libtec Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Anyone know of a program that will allow you to image a computer with W2K Server Edition installed? What I have available (Drive Image 5.0 & Ghost 7.5 CE) will not install on the server version. Oh, it must have a scheduling feature. One a similiar note, does anyone know of a program that will allow you to partition the HDD's of a W2K Server? My version of Partition Magic won't fly. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libtec Posted January 22, 2003 Author Share Posted January 22, 2003 anyone? please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Anyone know of a program that will allow you to image a computer with W2K Server Edition installed? What I have available (Drive Image 5.0 & Ghost 7.5 CE) will not install on the server version. Oh, it must have a scheduling feature.One a similiar note, does anyone know of a program that will allow you to partition the HDD's of a W2K Server? My version of Partition Magic won't fly. Thanks Can't you just use a Ghost boot disk to image the server? Installing Ghost on the server won't make a difference, it can't run while you image. By partition, I take it you mean REpartition. Take a backup of all partitions, reformat and partition, then restore your data to the new partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Even MS don't have programs to image a Server, there RIS server is for the workstation only. Why would you want to image a Server, you can't add it to a GPO and have it install remotely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtg Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 One a similiar note, does anyone know of a program that will allow you to partition the HDD's of a W2K Server? My version of Partition Magic won't fly. Have you looked at Server Magic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Check out Altiris's software suit. We used it to deploy 3500 xp workstations remotely, all on different hardware, from 2 images. Should work fine on a server. Unbelievably woops the ass of things like ghost, you just can't compaire the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Even MS don't have programs to image a Server, there RIS server is for the workstation only.Why would you want to image a Server, you can't add it to a GPO and have it install remotely. You can in Server 2003!! :D Many changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted January 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 22, 2003 Cant you just use a boot disk, and then run the DOS version of GHOST? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libtec Posted January 22, 2003 Author Share Posted January 22, 2003 Woah! @silly_walk: Yes, you can just use a bootdisk to image a server. Thing is that I'd need a partition to dump the image files to. I don't want to create an image with another image file taking up space on the drive. Another problem is that I need this to image without me driving to the location of the server, which is clear across town. I'd prefer to just RAdmin in or have the image scheduled. Yup, I mean repartition. Dell really wasn't thinking on this one. 4-18gig HDD's. Drive C is only 4 gig! The rest is Drive D. Right now C is almost full. What idiots! @jtg: ServerMagic? Never heard of it. Is it done by PowerQuest? @Jon: I'll look into it. @Chicane-uk: See reply to silly_walk. Thanks all. Any other suggestions out there? I'm going to need to look into a lot of them before being allowed to purchase what I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtg Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 @jtg: ServerMagic? Never heard of it. Is it done by PowerQuest? Yes, made by PowerQuest however it looks like they have separated server magic into 2 parts. It used to do both Netware and NT but they now have volume manager for NT and server magic for Novell. I've used v3.0 which I believe had support for both. It saved my life many times on the Novell side. Give it a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 Why would you want to image a Server, you can't add it to a GPO and have it install remotely. Someone obviously doesnt know his stuff. Altiris would work via the mac address of the machine, run a network boot (or via floppy), connect to a share on the image storage server, run the image installation program from that share, et voila, the image is transfered, booted, syspred'd, renumeration of pnp devices if neccessary, etc. So if it was an image specific to that server, yes you could install it remotely. Remember, a server is no different to a workstation in essence, unless you run specific services. Obviously imaging a Domain Controller would be another ballgame, it'd end up replicating out of date versions of active directory, which would cause problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 Yup, I mean repartition. Dell really wasn't thinking on this one. 4-18gig HDD's. Drive C is only 4 gig! The rest is Drive D. Right now C is almost full. What idiots! What could you possibly have on there that is filling 4 gigs?!? You should only have the minimum installed on your server OS, anything else, like RIS images and so on should be on your D:. I have a 4 gig C: drive at work, maybe half used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libtec Posted January 24, 2003 Author Share Posted January 24, 2003 What could you possibly have on there that is filling 4 gigs?!? You should only have the minimum installed on your server OS, anything else, like RIS images and so on should be on your D:. I have a 4 gig C: drive at work, maybe half used. Well, that's a good question. I just set this up about 2 weeks ago. Since that time a 3rd party company came in a setup a program that we are to use as a union database. They installed their stuff to the D drive, but apparently some stuff got on C. All that I've installed I put on D. @ Jon: I saw the Volume Manager bit, but it does so much more than I'll ever need it to do. Oh well, it's not my money anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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