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by homer simpson instructor at large 1 view

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I have been looking to make this crazy thing work..... It has been set up correctly, I can use RIprep to take an image off a workstation but I can't seem to put it back on. The network boots fine with a floppy but then it gives me an error when it goes to format the drive before installing the image. The error states...cannot format the partition because there is not enough memory or windows 2000 files may be corrupt. I have tons of RAM and redone the RIS image a couple of times. Has anyoneelse run into this problem?

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by kim2786

it sound good to use RIS image and restore it from over the network. I personally think in the real world application is not a practical solution, even if you get it to work it will be very slow ? imagin restore that image to 50 clients PC at the same time ?. My suggestion is that yoy should use Ghost or Drive image to create the image of your Station, then restore it to clients pc. This just my suggestion.

by chill

I have to disagree, I am working on a project and to date we have implemented over 100 RIS Servers around the customers enterprise. We have found that a RIS load takes about 20 minutes start to finish - the image being used includes a number of lineof business applications including Office 2000. Load time is affected little until we get about 100 simultaneous loads on the network - but, beyond the rollout phase this is extremely unlikely in the office environment, naturally, network performance is affected, but only for about 10-15 minutes during the load process and the performance hit is minimized by using a switched network. All but one of the customers production RIS servers are situated on operational network segments in use by production users. The other is situated in a controlled environment where we are loading and QAing about 500 machines a day for non network connected users (These loads contain considerably more data and take about an hour per machine). All in all RIS is consistantly outperforming Ghost (the equivalent ghost image is on 3 CDs and requires about 30 minutes additional work after loading not to mention CD changes) The RIS load on the other hand completes with the machine ready for user logon without additional work and adds the benefits of easy updating of images, control over licensing e.g. we know exactly how many copies of Win2K have been deployed. The RIS servers double up as file and print servers also reducing the TCO for the RIS implementation.

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