A Very quick and easy way to setup Dozens of PCs or nodes...

[Neil McFadyen]

We use Ghost to install our PCs in our university labs. We find it works great
with 3Com905B cards but with SMC9432 cards it's pitiful.

Neil McFadyen
Mechanical & Aerospace Eng.
Carleton U
Ottawa, Canada

Jordan Share wrote:

> At 11:00 AM 6/17/99 +0200, PFENNIGER Daniel wrote:
> >> Christopher Snyder wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey there,
> >>
> >> A great product I use for quick duplication of PC setups is called GHOST.
> >
> >I believe Unix users can do about the same with dd (evtl gzip) without
> >a fee proportional to the number of usage (such was the GHOST license last
> >time I checked).
>
> Yeah, Ghost's license was always a little ridiculous.  Especially when
> DriveImage is on a per technician basis, rather than per machine.
>
> But Ghost was /fast/.  Really fast.  I used to support 400 PCs for a bank
> in Ohio.  I can't imagine doing user-support without a ghost-like tool.
> The multicast option would be wicked nice for setting up a cluster all at
> once.  But since it is only a one-time thing, you may not want to bother.
>
> Jordan