Ghosting a Machine

Step 1: Getting Started

1)Create the model computer

2)Load the newest version of Ghost onto a server or main computer (the "Console")

Step 2: Create a Boot Disk for the target/client computers

1)Determine the NIC hardware for your target computer, possibly "3com 90x": right click My Network PlacesPropertiesright click on Local Area ConnectionProperties and look in the "connect using" box. Each target computer may have different NIC hardware and a different boot disk will need to be created for each.

2)Open Ghost Console. Choose ToolsBoot WizardNetwork Boot Disk then find your NIC driver; choose "pc dos", then "Symantec Ghost", then "DHCP" and create the disk.

3)If you are going to create ghosted images using a CD-ROM, create a CD-ROM boot disk by the method in step 2 above, but choose CD-ROM Boot Disk instead of Network Boot.

Step 3: If desired, load the image of the model computer onto the Console Computer

1)Open a Ghostcast Server Session on the Console Computer:

  1. Open Ghost Console.
  2. Choose ToolsGhostcast Server, type a session name, choose "Dump From Client", choose a location where you want the image stored and give it a name, then click "accept clients".

2)Boot the model computer using the boot disk

  1. Choose GhostcastUnicast
  2. Enter the same session name as you entered into the console
  3. Enter the console computer's IP address

Step 4: Determine your preferred method of Ghosting

Option 1: Creating a Ghost CD

1)Save the image into usable sections

  1. Open Ghost ExplorerViewOptions and enter 600 for "Span Split Point".
  2. Go to FileCompile. Name the file.

2)Burn the images of the model computer onto CD-ROMs.

3)Replicate the Model Computer Image to Other Computers

  1. Use the boot disk to start up a target computer
  2. Choose LocalDiskFrom Image and look for the CD-Rom

4)You may need to use the Administrator profile to find new hardware and add drivers.

Option 2: Loading the image from the Console computer to multiple target/client computers.

1)Follow similar steps as in Step 3 above (loading the image of the model onto the console), but instead of choosing "Dump from Client", choose "Load to Clients".

2)Each of the target computers will need to be booted from the appropriate Ghost Network Boot Disk. As above, from the target computer, choose GhostcastMulticast (instead of Unicast). Enter the name of the session—the same as you typed into the Ghostcast Server session on the console computer. Then enter the IP address of the console computer.

3)When all of the target computers have been booted and logged into the Console computer, hit "send" on the Console computer and the image will distribute to all of the target computers at once.

Option 3: Loading the image from the model computer directly to one target computer.

1)Boot the model and target computers with the Ghost disks appropriate to their NIC cards.

2)On the model computer, choose Peer to PeerTCP/IPMaster. Do the same on the target computer, but choose slave. Enter the appropriate IP on the master computer.

Deleting the Ghost Client if not in the "Add/Remove Programs" icon:

using Regediteditfind and deleting them, remove the all instances ofSymantec (1x that is deletable), ngctw32.exe (5x), 5603 (1x), ginastub.dll (1x), ngclient (3x), OptimalLayout (1x), Prefetcher (1x) and PrefetchParameters (3x), AIBuilder, AISnapshot, Ghost (several) from the registry. Restart the computer. Delete the folders c:\ProgramFiles\Symantec and C:\Windows\Prefetch.