How to Perform a Scripted Installation of Windows 7 x86 with Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
Updated: 20 Jun 2011 | 6 comments
Ghost Solution Suite is one of the industry's most widely used imaging and migration solution, however one of the features that the product was lacking from his big brother Deployment Solution 6.9 or 7.1, is the possibility to perform a Scripted OS Installation with predefined jobs.
Following this article you will be able to PXE boot up a bare metal machine and kick off a scripted OS installation of Windows 7, simply applying a Task from the Symantec Ghost Console.
For a quick overview of the Scripted OS Install vs. Imaging process, you can watch this video on our forum:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/videos/scripted-os-install-vs-imaging-windows-7
Topics Covered:
- PXE services configuration
- Windows 7 source files with unattend.xml and Ghost client folder setup
- Creation of the WinPE "TCP/IP Network Ghost Client Boot Image"
- Configuration of the "Software and File Action" task
- Scripted OS install Task execution
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This is one of the poorest
This is one of the poorest helps that I have ever seen. It is a blatent pitch for a vendor with NO useful information. None of the topics are even cursorily covered. Even the links in the document don't work.
Nothing is useless but
Nothing is useless but everything useful.
Please meditate
Eh?
Did you look at the same document as I did? There was plenty of useful information in there and all the links worked ( did you remember to hold the CTRL key down while clicking the links...??). Since the content is on a Symantec website and written by a Symantec employee I hardly think it qualifies as a blatant (sic) pitch for a vendor.
However, if you do follow the advice in one of the other postings, and do some meditation, just watch where you put those thumbs <g>
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Funny, the links work for me.
Funny, the links work for me. Why the negative remarks? Marcello is adding content to help users with Ghost Solution Suite.
Other Packages
Excuse my ignorance, but when/how would you add in other packages to the scripted install??
The scripted install
The scripted install basically installs the operating system and nothing else. However, most builds require some basic apps which everyone gets, such as Adobe Reader, MS Office, Java runtimes, Flash, Shockwave, SMS or Altiris Client, etc, etc.
Adding these packages into the scripted install means that you end up with a build that is pretty much ready to use. Any user-specific apps can then be deployed using the usual mechanisms.
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