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Ghosting networked computers
Name: gingaman Date: November 11, 2004 at 06:06:07 Pacific OS: XP/2003 server CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Can anyone find any tutorials on how to ghost machines on a school network? we have the disks but no idea how to sort it? any help would be great! James
Name: XpUser Date: November 11, 2004 at 06:41:28 Pacific
Reply:
Do you have the school's permission to do this?
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Response Number 2
Name: gingaman Date: November 11, 2004 at 07:11:54 Pacific
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yes i am a student acting as network administrator as placement at the moment, its a junior school so there isnt an IT teacher as such but i do have permission!
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: November 11, 2004 at 07:20:06 Pacific
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In that case, the network server is where you normally do backup (ghosting).
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Response Number 4
Name: gingaman Date: November 11, 2004 at 07:21:32 Pacific
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i know that but im not sure about the ghost boot disk,. how do i sort that out? i.e. using it and starting up with it etc......
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser Date: November 11, 2004 at 07:41:29 Pacific
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It's all explained in the Ghost manual.
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Response Number 6
Name: iamc Date: November 11, 2004 at 07:53:40 Pacific
Reply:
Wow, how helpful.
James, what version of Ghost do you have? Start here for instructions on how to make a network boot disk. That should get you most of the way there. Post back after reading if you have any questions.
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