Re: deployment

I do this regularly. Do you have licences for ghost or another
third-party imaging solution? That's one important part that will save
you time. If not, you need to set up a boot floppy that can access the
distribution share point, so it'll need net drivers as well as IP
assignments.

One important question is how your machines are going to figure out what
IP to use. Even using boot disks, you're looking at the possiblity of
either having to create one boot floppy per machine or image/install the
machines in batches so that you can reuse the installation IPs over and
over. Not having some sort of DHCP solution makes this a LOT tougher
unless you have a lot of manpower. How are you planning on assigning
IPs after installation?

(j)
James

Nigel wrote:
> I work for a colege our net work is novell 5.1 server(no
> DNS or DHCP all computers are on static IP) and windows
> 2000 pro for work stations ..my question is we have to
> reinstall the OS and office suite on all computers(600)
> is there a way i can use sysprep to make an image of the
> complete build and slip it over the net (like most
> schools and coleges our computers are not all the same )
> with out useing Ras server or zenworks .with no cost to
> the colege . our back bone is 1 gig and our nics our set
> for 100 megs, this will be done over a lan. What im
> hoping is to make dis folder on my computer and dis it
> from there