[THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
- From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 20:00:42 +0100
By the way ... just a little bit of info if you are using RDP 1.5
(including altiris DS 6.0) with remapped drive letters
...download Altiris 6 hotfix b.
Read the bottom of the article listed in the URL posted by Rob below.
RDP wont push anything without it to a server with remapped drives.
I got caught by this but was saved when hotfix B was a beta patch.
Dont forget RDP also comes with Bootworks for servers that dont have PXE
cards.
RDP also works well with older Hp/Compaq servers as we have found.
If you have a few blade enclosures that arent fully populated ( esp. if
using 40p's) those licenses can be ahem "transferred" to your non blade
servers ...............HP Blade enclosures come with 8 RDP licenses
regardless.
regards
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Slayden" <rslayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
Actually, the fix is to add the command -restorsig and -szf to the
Additional Command Line Switches to enable the restore of a deploy image
with remapped drives. This is only valid for RDP 1.50 or later.
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp/knowledgebase/0000
0122.html
RDP is great for the "latest" HP hardware but does not support the older
hardware, though I suppose you could install a PXE card in the older servers
and then use RDP, though there may be other restrictions as well. We are
upgrading (imaging) 4+ year-old PL6400 and DL580 servers (27 of them). Looks
like Ghost will do this very nicely. Not sure why I've kept my head in the
sand to Ghost for all these years <g>. Could have saved myself a ton-o-work
rebuilding servers.
rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Luchette, Jon [mailto:JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 5:55 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
I know that this isn't really an answer if you must use Ghost but I've heard
that the whole problem of imaging a Citrix server with remapped drives has
been fixed in HP's RDP (Rapid Deployment Pack) product.
/jL
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Semon [mailto:msemon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:42 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
Disk to image is the way I believe we did this. There was a problem with
partition to image as I recall. Remember to use the -FDSP to force disk
signature preserve.
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Rob Slayden
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:44 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
Using both the docs actually. Putting the steps together from Ch 5 of the
Advanced Concepts doco with the steps in the Ghost doco is about 90-95% of
what I need. Still curious about user drive prep and image deployment
methodology.
Thanks!!
rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig http://thin.net [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:37 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
Which the advanced concepts guide or the ghosting guide?
The advanced concepts guide is at:
http://thethin.net/citrixse/white/MetaFrame_XP/AdminGuides/Feature_Release_3
_Advanced_Concepts.pdf
(this is the FR3 version)
Jim
Rob Slayden wrote:
> Thanks, Jim. Been using that as I have been testing in the lab, but it
> does not address the two questions I have posed to the list. It is an
> okay doc to get started though.
>
> rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kenzig http://thin.net [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:22 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghosting Questions
>
> Rob the advanced concepts guide gives info on cloning servers.
> Also see:
>
> http://thin.net/citrixse/white/CCS_Docs/MetaFrame_XP/Imaging_MetaFrame
> _XP_Us
> ing_Ghost_6_5_1.pdf
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