Network Installation...disc cloning without any internal cd or diskete drive

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Hello.

I've just posted about "installing windows from external drive" but since
then I've found this "disc cloning" topic.
Since I have several PC with exactly the same hardware and software (I guess
the only difference is the network name and ip) I think this is the perfect
situaction for using this technique right?
Besides these pc (that don't have internal drives) I have a workstation
fully equiped.
What I would like to do is to copy the "system" from one of the nodes (this
is a mini render farm) to another.
Can this be done?

I'm sorry for posting without any real knowlege of this particular issue but
some pointers at this time would be very usefull.
Meanwhile I'm trying to find out about booting from usb pen drive because
althought I already did this I couldn't see the HD drive and I think the
standard network intalations need some kind of booting drive...(to be honest
I can't even format the HD of these nodes :-(

Can someone give me some help?
Thanks
 
ok..please tell me if I'm in the right path..
I'm trying to make a "Ghost USB boot disk".
If I could transfer this to my USB flash disk and if Ghost would recognise
my USB Optical drive I could clone my system.
Is this right? Any info on this?
Thanks
 
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| ok..please tell me if I'm in the right path..
| I'm trying to make a "Ghost USB boot disk".
| If I could transfer this to my USB flash disk and if Ghost would recognise
| my USB Optical drive I could clone my system.
| Is this right? Any info on this?
| Thanks
|
|
| | > Hello.
| >
| > I've just posted about "installing windows from external drive" but since
| > then I've found this "disc cloning" topic.
| > Since I have several PC with exactly the same hardware and software (I
| > guess the only difference is the network name and ip) I think this is the
| > perfect situaction for using this technique right?
| > Besides these pc (that don't have internal drives) I have a workstation
| > fully equiped.
| > What I would like to do is to copy the "system" from one of the nodes
| > (this is a mini render farm) to another.
| > Can this be done?
| >
| > I'm sorry for posting without any real knowlege of this particular issue
| > but some pointers at this time would be very usefull.
| > Meanwhile I'm trying to find out about booting from usb pen drive because
| > althought I already did this I couldn't see the HD drive and I think the
| > standard network intalations need some kind of booting drive...(to be
| > honest I can't even format the HD of these nodes :-(
| >
| > Can someone give me some help?
| > Thanks
 
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