Ghost Solution Suite

I downloaded the trial version of GSS 3.0 as we have been having a devil of a time with our last full version of GSS 2.5 console having issues building the virtual partition onto Dell 9030 AIO and Dell 9020 mini-form PCs that we got in April.

After researching and modifying our WinPE to 3.0, adding network driver, and HD drivers, we still couldn't get 2.5 to build the virtual partition onto the 9030s after the initial contact with the machine.

So we waited a bit for GSS 3.0 and I downloaded the trial yesterday to see if it would be compatible with Windows 7 drivers.

During the installation of GSS 3.0 I knew off the bat I will need to download and run adksetup as the only options presented for preOS was for Linux. I went ahead with the install then later downloaded adksetup and ran the executable through  the PXE Configuration utility.

Once I had Win PE 5.0 as a option for a PreOS and was able to add the 9030 network drivers successfully, I figured I could move on by creating a computer in my group called "Lab" then run the job. I watched both the adding computer and creating a Distribute image job and all that happens is the job just sits there with no error message or warning that it will not run.

I did load the license that was mailed to me during the installation and I also ran remote install to the client I want to image. I am using a legacy image from 2.5 but I didn't think that should matter. Is there anything else I could be missing? Btw, I did look on the client machine and I saw a logfile on the c drive pertaining to the GSS 3.0 client.

Did you manually install the virtual partition you created on your 9030 ? They are stored in the default location, which is \\%GSS_SHARE_IP%\eXpress\Deployment Server\BWPkgs

Should that have been created by the remote installer?

I definitley did NOT see this directory on my clien't HD. On my server's HD, the GSS server has this directory under [servername] program files\altiris\express\Deployment Server\BWPkgs but the BWPkgs folder is empty.

Should I have simply made an image using GSS 3.0 from the get-go instead of using my 2.5 legacy image first?

If I should manually create the partition, is that the way to go?

This sounds like a technical issue, did you get any further with it? I'd like to try and get you some help.

We're working on some significant enhancements to the way we offer automation other than PXE which I think will help here. It will likely be released in HF3 due in 6-8 weeks. This will introduce UEFI support finally as well.