Ghost Solution Suite

Hello all,

 

I am pretty new to Ghosting altogether and was wondering about how to do a couple of things.

 

1. Pull an Image from a client PC over the network, initiating the pull from the Symantec Ghost Console. (not from boot disk)

 

2. Drop and Image onto a client PC over the network, also initiating the pull from the Symantec Ghost Console.

 

 

We have version 7.5

 

Any input is much appreciated.

 

 

THanks!

 

American Bridge

 

My recommendation to you would be to look for PDF files in the ghost console directory on the console server and perhaps search the forums.  There is more than one way to accomplish this task, coming here and asking for a step by step on how to probably may yield too many results.   You need to familiarize yourself with task creation to pull images and then push that image back out.

I have read the documentation and haven't found what I am looking for. It seems to throw me around to different areas and configs every other page.

 

Is there any way you can pick one of the many methods you say there is in ghosting over the network to a single PC, pulling and pushing an image and describe the process?

 

Thanks!

 

American

I am using GSS 2.01 and have not used 7.5 in a couple years so my instructions may not be precise to what you will see with 7.5

Assuming you have already installed the ghost console client to a target machine.....

 

You need to create a new task.

 

To pull the image:

click on tasks in the left pane of the console.  In the right pane you can right click and choose "New Image Create Task"  This should start up an empty template for an image creation task.

 

Set a name for the task.

Pick a source machine (one of your client computers that has the console client installed), select source drive.  Only select the source partition if you are only interested in making and image of that partition.

Assign an image name.  There may also be options for compression of the image, that is your choice entirely. Setting the image name will actually create a new configuration resource image that the console can use for redeploying to a machine alter.  So when you click on browse for the image name click on "Images" in new window, then  click the "New" button, then "New Item".  You can then name the image and select a location to save it to.

 

At the top of task window you should see more tabs.  The "Network" tab allows you to set unicast or multicast parameters and a speed if you have a problem with network saturation.  There may also be a sysprep tab but I am not going to go in to that as I don't use it and you wanted a basic tutorial.

 

I am going to leave the deployment up to you, the operation is similar but you won't be creating an "Image Creation Task" to redeploy. 

 

 

 

Ok so that helped. I got everything configured and even got as far as to receive confirmation on the client machine to start the task. Everything started good.

 

But before it can start to pull the Image I get an Error while the 'Update DOS Network Drivers' is executing. It says that it has failed.

 

I tried to Update ghost, and it already had the latest updates.

 

What should I try now?

 

Thanks

 

American Bridge.