Ghosting network workstations

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Lifer
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I have to repartition hard drives on about 60 workstations in our department. I was gonna create a ghost image on the network server, repartition the hard drives and then copy the image back.
Now, if ghost program can send the image from the server through broadcasts, instead of opening a connection to all the workstations, that will allow me to ghost all the workstations at the same time, without any speed decrease. Does anyone know which of the ghost programs can handle that? Any input is appreciated.
 
Oct 9, 1999
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I believe ghost from norton/symantec can do over the network though personally I have never done so.. you need to use the network drivers on every machine from a dos bootdisk..
a little preparation required.. but its worth it.
 

nEoTeChMaN

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Get Norton Ghost ver 2001 which will take care of that. I have one and loving it every minutes. :cool:
 

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Lifer
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Ghost 2001 help mentions TCP/IP networking. This means that the server containing the image will have to open TCP/IP connection to every single workstation. This means there will be a severe network bottleneck. What I was hoping for, is that the server will broadcast the image over the subnet, and all 60 workstation will receive it at the same time.