Forget NT, Raid... You need the luxury of DOS mode (explained below)
All you need:
Ghost pro 6.x
Win98
Any computer with an ATA66 controller. (Celeron's 66mhz bus will run it just as fast as Athlons 200mhz..) so a celeron computer is what you want.
100Mb NIC (no, you don't need TWO! the hard drive is the bottle neck, so doubling your network speed will be useless)
A Removable Hard disk caddy (or two) put on the seconary IDE channels.
2 large hard drives (60-80 gigs) on the primary channels.
Not always will you have hard drives, or computers you can get on the network using DOS drivers (laptops are a good example), so you'll need the caddy's to image them, or dump to an image... you WILL need them too.. trust me.
Comfigure the Primary hard drives like this.
Primary master: 2 partitions, primary partition - 2gigs, the rest secondary
Primary slave: 1 big partition.
master drive will always be drive "C" and "E" (use drive "E" as your backup)
slave drive will always be "D" (use this drive as your primary storage of images)
Just copy all your images from D to E. whenever you make a change, or create a new Image (always on drive D) just copy it over to E for backup. As little as you change your Image inventory, RAID or Mirroring is a waste of time and resources.
Any drives you put in the caddy will always be drive letter "F" or greater in the case you have a Large string of batch files you use to load/dump images, they will always work.
You can have multiple sessions of muti-cast running, one for each image you want to have access too. Have unique session names for each image (image name is best)
*********Bootdisks**************
Create several bootdiskettes, one for every type of NIC you have in your invironment.
Include lots of batch file strings to either load or dump for each multi-cast session name. Name the batch files with numbers, 1.bat, 2.bat...etc...
example: 1.bat (loads image file using multicast called dellWin98.gho)
so, instead of having to run ghost and go through all the garbage, you type 1 "enter" and watch the drive start loading.
Type up a nice text file with a menu list of all your batch files and include at the end of your autoexec.bat on the boot disk:
cls
type menu.txt
then all you do when you boot up the computer with the bootdisk, is look at your menu and and press the key for the image you want to load.
here is an example of a txt file menu to display on bootup.
*
* 1. Load Dell GX110 with Windows 98
* 2. Load Dell GX110 with Windows NT
* 3. Load Compaq EP with Windows 2000
*...etc...
* press the number for the option to load
(note, my bootdisks I use at work have a list of 21 options, and a batch file for each option)
Hope that give you an idea.
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