Sysprep + Ghost + Network Storage = remote install (will this work?)

[Randy MacKenna]

Hi,
If I have a small school computer lab consisting of the following:

- No server.

- 25 WinXP clients on a simple Tbase100 peer/peer network. All are
hardware-identical.

- Network storage device at a fixed IP address on the network.

My goal is to create a 'master' disk image of WinXP, plus applications
- and to store that image on the network storage drive so that any
client can access it and rebuild from.

Using a combination of Sysprep and Norton Ghost, would I be able to do
this -- and have any one of the clients boot up, find the network drive
and install the image over the network?

I figure that if I can boot the client with the Ghost disk and get the
client to see the network drive, I've got a shot.

Will this work? I can't picture booting from Ghost, then being able to
access the network drive, so I think I might be missing something...

Thanks,
Randy

 

[Guest]

Randy, no problem, do it every day.
Creast a "master" image using xp, and sysprep with minisetup.
take an image of the system after sysprep is done. This is the file you will
pull down to the other workstatins.
Depending on what setting you choose, it can connect to the network, load
computer names, and much more.
hope this helps.
jared