Using Sysprep option in Symantec Ghost Corp. Edition 7.5

[Guest]

Hello

I have been trying to use the Sysprep option in Symantec Ghost Corp. 7.5 and have not been having much luck. I followed Symantec's instructions on how to do this. I downloaded the Windows XP version of Sysprep and placed the required files ( Sysprep.exe, Setupcl.exe) in a folder I created on the Ghost server. I also created a Sysprep.inf file using SetupMgr and placed in the same folder. The only thing that I will be prompted to input is the Product License number when the mini setup runs. I have a Windows XP Pro. PC built with the Ghost client installed which I am trying to get an image of. When I perform an Image Dump from the Ghost server I select the Sysprep tab and select "Run Microsoft Sysprep on this machine before dumping the image" and "Tell Sysprep to perform a SID change when loading this image to a destination machine". I have run other Image dumps from Windows 2000 PC's ( no sysprep involve) with no problems

When I start the dump the client PC restarts and runs the mini setup and prompts for the Product License number. After I put in the number the setup continues with some other setups and reboots. The PC comes back up into Windows. Ghost never dumps an image. If I look at the dump task it looks like DOS loads OK, Networks load OK, Sysprep Runs OK, A Virtual DOS partition is created OK. It fails when it tries to copy the Sysprep files with a client timed out error

I looked on Symantec's WEB site for this specific problem and cannot find anything. Has anyone had any luck using Sysprep on the Ghost server?

I have been able to ( on the Windows XP Pro client ) install and run the sysprep tools, shutdown the PC and use a network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy and make an image dump to a network drive. The only problem with that is I have large amounts of data on the system disk and ghost has to break the image dump into 2 parts. If I have to roll out a large number of PC's and have to use the network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy method it takes forever and stops about 75% through the load task asking for the 2nd image name. Using the Ghost server I can just put all the PCs I want to image in a group and balst the image to them all at once.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Kurt ...

 

[The Big G]

I had problems with Ghost and Sysprep that resulted from not having the
required Sysprep files
in the folder c:/Sysprep on the Ghost server. If I remember correctly,
Symantecs docs state
that while Microsoft require that the sysprep files be in c:/sysprep, Ghost
has no such
requirement. So I put them somewhere else, and it didn't work. Once I
moved them to
c:/sysprep, it worked.

john g

Hello,

I have been trying to use the Sysprep option in Symantec Ghost Corp.

7.5 and have not been having much luck. I followed Symantec's instructions
on how to do this. I downloaded the Windows XP version of Sysprep and
placed the required files ( Sysprep.exe, Setupcl.exe) in a folder I created
on the Ghost server. I also created a Sysprep.inf file using SetupMgr and
placed in the same folder. The only thing that I will be prompted to input
is the Product License number when the mini setup runs. I have a Windows
XP Pro. PC built with the Ghost client installed which I am trying to get an
image of. When I perform an Image Dump from the Ghost server I select the
Sysprep tab and select "Run Microsoft Sysprep on this machine before dumping
the image" and "Tell Sysprep to perform a SID change when loading this image
to a destination machine". I have run other Image dumps from Windows 2000
PC's ( no sysprep involve) with no problems.

When I start the dump the client PC restarts and runs the mini setup

and prompts for the Product License number. After I put in the number the
setup continues with some other setups and reboots. The PC comes back up
into Windows. Ghost never dumps an image. If I look at the dump task it
looks like DOS loads OK, Networks load OK, Sysprep Runs OK, A Virtual DOS
partition is created OK. It fails when it tries to copy the Sysprep files
with a client timed out error.

I looked on Symantec's WEB site for this specific problem and cannot

find anything. Has anyone had any luck using Sysprep on the Ghost server?

I have been able to ( on the Windows XP Pro client ) install and run

the sysprep tools, shutdown the PC and use a network boot floppy and Ghost
on floppy and make an image dump to a network drive. The only problem with
that is I have large amounts of data on the system disk and ghost has to
break the image dump into 2 parts. If I have to roll out a large number of
PC's and have to use the network boot floppy and Ghost on floppy method it
takes forever and stops about 75% through the load task asking for the 2nd
image name. Using the Ghost server I can just put all the PCs I want to
image in a group and balst the image to them all at once.