oh wow, so thats what I need. sysprep. now i can avoid having a dozen freeze when they all discover they have conflicting host names. missing link to my ltsp/partimage imaging hack!
"Nathan A. Keirn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/24/2004 07:13 PM Please respond to Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list <luau@lists.hosef.org> To <luau@lists.hosef.org> cc Subject Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting Actually I guess this is where my Windows Administrative knowledge will come in. All ghost does Windows wise is run sysprep, sysprep is a free utility that is part of W2k and XP. Sysprep allows you to enter License key, Net Bios, and basically everything else that is entered during setup. So from what we know now this would be very easy, make a hard drive image of a windows install that had sysprep run on it, but no information entered. This would give us a generic Windows install install that would be unique for every machine it was loaded on. This would be even easier if whoever needs the image done has a Volume License Key. So what does everyone think? Want to do this instead of wasting money on proprietary Norton Ghost? We could at least give this a try before we buy Ghost. Nathan _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau