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WATTCP file creation options

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 2 comments
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I'm using GSS 2 in a high school environment.  Most of the client computers are Dell with an integrated Broadcom nic.  Unfortunately most of my client machines will time out before they get a DHCP address when rebooted into the virtual partition.  Fortunately the problem goes away if I manually create a WATTCP.CFG file with the single line BOOTPTO=60 and save it in the \PROGRAM FILES\SYMANTEC\GHOST directory of each client. 
 
The question is, is there any way to push out the WATTCP.CFG file with the Ghost console or otherwise increase the timeout limit?  Manually logging into hundreds of machines to manually create the WATTCP.CFG file seems like such a waste of time.
 
Thanks in advance for any help!
 
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2007
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I normally just push something like this out with a task to transfer the file directly to all the machines before I reghost them.
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DOH!  I should have thought of that.  :smileysurprised:
 
I created the task and ran it on 24 client computers.  It only took about a minute and worked perfectly.
 
Thanks!