After you do the install you need to run sysprep and have your dos boot
floppy in the drive so you can ghost the image when sysprep reboots. Then
you can load that image onto a target machine and sysprep will run the
mini-install when the machine is booted the first time. It will do the
sid change and you can edit the inf file to do other customization as well.
Then if you make some .dif files of your applications with Sysdiff you can
write scripts that will load the apps without doing installs. This all
takes some time to set up but you save a lot of time in the long run, and
you have all your configuration documented in your scripts. After we got
down this path, we have a whole server full of images and difs and scripts,
and some boot floppies that are all set up to make the entire images for
each different job function we have. We also have NDS and Zen which we
use too - you can go either way. If you have A/D you can use ris and
application publishing to accomplish the same thing. This is all about
getting organized and getting ahead of crisis mode ...........
"MURDOCH Damian"
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Subject: FW: unattended install
speed
09/09/2001 06:49 PM
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System Admin Issues"
> Hi
>
> Currently in our environment we are looking at rolling out win2k to
> the desktop.
> With NT they used to image stuff and use a 3rd party sid changer to
> change the sids.
> I see the benefits of totally using an unattended install over doing
> the same with 2k.
> My problem is speed, an image may take 15 minutes to rebiuld a pc,
> whereas an unattend will take an hour.
> An hour is unacceptable downtime, if there is a problem rather than
> bugger around its easy to image a pc and have them on the air again.
>
> Is there any way that you guys know of to overcome the speed issue ?
> Whether its a partial image etc.
>
> I would be very interested in how other large organisations are
> rebuilding and deploying pc's.
>
> Cheers
>
> Damian Murdoch
> NT Systems Engineer
>
> CorTechS
> Gold Coast City Council
> W: (07) 55816112
> M: 0414 180 950
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
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