12-15-2010 04:00 PM
I just purchased Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 with 42 licenses. I have never used ghost software before but it was recomended by another agency. I have two types of laptops. I need to image each one and deploy that image to 42 other laptops. How do I do this? I bought the software online and I didnt get user guide and everything I read online is very confusing. Can anyone give me the walk through?
12-16-2010 01:11 PM
If you don;t have any experiance imaging workstations this is probably much to complicated a topic to run through on a forum.
I haven;t used the version of Ghost you are talking about but here is the basic run down of how to make Ghost image for deployment (Assuming you are using MS-Windows of some kind)
1. Install the OS and create the master image on a workstation (I typically use the least powerful machine in the environment).
2. Take an image of the completely setup/configured machine and call it PreSysPrep-imageversion-date
3. Run Sysprep on the machine -- Sysprep will shut the machine off when it;s done.
4. Take an image of the machine the very next time it is powered on and call it DeploymentImage-version-date
--Use the DeploymentImage-version-date image to clone the other workstations in your environment.
--Use the PreSysPrep-imageversion-date whenever you want to update your build
Here is a link to Sysprep http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457073.aspx
If you want to use 1 image for several types of machines it is going to get much more complicated. I suggest you look through a bunch of the microsoft info on sysprep and get use to using it and then move on to trying to handle multiple models of computers w/ 1 image.