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Deploying WinXP; Network booting for Ghost images?

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nmcglennon

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I am running Norton Ghost 8.0, and I already have images created (GHO files) that I need to deploy to an army of computers in a lab. (The computer technician before me left the images) The only problem, is that the machines are only designed for network access... they have no floppy, no CD-ROM, etc. All they have is network access and USB access.

So to get over this, I am going to have to serve out the boot disk over the network. I have heard about people using PXEs and a TFTP server to boot across a network. Norton has a way of using a PXE driver to network boot, but saves as a SYS file.

Now this is where I am lost...

How is the SYS file related to PXE? And how do I go about sending that via TFTP?
Any tutorials, comments, corrections, explanations, and links to software that could assist me would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
 
If you have Ghost 8 corporate the instructions to make a network boot image and boot the machines over the network start around pg252 of the Ghost implementation guide pdf. It's something I've been meaning to look into one day but haven't got around to it yet.

If you make use of the ghost console you should be able to push (or better yet there should already be) a ghost client onto a "virtual" partition on each host that you can automate imaging with which will let you boot without resorting to PXE.

Gaidin
 
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