Ghosting Windows 2000 Server

[Ewan Carr]

Does anyone know the best approach to take to maximise automation of a
Windows 2000 Server (Domain Controller
with RAID disks). I belivee that any ghosting solution (e.g. using symatec
ghost) does not easily support cloning
of a domain controller (+ having RAID makes it even more difficult).
Any info appreciated
Ewan

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Unattended installation works well.

The RAID disks are no problem; you just need to add the textmode RAID
drivers to your install share ($oem$\textmode\txtsetup.oem mechanism).
I install servers like this all the time.

See <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/> for a system which largely
automates the unattended install and text mode driver bits.

For the domain controllers, you will need to script the execution of
"dcpromo" with an appropriate answer file after OS installation. I
have only done this a few times, but it is not hard.

- Pat