clarification please

[Guest]

I have been investigating cloning, and it has brought up some questions.

1. If you have an image and you run FBA on every target device does it
provide a new SID for each target device?

2. Say i do not care about a new SID for each device. Can i simply just
clone an already built image with out adding the system cloning tools?

3. If i must add the system cloning tools, then the process is normal run
fba, system reset, run fbreseal. Then do i add the cloning software (ghost)
at the end of this process once I have a Golden Image?

Thanks in Advance.

cal4

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

cal4,

1. If you have an image and you run FBA on every target device does it
provide a new SID for each target device?

Yes. FBA will always create random SID.

2. Say i do not care about a new SID for each device. Can i simply just
clone an already built image with out adding the system cloning tools?

You can just copy XPe files to other disk and it will boot. But do not use
these computer in network workgroup.

3. If i must add the system cloning tools, then the process is normal run
fba, system reset, run fbreseal. Then do i add the cloning software
(ghost)
at the end of this process once I have a Golden Image?

Yes, and then you wait for each target to finnish it's work.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Richard]

Yes. FBA will always create random SID.

Ahh, but if you add the cloning component, you can them make a golden image
that will only run a short version of FBA which will also change all the
SID.

You can just copy XPe files to other disk and it will boot. But do not use
these computer in network workgroup.

What Slobodon saying is true, however remember the Disk or Flash still needs
to be prepared "before" copying the files. Partitioned, Formatted......

I prefer to create a finalized image, then save the image then use tools to
copy the entire disk image. Since I use flash, I use Linux DD to copy all
sectors so I do not have to do any other preperation.