Using Ghost after Sysprep Win7

[oregonsv]

Hi,
I'm new in the imaging computer world. could you please help me with the Following?
- I'm doing a win7 imaging project. using Ghost.

I already run Sysprep process and I have already the XML file, but I don't know how to do the process to pull that image from ghost and do the deployment.
Can you please tell me the process I need to do.... Do I need the Symantec Ghost Console ? 🙄

 

[Elixer]

Ghost is a image cloning program, it has nothing to do with doing syspreps.
So, once you have the system the way you want it, then, you use ghost to make a image file.
Sysprep is meant to be used to reset the OS to a more of a 'generic' setup.

 

[xSauronx]

Hi,
I'm new in the imaging computer world. could you please help me with the Following?
- I'm doing a win7 imaging project. using Ghost.

I already run Sysprep process and I have already the XML file, but I don't know how to do the process to pull that image from ghost and do the deployment.
Can you please tell me the process I need to do.... Do I need the Symantec Ghost Console ? 🙄

itd be handier long-term [if necessary] to use MDT 2013 and the windows ADK, since its built for imaging. way slicker to automate things than rolling your own, but i have had to do ghost rollouts myself.

you dont have to have the symantec console. you can set your image on a network share, and build your ghost boot disk [i only ever used it with a usb drive, didnt do a network boot but i dont see why you couldnt do a PXE boot with WDS or something] to map the network share when it loads, then you can access the mapped drive to pull the image.

for your sake i hope you have a server or at least a NAS for pulling the image. i had to do it from a laptop once. hurt so bad.

im imaging at work with mdt 2013 now, i do not miss using ghost...but i used older ghost versions and also didnt have the console available to me, maybe the new ones/console have a similar feature set to mdt?