2000 Ghosting with Different Hardware

[DukeBlu01]

I'm basically pretty new at ghosting. I've used Norton Ghost (2000, I
think) to do basic imaging tasks, and I've recently been trying out
Acronis True Image software.

Basically my small company takes donations in, so we work on many
different types of hardware. I need to be able to create an updated
Win2k image that will include several applications already on it, but
will not BSOD when transferred to a different computer with different
hardware.

I have heard of creating the image after the initial installation of
the OS has been performed -- that way all of the different settings
will be detected correctly, including the new HAL. I understand how to
do that, but my question is: how do you get applications to be
pre-installed on the new system and still go through the process of
interrupting the setup so all hardware is installed correctly?

This may be a basic question, I don't really know. But if I could get
this to work it would save me a lot of time and energy.

 

[Stubby]

I believe the Microsoft "Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit" book
has a chapter on configuring system images for the field.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

| I'm basically pretty new at ghosting. I've used Norton Ghost (2000, I
| think) to do basic imaging tasks, and I've recently been trying out
| Acronis True Image software.
|
| Basically my small company takes donations in, so we work on many
| different types of hardware. I need to be able to create an updated
| Win2k image that will include several applications already on it, but
| will not BSOD when transferred to a different computer with different
| hardware.
|
| I have heard of creating the image after the initial installation of
| the OS has been performed -- that way all of the different settings
| will be detected correctly, including the new HAL. I understand how to
| do that, but my question is: how do you get applications to be
| pre-installed on the new system and still go through the process of
| interrupting the setup so all hardware is installed correctly?
|
| This may be a basic question, I don't really know. But if I could get
| this to work it would save me a lot of time and energy.

Getting a Ghosted image to work on the same model platform is a given.
Getting a Ghosted image to work on a different model platform may work if they share 99% of
the same motherboard chip-sets.
Getting a Ghosted image to work on completely different platforms is only slightly possible.
You can increase the possibility with *much* work and setup of all the variations of
hardware and knowledge of their possibilities and associated drivers. This is extremely
difficult to say the least so my best advice is to forget the idea.

 

[dijkeind]

DukeBlu01,

You are looking for Sysprep. Try to google for that and you'll find how
to make a syspreped image which will work on almost all hardware. Only
the HAL must be the same for all your different hardware, but nowadays
the most hardware is acpi complaint. Succes!

Michel


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