You can change the log file location, but this has to be a flash drive or hard drive with write access. It cannot open a log file so it just errors. The error you get that says it cannot write the log file is because ghost is running from a CD/DVD that isn't writeable. Unfortunately it's a pain to make on and MS won't let people host iso disk images. Creating a WINPE disk is the best way to restore images from an external hard drive. You can also restore the image from a USB hard drive, but note that if you do this from a DOS ghost boot disk, you will only get USB 1.1 speeds. If the image was made correctly it should ask for the next disk when the first file is finished restoring.įinally you choose the hard drive you want to overwrite.

You then browse to the gho file on your CD/DVD drive. Normally you want to choose local->disk->from image to do a restore. I assume you tried applying the image back to the same machine.It is not uncommon for CD media to go corrupt causing the 'cannot read x file' message. There are some distribution tools that prep the disk by creating a virtual device, like a B: drive then booting from the image, creating an IP stack, Mapping a drive and running your imaging program of choice. I havenÃ¢Â€Â™t come across a way of doing this without first prepping the machine. However once the workstation is booted another process or Ã¢Â€Â˜bootstrapÃ¢Â€Â™ would have to take over the image load. The packet could be targeted at individual worksations or a whole subnet.

You can remote boot a PC (if it has wake up on lan enabled) by sending out a MAGIC PACKET on to the LAN. When you say the computer you are trying Ã¢Â€Âœpush images out to machines that are not on the domainÃ¢Â€Â are they on a LAN that can communicate with a domain or AD and have all the basic LAN services such as DHCP, WINS or are you trying to push images to a standalone network? We did not encounter this, instead windows would not boot up at all, not even in safe mode. According to ghost's documentation we should have encountered a mini setup wizard after pushing the sysprepped image out to the machine. One last thing, we tried using sysprep with ghost but it did not work at all. I was wondering if anyone knew what could be the problem.Īlso, are there any other programs that will allow me to remotely boot a machine and push an image out to it. Everything works up until the point where the tftp server tries to communicate with the client. I followed their documentation to the dot. Ghost corporate came with 3com dynamic boot services. However, we would now like to be able to push images out to machines that are not on the domain and do not have an operating system. We have had success in creating images and pushing them out to computers on the domain and with ghost boot disks. Our college purchased Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition 8.

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