course :) and 4 Novell servers, I will throw my pitiful $0.02 in.
> Of the NT machines, the main problem I had was when GIM
> switched the video card on me.  It didn't cause a big problem
> but now I have 3 different images for the 3 types of video cards.
> (You should have seen it when we had a couple different HD sizes
> and NICs)  I also have about 4 different types of CD-Roms - not
> including the different speeds.  I had a few give me the BSOD
> but that was more likely defective hardware/memory than
> anything else.  The BSODs weren't right away, it took them a
> few months.  On the Novell servers, we went from Compaqs
> to Compaqs so everything went very well, except that Norton
> Ghost crapped out a couple of times due to the large volume
> of files.  We ended up having to do volume by volume.
> The one thing I liked about Ghost for Netware was the ability
> to resize partitions.
> 
> Patrick Jones
> Lurker by Design
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Jeff Hubbs [SMTP:Jhubbs at niit.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:56 PM
> > To:	Carl Forsell; Nassar Carnegie; ale at ale.org
> > Subject:	RE: [ale] Ghosting software
> > 
> > I'll also take the opportunity to throw in my standard Ghost admonition:
> > 
> > IMHO, you're playing with fire whenever you take a Ghost image from one
> > machine and implant it into another, regardless of OS and regardless of
> > how
> > "identical" you think the target machine is to the source machine.  I
> > would
> > surmise that the risk is less with Win95/98 than it would be with NT or
> > Linux, but if the target machines start acting weird every once in a while
> > -
> > i.e., locking up, oopsing, or giving you the ever-helpful "Aiee,..." (I
> > love
> > that one!) it could be because a minor difference in rev level within
> > chipset, etc. existed that might have otherwise made the running kernel,
> > driver, module, etc. do something a little differently.  One could
> > mitigate
> > this a bit by recompiling kernel and modules post-Ghost, I'd imagine.
> > 
> > When I was researching the use of Ghost for NT across a set of supposedly
> > identical desktops, one thing I noticed was that a couple of them had
> > different CD-ROM drives from the rest.  I thought that this would be a
> > difference that probably wouldn't amount too much, but it made me wonder
> > what less-obvious differences might exist that could really cause a
> > problem
> > that would be nearly impossible to actually attribute to one specific
> > thing?
> > 
> > Having said that, do any of you think I'm being paranoid about this?  I'm
> > open to flames.
> > 
> > - Jeff
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:25 PM
> > > To: Nassar Carnegie; ale at ale.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Ghosting software
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I recently used Norton Ghost 5.1D (personal edition) to ghost 
> > > a couple of
> > > SuSE machines.  Price was about $60.00 or so.
> > > If you look back at the ALE archives about a week ago, we had 
> > > a dsicussion
> > > concerning alternatives...
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Nassar Carnegie <nassar at linuxgeneralstore.com>
> > > To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> > > Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:10 PM
> > > Subject: [ale] Ghosting software
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >Does anyone know of any ghosting software for Linux/FreeBSD?
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >-----
> > > >Nassar Carnegie
> > > >nassar at linuxgeneralstore.com
> > > >Linux General Store
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