George Woltman wrote:
> <snipped>
>
> 2) It is not uncommon for folks to "screw up" the setup in
> multi-machine environments. A process called "ghosting"(?)
> results in the prime95 directory being copied from a central
> server. Now each machine has the same worktodo.ini file.
> Some users make the same mistake manually setting up
> multiple machines initially.
> <snipped>
FYI, Norton Ghost is a program which allows sysadmin's to take a
snapshot of a system's hard drive to set up systems quickly. You just
pop in the network boot floppy, select the image, and wait for an hour
while your hard disk fills up with a fresh copy the OS of your choice.
We use it here, and it saves days of work. Now if only Symantec would
get their Win2k support together...
Some ideas to help those of use who use Ghost:
1) If there was a way for Prime95/PrimeNT to either store worktodo.ini
and/or results files on a separate server or
2) If Prime95/NT could somehow detect the machine's different name/MAC
and automatically configure itself based on the machine's name to start
from scratch...
This would make setting up PrimeNT on every machine (i've got access to
>80 Pentium II's and Celerons) MUCH more appealing...
Ryan McGarry
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