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I have been trying to use the Sysprep option in Symantec Ghost Corp. 7.5 and have not been having much luck. I followed Symantec's instructions on how to do this. I downloaded the Windows XP version of Sysprep and placed the required files ( Sysprep.exe, Setupcl.exe) in a folder I created on the Ghost server. I also created a Sysprep.inf file using SetupMgr and placed in the same folder. The only thing that I will be prompted to input is the Product License number when the mini setup runs. I have a Windows XP Pro. PC built with the Ghost client installed which I am trying to get an image of. When I perform an Image Dump from the Ghost server I select the Sysprep tab and select "Run Microsoft Sysprep on this machine before dumping the image" and "Tell Sysprep to perform a SID change when loading this image to a destination machine". I have run other Image dumps from Windows 2000 PC's ( no sysprep involve) with no problems
When I start the dump the client PC restarts and runs the mini setup and prompts for the Product License number. After I put in the number the setup continues with some other setups and reboots. The PC comes back up into Windows. Ghost never dumps an image. If I look at the dump task it looks like DOS loads OK, Networks load OK, Sysprep Runs OK, A Virtual DOS partition is created OK. It fails when it tries to copy the Sysprep files with a client timed out error
I looked on Symantec's WEB site for this specific problem and cannot find anything. Has anyone had any luck using Sysprep on the Ghost server?
I have been able to ( on the Windows XP Pro client ) install and run the sysprep tools, shutdown the PC and use a network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy and make an image dump to a network drive. The only problem with that is I have large amounts of data on the system disk and ghost has to break the image dump into 2 parts. If I have to roll out a large number of PC's and have to use the network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy method it takes forever and stops about 75% through the load task asking for the 2nd image name. Using the Ghost server I can just put all the PCs I want to image in a group and balst the image to them all at once.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Kurt ...
I have been trying to use the Sysprep option in Symantec Ghost Corp. 7.5 and have not been having much luck. I followed Symantec's instructions on how to do this. I downloaded the Windows XP version of Sysprep and placed the required files ( Sysprep.exe, Setupcl.exe) in a folder I created on the Ghost server. I also created a Sysprep.inf file using SetupMgr and placed in the same folder. The only thing that I will be prompted to input is the Product License number when the mini setup runs. I have a Windows XP Pro. PC built with the Ghost client installed which I am trying to get an image of. When I perform an Image Dump from the Ghost server I select the Sysprep tab and select "Run Microsoft Sysprep on this machine before dumping the image" and "Tell Sysprep to perform a SID change when loading this image to a destination machine". I have run other Image dumps from Windows 2000 PC's ( no sysprep involve) with no problems
When I start the dump the client PC restarts and runs the mini setup and prompts for the Product License number. After I put in the number the setup continues with some other setups and reboots. The PC comes back up into Windows. Ghost never dumps an image. If I look at the dump task it looks like DOS loads OK, Networks load OK, Sysprep Runs OK, A Virtual DOS partition is created OK. It fails when it tries to copy the Sysprep files with a client timed out error
I looked on Symantec's WEB site for this specific problem and cannot find anything. Has anyone had any luck using Sysprep on the Ghost server?
I have been able to ( on the Windows XP Pro client ) install and run the sysprep tools, shutdown the PC and use a network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy and make an image dump to a network drive. The only problem with that is I have large amounts of data on the system disk and ghost has to break the image dump into 2 parts. If I have to roll out a large number of PC's and have to use the network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy method it takes forever and stops about 75% through the load task asking for the 2nd image name. Using the Ghost server I can just put all the PCs I want to image in a group and balst the image to them all at once.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Kurt ...