automated win2k deployment

[fetus]

Hi people, I have just built 5 identical machines and want to clone the hard drive of the first one which is now fully installed onto each hd by plugging the drives into the second IDE one at a time. I have tried using Symantec Ghost and a bootable floppy but it wont let me do a direct disk to disk copy. It seems to want me to create an image file first and tries to get me to save to a floppy!!! I am using the trial version of ghost as a standalone. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. All machines have nics(same) and i could install them from a share point if i knew how. All hardware is new and 4 drives are unformatted. I could have manually installed them by now but I want to crack this for my pending MCSE.

Thanks

[KHT]

What I believe you are referring to is the sysprep tool. This can be found on the W2kPro Cd -X:\SUPPORT\TOOLS\DEPLOY. (X of course would be your CD drive letter)

Open the DEPLOY folder and save deptool somewhere on your system and it explains the remote, unattended, and imaging choices available for administrative installs.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

[mairving]

Here is some more information on Sysprep. It is mostly used when cloning a server to give the server a different SID.

[fetus]

Thanks for the help. I will have another crack at it in the morning.