From: "Newbie Coder" <
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| The boot loader that I use contains a text file with an IP address plus oter
| files which is only Floppy sized or less so using a CD ROM is pointless in
| my eyes & you cannot change the IP address. Besides, you may be deploying
| machines with no CD ROM/DVD ROM drives like we do so adding one is just a
| waste of time & you lose the speed gained by the ghosting process Dave
| mentioned in his last post.
|
| Why you need a managed switch if you don't have one & have to pay a lot of
| money for one? Again, unless you have one laying around its pointless.
|
Set the IP address to; 0.0.0.0 and the DOS Ghost.exe program will use DHCP to get an
address so you can get a different IP address. As for the point the a CDROM is a waste, I
agree. On platforms w/o a floppy drive I use a USB Floppy Drive but a CD can always be used
becuase these systems always have at least 1 CDROM drive. Additionally, one can use a CDRW
disc such that you can change the configuration by erasing and re-burning the CDRW disc. In
systems w/o a CD or floppy drive, just use a USB Floppy Drive.
A managed E-Switch is better in an enterprise environment because, as I stated, you can
filter Multi-Cast IP traffic from the UpLink port. Then when Ghosting, the Multi-Cast
traffic would not get past the LAB environment and effect the users. Additionally, a
managed E-Switch will always have a lower latency than its cheaper rivals and thus the
transfer rate will be higher than a cheaper, unmanaged, E-Switch. In my previous contract
in the Ghost Server (Symantec Enterprise Ghost v7.x) I used an Intel server NIC that had its
RISC i960 CPU that clock-doubled the 33MHz PCI bus.
** Ghost - the only Symantec product I swear by and not swear at !