lableupunn

Well, the problem with ghosting the hard drive after the textmode setup is that the post reboot graphical setup accesses the install CD for certain files, and setup can't continue. Copying the install files to the HD and running it from there wouldn't really achieve an unattended install, unless there is somehow a way of rigging up a boot file with commands to run the setup. As for Ghost, I'm using Symantec Ghost Corp, so the images can be created and multicasted to the computers from the server. Any other ideas?

I'm sorry beforehand for posting this question, which might sound somewhat bizarre to some of you. I need to set up 1000+ computers of different makes, and would like to take advantage of the unattended install, only problem is that I'm not going to go walking around and waiting 40+ minutes at each workstation while it installs to move on to the next. RIS was also a consideration, but I've been getting some errors due to a missing file, during the text mode setup portion, but that's another post. With that said, is there any way of cloning the setup environment using ghost after the initial copying of files to the HD? I know that setup uses the CD/DVD during its final stretch, but is there a way to make the setup install from a source within the HD. For example, adding a copy of the I386 directory to the $OEM$ folder so that it copies it over to the HD then setup would continue the installation from the I386 directory in the HD rather than the CD/DVD disk. Only problem with that would be telling windows where the new install source is. With that it would be possible to clone the computer before the graphical install starts and have ghost push out the images to the computers and continue the install. Thanks for the help in advance.