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create an win2k install image

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by michael.burgess

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I am wanting to create a windows 2000 install that already has some of our office applications intergrated w/o having to swap cd's all day...

what is the best way to accomplish this?

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by ginman

I suggested Norton's Ghost because I have used it and it works like a charm. Once you have all the software on the pc that you want installed, run sysprep, a free tool on Microsoft's web site, and then burn the image to a cd. Once you have the image it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to blast it to another pc. Word of caution doing it this way, the pc's have to be the same. The directions to do all this are on the web site also.

by thechas

There is a caution for Windows 2000 and XP when installing from images:

The hardware layer of the target systems needs to be VERY similar to the system that was used to create the image.

Unless you enjoy spending hours fixing hardware driver issues, you need to create a separate image for each group of hardware configurations you have.

Check out the sysprep tool and information at Microsoft.

Chas

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